02-08-2012, 03:58 PM
cbelt3 wrote:
Oh gee... they're threatening Terrorism ? I thought they 'renounced' that ? :confused:
Bombast and pandering to the home market. They quite probably have widespread terror attack capability through Al Quaeda.. after all, Al Q owes them a lot, considering all the IED supplies and expertise Iran provides. But if they have the ability to 'destroy us' then why are they going to all the effort to build nukes ?
The Iranian citizens would happily toss out their religious dictatorship, but the Mullahs keep allowing the Revolutionary security forces a free hand in arresting and torturing anyone who is a potential threat.
I think you got that right. But I would caution people who think that we can just go bomb Iran and the consequences wouldn't be that great. Bombing Iran would go a long ways towards rallying people in the country who otherwise would not be inclined to support the mullahs. The Iranians may not be able to militarily keep the Straits of Hormuz closed for an extended period of time, but they could for awhile and oil prices would spike dramatically - and probably stay high even after the Straits were opened. That would probably send the U.S. back into a recession. The Iranians could cause unrest throughout the whole region by a host of other means as well. And there would be an inevitable increase in terrorism against the U.S. - which would be more of a psychological problem than anything else, but we've already shown that we can be tweaked all out of proportion by terrorism so that would probably be quite effective as well.
The Iranians are playing a stupid game of chicken that is all too likely to lead to a lot of grief for a lot of people.