The post-Askariya analysis on Iraq continues to be pretty poor. Here's Pat Lang in an interview at CFR:
What should the U.S. response be to this latest round of violence in Iraq?
There's really nothing we can do about it. We lit a fuse on this by the kind of political process we've been sponsoring, which is clearly reversing the social order in Iraq to the unhappiness of the Sunnis. The Shiites have been pretty quiet because the electoral process has clearly been going in the direction of handing power over to them. Leaders have urged [Shiites] to be quiet, and not carry out reprisals. But this [latest attack against the shrine] is such an outrage from their point of view. This is like blowing up St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
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Does this latest violence affect the timeline to draw down U.S. forces there?
The U.S. government will still try to reduce its troops, but I think it'll be very difficult because the situation is not going to get better anytime soon. The more people you pull out, the more vulnerable you are on the ground and the less influence you have.
Throwing up his hands entirely is William F. Buckley, whose typically rambly piece closes with this little nugget:
Mr. Bush has a very difficult internal problem here because to make the kind of concession that is strategically appropriate requires a mitigation of policies he has several times affirmed in high-flown pronouncements. His challenge is to persuade himself that he can submit to a historical reality without forswearing basic commitments in foreign policy.
He will certainly face the current development as military leaders are expected to do: They are called upon to acknowledge a tactical setback, but to insist on the survival of strategic policies.
Yes, but within their own counsels, different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgment of defeat.
Yeesh. Dark days at the White House, one imagines. Can't be too pleasant to be working at the NSC these days, hm?
Exterminate Iran Now!
Three atomic bombs against Iran are all we need for a Century of Peace. The imminent nuclear bombardment of Iran will automatically cancel the forthcoming tribulation of Europe.
By Prof. Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis, 3/20/2006
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The antihuman murderous clique of the top Iranian officials and mullahs works ceaselessly to drive the entire world into an inferno of ultimate annihilation in a nuclear furnace. Using their puppet president as a tool to fool gullible Asiatic diplomats and indecisive European and destabilized American statesmen, the hidden masters of Qom are convinced that through a global holocaust they enforce the re-appearance of the Twelfth Imam, the legendary figure of the Shia version of Messiah. According to their paranoiac mind, they have nothing to lose…
Iran: the abomination of the desolation
The term may have been used with respect to Apocalyptic Jerusalem, but it rather suits today's vertigo of oppression and intolerance, as practiced throughout the Iranian plateau.
In the western half of Iran's surface, Azeris, Turks, Kurds, Loris, Bakhtiaris, and Arabic speaking Aramaeans of Khuzestan total no less than 27 million people who aspire to independence, freedom, democratic rule, human rights, socio-economic progress and peace. They all passionately desire to get rid of the barbaric sub-culture of Shia theology, knowing very well that the ruling bogus-Islamic criminals of Qom – Mashad – Tehran want just to utilize them for their Satanic purposes of nuclear domino.
In large part of Iran's south-east, several millions of Baluchis have placed all their hopes for independence, democracy and socio-economic progress on the forthcoming – and long expected – American attack and annihilation of Tehran. More than four millions of errant Afghanis avoided the Taliban cholera only to fight the Ayatollah abomination on daily basis, and this has lasted several decades already. It is a desperate misery that is a shame for all the Mankind.
A Cemetery of Peoples named Iran
Persians represent 50 to 55% of the entire population of this country – cemetery of peoples. Approximately 10% of the entire population of Persians have left Iran over the past 27 years, and prospered in various countries and continents, keeping always in mind and deep in their heart the perspective of free Persia – Cradle of Civilization, as truly this great land has been for almost three millennia. Among Persians, those who highly evaluate the great pre-Islamic past of the Achaemenids, the Arsacids and the Sassanids are the worst enemies of the Satanic regime of the Ayatollahs.
Those who still practice Parsism, the latest phase of Zarathustra's lofty religion, represent a lethal enemy of the bogus Islamic madness of the inhuman monsters who tyrannize Iran. They are our brothers and our sisters, they have full right to practice their religion in their own country, and the World owes so much to their ancestry that we cannot avoid interfering without defaming our own past.
Alexander the Great has been the common denominator for all, Christian Westerners, Jews, Persian Parsists and all Muslims who ascribe themselves to the Human race and to World Civilization.
For the Common Heritage of Alexander the Great, the Western powers must come to help of the tyrannized peoples of Iran, face the challenge immediately, and evacuate all their nationals from Iran as soon as possible.
