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  • Nov 11, 2011, 04:24 PM
    paraclete
    Foolish talk abounds!
    Recently Israel said it would attack Iran, and American sat in the wings applauding. Now Iran makes it clear what its response would be.
    Iran: Nobody would dare attack Islamic Republic - World news

    Brinkmanship isn't pretty and we should all wonder why it is necessary? Unless, of course, it represents an excuse to keep american soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Let's face it, america needs another war to pull its industries out of the doldrums but it doesn't need more middle eastern involvement
  • Nov 11, 2011, 04:32 PM
    cdad
    All I see here is more hot air from the Irainians. Remember Sudam Hussain's quotes about body bags? It was over in weeks. Who do they really think they are kidding?
  • Nov 11, 2011, 04:51 PM
    tomder55
    Even the IAEA has admitted that the 12ers have been deceiving the world . Too bad the IAEA was complicit with the thugs from Tehran when Mohamed Al Baradei was in charge of the organization.

    I also think it's urgent to investigate which members of the US intelligence community were complicit in putting out the fraud of a National Intelligence Estimate in December 2007 that all but said the Iranians had abandoned their pursuit of nukes .

    That was a better time to deal with the Mahdi-hatter .

    As you recall;that report was used by the Democrats running for the Presidency ;especially Obama and Biden ; to dismiss concerns about the growing nuke threat from Iran .

    I don't get it frankly. When the world decided to act in unison it was able to peacefully force regime change in South Africa . This regime in Tehran is by far a greater threat to the world than the South Africans were ,and it is far more repressive to it's people . Yet a large part of the world shrugs it's shoulders as the lunatics running the country openly admit that their goal is to force an apocalyptic end game.
    When homicidal messianic despots talk like that you best take them seriously .
  • Nov 11, 2011, 05:36 PM
    paraclete
    Here we go again WMD! An excuse which never grows old, unless of course the US isn't concernedIAEA shows Iran nuke program intel to 35 nations - World news
  • Nov 11, 2011, 05:52 PM
    tomder55
    What are you talking about ? The IAEA clearly demonstrates what we have known for almost a decade. It supports the case I made above. Had the world acted then perhaps there would be no need to contemplate a military response. But to Israel and many of it's neighbors ;the threat of an Iranian nuke in the hands of the regime of the 12ers is an existential threat. They have no choice but to act.

    Further ;it is apparent that the US is retreating from the region so we cannot even offer a credible deterence umbrella . You want to see an arms race ? Wait until the Pakis start giving the Sunni bomb to nations like Turkey ,Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
  • Nov 11, 2011, 09:34 PM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    Further ;it is apparent that the US is retreating from the region so we cannot even offer a credible deterence umbrella . You want to see an arms race ? Wait until the Pakis start giving the Sunni bomb to nations like Turkey ,Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

    If the US is retreating from the region then they don't need to be concerned about Iran, they just need to go back to the other side of the Pacific. The Paki's have probably done what they intended to do. Pakistan was an instrument of american foreign policy, or was it the other way around. You are concerned about the Paki's without realising Pakistan is a failed state, without american aid they will sink out of sight and China will help them out

    You want us to be concerned about China but if you offer nothing we might need to be concerned about you.

    Anyway Tom one war at a time, you fight the wars you can win, or at least that's the way the planning goes, so why are you concerned about your allies. You need to realise that there is a big difference between rhetoric and action. In that part of the world they talk a lot but action rarely mirrors rhetoric
  • Nov 12, 2011, 01:45 AM
    tomder55
    Go back to your illusions. You think that because you are an island continent in the middle of nowhere that the world will pass you by and it's not your concern.

    The Paki nuclear technology has made it to your side of the world too and the fool in Pyongyang is a wild card.
    You are foolish if you are not looking towards China and not see their expansionist ambitions . The same situation exists on China's perimeter . Proliferation will be the name of the game if the US goes home. At least your leaders realize that ,and will invite us to establish a forward operating base in Darwin. BTW.. feel free to keep Obama. He and Red Julia make a lovely couple.
  • Nov 12, 2011, 06:15 AM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    Go back to your illusions. You think that because you are an island continent in the middle of nowhere that the world will pass you by and it's not your concern.

    Well Tom for some this might be the middle of nowhere, but then a couple of hunderd years ago america was the middle of nowhere, so don't write us off. We are very well aware of what is happening in our region because, unlike the american, we educate our children to be aware of the rest of the world.

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    The Paki nuclear technology has made it to your side of the world too and the fool in Pyongyang is a wild card.
    Pakistan responded to India, not to anyoneelse, and like all the people of the subcontinent, they like to make a buck, there being so few of them about. I'm not concerned about NK, you can worry if you want to. There are enough people in SK to worry about that one and eventually they will solve it, probably without your help.

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    You are foolish if you are not looking towards China and not see their expansionist ambitions . The same situation exists on China's perimeter . Proliferation will be the name of the game if the US goes home. At least your leaders realize that ,and will invite us to establish a forward operating base in Darwin. BTW.. feel free to keep Obama. He and Red Julia make a lovely couple.
    When I look out I see american expansionist ambitions although they are a little dinted at the moment. You would deny China the same opportunity that you profited from. It's not a base in Darwin,
    Tom,
    http://www.skynews.com.au/politics/a...3&cId=Politics
    Unless you want to buy one, it is american rotation through an existing Australian base, look up Robertson base Tom, so more US feet on the ground to chase the local girls and annoy the abo's, but far enough away from the rest of us so we don't know you are there. Darwin doesn't have the inferstructure to cater for a major US base
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin,_Northern_Territory... it is a tiny backwoods place as you would say, but they do run a nice line in petrol

    We don't want Obama, Tom, we have enough coconuts already, so don't dump your trash on us.
  • Nov 12, 2011, 06:48 AM
    tomder55
    I did not say we would establish an American base although I can see where that's inferred in my comment.

