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Attack vs Invade
By Micah Halpern

Saturday February 10, 2007

I've Been Thinking:

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates visited Spain on Thursday.
Gates said that the United States will not attack Iran.

The United States will not attack Iran.
What a strange choice of words. Attack.
I would have agreed with Gates had he used the word "invade" not "attack."
Now two things are abundantly clear:
A United States attack against Iran is not imminent
The United States has contingency plans that include various attack scenarios.

The only way to force Iran to act responsibly is to couple strong diplomacy by neutral countries and by countries that Iran sees as allies with the threat of a missile strike.
Iran knows that the threat of a missile strike hovers over them.
That is why on that same Thursday the Iranians publicized the successful testing of their new Russian TOR-M1 anti-missile system.

Once again, I have the feeling that the Iranians "get it" we're the ones who don't.

4 June 2017 12:14 PM in Thoughts


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