Friday, August 20, 2004
Will We Tolerate This?
I can’t believe that we are going to tolerate this.
This type of rhetoric sounds very familiar.
Iran is currently taking the same position against us as the one we took against Iraq. Attack them first if we think they might attack us.
It will be interesting to see how we respond to this. If we deny the claim that we are going to attack, will they believe us? Or will they treat us the same way we treated Iraq when they denied having any WMD? Will we call them aggressors and condemn them if they attack Israel the same way we attacked Iraq? Or will we be sympathetic and understanding claiming that they have the same right to protect themselves as we did? What if they don’t have UN approval? Will we say they are reckless for acting unilaterally?
I don’t see us allowing this to happen. I see the White House condemning this as a rogue nation bent on destruction. Kind of puts things into perspective, doesn’t it? This is how the majority of the world now sees us. We should be embarrassed.
- Iran's defense minister, Vice Adm. Ali Shamkhani, has warned that Iran may resort to pre-emptive strikes to prevent an attack on its nuclear facilities.
Admiral Shamkhani made his comments in an interview on Al Jazeera television on Wednesday in response to a question about the possibility of an American or Israeli attack against Iran's nuclear projects.
"We will not sit to wait for what others will do to us," he said. "Some military commanders in Iran are convinced that preventive operations which the Americans talk about are not their monopoly. Any nation, if it feels threatened, can resort to that."
This type of rhetoric sounds very familiar.
- ”We will not wait to see what terrorists or terrorist states could do with weapons of mass destruction.” - George W. Bush, March 6, 2003
Iran is currently taking the same position against us as the one we took against Iraq. Attack them first if we think they might attack us.
It will be interesting to see how we respond to this. If we deny the claim that we are going to attack, will they believe us? Or will they treat us the same way we treated Iraq when they denied having any WMD? Will we call them aggressors and condemn them if they attack Israel the same way we attacked Iraq? Or will we be sympathetic and understanding claiming that they have the same right to protect themselves as we did? What if they don’t have UN approval? Will we say they are reckless for acting unilaterally?
I don’t see us allowing this to happen. I see the White House condemning this as a rogue nation bent on destruction. Kind of puts things into perspective, doesn’t it? This is how the majority of the world now sees us. We should be embarrassed.
