The narrative being promulgated by by Brzezinsky and his like is useful insofar as it may dissuade our political class from forcing us into an war with no upside and many downsides. (disclaimer: I’m not a Brzezinsky fan–he may or may not have his heart in the right place, and I do sympathize with the Poles’ suffering under Bolshevism, but I can’t countenance a foreign policy that attempts to neuter the Russians on every front)

Having said all that, I’m not sure how likely it is that we can persuade Americans that Iran is too powerful to attack. I fear that people who oppose war with Iran may grow complacent. I think a better narrative (or at least a useful parallel narrative) might be that destroying Iran would empower the very fanatics who make up al-Qaida (whatever that is, as far as I’m concerned, Sunni belligerence). This is true insofar as the destruction of Iran is precisely what the Saudis, Egyptians, and Turks want. It is no coincidence that Iran’s only Arab ally is Syria (and its client-state Lebanon)–which is ruled by a heretical minority sect of Islam. If one is expecting the Muslim world to rise up because of an attack on Iran–don’t bet on it.

Henry A. Eckstein better hotfoot it on over to Israel because by the looks of things in the real world his good buddies will be in a heap of trouble. Just last week their much bragged about “Iron Dome” system failed miserably. I’m pretty sure those Grad and Qassam bottle rockets weren’t moving at anything close to mach 2 (ss-n-26) or mach 6 (Brahmos-2)

Is it true that even the Aegis class ships can only handle a maximum of 8 yakhonts before the radar is saturated?
Firing a dozen or twenty, at a cost of 1-2 million each is quite a bargain, eh?

I realize the best defense is to destroy the launch platform before the launch but that’s not feasible either, is it?
When dozens of salvos of these missiles are fired at ships in the gulf it’s not a very optimistic scenario at all. Is it?

“Saturday, February 18, 2012, a Grad missile landed in the outskirts of Beer Sheva just before noon. It caused no damage. The firing of the missile was detected; the alarms in Beer Sheva subsequently alerted denizens that a rocket was approaching. However, the Israeli Iron Dome missile shield system failed to intercept the rocket. Yesterday, two Qassam rockets landed near Ashkelon. They were detected, the alarms were activated, but Iron Dome failed. Shortly afterwards, another rocket landed in the area of the Eshkol Regional Council with similar results. ”

Then again, perhaps these rockets were MEANT to make it to their targets; (empty fields). Those danged Israelis are so very tricky, don’t ya know..

Miss Darkmoon,

I enjoy your posts a great deal, but there are some serious misconceptions present here.

I enjoy your posts too, Athanasius, and I’m sorry you detect some “serious misconceptions” in my article. I won’t try to justify myself, because it’s inevitable that my expertise should be questioned. No one can claim infallibility. We all “see through a glass darkly”.

I note with a sigh that another poster (Buckle) has this to say about me:

“Is this classically educated woman sufficiently qualified to address the issue of Iranian weapon systems?”

It would seem that a Classical education is a disadvantage in addressing military questions! Being a woman is an added disadvantage. But even if I’d been General Petraeus, someone would have questioned my right to infallibility.

All I can say is this. I am deeply interested in the subject matter I deal with here. I have researched it long and hard. The Iran question has been a private obsession of mine for many years. I have even corresponded with an Iranian journalist who wanted to translate my most recent article (“America Vanquished”) into Persian and invited me over to Tehran to be interviewed. I declined his kind offer, telling him I couldn’t afford to take time off to visit Iran and that there were thousands of other people more qualified than myself to give interviews.

I am doing in this article exactly what you would yourself do, Athanasius: presenting my viewpoint, despite my limited knowledge, in clear and simple language which I hope most people will understand and appreciate. They don’t have to agree with me. I merely present facts, figures and supportive quotations. I provide links to numerous sources. My readers are free to make up their own minds.

What is the basic point I am trying to make? My orginal title for this article says it all: DON’T ATTACK IRAN!

I wish Iran to be left alone. I am pro-Iranian. If Iran is attacked, I will be backing Iran. I will refuse to back its attackers and I will be praying for their defeat.

