summer patriot, winter soldier: December 2013

you may properly regard obama as the sacrificial goat staked out for the tiger ....

for years i've maintained that the metaphor of "the emperor w/ no clothes" is not apt for obama, and it is more applicable to regard him simply as the "empty suit." in other words, a suit of clothes with no emperor inside.

he is simply a puppet show, his handlers the puppeteers who pull the strings, and put the words up on the teleprompters. the trouble, of course, is that in the application of this metaphor it is very difficult to discern just who obama's handlers are.

on a related thematic issue, i am beginning to sense that obama is most properly to be regarded as the goat staked out for the rogue tiger. i have been hearing and reading a lot of chat that posits a "false flag" event which the left will use as a pretext and excuse to exercise marshall martial [proof read: rex] law and impose those last measures whereby they will make leftist socialism a fixed institution in american political, legal and bureaucratic existence. i am increasingly thinking that the event the left anticipates by which to do this is the assassination of barack obama.

it is several things, to the left, all wrapped up in one tidy little package.-- it is the leftist martyr, perhaps elevated even higher in the pantheon of the left than john f. kennedy. it is the final straw to break the camel's back of right wing resistance to the imposition of gun confiscation. it is the event that "damns to political hell" the "tea party" movement in particular (upon whom it will be blamed), and conservatism in general. it is the event that justifies foreign troops on american soil to restore "order" in american political life, and to assure the transition to full blown soviet and euro union socialism.

i think the left expected one of us to do it.

they regard us as being the perfect foils. in their minds we are racists, haters, and violent to the very core of our beings. they do not see one ounce of good will in the entire lot of us. they thought that one of us gun packing lunatics would have shot and killed obama a long time ago.

it is confounding to them that we have not.

failing their purposes in this regard, and with time running out, i think it quite probable that the left will simply have to engineer the assassination of obama by their own hands, e.g., that a person of leftist conviction and membership in the higher echelons of the leftist apparatus will be given the task of engineering the shooting obama. and, of assuring that the shooter be discovered and riddled with enough led lead [proof read: rex] to sink a small yacht.

i believe obama knows this, which goes a long way towards explaining his rather desultory attitude towards the performance of his duties as president ... he is a very unlikely tyrant, displaying none of the institutional aptitudes that despots commonly hold.

these matters are left to others, and obama plays golf, pick up basketball, and ogles foreign women potentates at state funerals. (sometimes he almost looks wistfully like he would like to be someplace else, other than where he is.)

but, again. who in international socialism is controlling this whole operation, who is steering the apparatus?

in my belief, those americans who are highly suspect have to include the clintons, john kerry, al gore, and most likely bill gates. (hey, you have to have some perks from being the 2nd or 3rd or 4th richest guy in the whole world.)

as for the ultimate control, this whole thing smacks to me of soviet intelligence.-- obama is plucked from his warm little existence as a pot smoking college student of very indifferent performance, and gets a ride to pakistan during the height of its civil war, to receive instruction of some sort. khalid al mansour, aka don warden, a founder of the black panther party, and percy sutton, lawyer to the black panthers and black muslims, take obama under their collective wings as radical leftist/socialist mentors. the communist party usa gives obama an "uncle" in the form of frank marshall to tutor obama. and, finally, obama moves into a posh chicago neighborhood to be neighbors to be under the tutelage of louis farrakhan, head of the american black muslims by succession from his father, and under the mentor-ship of bill ayers, long time socialist bomber and murderer.

valerie jarret, long time communist is his political adviser. van jones, long time american communist, is a czar.

this, my friend, is a communist "legacy" project, and a project which looks to have soviet and european communist handlers, from start to finish. i know i am wasting my time asking americans to "remember" something, but, ... , do you remember how at the beginning of his presidency obama received the nobel prize for peace, not for anything he had ever done, but for ushering in the "peace" of universal socialism. do you remember how he was to be crowned as president of the world at the installation of the "global warming" tax scheme at copenhagen, before christopher monckton, 3rd viscount monckton of brenchley derailed the copenhagen climate accord.

