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Today we received the following comment on a post I wrote almost two years ago:
Sattari Says:
January 3rd, 2008 at 5:54 pm e
In the name of God
Im one of Iran milltary (ARTESH) soldiers.We are wait for any trops or one shoot from an american soldiers gun.Then we will erase USA from all of the worlds map so you have no America to protect.I think thats better to american gov to give respect to Irans certain rights.Thats peacefull solution
I checked the IP and it does indeed come from the weakling Islamic Iranian nation. Let me just respond by first offering my English services free of charge (though I’m sure I’d butcher your language just as bad). The problem with your “peacefull [sic] solution” is that it doesn’t seem so peaceful. If we shoot at you, wouldn’t it just be better to negotiate with our politicians for a ceasefire? Why fight violence with violence? Two wrongs don’t make a right, ya know. Oh, sorry. I thought I was speaking to my own Congress for a moment.
Sattari (why does that sound so much like satire – which is how I take your threats), you wouldn’t live through “one shoot [sic]” of American’s gun. When we attack, we do so swiftly, accurately, and overwhelmingly. The ARTESH wouldn’t stand a chance. IF, and I emphasize IF, we ever decided to go into your God-forsaken country, you’re better off just staying home. I don’t want to have to personally spank you. You’ve been speaking death to America “in the name of God” for decades and it hasn’t gotten you anywhere yet. Don’t you think that maybe God doesn’t support you?
Perhaps you also didn’t get the word that your government told you to back off? They realized the futility of opposing us. So should you.
Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, sees Iran as following through on assurances it made to Iraqi and U.S. officials last fall not to assist extremists in Iraq, spokesman Col. Steven Boylan said, adding that other U.S. officials have noted declines in Iranian weapons and funds to Iraqi insurgents.
“We are ready to confirm the excellence of the senior Iranian leadership in their pledge to stop the funding, training, equipment and resourcing of the militia special groups,” Col. Boylan said. “We have seen a downward trend in the signature-type attacks using weapons provided by Iran.”
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Critical Facts
Following the debacle that is now known as the Iraq war, I guess I just don’t see the humor in the post, CJ. Overreliance on shock and awe failed miserably in Iraq, so what makes you think it will work in Iran?
CJ
Yeah, yeah. We had such a hard time with Saddam and his Army. I can see how you’d see nothing but failure in our ability to defeat his regime in less than a month.
Critical Facts
That’s not what I said, CJ, and I suspect you know it. Nobody disputes Saddam and his army fell quickly to American and other forces. And I suspect that nobody disputes that the same would likely occur in Iran or nearly anywhere else in the world for that matter. But then what? Your sarcasm falls a bit short in addressing the question posed.
CJ
Sorry about that. I thought for sure you said “Overreliance on shock and awe failed miserably in Iraq”. Someone must be using your name for lies and misrepresentation. Unless I just have the wrong definition for “failed” in my head. Seems to me that shock and awe worked perfectly in taking down Baghdad. So, what failure am I falling short in addressing.
Critical Facts
No, I am sorry. We are just talking past one another. You see, I am lumping the entire Iraq nation-building mission into a single mission. And from this perspective, shock and awe, while accomplishing a near-immediate defeat of Iraqi forces, came up remarkably short on the nation-building exercise. For example, you do recall that American forces and Iraqi civilians are being killed or injured regularly in Baghdad, five years following shock and awe, don’t you? That is the failure that I am referring, and the far-from-remote possibility that the same would occur in Iran.
CJ
Well, shock and awe is NEVER a nation-building technique. It wasn’t marketed that way and it wasn’t intended that way. I’m shocked and awed you thought otherwise. You sound shocked and awed that you neglected to mention that the Iraqi civilians being killed or injured regularly are not at the hands of the defeated Iraqi military nor US troops but terrorists and holdouts. I’m further shocked and awed that you’d think the same would happen in Iran. Up until recently, Iran was responsible for a lot of the killing and injuring going on Iraq. If we took out Iran, who would meddle then?
Anonymous Hollywood blacklist dodger
I have a feeling that IF we attack Iran, we won’t try and HOLD and CHANGE it. We learned how well people react to that.
We’ll just blackout reporting on the operation, and then proceed to blast the everlovin’ 5h!t out of their Army, Navy, Air Farce, roads, bridges, ports, refineries, government buildings, power plants, electricity distribution, communications systems, and oh yeah… The nuclear weapons facili… I mean, nuclear power facilities.
Then, we’ll blockcade the ports, set up on the Iraq/Iran border, tell the Pakistanis ‘heads up’, ask the Turkmens if they’d mind if we set up a few bases, lay back and drop food and propaganda on them for a couple years. Maybe include a few thousand suppressed pistols, extra magazines and bricks of ammunition to go with them… Just, y’know, to keep things interesting.
Talkin’ bout a revo-lution, hey hey, ya know… We all wanna change the world.
I wonder what the old grey farts in black bathrobes in the Iran Revolutionary Council would think if we back-channeled that particular scenario past them.
Anonymous Hollywood blacklist dodger
Oh, yeah… Critical Facts? Read a newspaper (you know, like the NYT). Lol.