Seems like the Iranian government called our bluff and we didn’t back down. We’re full and ready to bomb the hell out of them, and the fears of the people who are desperately wanting better relations with the West are growing throughout the Iranian community. Idiot’s in power….poor Iranian people. Where is their great ambassador to the West they so desperately need? Should we blow this sad country back into the 7th century like Ahmadinejad wants? Should we exhaust every possible economic sanction including cutting fully blockading their ports with our Navy? We have the power to bankrupt their economy within months….should we do it? Or should we just take out their infrastructure through a thorough bombing campaign.
What do you guys think? I’m torn right now. I care about the pro-Western Iranians who genuinely want a better way of life, but I also don’t give a crap about the thousands who chant “Death to America”.
Leave some comments, let’s get this discussion going.
Great article from NRO:
What should we make of the Iranians’ behavior?
Namely that the country’s leadership is in deep political trouble. The Iranian government is desperate to provoke the West to win back friends in the Islamic world, and to quell growing unrest at home. Subsidizing food and gas, providing billions for terrorists and building nukes all cost money at a time when the state-run Iranian economy is in shambles.
Because of incompetence in their oil industry, the Iranian mullahs have achieved the impossible: Despite having among the world’s largest petroleum reserves, their production is shrinking and they have managed to earn increasingly less petrodollars even as the world price has soared.
While the Iranian theocrats understand that the entire world, including many of their own citizens, is turning against them, they also know that this could change if a Western nation would just attack them. Their strategy seems to be to find a way to provoke someone to drop a few bombs on them, on the naive assumption that such an assault would be of limited duration and damage. Such an attack, they may figure, would earn them sympathy in much of the world.
It is undeniable that the U.S., without either invading or suffering many casualties, could use its air power to send the Iranian economy and military back to the mullahs’ cherished seventh century. But there is no need to do so.
Instead, if the EU would cease all its trade with Iran, and if the West would divest entirely from the country — that is, boycott all companies that do any business with Tehran — the theocracy would face bankruptcy within months.
Even if further escalation were warranted, we could at some future date enforce a naval blockade of the Iranian coast that alone would determine what goods would be allowed into this outlaw regime.
via MaverickNews
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