from the inception of his presidency, obama's path has been steered by international socialism. with a distinctly european flavor, but, in all these matters, the steerage has been from soviet intelligence.

even obama's life, his "history," is nothing so much as it is an intelligence "legend" handed down to him by the international and the united states left. do you remember, for instance, when obama's college and law school professors labeled him as the "mot brilliant student" they'd ever had. well, it turned out this was sheer fabrication, because he never published anything as editor of his law review, not even a "comment," and he cannot be remember at all by his "fellow students" wherever he went to school, let alone being remember for even saying anything remotely clever. (he has certainly done nothing to demonstrate such brilliance since being elected, now, has he?)

no, obama's entire life is a fabrication, to fit a preconceived design, and a preordained role.

he is, in fact, nothing more than a finely tailored suit, which he has never managed to step into.

for this, he will be shot by his handlers, because it has finally come to pass that he is more useful to them dead, than he has ever been alive. he will be assassinated by the left, because it is handier for the left that he be so.

john jay @ 12.30.2013

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mindset ....

you must listen to what the other fellow says.

and, you must think of the implication of how and what he says, after you have figured it out.

now, you and i, think very much alike, so you understand what i mean when i say, "they will take my gun from my cold dead hand." the message is accurately conveyed, and the implications of the statement are clear, ... , i will fight, as in to "engage in armed combat" in order to protect and retain ancient anglo-saxon-american rights and privileges.

and, when i have recourse to blackstone and locke and jefferson, you understand that.

you must give the other side, e.g., the "other fellow" equal credence for his public utterances, especially as regards domestic and international political issues. i must admit to being a little slow on the uptake in such matters, myself.

for instance, when the tub-of-lard janet napolitano described the "tea party" grandfathers and grandmothers as "domestic terrorists" i was a bit taken aback by the absurdity of the comment. my first reflection was, well, that's silly, they are the most law abiding gentle people i have ever come across, what in the hell does she mean by that remark?

it revealed her mindset, a mindset shared almost universally by the left.

it janet naplolitano's mind, and in her intellect, it was not a ridiculous inflated assertion. far from it.

the statement was reflective of her best hard political assessment of the risk "tea party" conservatives are to her leftist agenda, and furthermore reflects her determination that should the much discussed shtf/revolution/rebellion/insurgency/"restoration" actually occur, then "tea party" members and fellow traveler conservatives are to be treat as the enemy, and as domestic terrorists, e.g., the more influential among them are to be targeted for arrest and assassination, and they will be held in the status of enemy combatants and treated accordingly.

when i say that members of the ruling leftist elite will be targeted come the insurgency, you, and janet napolitano, no doubt, understand quite clearly what i mean. and, what this means in the real world, should the insurgency come about.

when janet napolitano says that our beloved grandpa's and grandma's are "domestic terrorists," you should understand that this statement precisely lymns out her perception, and you should understand that she means quite precisely as i have set forth above.

in short, we are the enemy. we are combatants. and, when we fight the left, the left will fight back precisely as i have described, and precisely as implicated in napolitano's slander. it makes no difference if she is right or wrong.

right or wrong, insofar as napolitano is concerned, has absolutely no bearing on the discussion herein.

what you must understand is what she meant by such a statement.

that it is reflective precisely of her mindset.

and, that she regards us as her enemy, just as both sides did in the war of the roses. please see, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/509963/Wars-of-the-Roses . white rose, red rose, pick a color for your everlasting repose.

we are enemies, janet napolitano and i. it is likely that we will fight to our deaths. she has told me that she is just as steadfast as i, in her view of the world.

you must give the other fellow credit for his views. you must understand them, when the other fellow states them clearly and unequivocally. even when the "other fellow" is a fat dumpy little lady who gives the appearance of being dumb as a post.

she is not. listen to her, and understand her. she means what she says.

