http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/13/3973 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/13/3973/comment-page-1#comment-29641 velvel in decatur Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:24:41 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/13/3973#comment-29641 We've kicked this around for a while. The benefits include temporary elimination of a clear threat, respect from Middle Eastern states who seem not to have the resolve to do anything (although they are as threatened as Israel and the US), acquiescence to other acts of self-defense by Israel in the future, and others. There are consequences to acting or not acting. These include inviting destruction versus possible civilian deaths in Iran and Israel (and in the US), political action (embargoes, blacklisting, economic sanctions, blockades, and others), international condemnation (so what else is new?), backstabbing by supposed allies, loss of oil supplies from the sellers to Israel, disruption of oil supplies to Europe and elsewhere, demands for reparations, and on and on. And someone said, "But it might be a detriment to the peace process with the Palestinian Authority." As to laugh because they provide no one with which to negotiate (sorry, Jeeeemy) because they are too busy scamming money and killing each other. My question is "if we can figure this out and look at the cost/benefit analysis, where is Condi Rice and the rest of the State Department and where are the members of Congress who run in circles with their hands up screaming "do something, do something." And I won't even get into the Tikkunistas. We’ve kicked this around for a while. The benefits include temporary elimination of a clear threat, respect from Middle Eastern states who seem not to have the resolve to do anything (although they are as threatened as Israel and the US), acquiescence to other acts of self-defense by Israel in the future, and others.
There are consequences to acting or not acting. These include inviting destruction versus possible civilian deaths in Iran and Israel (and in the US), political action (embargoes, blacklisting, economic sanctions, blockades, and others), international condemnation (so what else is new?), backstabbing by supposed allies, loss of oil supplies from the sellers to Israel, disruption of oil supplies to Europe and elsewhere, demands for reparations, and on and on.
And someone said, “But it might be a detriment to the peace process with the Palestinian Authority.” As to laugh because they provide no one with which to negotiate (sorry, Jeeeemy) because they are too busy scamming money and killing each other.
My question is “if we can figure this out and look at the cost/benefit analysis, where is Condi Rice and the rest of the State Department and where are the members of Congress who run in circles with their hands up screaming “do something, do something.”
And I won’t even get into the Tikkunistas.

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