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Patraeus to Command CentCom

nobody@vox.com(theway2k) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:03:50 -0500

General David Patraeus is being promoted from Baghdad Command to Central Command in the Middle East.

This is happening after Admiral Fallon abruptly resigned the CentCom position in March over strategy disagreement with the Bush Administration. Fallon opposed “The Surge” while Bush and Patraeus agreed it was a need. Patraeus obviously won out and it looks like he is taking the old bosses job.

With “The Surge” being way more successful than its opponents could ever have imagined; speculation must begin to arise as to the position of CentCom Commander for Patraeus. This is so particularly because of all the saber rattling from Iran and the promise of retaliation even from Democratic candidate Hillary.

Iran is supplying terrorist enemies of America and America’s ally Israel. Is the Bush Administration planning some kind of strike on Iran? It is just something to think about.

JRH 4/23/08

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to be Added to America’s Terrorist List

nobody@vox.com(theway2k) — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:30:03 -0500

Iranian Revolutionary Guard photo 2006

The publicity of Iran’s nuclear ambitions seem to fade in the American press as the November 2008 elections creep slowly nearer; yet the repercussions of a nuclear armed Iran is increasingly growing as a global threat. The global threat is NOT because America is in Iraq attempting to create a stable government. Nay good friends, the global threat is because Iran’s government is under a leadership that looks for global chaos due to the religious expectations of Radical Shi’ites belief that the Twelfth (Lost) Imam will be the Mahdi. These radical Shi’ites expect this Mahdi to make the Earth Mohammedan in its entirety.

All the politics of a U.S. occupation of Iraq is the propaganda that these Shi’ite Twelvers revel in with this Mahdi expectation. (The Wahhabi Sunnis have their own reasons of American hatred that are similar yet very different.)

This radical Shi’ite mindset is why it is so globally dangerous for Iran to become a nation in possession of nuclear weapons. There would be no geo-political restraint of the old Cold War Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) theory preventing nuclear powers from engaging in a nuclear war. Iran would push the warhead launch buttons merely to enable chaos in a deluded realization of the Mahdi.

International diplomacy crawls at a snails pace. The Ayatollahs of Iran are using the political management of Twelver disciple President Ahmadinejad to surge Iran into the possession of nuke WMD’s. Ahmadinejad has taken full advantage of Western style diplomacy to move their program along without interruption. The West talks while Iran walks toward the WMD dream.

Iran has successfully tied up America in Iraq and (to a lesser degree) in Afghanistan by being a weapons supplier and terrorist trainer. The vehicle Iran has utilized for tying the American military (essentially killing our military boys clandestinely) is the Revolutionary Guard. The Revolutionary Guard is essentially Iran’s extra-military force outside its regular Military that is at the trusted bidding of the Ayatollahs. The Revolutionary Guard has its origins in the lack of trust in a U.S. trained Iranian Military under the rule of deposed Shah, an extremely loyal ally of America dumped for his repression of Iranians by screw-up President Carter. Thus Iran exchanged the repression of the Shah for the repression of the Khomeini Revolution. The exchange of repression for repression did not help the plight of Iranians and this is why Carter is a screw-up, especially in the realm of Middle Eastern diplomacy.

U.N. Sanctions have been highly ineffective in slowing down Iran’s nuclear process because Russia and China’s support of Iran. Russia’s distaste for America probably arises from jealously from taken down a notch by America’s overwhelming the former Communist Soviet Union. China’s support of Iran is due to a National Interest connection due to the obvious – oil.

The EU has attempted talks with Iran but that is part of the stall agenda of Ahmadinejad, in other words a failure.

America has ratcheted its own sanctions to a much higher degree than the U.N. on Iran yet having little effect on Iran’s nuclear expansion. President Bush has upped the ante on sanctions by preparing to place the Revolutionary Guard on America’s Terrorist list. This will make it tougher for American Corporations or foreign Corporations that come under the jurisdiction of American law to deal with Iran. It will allow Iranian assets related to the Revolutionary Guards to be frozen as well.