john jay @ 12.29.2013

p.s. does this mean that i think the left and the right are already at war? why, yes, it does. we have had "bloody kansas" yet, nor has john brown raided the armory at harper's ferry just yet, but, the shooting has already started.

the school shootings perpetrated by melon headed deranged leftists receiving medications in stiff enough doses to kill an elephant, who then disappear from public view to be treated by the same shrinks who gave them their medications?

false flags are being discussed. (the fire at the reichstag prior to wwii, is a classic "false flag" operation, ... , staged by one side to be blamed on the other.) my guess is, the melon headed shooters got the same medications, and received the same "therapy" priming them for their operations.

i am, of course, a nut. to be dismissed. but, the next time you see one of those fellows, take a long look at his picture, and see if you don't conclude that he came off the same assembly line.

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a little reminder for my leftist friends who contemplate civil war .... we feed you .... and, we may choose not to ....

hint: we also make your electricity, and we can shut that down to the cities at any time. in fact, we provide for almost all of your physical comforts and necessities.

you like apples? well, how do you like them apples?

if we choose to, we can cut you off the feed bag, ... , with the strike of a match, with the derailment of a train, with the sabotage of your domestic water systems.

you like apples? well, how do you like them apples?

i would remind you that almost every kilowatt of electricity that courses through your electrical grid is made in the hinterlands, and comes to you by high tension wires carried by gigantic towers, over miles and miles and miles of open ground. (you call it the hinterlands, we call it home, and we can get around in it at will.) if we choose to, we can cut that supply of electricity, with nothing more complicated than a goodly length of steel cable or logging chain.

simple as that. (ever seen an insulator or a transformer take a hit from a .338 winchester magnum? how many windmills you got in your neighborhood, interfering with your urban view, your "easement" to light and air? lots of 'em, all over, out my way. you cannot guard all of them, trust me.)

you haven't got the goons to prevent it.

you think your talking head media types, or your hollywood liberal hot shots, or your urban tsa and dhs types are gonna do you much good while you sit huddled in your high rise, no food, no water, no electricity?

you'd better have a cousin in the country, you intend to ride this deal out? one who will take your worthless ignorant do nothing ass in, for the duration.

john jay @ 12.29.2013

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in response to "28decexsum" at "guerrilla america" ...

a very interesting article at guerrilla america this day, entitled "28decexsum." http://guerrillamerica.com/2013/12/28dec13-exsum/#comment-7400 .

the article concerns the form of resistance taken against the encroachments of the current regime, occupying our government. we'll get it back.

this was my response to the article.--

"to whom it may concern:

the regime needs the appearance of stability, to look in control.

as noted, the internet as constituted is critical to this. i don’t think they shut it down. that would not “exude” confidence.

i believe they leave it open. and, monitor it for investigation, and for purposes of detention and arrest.

“false flags,” indeed, will abound.

this is why i favor a decentralized approach to resistance. with general goals in mind, such acts as are required are performed by discrete individuals or very small groups, without direction from a larger entity or control.

this is not as difficult as it may seem.–

authority, institutions and persons are easily identified.

cities are vulnerable. they are fed & controlled by artery and neuron, the same as the body.

keep in mind one fundamental fact. those of us who are despised by the elites who “run things,” feed the bastards. they don’t know shit about anything, and are largely helpless without us, because we do the work.

they do not have any idea of cold, hunger, want and lack of resource. they will not respond very well to those things.

keep those things in mind.

and, as bill whittle says. attack, attack, attack. there will be plenty of targets.

john jay"

there is a lot of chat going round as to how the fight for "restoration" of our liberties should go, and how it should be organized.

i am distrustful of getting into that sort of thing too deeply at this point with people that i do not know, and over the internet. who knows who one is talking to, and how do you separate the genuine article from "agent provocateur?" best to discuss such things in private with persons one has known for years, perhaps a life time, and who one knows from ones community.

such person will be more than adequate to carry the fight at its start. as we have seen in lybia, iraq and syria, things will develop from chaos into a more organized and cohesive structure, and a more set piece fight.

