Comments on: Pipes: Bombing for Political Expediency

By: Jon Harrison

Jon Harrison — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:06:36 +0000

John Bolton spoke to the Hudson Institute over the weekend, and all but predicted an Israeli strike on Iran in the near future. I would have liked to say more about this in a comment on Marsha Cohen’s piece, but for some reasons comments are not being accepted for that one.

By: Brad Brzezinski

Brad Brzezinski — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:12:17 +0000

I followed the hyperlink of your first word, “Islamophobe” and read the article that supplies your justification for the use of this term.

That article does not mention these critical words from Pipes: “Although I disagree with Wilders about Islam (I respect the religion but fight Islamists with all I have)….”

When your argument includes sticking false labels on people, it is greatly diminished.

I do commend IPS for having this blog though; it enables us to clearly see the biases of the journalist contributors.

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:38:54 +0000

Thank you Mr Lobe for distilling Daniel Pipes thoughts (on bombing Iran) and encasing them in a “nutshell”. Very appropriate!

By: Augustbrhm

Augustbrhm — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:52:43 +0000

Obama is not that stupid he knows that action will be the end of america and Jacob [israel].Make no mistake Iran is not Iraq that was weakened by sanctions, and bombed for 12 years.Iran is strong enough to inflict major damage to americaisrael combined plus she has the” bomb”

By: Roger Lafontaine

Roger Lafontaine — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:28:40 +0000

This is a case of the baby (Israel) crying for the candy from its mother (US) again. It got a pretty good taste of this candy when it attacked Gaza a year ago and Lebanon before that. The Israelis were literally jumping for joy at the sight of the slaughter. They couldn’t get enough of it. They thought it was the greatest thing they ever witnessed. Now they have their sights set on Iran and the prospects of millions dying under bombs and missiles. They know that if they keep crying for it the mother will eventually give in as she has always done. The baby has learned its lesson well, but what has the mother learned?

By: richard vajs

richard vajs — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:40:43 +0000

Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen and now Iran; can any but a fool not see that we are in quicksand? And for what reason are we going on? So that the hateful “settlers: can steal more land? So that Israel can become a full flowered genocidal apartheid regime? The neocons are radical Zionists. Their hatred of the Muslims will destroy America and probably the World.
It is time to cut the Gordian knot – declare Israel a failed experiment. Let the Jews who are willing to live shoulder to shoulder with the Arabs, stay and live in Palestine. Give the Westernized Jews who will not assimilate, generous support to leave. Even if it costs us a trillion dollars, it will be a wise investment.

By: doob

doob — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:48:35 +0000

“Anybody have a guess?”

I’ll hazard one. The neo-cons are making too much money on war mongering, and it’s always about the money, right? With their lucrative no-bids in their pocket that their Lord and Master Dick Cheney established they couldn’t possibly care less how many decent people of any race die as long as their accounts continue to bloat. Because in their simple minds the number of digits in your account is how you keep score! “Oh look! I’m winning!” “But what about all those dead and maimed people?” “Oh those numbers don’t come anywhere near my score, so all is well.”

By: Jon Harrison

Jon Harrison — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:43:21 +0000

It’s fascinating, albeit a bit scary, to watch the neocons in action these days. Does Pipes seriously think Obama will bomb Iran in order to improve his poll numbers? Even Bill Clinton wasn’t that self-absorbed. No, the president isn’t going that route.
So why Pipes’ editorial Hail Mary pass? Anybody have a guess?

And fancy Robert Kagan appearing as the voice of reason!

You gotta give it to the neocons, nothing stops them. There was a slight pause in their act just before the surge in Iraq, when the U.S. position there seemed about to collapse ignominiously, but now they’ve recovered that peculiar brio they like to exibit. If Iraq goes south in 2012 (with Tehran’s influence replacing Washington’s as it moves in to secure the dominance of the Shia), will anyone remember who started us on that road? Certainly the neocons will blame Obama for failure in Iraq; the question is whether the rest of the country will as well.

By: Nevada Ned

Nevada Ned — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:50:14 +0000

Since Iran has NO nuclear weapons, and no nuclear weapons capacity, what would it take “to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons capacity”?

About as much as it would take to “destroy the nuclear weapons capacity” of, say, Lichtenstein, or Monaco, or Switzerland. Nothing at all, since these countries also lack nuclear weapons or the capacity to make them.

There IS a country in the Middle East that really DOES have nuclear weapons, hundreds of them. And the name of the country starts with the letter “I”. But it’s not Iran. And it’s not Iraq.

But you won’t find out the name of this country from Daniel Pipes.