Not sure if this link will work - it is a <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:amkNiqp5JPcJ:www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200602/msg00102.html+In+A+Single+Night+Iran&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2">Google cached copy</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> of his recent comments on the probable success of bombing Iran.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr> The bombing of Iran's nuclear installations may still be a bad idea <br>> for other reasons, but not because it would require a huge air <br>> offensive. On the contrary, it could all be done in a single night. <br>> One may hope that Iran's rulers will therefore accept a diplomatic <br>> solution rather than gamble all on wildly exaggerated calculations.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I wonder how he sleeps at night, advocating war every chance he gets. <p></p><i></i>
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Conflicts are interrupted by a steady stream of cease-fires and armistices that only postpone war-induced exhaustion and let belligerents rearm and regroup. Even worse are U.N. refugee-relief operations and NGOs, which keep resentful populations festering in camps and sometimes supply both sides in armed conflicts. This well-intentioned interference only intensifies and prolongs struggles in the long run.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> What do you call it when one points out the flaws in another in order to mask the greater iniquity in oneself? <p></p><i></i>
I tried to imagine there was some logic in his logic. But then, I think of the South's crushing, traumatic loss to the North during the Civil War and the simmering resentments since, and some of what lead to the atrocities in Kosovo were old, old resentments, weren't they? So, taking Luttwak's logic to the extreme, the only thing that works is genocide. <p></p><i></i>
by GDN01 » Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:05 pm 