by threadbear » Fri 06 Jan 2006, 14:30:41
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')This result will still be a success for US because they have positioned substantial armor and supply chain resources in the Persian Gulf to establish the security of oil flow from the region for decades to come. Sorry, a few Osama wannabees running around setting off car bombs and picking off US infantryman doesn't constitue defeat. Well, maybe for the liberal press it does.
Well, the oil flow from Iraq is down to an intermittent trickle at this point. If Bushco's blundering around manages to ignite the whole region, energy production could collapse everywhere. Can the military really secure the whole ME oil/gas business?
I am pretty sure that Iran has some sort of plan to attack the energy infrastructure of any ME country that supports an attack on Iran. This means that Saudi facilities will be hit with advanced missiles, bombers....and maybe with commando attacks. They are going to try and take Uncle Sam down by cutting his energy jugular. And the destroyed infrastructure can be rebuilt later and pumped out at a slower rate for long-term income.
Even if that scenario does not play out, OsamaInc and friends has seemingly decided that attacks on energy infrastructure with it's resulting damage to the US economy is the central game plan. Just look at how the roadside bombs and insurgent tactics have been constantly improved on in the Iraq fiasco....the same improvements may well be noted in attacks on refineries, pipelines, civilian oil workers, and shipping facilities as time goes on.
l If you appease and ignore these kinds of regimes, they grow stronger and it only costs you more money and lives later to remove them. The Cold War was successful and is a model for containment of a very dangerous adversary. Afghanistan is the model for the quick removal of a weak one. We are using the Cold War strategy against N.Korea and Iran right now. I think they are considering invasion before Iran gets nukes and becomes irremovable.