And Europe will do nothing, wishing, as Victor David Hanson puts it, “Hurry up, sane and Western Israel, and take out this awful thing — so we can damn you Zionist aggressors for doing so in our morning papers.”
Ha'aretz has a rambling analysis that talks about Israel's military options, and seems to concludes that only the international community can stop Iran militarily.
Meanwhile, Iran is running war games and testing out new missiles, and is keeping up its rhetoric:
Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar stressed that Iran will vigorously respond to any kind of aggression.Then, in an apparently mentally unbalanced state, the Iranian Defense Minister had something to add:Making the remark while talking to reporters here in southeastern country, he referred to the threats by some Zionist regime officials regarding attacking Iran's nuclear sites, Mohammad Najjar said Iran's defense policy was quite defensive but stressed that Iranian "armed forces would provide a rapid, strong and destructive response if the country faced any aggression."
He said Saddam's sad fate after attacking Iran should teach a lesson to the occupying Zionist regime officials.The Iranian president, not to be outdone in his daily rant of bizarre fiction, made a speech:
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here Thursday said the world politicians and thinkers back Iran's justice-seeking spirit.I love it when a genocidal maniac talks about ethics.
Making the remark in a meeting with thousands of university students, the president added, "Today mankind is in search of tranquility and sustainable peace, which could be materialized only through justice, spirituality, and monotheism."
Some countries have piled up their arsenals with nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons to keep dominating other countries, regretted Ahmadinejad adding they even embark on testing biological weapons on people in the name of pharmaceutical donation.
"They even openly confess to their acts and shamelessly say that ethics has no place in politics."
He said the unbiased scientists and scholars no longer believe that "liberalism or humanism schools" could ever provide man with sustainable peace, adding people in Europe and the US are also quite disillusioned with their governments in bringing sustainable peace.
Here's a troubling question:
Let's say Israel takes out some Iranian reactors. Iran will no doubt be happy to attack Israel. Who will join the war on Iran's side?
Syria, no doubt - Iran would send her troops through Syria. Hezbollah would start lobbing its arsenal of missiles into northern israel, and Palestinian Arabs would do the same from Gaza.
Jordan may have finally learned its lesson not to attack Israel just in the name of Arab unity.
But here is a sobering thought. The top arms buyers in the world, in 2002, were:
- Saudi Arabia ($5.2B)
- Egypt ($2.1B)
- Kuwait ($1.3B)