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Bring it on

Posted on September 19, 2012 | Comments Off on Bring it on

Spengler, at least, is ready and waiting for an Israeli bombing attack on Iran. He thinks regional war is inevitable and it might as well begin sooner than later in response to an Israeli attack.

Of course, he has the luxury of not sitting at ground zero. Or does he?

“An Israeli strike on Iran that achieved even limited success — a two-year delay in Iran’s nuclear weapons development — would arrest America’s precipitous decline as a superpower.”

I doubt the decline would continue if Obama is defeated in November. If he is re-elected, a two year delay wouldn’t be long enough. But regional war, Spengler (David P. Goldman) says, would resolve these looming problems:

  • A nuclear-armed Iran;
  • Iraq’s continued drift towards alliance with Iran;
  • An overtly hostile regime in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood government will lean on jihadist elements to divert attention from the country’s economic collapse;
  • An Egyptian war with Libya for oil and with Sudan for water;
  • A radical Sunni regime controlling most of Syria, facing off an Iran-allied Alawistan ensconced in the coastal mountains;
  • A de facto or de jure Muslim Brotherhood takeover of the Kingdom of Jordan.

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    Rather daunting list there. Only problem I can see is that wars (and their results) are always unpredictable. The new arrangement could be worse.

    But neoconservatism, the moderate alternative between appeasement and war, certainly seems to be dead. Obama has tried appeasement and gotten a dead ambassador and trashed embassies. Being an ideologue, he may try more appeasement. But Spengler is right. War is inevitable.

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    How will Israel hit Iran? From the inside

    Posted on September 13, 2012 | Comments Off on How will Israel hit Iran? From the inside

    Everybody who thinks they know what Israel will do or when they will do it always seems to think (and talk and write) in terms of jet fighter-bombers dropping bunker busters on laboratories deep within mountains. Or else launching missiles from their tiny fleet of Dolphin submarines.

    Certainly the submarine option would be preferable to risking the lives of young pilots and weapons officers (the guy in the back seat) flying so far away and over so much hostile territory. But there are other options few talk (or think or write) about.

    Except PJMedia’s Dr. Michael Ledeen in his good series “The Iranian Time Bomb.” My favorite of his suppositions as to how it could be done is to think about an inside job. Not just by commandoes, though there are bound to be a more than a few of them already inside Iran.

    But, even more likely, are some of the estimated quarter million Iranian Jews who already live there, all speaking Farsi and all passing effectively (because they are Iranians in a country where many, many people hate the regime) with plenty of means, motive and opportunity. Think about it.

    (If you can’t get to the series at the link above without paying for a subscription, give one a trial. It’s not expensive and so much of PJMedia is so good and so very different from the Democrat news media’s familiar Obozo-lovin’ and Obozo-excusin’ narrative.)

    UPDATE:  A quarter million Iranian Jews still in Iran? Says Dr. Ledeen. Could be far fewer, according to Point of No Return, the Jewish Refugees blog. About 100,000 were there before the 1979 Muslim revolution. Not many have left since and the ones who stayed try to keep out of the public eye since the regime is mortally hostile to them. Still, what better motive could you ask for if you wanted an inside job?

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    I Chose The Gun

    Posted on September 9, 2012 | Comments Off on I Chose The Gun

    Peter Van Uhm, defense chief for the Netherlands, explains to an audience of his elite countrymen, why he chose, instead of a brush, a camera, or a pen to make a career as a solider:

    “…not to shoot, not to kill, not to destroy, but to stop those who would do evil, to protect the vulnerable, to defend democratic values, to stand up for the freedom we have to talk … about how we can make the world a better place.”

    Why, in other words, peoples who want peace need armies. His 17 minute talk, calm and persuasive, is here.

    Via Michael Yon.

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    Me and Buck Travis

    Posted on August 31, 2012 | Comments Off on Me and Buck Travis

    Gotta like this view of an F-16 from my native state (me and William Barret “Buck” Travis of the Alamo), and the colorful “shock diamonds” in its exhaust. But it needs to come home from Afghanistan ASAP, along with the rest of our troops. Thanks to Obozo and the Pentagon, their mission is a true disaster.

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    “…the ICU at Bethesda Naval fills up…”

    Posted on August 28, 2012 | Comments Off on “…the ICU at Bethesda Naval fills up…”

    And nobody in Obozo’s court media gives a rat’s rear. Or, for that matter, among Mittens and his entourage.

    ‘Course, if Mittens wins in November, it will all be different. The court media will suddenly get crackin’ on being journalists, so-called, again. They always do with Republicans in the White House, you know.

    And then maybe they’ll notice our troops who’ve been hung out to dry in Afghanistan by Obozo (though they certainly won’t mention that part) and start demanding that Mittens do something about all those American wounded clogging the ICU at Bethesda Naval…

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    Using the Army to stop the Tea Party

    Posted on August 10, 2012 | Comments Off on Using the Army to stop the Tea Party

    Nevermind the Pentagon striking the word jihad from the military lexicon, at Obozo’s order, thereby eliminating references to a genuine threat.

    How about this new effort by a retired Army colonel and a University of Kansas historian? They wrote an Army War College scenario telling how the military can take over the role of the civilian police and quash a right-wing Tea Party takeover of an American town.

    “In May 2016 an extremist militia motivated by the goals of the “tea party” movement takes over the government of Darlington, South Carolina, occupying City Hall, disbanding the city council, and placing the mayor under house arrest…”

    The Occupy Movement, composed of genuine thugs, rapists and assorted felons, isn’t mentioned. Well, they had Obozo’s backing.

    The colonel and the professor, not to mention the War College, really need to stop watching MSNBC as much as they apparently do. Waste of time, folks. And more: it’s criminally stupid.

    This little scenario, alone, is going to cost you in credibility and respect from the American people, without whose continuing regard the military cannot succeed at anything.

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    Plastic Army Men

    Posted on August 7, 2012 | Comments Off on Plastic Army Men

    My youth was spent without video games, the Internet, or even, for the most part, television. It would have been a lot more boring without these guys, and they almost didn’t come along in time. Plastic toys were not on my personal agenda immediately because they were expensive. Plastic being new, you see.

    There were tin soldiers around in about the 1730s. Hollow-cast metal ones all painted and pretty became available in the 1920s. I first encountered those in the living room display (behind glass) of a friend whose father was a British army officer. Pricey, though. Too pricey for me and my friend to touch.

    The plastic ones I’m thinking of first appeared on this side of the lake about 1936, though I didn’t see any until I was, oh, about nine (1953). They were all one color, usually green. But that was okay. I could use my imagination. I bought some for Mr. B. when he was about eight. Mrs. C. was aghast. She wasn’t sorry when he put them aside in favor of video games. I winced.

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