If Obama wins, Israel wil not survive.

[lakedaemonian]

Re: If Obama wins, Israel wil not survive.

I see no evidence that the theocracy is in danger of failing. There's no way an Islamic regime will fall by itself. Even the Taliban controls much of Afghanistan despite fighting the whole world and will return if NATO withdraws.

The theocracy is here to stay and will gain power as the West wanes.

I think it's entirely possible or even likely that if a high level of economic pressure can be successfully brought to bear on Iran and combined with less kinetic(meaning not killing people beyond the odd nuclear scientist/program manager) regime change efforts(much like the US/Vatican in Poland in the 80's) then I think if we are patient we could see a positive outcome if our time horizon is long enough.

[touchring]

Re: If Obama wins, Israel wil not survive.

I think it's entirely possible or even likely that if a high level of economic pressure can be successfully brought to bear on Iran and combined with less kinetic(meaning not killing people beyond the odd nuclear scientist/program manager) regime change efforts(much like the US/Vatican in Poland in the 80's) then I think if we are patient we could see a positive outcome if our time horizon is long enough.

The US is in a slow decline, I'm sure almost everyone will agree on this regardless of where one's position lies. So in the long run (20-50 years), Iran is likely to win.

Of course, what happens in the future, no one knows but the trend in the past 30 years point to this.