It's A Quagmire
Ahmadinejad asks Jack Murtha for advice
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The fun and games continue in Iranian Baluchistan.
Clashes between armed militants and police have erupted in the south-eastern Iranian city of Zahedan, state media have reported.
Police sealed off the area and exchanged fire with the attackers after a bomb went off, Irna news agency quoted an unnamed official as saying.
It comes two days after a car bomb in Zahedan killed 11 Revolutionary Guards.
A hardline Sunni group, Jundallah, said it carried out Wednesday's attack.
Iranian officials have accused Britain and the United States of supporting ethnic minority rebels operating in the Islamic republic's sensitive border areas.
Zahderan, which hosts a key military facility of the Pasdaran has been the scene of armed clashes between Baluch separatists and the Iranian government, as well as curious “accidents” for some time. I’m sure its proximity to Afghanistan and Pakistan are totally unrelated.
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Iranian officials have accused Britain and the United States of supporting ethnic minority rebels operating in the Islamic republic's sensitive border areas.
We should fund an insurgency in Iran that makes the Iraqi look like a bake sale.
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The Arab minority in Iran has legitimate grievances but the Baluchi separatists have also killed civilians in terrorist bombings. There is no reason to think they wouldn't ally themselves with Iraqi Sunni terrorists or even al-Qaeda types.
At least we will know who the players are when it blows up.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
they are using munitions they can't use on us. When they do it in Iran or Gaza, it's just one less bomb going off in Iraq.
I fail to see the problem.
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Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged. — J. Michael Waller
but it sure sounds like a civil war to me.
Could this possibly be giving Iran a taste of their own medicine? How long before Mohmoud says they found American M16's in the hands of the Sunni's in Iran.
If it is, I like the plan so far. Seal off the Iranian/Iraqi border and open some cans of whoop-ass inside Iran.
that maybe we DO still have "black ops"
While testyfing before a huge committee of publicity seeking cannibals North said that pitting Iran Vs Iraq was a neat idea.
It still is in this particular sense, to have two groups of murderers act as our surrogates within Iran, happily killing each other.
Liberals, sensible and wise as always, will frown on this being more concerned with our doing something positive then in losing a war and living with disgrace as well as betrayal of our armed forces.
I do hope we're fostering this merry business but it's almost too much to ask for.
Murtha? The slug won't know which way to turn, which group of killers to back or who will get the prime real estate in Okiniawa when he proposes we withdraw from there as well.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
Iran and Iraq kept at each others throats for at least an additional five years. Iran pays four times over what the government already overpaid for spare parts. The profit went to funding the contras. (The contras, see other democratic movements democrats don't like)
If anything it may have been a grand slam, if you consider the fact that the entire country was going around asking just what congress thought it was doing.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
...That pulling out of Iraq will magically stop all "sectarian violence" in the Middle East.
Or is the huge international conference that Hillary is going to hold in 2009 supposed to somehow do the trick?
I guess it never occurs to the Left that the only way to end these kinds of clashes is to bring true particpatory democracy to the region, even if it has to be done with a little coercive force for the first few years...