[lit-ideas] Re: Bombing Osirik in 1981

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:20:32 -0500

LH:

I thought my little quiz was more transparent than it apparently was.<< 

I thought it quite transparent.


I thought surely no one today would say it was a bad thing for Israel to have bombed Osirik.<< 

You thought wrong.  Again.


Some on the Left for awhile seemed to be arguing that we should leave Saddam alone, but I haven't heard that argument in some time.<< 

We SHOULD have left Saddam alone.  Surely even you can see that now.


I suspect that most people are glad he is no longer in power...<<

I'm glad he's no longer in power, but it would be better, I think, if he were still in power as opposed to what's happening now. So I'm sadly glad or gladly sad


and glad he never managed to get his 4 or 5 Hiroshima-sized bombs.<<

I'm glad he didn't get his bombs. I'm sad that Israel has them, sad that India has them, sad that Pakistan has them, sad that N. Korea has them, sad that France has them, sad that Great Britain has them, sad that China has them, sad that we have them. I don't think that Iraq having them would have made any difference except that we'd not be mired in Iraq now if he had had them. So I guess I wish he had had them. So I guess I'm sad he never managed to get his 4 or 5 Hiroshima-sized bombs. I guess you're wrong again.


Is Iran any less dangerous than Saddam's Iraq? <<

Dangerous to whom? Under Saddam Iraq was a danger to Iran. We changed all that. Now Iran owns Iraq. There's a lot you don't seem to understand. Alas, such is the way of the world.



If anything it [Iran] is more dangerous. It developed and armed Hezbollah << 

Yes.  And we developed and armed Israel.


and from what we have seen, unless Israel is attempting some sort of military trick, Hezbollah is holding its own against Israel;<< 

gotta watch those tricky Jews, they're making off this somehow, eh?



Will we be content for Iran to get 4 or 5 Hiroshima-sized bombs? Even if Iran doesn't share its bombs with Hezbollah, would we be content for Ahmadinejad to have 4 or 5 Hiroshima-sized bombs? <<

Content? Never. Accepting? Of course. What's the alternative? Can you see us disarming????



Ahmadinejad's Iran is "militant" in the sense that it has remained true to Khomeini's desire that the Iranian "Revolution" be exported.<< 

Thank God we don't try to export "democracy" by invading countries.


Iran has some use in mind for its weapons, some form of blackmail or coercion.<<

Or defense against a belligerant U. S.? I strongly suspect that if the U. S. were not playing the role of the world's bully boy, neither N. Korea nor Iran would pour billions into nuclear weapons development. Write your congressman, tell him to stop Bush.


I suspect that we don't have as much courage and resolution as Israel had in 1981.<<

And thank God for that, though I suspect it just a case of over extension of our military.

I suspect that we are going to pursue a "diplomatic solution" to the bitter end.

Oh, no!  And pass up the chance to kill people.  Say it ain't so.



The Bush administration did what it thought was right in Afghanistan and Iraq but because of the flack it received both at home and abroad it has (I suspect) resolved to stick to diplomacy for the rest of the Bush term.<< 

Those goddamn pussy-ass people.  Kill the bastards.



I suspect that we are not going to take the Osirik lesson to heart but are instead going to live through the alternative.<<

You see now, the key word is here 'live". We're going to "live through the alternative." You think life is a bad alternative to blowing things to kingdom come. You're a Marine through and through and God bless you, but most human beings like being alive. I suspect you'll never know that feeling, but you should try. Just live and let live, Lawrence. Try it. You'll like it.

Mike Geary
Memphis 


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