Post by jeffolie on Oct 12, 2011 11:34:58 GMT -6
in US, Iran to kill Saudi envoy, blast Israeli & Saudi embassies
Bumbling fools, 'Keystone Cops', 'the gang that couldn't shoot straight': these are phrases I used to explain the inept spycraft to my family last night.
Hiring the Mexican Mafia as a hit squad ... LOL ... their skill remain in leaving chopped off heads or bodies piled on roads, NOT sophisticated assination teams to operate in America's Capitol.
Wiring $100,000 to a 'sting operation' ... LOL ... didn't this guy have any common sense.
Calling directly to Iran, on an open line phone, with a top QUDs Iranian military guy ... LOL ... this guy knows nothing of the NSA worldwide system to tap phones
'Lose cannon': the Iranian 15,000 strong QUDs military wing that answers only to the top religious Shia guy in Iran, does support Hamas & Hezbola, should have known better and must be crazy with hate to be so stupid.
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Iran Containment Policy Cast in Doubt
The alleged plot alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador and high-risk behavior for Tehran defy the "rationale actor" presumption that lies at the heart of nuclear deterrence
The de facto U.S. strategy of containing an Iran on the cusp of acquiring nuclear weapons may have just gotten a lot more dangerous. That strategy of isolating Tehran internationally, and building an anti-Iran alliance along its periphery protected by the U.S. nuclear umbrella, relied on the "rationale actor" theory of international relations. Under such circumstances, the strategy assumed that even an Iran with nuclear weapons could not unduly intimidate its neighbors. Crossing a clear U.S. redline by passing those weapons to allied terrorist groups such as Hezbollah would invite annihilation. ...
'.... If it proves true, Tuesday's announcement by senior Obama administration officials that the Quds Force--the elite special-operations unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard--was linked to a plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States in Washington, D.C., and subsequently bomb the Saudi and Israeli embassies here, clearly crossed a post-9/11 redline.
"Iran has been in a tense showdown with Saudi Arabia, and it has been simultaneously emboldened by the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and frightened by the Arab Spring democracy movement that has destabilized its ally Syria," ...
"... One possible explanation is an increasingly tense power struggle inside Tehran between Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Given that he is losing that battle, a desperate Ahmadinejad could conceivably believe that provoking an attack by the United States could allow him to consolidate power as the defender of Iran against "the Great Satan." But even given Ahmadinejad's history as a firebrand and ideologue, the plot to launch multiple bombings in Washington at this time seems uncharacteristically reckless. ...
" ... "The Quds Force has never been this sloppy, using untested proxies, contracting with Mexican drug cartels, sending money through New York bank accounts, and putting its agents on U.S. soil where they risk being caught. It reads more like a Hollywood script than an actual Quds plot," ...
www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/iran-containment-policy-cast-in-doubt/246539/?google_editors_picks=true
Bumbling fools, 'Keystone Cops', 'the gang that couldn't shoot straight': these are phrases I used to explain the inept spycraft to my family last night.
Hiring the Mexican Mafia as a hit squad ... LOL ... their skill remain in leaving chopped off heads or bodies piled on roads, NOT sophisticated assination teams to operate in America's Capitol.
Wiring $100,000 to a 'sting operation' ... LOL ... didn't this guy have any common sense.
Calling directly to Iran, on an open line phone, with a top QUDs Iranian military guy ... LOL ... this guy knows nothing of the NSA worldwide system to tap phones
'Lose cannon': the Iranian 15,000 strong QUDs military wing that answers only to the top religious Shia guy in Iran, does support Hamas & Hezbola, should have known better and must be crazy with hate to be so stupid.
============================
Iran Containment Policy Cast in Doubt
The alleged plot alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador and high-risk behavior for Tehran defy the "rationale actor" presumption that lies at the heart of nuclear deterrence
The de facto U.S. strategy of containing an Iran on the cusp of acquiring nuclear weapons may have just gotten a lot more dangerous. That strategy of isolating Tehran internationally, and building an anti-Iran alliance along its periphery protected by the U.S. nuclear umbrella, relied on the "rationale actor" theory of international relations. Under such circumstances, the strategy assumed that even an Iran with nuclear weapons could not unduly intimidate its neighbors. Crossing a clear U.S. redline by passing those weapons to allied terrorist groups such as Hezbollah would invite annihilation. ...
'.... If it proves true, Tuesday's announcement by senior Obama administration officials that the Quds Force--the elite special-operations unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard--was linked to a plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States in Washington, D.C., and subsequently bomb the Saudi and Israeli embassies here, clearly crossed a post-9/11 redline.
"Iran has been in a tense showdown with Saudi Arabia, and it has been simultaneously emboldened by the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and frightened by the Arab Spring democracy movement that has destabilized its ally Syria," ...
"... One possible explanation is an increasingly tense power struggle inside Tehran between Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Given that he is losing that battle, a desperate Ahmadinejad could conceivably believe that provoking an attack by the United States could allow him to consolidate power as the defender of Iran against "the Great Satan." But even given Ahmadinejad's history as a firebrand and ideologue, the plot to launch multiple bombings in Washington at this time seems uncharacteristically reckless. ...
" ... "The Quds Force has never been this sloppy, using untested proxies, contracting with Mexican drug cartels, sending money through New York bank accounts, and putting its agents on U.S. soil where they risk being caught. It reads more like a Hollywood script than an actual Quds plot," ...
www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/iran-containment-policy-cast-in-doubt/246539/?google_editors_picks=true