Don’t miss this reference:

“There are 29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in the West. We have already spied on these sites and we know how we are going to attack them.”

Best to think of Russia as a failed state that happens to have nearly one-third of the world’s natural gas (giving the Russians a lock on Germany and Italy) and more oil reserves than anyone but the Saudis. Nigeria North.

Buckle your seatblets.

Let’s Pretend…

Roger writes:

Obviously in a panic, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has had to walk back from the delusional remarks of their country’s president.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry is helping us to keep pretending.

Jamie Irons

The first generation is focused internally on consolidating power and eliminating opposition, both real and imagined. All of their energies and time is devoted to suppressing dissent and ridding the cause of enemies. It’s quite an enterprise.

Having secured power, the next generation then turns its attention outward to new threats, new enemies of the cause, again both real and imagined.

This is the most dangerous generation, for it no longer satisfies itself with domestic concerns.

Cf., France after 1789, Soviet Union after 1917 (the Comintern et cetera)

SMG

Let us not forget that in Dec 2002, Ayatollah Rafsanjani, the “#2 Ayatollah” (and hence someone who outranks the president) said (in a cryptic fashion) that wiping out Israel is so important that it would be worth the loss of a few hundred million Muslims in Israel’s doomsday counterstrike, because there would be plenty of Muslims left.

I recommend to those not adequately scared by the Islamofascists such as the Iranian and Al Qaeda leadership, that they read

The West’s Last Chance / Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations. This is especially good reading for Europeans and multiculturalists and civil libertarians of all stripes.

It will scare you to death – more than any threat by an Iranian “leader.”

Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had secretly accepted a last-minute plan to go into exile to avert the 2003 Iraq war, but Arab leaders shot the proposal down, Al Arabiya television reported today.

DailyScorecard Posts

Sources close to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Abbas’ Fatah movement…..

“Al Aqsa let Islamic Jihad take full responsibility so they could get the credit for retaliating against Israel’s killing of their leaders. Jihad needs this attack. But Al Aqsa was involved, too.”

I think it is incumbent upon the US not to allow Iran to engage in self-destruction. How could we be sure that they did a thorough job? Let’s not leave this to DIYer’s. The 4ID didn’t get to blow too many things up in Iraq due to Turkey’s intransigence – let’s give them the chance to show how effective they can be. They’re heading over in January and should be able to wrap the job up by May 1st.

Neither country seems to be able to avoid self destruction.