US Rules Out Attacking Iran ‘in the Near Term’

Accuses Iran of Refusing to Engage as Iran Presses for Talks

UPDATE: The Pentagon was quick to deny Flournoy’s comments as official policy, this story has been replaced with this story.

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E. A. Costa

Harvard and Balliol, eh?

On the table, under the table, over the table, around the table, behind the table–she must know Obama and the table well.

Obama makes a nuclear treaty with Russia and threatens Iran with a nuclear attack?

Mullen seemingly changes his mind about attacking Iran.

The great Zeus-born Diadochos McChrystal moves toward Kandahar with 30,000 troops.

Bunker busters in Diego Garcia, a newly declared ocean preserve of the British.

But they are not right here on the table, see?
E. A. Costa

She has that April Glaspie look–very quaint.
E. A. Costa

http://identidadandaluza.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/april-glaspie-saddam-hussein.jpg
epppie

Obama isn't fooling anyone, except the usual assortment of credulous alterna-pundits. Of course the US won't attack Iran. Israel has that job. The US will then take over, but it needs a fig leaf of plausible deniability to do that.
- E. A. Costa
  
  11,000 missiles in two minutes?
  
  Those missiles grow everyday by the way–probably 12,000 now.
  
  Somehow they remind of the mounted Persian archers–deadly while they were retreating, retreating, retreating–until.
  
  Is Spengler right–each culture has a central image?
  
  Do they make their own silkworms now too?
  
  How far is Diego Garcia from the Gulf?
  
  Wouldn't want a nuclear accident on the atoll?
  
  If a nuclear armed ship sinks how much radioactivity can be expected over the years?
  
  Anyone note how the Iranians are working with the Portuguese restoring the ancient Portuguese forts along their shore?
  
  They are much smarter than Hussein, who spent huge sums on tanks and jet fighters and stuff, and built air fields as convenient targets for US and Coalition bombs and cruise missiles.
  
  Hussein did learn a thing or two the second time around, however.
  
  Talk about pilots and portolans.
  
  The Dutch were good but merely followed in Portuguese footsteps.
  
  The British were not even in the running in that company.
E. A. Costa

You see, there is a tendency for the little American dictators to mimic the big American dictator.

If the big dictator has a fleet of jets, the little dictator wants one in his own little bailiwick.

This is in the box thinking, like putting on a cape and trying to fly like Superman.

Many ancient cultures, on the other hand, have their own ancient games and amusements and their own ancient ways of thinking out of such childish little boxes.
E. A. Costa

Had you folks realized that Camoens was once shipwrecked in Vietnam of all places?
Tony Joseph

WOW – so nice of US not to bomb Iran just yet – maybe next month – you mean Israel has not given US the order yet?