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<blockquote data-quote="susiedriver" data-source="post: 73272" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>tie,</p><p></p><p>It is extremely difficult to read the red typeface. Try blue, if you insist on using something other than black, the use of italics will help to differentiate your comments from those you are commenting on, as well.</p><p> What do you base this on? The overwhelming election of a hard-liner as President of Iran? The enormous influence of the Shi'a clerics?</p><p></p><p> Is that why Iran has restarted its nuclear program? In fact the USA is now in direct talks with Iran, through Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, further legitimizing President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's regime. In the meantime, Iran continues to provide support to the insurgency in Irag.</p><p></p><p>I think you miss the point of the article (you did read it, right?) The United States is in the position that it actually strengthens the influence of it's enemies because it is stretched too thin, economically & militarily, to do anything.</p><p></p><p><em>"In part because of the military and financial overextension in Iraq (and Afghanistan), the likelihood of any coherent application of military power or even of a focused military threat against the remaining entities on the Bush administration's once-extensive hit list has substantially diminished. In the meantime, any country that suspects it may be on the list has the strongest incentive to make the American experience in Iraq as miserable as possible. Some may also come to consider that deterring the world's last remaining superpower can be accomplished by preemptively and prominently recruiting and training a few thousand of their citizens to fight and die in dedicated irregular warfare against foreign occupiers."</em></p><p><em></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiedriver, post: 73272, member: 1848"] tie, It is extremely difficult to read the red typeface. Try blue, if you insist on using something other than black, the use of italics will help to differentiate your comments from those you are commenting on, as well. What do you base this on? The overwhelming election of a hard-liner as President of Iran? The enormous influence of the Shi'a clerics? Is that why Iran has restarted its nuclear program? In fact the USA is now in direct talks with Iran, through Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, further legitimizing President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's regime. In the meantime, Iran continues to provide support to the insurgency in Irag. I think you miss the point of the article (you did read it, right?) The United States is in the position that it actually strengthens the influence of it's enemies because it is stretched too thin, economically & militarily, to do anything. [I]"In part because of the military and financial overextension in Iraq (and Afghanistan), the likelihood of any coherent application of military power or even of a focused military threat against the remaining entities on the Bush administration's once-extensive hit list has substantially diminished. In the meantime, any country that suspects it may be on the list has the strongest incentive to make the American experience in Iraq as miserable as possible. Some may also come to consider that deterring the world's last remaining superpower can be accomplished by preemptively and prominently recruiting and training a few thousand of their citizens to fight and die in dedicated irregular warfare against foreign occupiers." [/I] [/QUOTE]
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