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Dagobah Resident
OK, so this is how it starts.
You see, the thing is, you never know about those A-rabs and how flighty they can get.
A massive military show starts and both sides are staring each other down. Similar to the cold war exercises where submarines would occasionally bump into each other because they were playing a high stakes game of chicken, US and THEM will start doing macho chest bumps. The difference is that during the cold war, neither US or USSR really wanted things to escalate, however, this time it provides the perfect cover.
As part of this macho display, somebody panics. A single shot is fired. Next a shell is fired. Next many shots followed by many shells. Fighters get scrambled. Next comes a Sunburn over the horizon at mach 2 and takes out a supply ship because of a last minute maneuver coordinated with the aircraft carrier it was actually aimed at. [Unlike the time Iraq nearly sunk one of our ships with an Exocet, we expected this and so are prepared. This avoids the embarassment of us having to admit to the world (and particularly China in the Taiwan Straits) that a Sunburn really can sink one of our Aircraft Carriers and we cannot do squat about it. The supply ship and its hundreds of sailors are simply sacrificed.]
OK, so now they have sunk one of our ships. As Bugs Bunny sez: "This means war."
30 minutes later Tehran is a smoking hole in the ground with the radioactive fallout as a nice present to our good buddies, the Afganis, the Pakistanis and of course, lets not forget the Chinese. This comes about because of the change in rules of engagement (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: "Rules?!?! In a Knife Fight?!?!?") where theater commanders can now go tactically nuclear without explicit Presidential authorization. Remember making sure this situation escalates out of control rapidly is the key to "success".
Story line:
Geeze it's almost like somebody in Iran is "on our side" so to speak...
[And yes, I do know that the Iranians do not consider themselves Arabic, but instead consider themselves Persian. To them this is a big distinction and not to put too fine a point on it, many of them actually look down on Arabs. To US, both Arabs and Persians have brown olive skin. And worship the "wrong" god. Named, coincidentally "god". Except of course for the Bahá'í. Ask the average American what "Bahá'í" is and they will probably offer you a Kleenex.]
You see, the thing is, you never know about those A-rabs and how flighty they can get.
A massive military show starts and both sides are staring each other down. Similar to the cold war exercises where submarines would occasionally bump into each other because they were playing a high stakes game of chicken, US and THEM will start doing macho chest bumps. The difference is that during the cold war, neither US or USSR really wanted things to escalate, however, this time it provides the perfect cover.
As part of this macho display, somebody panics. A single shot is fired. Next a shell is fired. Next many shots followed by many shells. Fighters get scrambled. Next comes a Sunburn over the horizon at mach 2 and takes out a supply ship because of a last minute maneuver coordinated with the aircraft carrier it was actually aimed at. [Unlike the time Iraq nearly sunk one of our ships with an Exocet, we expected this and so are prepared. This avoids the embarassment of us having to admit to the world (and particularly China in the Taiwan Straits) that a Sunburn really can sink one of our Aircraft Carriers and we cannot do squat about it. The supply ship and its hundreds of sailors are simply sacrificed.]
OK, so now they have sunk one of our ships. As Bugs Bunny sez: "This means war."
30 minutes later Tehran is a smoking hole in the ground with the radioactive fallout as a nice present to our good buddies, the Afganis, the Pakistanis and of course, lets not forget the Chinese. This comes about because of the change in rules of engagement (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: "Rules?!?! In a Knife Fight?!?!?") where theater commanders can now go tactically nuclear without explicit Presidential authorization. Remember making sure this situation escalates out of control rapidly is the key to "success".
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No, we are simply not going to go in and bomb them. It has to start with a spark and that spark has to ignite a can of gasoline. To make sure this happens we need to insure the spark and make sure the can of gasoline is in position. The rest is physics. This manuever provides the perfect cover.fox news said:
Geeze it's almost like somebody in Iran is "on our side" so to speak...
[And yes, I do know that the Iranians do not consider themselves Arabic, but instead consider themselves Persian. To them this is a big distinction and not to put too fine a point on it, many of them actually look down on Arabs. To US, both Arabs and Persians have brown olive skin. And worship the "wrong" god. Named, coincidentally "god". Except of course for the Bahá'í. Ask the average American what "Bahá'í" is and they will probably offer you a Kleenex.]