but, for now. the individual will have to carry the fight.

we must. and, we must be content that in all likelihood we will not know the impact of our efforts, and may face death before we finish them. but, that is all right. such is our lot.

ezra pound had a brother, by the name of ira. smart guy. but, a believer in the collective, as was ezra. ira, i believe it was, said rather contemptuously of some fellow's sacrifice, that " ... individuals do not make revolutions."

i have always believed that ira pound was a bit of a dolt, and a smug, self satisfied sort, very much deluded, and very much removed from reality. for, you see, it is individuals, precisely, who do make revolutions.

just as individuals stepped off the landing craft at normandy to go fight hitler. you look at their faces as they contemplated the battle to come, ... , and, you tell me that i am wrong. you look at dwight eisenhower talking with them, the charcoal and lampblack under their eyes, their legs bent under their battle packs, the camo netting on their helmets, before they hauled into the transports to jump into battle on a strange battlefield.

you tell me that the individual does not make the course of history. and, i will tell you, flat out, that you are wrong. dead wrong.

john jay @ 12.28.2013

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drug runner to the mexican cartels .... more dirt emerges on obama and holder about "fast & furious" .... obama subsidized some cartels as others less favored were pursued ....

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/27/atf-agent-sends-shockwaves-across-internet-with-explosive-allegations-about-fast-and-furious-and-brian-terrys-death/

"john dodson, the federal agent who blew the lid off the justice department’s “fast and furious” gun-walking scandal, claims the fbi had ties to the men who killed u.s. border patrol agent brian terry in 2010 near nogales, ariz. in fact, dodson says the mexican bandits who gunned down terry were working for fbi operatives and had been sent to the border to do a “drug rip-off” using intelligence gathered by the dea."

these allegations are found in a 12.27.2013 article in the blaze by jason howerton. the above paragraph summarizes john dodson's assertions as to the extent of the perfidy of the dea and the fbi in the death of brian terry, and the subsequent cover up by the obama administration, to include obama and eric holder, the united states attorney general.

i would suggest that you go to the link, immediately, and read the entire article. no doubt sipsey street irregulars will have complete coverage, as well. but, dodson is the source of information from "within," and in essence, dodson says that the fbi and dea under the obama administration were running guns to some of the mexican cartels favoring them over others, in an effort to gain intelligence over other cartels. in effect, in an effort to "get" selected cartels, the fbi and deal were building others: law enforcement become publicity hounds.

these allegations are set out at the blaze in the following short paragraphs:

“'essentially, the united states government is involved in cartel-building,'” dodson said.

the claims sound eerily familiar to allegations brought forward by high-ranking sinaloa cartel operative jesus vicente zambada-niebla, who is currently facing trial in chicago on federal drug charges.

as previously reported by theblaze, zambada-niebla claims he was granted immunity during a 2011 meeting with dea agents in mexico in exchange for intel. the federal government uses a “'divide and conquer'” strategy to dismantle other cartels in mexico, entering into agreements with ruthless drug cartels.

[link to other stories in theblaze omitted]

“'(they) were given carte blanche to continue to smuggle tons of illicit drugs into chicago and the rest of the united states and were also protected by the united states government from arrest and prosecution in return for providing information against rival cartels which helped mexican and united states authorities capture or kill thousands of rival cartel members,'” the defense motion in the case reads.

[in short, favored cartels prospered, while others suffered by the actions of the fbi and dea.]

because he continues to be outspoken about fast and furious, dodson says he is treated like a pariah."

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/27/atf-agent-sends-shockwaves-across-internet-with-explosive-allegations-about-fast-and-furious-and-brian-terrys-death/

the matters are not entirely new allegations, as dodson has raised them in a previously published book. but, they show the "legs" in the story, as it simply will not go away. if obama survives to be impeached, no doubt these matters will be discussed again. let us pray that he suffers punishment for what he has visited upon this great country.

john jay @ 12.28.2013

p.s. as you can see from the links below, considerable "interest" exist about "fast and furious," and some day obama and holder will face reckoning over it. they were, and remain, complicit in brian terry's death. simple as that.

