The egregious Rice, always ready to throw fuel on flickering flames of ill feeling, declared "I don't think the Iranians are too confused . . . about the capabilities and power of the United States. In the Gulf area, the United States has enhanced its security capacity, its security presence and we are working closely with all our allies . . . [to] make it more difficult for Iran to threaten, be bellicose and say terrible things." You've got to laugh about that one : "Say terrible things" ? Presumably the bellicose Israeli Generals Barak and Mofaz have a US license to say terrible things, but Iran is supposed to keep its collective mouth shut when menaced by a bunch of bizarre fanatics only slightly less repugnant than Teheran's mullahs.
It is not understood by Israel and the US why a nation they attack should want to conduct such resistance as it might be able to offer. Why, exactly, should Iran do nothing while being blasted by Israeli deep penetration bombs and who knows what other US-supplied munitions?
The mullahs in Tehran are a bunch of extremely unpleasant bigots, but it is unreasonable, to say the least, to expect them to sit there wringing their collective hands while the bombs thunder down. What country in the world, if it possessed some means of retaliation, could possibly allow blatant aggression to go unheeded? Would Israel? Would the US? Of course not. But what they have to remember is that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. And if they attack Iran the results could be disastrous.
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Farhad Abdolian Antibes-France
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"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it" Albert Einstein
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