"Live Free, Or Die." Not a motto, an ultimatum.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

Arnoldharris,

Well in that case it’s best to prepare now and convert to islam before our islamic overlords arrive.

Here’s a link to a site showing how to properly pray in islam http://www.jannah.com/learn/flashprayer1.html

Salam aleykum

Hope is for the religious.  As Dean is, this applies to him in a way, however, his hope here isn’t in God but the passions of man.

Frankly, hoping a man doesn’t a thing is about as useful as it sounds.  The better course of action would be assume he will do a thing, prepare for it, and wait for him to provide amply proof he won’t.  If you’re lucky, and he’s at all sane, the big stick you’re carrying will be the motivation he needs to provide that proof.

Like Teddy Roosevelt said, speak softly but carry a big stick.  Hope and soft talk is nice.  It’s even nicer to show that there more to you than pretty words.

Place your hope in God, prepare yourself for man.

The only real hope is based on purposeful action. When dealing with IslamoNazism or any other unpleasant but quite real phenomena.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

Anyway retaliation isn’t much consolation for Israel. One nuclear strike could pretty much do it for them.

Right, that was my point.  Communists, unlike Islamic extremists, aren’t even particularly into this sort of thing and look what happened.  Iran’s leaders are bona fide religious wackos, how much riskier is that?

As for the idea they are “rational and self-preserving,” this isn’t true for very many values of “rational,” and they certainly give less evidence of being “self-preserving” than the Soviets did.

I think you’re probably right that Iran’s leaders (including the ones you rarely see even though they hold the vast bulk of the power) are more self-serving than suicidal.

I hope you are correct. Hope, hope, hope.

Except for the fact that Jones was not religious.  His entire church was a carefully constructed sham meant to further his communist ideals.

Also see the many previous discussions on this topic where others have made excellent cases that the Iranian leaders are rational and self-preserving, rather than anything remotely suicidal.

There will be nuclear destruction in this country unless Iran us subdued and diverted from its path by outside military intervention.  And that is as inevitable as the rising and setting of the sun.

I too see nuclear weapons being smuggled into this country in container ships. That precisely is what world trade will net the owners of this country; their own destruction.

The long term question is not Iran and its crazed mullahs, but Islam in general. Its believers fully intend to conquer the non-islamic world by whatever means needed and available.  And right now, I see no counterforce willing to stand against them.

Therefore, unless something not known to us today changes the calculus the road to  world power through belief modification, then they will win in the end, and the freedom and liberty of the rest of the world shall be extinguished under the imperative of Islam, which is worldwide submission to their concept of their god. 

Arnold Harris