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update: this is what a 40 mike mike gun mount looks like .... hey, mom, wouldn't you be proud to have your boy gun down a crowed of your friends w/ this? ....

hat tip, mdd, who sent me the link to http://www.infowars.com/new-armored-tank-for-town-police-sparks-fear-war-of-words/

http://wintersoldier2008.typepad.com/summer_patriot_winter_sol/2013/10/forty-mike-mike-win-the-great-tradition-of-american-crowd-control-.html

update: 12.23.2013. this is what the gun mount for a 40 mike mike looks like.

caption: see the "little house" on the top of the war machine? that's where the ring for a .50 ma deuce would go, and that's where the mount for a 40 mike mike goes.

now, say that some nit wit in a police dept. really might think he needs a vehicle like this to drive his swat teams around. now, just how does that nit wit explain the need to have an automatic 40mm grenade launcher supporting his swat team?

as the letters to this department demonstrate, this machine is for intimidation of a civilian populace, to let them know "who is in charge." i don't know for sure, but, i suspect that the members of this department has little tiny dinkies. "one man, one riot," indeed.

http://www.infowars.com/new-armored-tank-for-town-police-sparks-fear-war-of-words/. note: this post is worthwhile just for the comments submitted to it. very spot on. end update.

john jay @ 12.23.2013

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now, just what in the hell am i up to w/ my "plywood" gun ....

i'd reached a bit of an impasse trying to figure out how to set up the epoxying of the metal cladding to my wood laminates, and finally concluded i had gone forward without really figuring out how to hold all the pieces together as i did the entire laminating process.

specifically, i'd trimmed things down to final form, without figuring out how to index all the various pieces, including the "internals" when i mortise out the magazine and trigger wells. well, god has a special providence sometimes for the improvident, and a friend with a vertical mill came to my rescue.

i had figured out the various dimensions involved, with the help of a blueprint of the ar-15 receiver found on the internet, as verified by actual measurement of a couple of ar-15 lowers. the dimensions checked. both to me, and to another friend who compared drawing to blueprint. (an "editor," as it were, with experience doing this sort of thing.)

i wanted to make a template from my drawings, but didn't trust my drawings as being to scale, especially the one set out by an awl used as a scribe and a straight edge on a stainless steel strap. my dimensions were true, but, i didn't trust my layout on the steel, especially the holes i had struck, as i was not using a hardened tool, and the light was poor.

i took the drawings out, and my friend (with the vertical mill) said, piece of cake. we simply slapped my "template" (steel strap) in the jaws of the mill, and then drilled holes per the sketch ... i am very happy to say that i was very very close to being spot on, but, the punch mark for the safety selector was off the width of a pencil and scribe line, and that was corrected.

caption: this may not seem like much, but, there is a lot of work involved in the above. the blue print i found on line is known as the "d. miller -- revised colt" pattern, and though extremely useful, it is not without it's subtleties.

in the first instance, the "c" or datum line runs smack through the front receiver pin hole. the only problem with that being, is that there is no place on the front of the receiver from which to measure to it, as the pin hole sits on hangers forward of the magazine well. the distance to it, therefore, is measured from the receiver pin hole at the back of the receiver, and the blue print has no direct measure to it.

it has to be derived from other holes in the receiver.

once that is done, all distances are either measured directed from the vertical line running through the forward receiver pin (pivot pin), back towards the the rear of the receiver. no problem, really, ... , except you have to decide whether to use positive values as indicated on the print, or whether you wish to subtract the values and maintain "contact" with the rear receiver pin.

we just checked it out, doing the math, both ways.

the photo shows the "d. miller" revised prints done for colt's. my drawing shows the "derived values," measure from the "c" of the front pivot. and, the little metal strap in the foreground is the template we made from my drawing, using the dimensions and drilling the "strike holes" on the vertical mill.

now, instead of measuring each and every time i make a receiver, i can simply used the template to strike the centers for holes to be drilled, ... , on, whatever.

neat.