I will be keeping my fingers crossed, hoping that Russia and China will spring to the defense of their innocent ally, Iran, and do their best to deter the Zio-American warmongers from unleashing Armageddon.

Zardari serves at the US government’s pleasure, and if it really got serious with Iran, and it was necessary, would allow us to use their territory to stage and invasion. The Pakistanis, despite having a highly derivative culture (their vaunted Urdu poetry is just a copy of Farsi stuff, their kind of Sunni Islam apes many Shi’ite facets such as veneration of saints), also hate the Persians.

Incidentally, I suspect Kuwait would let us use their territory as a staging ground.

Don’t get me wrong, a war with Iran would be a tremendous waste of blood and and treasure, all to NO benefit for us, but it is feasible–I only WISH it were as infeasible as Miss Darkmoon suggests.

Neocon; you left out the most important reason…Isreal wants us to. Oh yeah, and Americans need entertainment, watching war news is better than football!

It is likely we would station troops in Pakistan, as well.

Didn’t the Pakistanis have a falling out with the US over some US drones that killed some Pakistani soldiers, and then kicked out the US base there?

MADONNA ~ Super Bowl XLVI, HALFTIME Show

HYPERLINK

They are building their army of anti-whites so as to send them after us, for the final extermination of White European man. White European females will be ‘spared’, because they will be handed over to the non-white foot soldiers as sexual booty and trophies.

I don’t doubt that for a minute. It’s already going on, the use of white females being groomed by Asian men in England already. Who knows how much of this goes on in the US that has not reached the news. And the whole thing with the Russian Mafiya (however that is spelled, the Jewish word for ‘mafia’, that grooms white women for the sex slave industry.

That aside, here is as good a place as any to show an interesting insight into Madonna’s performance at the Super Bowl. This is NOT my analysis ( I should be this creative ! ), but comes from another source:

Madonna/Whore of Babylon/Ishtar, who in real life changed her name to Esther. In the link below we see her on stage in a dance with ‘Haman’ (aka Mercury). ‘Haman’ in ancient sanscrit means ‘Heman’, which means ‘Mercury’. In the Book of Esther, there was a ‘dance’ or test of wits.

Haman was a royal vizer for the Persian King Ahasuerus, who planned to kill the Jews. Ahasuerus is also known as Xerxes. In a recent movie (sorry, name wasn’t given), Xerxes is depicted as a giant, and mentions he was ‘in the presence of the gods’.

Now, it was believed that Xerxes was a descendant of Perseus, the son of Zeus, and this is where the Persian people took their name from. (Someone who knows Persian history probably could elaborate.)

Obama = Xerxes = descendant of the fallen angels/Giant god/King of Babylon

Obama gave his acceptance speech in front of a replica of Zeus’s Temple in Pergamum (I never saw his acceptance speech myself — perhaps someone could confirm? though I’ve seen the pictures on the internet).

Obama/King of Babylon apparently even spoke about the Jews/Israel and the Persians/Iran in his pre-game (Super Bowl) interview with Matt Lauer.

Obama = descendant of the fallen angels = Giant/god king of Babylon = Rev. 2:13, or ‘the seat of Satan’

Super Bowl ritual symbolizes America/Babylon, the Giant King of Babylon, Esther and Haman – no coincidence

March 8, 2012 is Purim from the Book of Esther, a Jewish holy day commemorating the deliverance of the people in the ancient Persian empire from destruction in the wake of a plot by Haman.

Some say look for a false flag attack around Purim, though another source oracle says a war with Iran won’t happen until about 2014 or 2015.

Anyway, pretty interesting and unique analysis of this year’s Super Bowl ritual, if anyone has any thoughts on it.

Once the oil is bought and sold in other currency than DOLLARS the power of Wall Street and those who control the Federal Reserve [the chosen people] is as the Italians say “finito”.

M. A. Rothschild [1744-1812] said put it in these words…”Give me control of a nation’s currency and I care who not makes its laws…policies, etc”.

The advent of Armageddon [imho] will have its most devastating impact on the likes of Baron Rothschild and hey maybe its about time.