A necessary window of opportunity

You may not have seen this from our national media two days ago... it comes as no surprise but it is an interesting upping of the ante by our enemies.

Abdalla Salem El-Badri, left, OPEC secretary general, is shown in a meeting last April with  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Badri warned Thursday that oil prices would see an "unlimited" increase in the case of a military conflict involving Iran, because the group's members would be unable to make up the lost production.

"We really cannot replace Iran's production - it's not feasible to replace it," Badri, said. "The prices would go unlimited; I can't give you a number."

So busy with 24-7 Obamanews, the drive by media covers next to nothing on the war front now that we're fully in command. My jarheads cut down more than 400 rags in just the last few weeks in Afghanistan; I said before that's where we need to be... our Marines have been complaining for months that there just aren't enough subhumans in Iraq any longer to kill.

And John Bolton, the only vestigial remains of any martial gravitas--past or present--in the Bush administration, believes that it is likely the Israelis with strike Iran after our Nov. 4 election but before the next president is inaugurated Jan. 20.     

"It's clear that the administration has essentially given up that possibility," he said. "I don't think it's serious any more. If you had asked me a year ago I would have said I thought it was a real possibility. I just don't think it's in the cards."

Bill Kristol agrees but recently said an Obama victory could prompt Bush to launch attacks against Iran. "If the president thought John McCain was going to be the next president, he would think it more appropriate to let the next president make that decision than do it on his way out," he said.

But what about the hellfire and damnation response promised by a "united Arab region" or Ahmadinejad? (But can they do anymore at the moment than fake missile lunch photos?)

Paper tiger, according to Bolton. The Arabs would be "pleased" by Israeli strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities; the reaction "will be positive privately. I think there'll be public denunciations but no action," he said.

Once the Israelis take out Iran's nuke facilities--destroying it's ultimate military and psychological weapon feared by all its neighbors, not just Israel--the mullahs' clock will be reset to The Middle Ages where it properly belongs.

In mid-June the Israeli Air Force conducted long-range recon flights over the Mediterranean -- obvious practice air strikes. Tehran's foreign ministry dismissed the operation as an futile act of "psychological warfare".

A ministry spokesman claimed that Israeli doesn't have "the capacity to threaten the Islamic Republic of Iran. They [Israel] have a number of domestic crises and they want to extrapolate it to cover others. Sometimes they come up with these empty slogans."

Two final points on the above...

1. Middle East subhumans have been making the same fatal miscalculation about the Israelis since 1948. It's cost them greatly every time. The ADF has more than the necessary means, motive and opportunity to carry out such a strike; they've done it before.

And they have something the Bush Administration does not appear to have... the will.

2. Tehran's claim that Israel cannot attack because "they have a number of domestic crises" is telling. It's a clear the terrorists consider the fifth-columnists and "useful idiots" at work in Israel, the US and throughout the West to be their most effective weapons.

 Our lack of national will and cohesion is what our enemies count on most; they have no conventional armed capability to speak of, and once the Israelis surgically end Iran's nuclear capabilities, and we bleed them into submission, they'll have to return to their camels.  

The price we'll pay will be limited to the continued terrorist attacks against soft targets that we've had to contend with since Thomas Jefferson sent the Marines and the Navy to kill Islamo-subhumans the first time in The Barbary War 1801-1805 (see my post, "To the Shores of Tripoli" )

Tony Snow

Tony Snow showed great dignity in his fight against terminal cancer which finally overpowered him yesterday.

A solid journalist of pleasant demeanor, good humor and flinty toughness, he was one of the most effective presidential press secretaries in recent memory.

Via Michelle Malkin, Doug Powers observes:

The AP just can’t help but take a swing at a conservative who just died:

"With a quick-from-the-lip repartee, broadcaster’s good looks and a relentlessly bright outlook — if not always a command of the facts — he became a popular figure around the country to the delight of his White House bosses."

And there we find the essential difference between conservatives and liberals, don't we?

Tony, a man of great religious faith, wrote candidly about his struggle a year ago:

"... remember that we were born not into death, but into life—and that the journey continues after we have finished our days on this earth. We accept this on faith, but that faith is nourished by a conviction that stirs even within many nonbelieving hearts—an intuition that the gift of life, once given, cannot be taken away. Those who have been stricken enjoy the special privilege of being able to fight with their might, main, and faith to live—fully, richly, exuberantly—no matter how their days may be numbered.

Thanks, Tony; you were one of the few really good ones.

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What is going to happen if Iran acquires Nuclear capabilities? It is not just the Israelis that need to worry. After they strike at Israel, all Arab countries need to be worried. They had no compunction against using chemical weapons against Iraq during the 80s. If they had nukes, they would have used them and given credit to Allah for his foresight in making sure that Iran had them. To Iran, Israel will be the test case for the use of nukes in the Middle East.

With CodePINK and the rest of the dividing agenda groups, will we actually have the ability or support to act in a decisive manner? That probably depends somewhat on who is President. It is pretty safe to speculate on what a Republican/Conservative would do, but what would Obama do? What did President Carter do?.... Exactly...