[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]Sifu wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Only going to address a couple of these.
[quote]Sifu wrote:
The KH-55 range is 1550 miles not 1300. That extra 250 miles of range goes a long way in Europe. But that is only if they are in the mood to be nice by respecting borders and launch from inside their own airspace. [/quote]
2500 kilometers is 1300 nautical miles, which is what you use when you are talking about flight. Presumably the rocket would be flying, and not covering 1550 statute miles on a truck.
My mistake. Perhaps they can retrofit their existing 747s with solid fuel rocket engines.
I’d say that any approach of an Iranian airliner to US airspace would be looked at extremely askance. I mean, if there were any direct flights out of Teheran that could come anywhere near US airspace.[/quote]
They only had eight 747’s. But the sanctions prevent them from getting spare parts to maintain them properly so more than half of them aren’t flying anymore or are about to be retired.
You have ridiculous excuses for everything just so you can rationalize your stupidity. If the Iranians were going to attack the US Maybe they would fly a plane out of another territory. It’s not like every plane flying everywhere on the globe is being tracked.[/quote]
While we’re on the subject of ridiculous excuses for justifying stupidity, please tell me what you think would be the excuse for justifying a preemptive nuclear attack on the most powerful military empire in the history of the world by a pipsqueak Islamic republic that hasn’t started a war or invaded another country since before the aforementioned military empire declared its independence from the previously most powerful military empire in the history of the world.
It would be ironic if they did, considering they would be unconsciously emulating Alexander, a pipsqueak king of a pipsqueak country, who had the audacity to take on the most powerful military empire in the history of the world…which was Persia!
He won, of course, because despite being a pipsqueak, he had superior technology. Something that the Persians do not now have.[/quote]
The problem with Iran is the same problem with any other dictatorship. There is too much power concentrated in too few hands. The Iranian people as a whole may be rational but they have a handful of people who have so much power they can make irrational decisions that affect everyone else.
Just as guns are a great equalizer amongst individual humans, nuclear weapons are a great equalizer amongst nations. It doesn’t matter that we have enough nuclear weapons to turn the entire country of Iran to glass.
On 9/11 we only lost two office buildings in New York and it almost collapsed the economy. If they have the ability to take out just one major city New York the would devastate the economy for many years and kill a lot of Jews as well.
They have not started a war is a ridiculous rationalization. In their history the Persian have started a lot of wars and the Ayatollahs want to reclaim their former glory as a major empire. In recent history they have spread violence far and wide including into this hemisphere.
If they have nukes they aren’t going to behave any better. They may not do a preemptive strike they might just launch mass casualty terrorist strikes where we will have a choice of going to war against a country with nukes or just put up with the losses. Just like how we had to put up with them killing our troops in Iraq because we weren’t willing to go to war over the occasional dead soldier or Marine.
With nuclear weapons they don’t need superior technology to do a lot of damage. As I have repeatedly tried to explain all they need is something good enough to get a nuke where they want it.
Then there is the possibility of a nuclear armed Iran resulting in a nuclear war in the middle east. They have had skirmishes on their border with Pakistan which is a Sunni muslim country. The Sunni’s consider the Shiite’s heretics. They hate each other almost as much as they hate the Jews. But the rivalry between the two is much greater.