Do I think this will slow down Iran’s nuclear program? Nope. However I do think it will annoy Iran that they may make a move that may expose publicly what Western governments already know clandestinely; viz. that Iran is way more dangerous to global peace than the official Appeasement line of the West is willing to admit to their constituent public or the Left dominated deluded pro-Arab and pro-oil-Iran loving media are willing to admit.

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STRATEGY: A GOOD ONE FOR AMERICA, NOT RADICAL ISLAMISTS

nobody@vox.com(theway2k) — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:47:28 -0600

Neocon Patriot

When 9/11 occurred, only the Neocons had a plan to address terrorism. The Clinton strategy was immersed in treating Islamofascist terrorists as international criminals rather than enemy combatants determined to alter America’s way of life.

Neocons influenced President Bush to take down Islamofascist regimes to introduce democracy as a way of politically combating the seed bed of terrorism. Ironically there has been more success with this in Afghanistan than in Iraq. I say ironic because Afghanistan's people are steeped in the violent ideology of Wahhabi and Taliban interpretations of Mohammedanism. That populist is the epitome of a fundamentalist Mohammedan.

Iraq though Mohammedan; faced a quarter century of Baathist-Socialist Mohammedanism. Old Saddam Hussein attempted to enforce a degree of secularism into the Mohammedanism of Iraq. The Shi’ites hated him for it. It is in Iraq that America currently faces the greatest challenges concerning the introduction of democracy. Radical Mohammedans have flocked to Iraq to fight American soldiers as if it was a Jihad against an invading Crusader army.

This is unfortunate because America's desire was to build a democratic rule of law under the aegis of a stable government. Iraq is so divided by Radical Mohammedanism from foreign Sunnis and Iran influenced Shi’ites, I am of the opinion that Western Democracy will not take hold as the rule of law in Iraq.

Thus there is the appearance that the Neocon strategy of transformation in the Middle East is a failed strategy. Since it was the Neocon baby, it is the Neocons that are the stigma and scapegoats of a failed nation building strategy.

Something to consider: who had a better or even an alternative plan? Answer: NO ONE!

Neocon strategists have developed another plan. I have not heard a person who identifies himself as a Neocon say the nation building democracy plan is currently a failure. There is a certain amount of political hubris as there is with all political ideologies. Do not think for a minute that Left Wing thinking is devoid of hubris. After all Left Wing utopianism is alive and strong even after the collapse of the Communist Soviet Union as a failed structure for governing people. That also is hubris.

In America the Left Wing plan for the War on Terrorism in Iraq is to cut-n-run enabling the appearance of victory to Islamofascism and radical Mohammedanism. That strategy will only allow the continued growth and eventual domination of the radical reactionary interpretations of Mohammed, the Quran, the Hadiths, the Sunna and Sharia Law and so on. The concept of a moderate Mohammedanism is shrinking daily in the Mohammedan dominated nations and Mohammedan minorities in Western lands. Clearly the cut-n-run strategy is will mess up the global future of Western Civilization.

The Neocons and (smart) Conservatives are calling for a “troop surge” to alter strategy to confront terrorists with a more root out the rodent vermin goal. Then extricate American troops. If democracy latches on in Iraq or Afghanistan, it will be a Mohammedan cultural version. Civil Rights and Liberty as we know will not exist in a Mohammedan democracy; however a better rule of law may develop that goes after radical terrorists in ways that only a Mohammedan can comprehend.

Or despotism may win the day because medieval thought patterns may be too entrenched in Mohammedan culture until a moderate transformation (hopefully) over takes the radical. Then America will back to the old fashioned client States. The Client States will receive American support for existence as long as they quell the radicals in their nation. Both versions may not be amenable to American and Western National Interests.

President Bush has assigned General Patraeus to replace General Abizaid as the Commander land troops in Iraq. He will employ the NEW military strategy and we will see where the chips fall. If the Democratic Congress interferes with Patraeus, the new strategy will certainly fail. Let us think long term and not short term. The short term will result in long term anguish for America and the West. The Short term will embolden current minority Mohammedans to embrace its radical nature, placing the so-called moderate on the shelf of insignificance.

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