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O’Reilly And Krauthammer Play War Games With Iran

Posted by Ellen -7842.60pc on January 04, 2012 · Flag

It speaks volumes about Fox News and its leading show, The O’Reilly Factor, that it discussed a potential military conflict with Iran with political pundit Charles Krauthammer rather than a military expert on Monday night (1/2/12). I’ve got a lot of respect for Krauthammer who, admittedly, has a lot of foreign policy cred. But neither he nor Bill O’Reilly have ever served in the military. And they were each cheerleaders for the Iraq war. So I got more than a little queasy watching these two argue that the U.S. should up its bellicosity with Iran because even if it does lead to war, we win.

O’Reilly said, “It would be to America’s advantage if (Iran) did try to close the Straits of Hormuz because then the U.S.A. would be justified, as would NATO, in taking out their entire Navy and Air Force, which they could do, we could do, in a week.”

O’Reilly’s voice rose with disturbing enthusiasm as he added, “We could obliterate every plane they have, every ship they have!” 

Krauthammer said, “And that could even expand and extend to attacking other facilities, the missile facilities or even the nuclear facilities.” 

According to these two, this kind of likely retaliation is why Iran will not close the Straits of Hormuz and why Obama should therefore draw a harder line. 

Krauthammer and O’Reilly may be right that Iran is bluffing. But playing a game of brinksmanship has its own risks and is the kind of thing that could inadvertently lead to war.

One gets the distinct impression that while each claims that’s not likely to ensue, they won’t mind a bit if it should happen to come to pass.

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Thx4 Fish commented 2012-01-05 18:33:14 -0500 · Flag
Some people say we chose an invasion of Iraq in the first place to see how we might do later on in a fight against Iran. Iran is much, much bigger, stronger, and well-armed than little ol’ Iraq was. Bill probably doesn’t want to hear what the military thinks of his desire to mix it up with Iran, and his analysis that their complete military destruction would be over in a week. Like that’s the important part. Bill doesn’t give a fig for the troops he’d send into another meat grinder occupation, because all he’s ever had to do is tell the troops ‘thank you.’
el84 commented 2012-01-05 10:53:50 -0500 · Flag
They want to go to war so their buddies in the military-industrial Halliburton complex can reap more massive profits off of dead Americans and dead foreign “enemies”. It’s all about the money. Kill infidels for dollars is the Fox Christian Nation motto.
John Martin commented 2012-01-05 00:51:31 -0500 · Flag
Bildo continues to dazzle with pre enlightonment medieval reasoning.
Aria Prescott commented 2012-01-04 19:02:24 -0500 · Flag
Bill wants war so bad, how about he spend that week on the front lines against ground troops? That way, everyone wins- he gets fatal gunshot victims by the dozen, all the falafel he can eat in his downtime and America gets a week where we get to have nothing short of the molten core of this freakin’ planet keeping him at bay.

Tell me that isn’t the perfect deal.
truman commented 2012-01-04 18:42:09 -0500 · Flag
Corporal Bildo and PFC Kraphammer. Two proud members of the Faux Chickenhawk Brigade. The Brigade’s motto is: We love wars that other people fight.
Kent Brockman commented 2012-01-04 17:22:38 -0500 · Flag
Amerika winning a war in the Gulf would give Obama a lock on 2012. It’s like Fux Nuze would have to call it a “win lose” event.

Killer O’Reilly would say

We stopped the Devil in the ME with our Devil in the WH. Oh dear…
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