Very little time is left if we truly want to avoid the Satanic domino effect that has been well orchestrated by the most antihuman and the most perverted minds the world has ever known.
Three atomic bombs against Iran are all we need for a Century of Peace.
Two bombs against Japan in 1945 guaranteed 61 years of Peace. Three similar bombs used today – not tomorrow – against Iran will guarantee a peaceful century of progress and prosperity, based on new technologies and space exploration – this is the wonderful prospect the Ayatollahs fight to avert.
In full cooperation, America and Europe must use nuclear weapons against Qom, Mashad and Tehran now, March 2006. In the same way now the majority of the Japanese are happy with the event that ended WW II the descendants of the numerous oppressed peoples of today's Iran will exalt the use of three atomic bombs against Iran today.
My call is not new; writing in March 1995 in the Turkish Daily News, I suggested Turkey to spearhead the ultimate dissolution of Iran, which is the only way for the ultimate democratization throughout Western Asia, the rise of free republics of Khuzestan, Lorestan, Bakhtiaristan, and Baluchistan, the unification of Azerbaijan, and the final merge of Turkey, Kurdistan and Azerbaijan into a 115 million people democratic society inspired by the secular principles of Kemal Ataturk. The Iranian consul at Istanbul reacted then vehemently, denouncing my proposals.
Quite unfortunately for that funny fellow, his country did not achieve much over the past 11 years to prove his ridiculous assertions as serious; the Satanic Republic of Iran proved to be the progenitor of all monsters and perversions, oscillating from antihuman hatred and destructive madness to deliberate defamation of the Iranian civilization.
Euro and Dollar must become one currency.
If the Americans are reluctant and the Russians and the Chinese gullible enough to believe they can manage the Satanic Republic of Iran, there is still enough brain and historical memory in Europe. It would be idiotic and suicidal to think in terms of economic prevailing and monetary pride, when the future of the Mankind is at stake. There is much more to unite Europe and America than what (Euro and Dollar) may divide them. If French Franc and Deutsche Mark became one single currency, the same can happen in the near future to (thoughtlessly competitive) Euro and Dollar.
By committing themselves to immediate nuclear bombardment of Iran, Britain and France, backed by the rest of Europe, will convincingly prove to America that unilateralism is not an option and to the rest of the world that the 1945 Victory of Civilization and Freedom is definitely and forever non-negotiable.
In today's world, the West proved to be the de facto Vicar of the World Civilization; all the Human Heritage passes exclusively through today's Western Universities: Islam and Confucius, Egyptian, Assyrian-Babylonian, and Iranian civilizations along with Classical Studies, Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as early cultures in various continents.
Nothing is better studied and cultivated anywhere else in the World than in the West, so nowhere – and from no one – can possibly a claim of representativity be raised. This is the correct Danish / Western answer to the idiotic claims of the Islamic Conference Organization as regards the Prophet Muhammad's unworthy – and certainly undeserved – caricatures. The matter is not whether the Freedom of Speech prevails over the religiosity and the lost piety of the Mankind or vice versa.
The matter is that today's Muslims de facto do not represent the real, historical Islam anymore, so they have nothing to claim as theirs except their illiteracy, and their tolerance of barbaric sheikhs and cannibalistic ayatollahs.
An imminent nuclear bombardment of Iran will not only free the oppressed peoples of the Iranian cemetery; it will also shake the entire Muslim World, stimulating the civilized elements (that exist in great number but are terribly oppressed at the local level by the barbaric and murderous sheikhs) to reject the idiocy of the Wahhabi Satanic perversion.
Europe in need of a modern Heraclius, not Justinian
If the sociopolitical forces that prevail in Europe opt for 'modesty', 'tolerance' and cowardice, America will not face the major problem; Europe will.
Engulfed in a pathetic anti-Americanism, inactive Europe will face inner strife of disproportionate dimensions, unexpected invasions, and implosion. The misery caused through intermingling with uncivilized, barbaric and antihuman elements will generate – soon or late – a healthy and dynamic rejection of methods and approaches so perversely sought by the circles of Benedict (rather Maledict) XVI, and a new Heraclius will rise to lead Europe to the East. Justinian's reconquista of the West cannot be a model for today's Europe.
Heraclius' expedition against Praaspa, the battle at Nineveh, and the destruction of Ctesiphon should rather preoccupy the supposedly serious conclaves at Brussels, London and Paris; since this is going to happen, the earliest it happens the easiest and the most anodyne will be for Europe.
The imminent nuclear bombardment of Iran will automatically cancel the forthcoming tribulation of Europe.
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