    Quote:

    we have enough coconuts already
    Ummm... there are some who would say that comment crosses the political correctness divide.
  • Nov 12, 2011, 05:00 PM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post

    Quote:

    we have enough coconuts already

    Ummm... there are some who would say that comment crosses the political correctness divide.

    Not at all, Tom, down here we say what we mean and mean what we say.

    When we speak of abo troublemakers, we are speaking of what the abo's call coconuts, people of mixed race and so the comment is correctly applied to BO. That boy doesn't know whether he is a Christian or a Muslim, I doubt he knows whether he is negro or white, he certainly has a history of being raised in a non negro community and yet he has exploited his racial connections.

    Just so you are absolutely clear what is meant the comment speaks of a person's heart and mind. Coconut; black on the outside and white on the inside
  • Nov 12, 2011, 05:50 PM
    talaniman
    Geez Clete, there you go with that "hidden racism" side of you again. There is but one race, no matter the outside, or the inside, dumb, smart, that's all relative.

    What you think those "Abos" will stay down at the bottom forever? So don't worry about the Iranians, or there big brothers the Chinese, or cousins the Pakis. The coconut in Washington seems to handle foreigners quite well so far.

    Ask Osama, or Momar! Oh that's right, you can't. No need to worry about what those depots are saying, or the things they are into. We won't let them blow YOU guys up. You should worry they blow themselves up while talking tough. Or there populations overturning them. The later may be more realistic than them intimidating the folks with the real NUKES.
  • Nov 12, 2011, 06:48 PM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    Geez Clete, there you go with that "hidden racism" side of you again. There is but one race, no matter the outside, or the inside, dumb, smart, thats all relative.

    .

    Tal there is nothing hidden about me, what you see is what you get.

    We might all be one race but certain things have moulded us to think differently and that is where the difference lies. How do I know someone might be thinking differently to me, could be the actions tell me and if I equate these difference to be cultural often you cannot deny how they were brought up which includes which people they have been in contact with is a significant factor.

    So as you say the abo's may not always be on the bottom and some have risen well but they acknowledge themselves that what holds them back is very much cultural and the ones we see on the very bottom are those who belong nowhere, not culturally, not according to country and even the abo's use the term "skin" to determine whether someone belongs. They are not politically correct about it in your terms but they know what a coconut is.

    Now I'm not concerned if you or the paki's or the NK blow themselves up while talking tough, regretable though it may be, it is a consequence of playing with firecrackers. One thing I do know is that we are not going to blow ourselves up and I really don't care whether you are there to help out or not, because you do things for your own reasons whether it affects us or not
  • Nov 12, 2011, 09:18 PM
    talaniman
    And that Clete is the bottom line, everyone serves their own self interests. That's why I doubt we blow ourselves up, at least not on purpose (though all our nuclear reactors have run through their warranty), but we sure as hell won't let someone else blow us up either.

    And be careful, your cultural superiority, while reassuring, is by no means a guarantee of continuing domination. Its relative, and subject to changes. Differences don't mean superior, nor does it take away from the similarities.

    The only thing that counts is thriving, and surviving, through adaptation to inevitable changes. That's just life, no matter what you call someone else.
  • Nov 13, 2011, 04:49 AM
    paraclete
    Well Tal the surviving and thriving bit I think we have done quite well thus far, and it is because we do things a little differently
  • Nov 13, 2011, 05:27 PM
    talaniman
    Whatever works best for you!
  • Nov 13, 2011, 05:54 PM
    paraclete
    Exactly Tal we will not always conform to your agenda, after all we are friends only
  • Nov 13, 2011, 08:38 PM
    talaniman
    Hmm, I don't recall us asking you too. Did I miss something?
  • Nov 13, 2011, 10:06 PM
    paraclete
    No but BO is right now

    Back on the theme of the thread, and speak of blowing people up, I notice that coincidentially a senior figure in the Iranian missile program was killed in that recent explosion. Fortutitous how these things happen, and with the US new emphasis of assassination of its enemies could it be a BO foreign policy success? Or perhaps an Israeli foreign policy success?
  • Nov 13, 2011, 11:27 PM
    talaniman
    Who can know what secrets governments have behind closed doors. I mean what would you expect the US to do when you have nations like IRAN, with influences that are tied to terrorist in MANY countries.

    I mean a nuclear IRAN could scare a lot of people into kicking the crap out of them by whatever means they have. Mr. Obama HAS been trying to talk to them to no avail for 3 years.

    They are NOT our friends, CLETE.
  • Nov 14, 2011, 03:08 AM
    tomder55
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by paraclete View Post
    No but BO is right now

    Back on the theme of the thread, and speak of blowing people up, I notice that coincidentially a senior figure in the Iranian missle program was killed in that recent explosion. Fortutitous how these things happen, and with the US new emphasis of assassination of its enemies could it be a BO foriegn policy success? or perhaps an Israeli foriegn policy success?

    Here's hoping.

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