[Fishman]

Love your logic Pretorian. Except Iranians routinely "attacking" their own people, heck lettum kill off the Saudi ambassador, when they're killing off each other and gas is $10 a gallon, your great wisdom will do us so much good. Gosh I miss the q 3 months "Bush is going to attack the Iranians anytime now"

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fishman', 'S')trange, O knew about this for some time but this comes out just as it looks like Holder is getting slammed for Fast and Furious. Wag the Dog?

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fishman', 'L')ove your logic Pretorian. Except Iranians routinely "attacking" their own people, heck lettum kill off the Saudi ambassador, when they're killing off each other and gas is $10 a gallon, your great wisdom will do us so much good. Gosh I miss the q 3 months "Bush is going to attack the Iranians anytime now"

[Sixstrings]

Ok I read the article here are pertinent details:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U').S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in an announcement today that the plan was "conceived, sponsored and was directed from Iran" by a faction of the government and called it a "flagrant" violation of U.S. and international law.

"The U.S. is committed to holding Iran accountable for its actions," Holder said.

...

Senior Obama administration officials said the U.S. currently does not have any information indicating that either Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad necessarily knew about the assassination plot and said the U.S. will pursue a path of response that would not include the possibility of an armed conflict with Iran.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-iran-tied-terror-plot-washington-dc-disrupted/story?id=14711933

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '.')

It's water under the bridge now but after 9/11 what we should have done was imposed a forced settlement of the Israeli issue. We should have forced it on the Israelis and the Palestinians. Enough is enough, we've had enough, we're the new Rome stop causing us trouble here's how it's gonna be. That's what we should have done.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'I') see, the solution to Empire is more Empire.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')I'm sure a reasonable person could sit down and figure out which land Israel ought to give back. Figure out something FAIR to both sides. Neither side would like it, but in the interest of our own national security that's what we should have done.

[Cloud9]

There is no solution beyond leaving one faction standing. Nobody is ready for that so the killing will go on. Looks like the Christians are catching it in Egypt.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'J')ust making Israel give back land won't bring peace in the middle east.

[Loki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')
the U.S. will pursue a path of [b]response that would not include the possibility of an armed conflict with Iran

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')I'm sure a reasonable person could sit down and figure out which land Israel ought to give back. Figure out something FAIR to both sides. Neither side would like it, but in the interest of our own national security that's what we should have done.

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'W')e SUPPLY Mexican drug cartels with GUNS supposedly so that when they use those guns we can track the guns and prosecute them cuz hey, we gave the guns to them in the first place.

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'J')ust making Israel give back land won't bring peace in the middle east.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'I') see, the solution to Empire is more Empire.

[Keith_McClary]

U.S. Accuses Iranians of Plotting to Kill Saudi Envoy
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed her incredulity in an interview with The Associated Press.

“The idea that they would attempt to go to a Mexican drug cartel to solicit murder-for-hire to kill the Saudi ambassador, nobody could make that up, right?” she asked

[gollum]

How about this, no peace.... No more American dollars for either party.

[PrestonSturges]

One of the problems with Iran is that it's hard to tell who's in charge of anything. As much as Fox likes to demonize Ahmadinejad, it's not clear that he has any authority and he has been publicly humiliated by the governments religious hard liners.

We didn't go to war when Orlando Letelier was blown up by a massive car bomb on Embassy Row in DC in 1976. That was probably Pinochet's Operation Condor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letelier_case

But it seems tailor made for Romney, who has gone full neocon chickenhawk, and no doubt someone will once more try to say that this proves something about how Obama is weak blah blah blah, and we need to go invade Iran, which is twice as big as Iraq and really mountainous.

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'I')'m pretty sure the Jews also have their own version of Armageddon.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'I') see, the solution to Empire is more Empire.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'I')'m pretty sure the Jews also have their own version of Armageddon.