[lbo-talk] Heritage: Economic Blowback from Bombing Iran Will be Easily Managed

[ravi]

On 31 Jul, 2007, at 0:06 AM, dredmond at efn.org wrote:
> On Mon, July 30, 2007 5:54 pm, Robert Naiman forwarded:
>
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/heritage-economic- 
>> blowba_b_58
>> 383.html
>>
>> Heritage: Economic Blowback from Bombing Iran Will be Easily Managed
>> Posted July 30, 2007 | 01:41 PM (EST)
>
> Fifteen minutes after the bombs start falling, the Iranians will  
> hand over
> 5,000 RPG-29s, 1,000 anti-air missiles and 3,000 long-range  
> missiles to 20
> million enraged Shiites. The resulting carnage would make Dien Bien  
> Phu
> look like a tea party. Just too ugly to imagine.
>

I am not sure about this... we hear this sort of thing over and over  
again: when we attacked Afghanistan the story was that we had no idea  
what we were in for, these guys were wily guerrilla fighters who  
would throw us out in short order. When that didn't happen and the  
Taliban ran to the borders, and BushCo turned on Iraq, we said...  
Iraq ain't no Afghanistan. Boy you have no idea what fierce fighters  
the Republican Guard are! Well, they turned out to be just the sort  
of cowards that the term (Republican) seems to be associated with  
back here. Now it's Iran... well, we say now, Iran ain't no Iraq,  
depleted by years of sanctions. They are a spirited people, willing  
to lay their lives down against foreign aggressors... and so on. I am  
sure there will be some carnage, but well within what the likes of  
Heritage Foundation classify as the messy affair of democracy blooming.

But then again, what the fuck do I know! ;-)

	--ravi