tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post5634826678685914291..comments2023-10-30T19:03:59.225+01:00Comments on David Seaton's News Links: The war in waitingDavid Seaton's Newslinkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-58744045478860914752007-05-09T22:29:00.000+02:002007-05-09T22:29:00.000+02:00By now the Iranians will have taken delivery of th...By now the Iranians will have taken delivery of the Tor M1 anti-aircraft system. Throw in their Silkworm anti-ship capabilities, and any attack on Iran is far from a risk-free venture. <BR/><BR/>I don't doubt that the neo-cons would like to widen their war; but corporate elites in the U.S., like other criminal enterprises, prefer low risk/high reward scenarios. Iraq sure seemed to fit the criteria, and look how <B>that</B> has turned out.<BR/><BR/>Democrat or Republican, it doesn't signify, the political will for an attack is certainly there, but I don't know that conditions allow for it.<BR/><BR/>International law is not enforcable, so obviously it doesn't matter in the slightest what it happens to say. The babble of neo-con 'scholars' like Louis Rene Beres is of about the same importance. Push comes to shove, the politicians and pundits will just do what they did with Iraq, and lie.<BR/><BR/>Of course, the Americans and/or Israelis have the <I>capacity</I> to annihlate Iran entirely, so anything is possible. <BR/><BR/>My point here is not to read too much into words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com