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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.

Maybe.
State media and other bodies untouched also, though. Maybe their media just does as they’re told and are not rabid true believers (like ours).
I keep hoping there really is a plan for better Iranians to take hold of Iran. If not now, when would they have a better chance???
Fair question, Optimist. I have to think that any organization(s) that can manage the, ahem, personnel issue as effectively as we are seeing, also will be capable of helping to put the pieces in place for such a revolt to occur. So many positive things already have been accomplished that no one would seriously have predicted, we probably ought to expect more of the same.
Shrugs and high hopes and lots of prayers are all I can offer.
So it’s an “accomplishment” to have annihilated the Iranian nuclear program–and then have to return to “annihilate” it again? It’s an”accomplishment” to serve as the Big Brother to the little bro who only wants hegemony over the entire Middle East?
My, my.
When dealing with the mullahs running Iran it is best to make every effort to ensure they never get their mitts on a bomb. Once they have one I have no doubt they would use it. We also now know they have missiles that could reach into the Indian Ocean. Time to end this threat for good.
Israel does not want to establish hegemony over the Middle East. They merely want to be left alone. Egypt and Jordan have made peace with Israel and are not subject to Israeli attacks. Lebanon, Syria and Iran could profit from their example.
It’s an”accomplishment” to serve as the Big Brother to the little bro who only wants hegemony over the entire Middle East?
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From 1947 to the present, Israel’s military has operated outside the area on its borders just twice: the bombing of the Osirak reactior in 1981 and the bombing of PLO headquarters in Tunis in 1985. Israel last came to blows with Egypt in 1973 (at Egypt’s initiative), last came to blows with Jordan in 1967 (after having remonstrated with King Hussein to stay away from Gamal Abdel Nasser’s schemes), and last came to blows with the Lebanese state in 1949. It’s conflicts in Lebanon have since 1975 been with paramilitary organizations. It’s had some aerial dogfights with the Syrian Air Force over the last 50-odd years, but little else. Israel had businesslike relations with Iran up until early 1979; the Iranian government has been an antagonist every since and has sought nuclear weapons to use on greater Tel Aviv.