(i think that this drawing is readable as to dimension. if you'd like me to set out the dimensions, simply request that, i will update this post with listed dimensions. this should help.)

now, in the future, i will use the template to drill two 1/4" holes 6.375" apart, and i will place the pieces for the laminate over those dowels after drilling the appropriate holes: in this manner, i will not have things going all over the place when i compress the laminates and the epoxy together.

this will allow me to true things up on a joiner, or using files and sandpaper, a lot easier.

in addition, when i lay out the metal cladding, i will do the same, and simply bolt them together when i trim and file to final form, and i should have about as nearly identical pieces as can be made by hand. and, of course, when i laminate the cladding to the wood laminate, i can use dowels to place them together.

this should allow a lot quicker process than i went through making this first receiver.

at this point, i will use the template to strike centers, and it is only to find a good drill press to drill the holes, and i should not have to have recourse to a vertical mill to keep everything relatively plumb and true to dimension.

in a week or so, and after christmas and new years, i will go back to my friend's shop, and use the vertical mill to drill the holes i have struck on the metal cladding, and to drill the holes into the laminate.

then, i will cut the profile of the receiver, and fit the pistol grip. i haven't decided just yet, but i will probably mortise the magazine well and trigger well before that, or, maybe not. we'll see.

john jay @ 12.22.2013

p.s. there remains the issue of how to fit the nut at the end of the receiver. i am giving some thought to simply omitting it, and securing the upper receiver to the lower simply by using the receiver pin holes in the lower and the lugs in the upper.

i don't know yet. we'll see. i have to give some thought to keeping things "square," as i don't want the bolt carrier to bind as it travels back into the barrel extension. if i simply use this receiver as a mule to test my ideas on the ar-10 magazine, i will probably fit a nut.

if i build an upper receiver, (and why not, as under the law it is not even a firearm, just "iron"), i may simply turn an extended upper receiver with the recoil spring and buffer in it, and just fit it to the lower by the lugs and pins. this is actually the most attractive alternative to me, as the "nut" on the lower receiver is a chronic weak spot in the design, and prone to stress cracking.

we'll see.

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to be, or not to be, that is the question ....

when the west walked away from israel at the recent & latest geneva confab, leaving iran an open door to nuclear weapons without intervention, the matter for israel was reduced to a very simple existential question.

hamlet, act 3, scene 1.

to be, or not to be? that is the question—

whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer

the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

and, by opposing, end them? to die, to sleep—

no more—and by a sleep to say we end

the heartache and the thousand natural shocks

that flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation

devoutly to be wished! to die, to sleep.

to sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub,

for in that sleep of death what dreams may come

when we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

must give us pause.

in my view israel must strike iran to preserve herself, and to preserve all that is good and noble in our tradition, our judeo-christian heritage. it is calumny of that tradition for the west to turn its collective back on israel .... a true measure of the depths to which the west has sunk, a true measure of the repudiation by our politicians of what we hold dear. may god damn them.

i don't have much truck for islam. it seems to me the embodiment of hate and envy. i would prefer any end to matters as would preserve israel as opposed to elevating islam's hate and rapacious appetite for the good and plenty of others.

it is a simple choice between good and evil, and i hope israel does what it must to preserve all that is good in israel. and, to destroy evil.

john jay @ 12.22.2013

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well, when do we get to watch the highlights? .... no. 2 .... were i the israelis, i would be cutting the orders to launch right now .... when the weather allows ....

the recent geneva accords, (hat tip www.theospark.net), http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4102/geneva-iran-islamic-bomb, ... , establish beyond quibble & peradventure that the west are a bunch of chickenshit bastards. cynical, duplicitous, betraying chickenshit bastards, at that. simply put.

were i israel, and looking at the situation objectively, i would be forced to conclude that the west would have no more backbone dealing with israel after a conventional-weapons-based preemptive strike against iranian facilities, than they have exhibited in considering with the almost certainty of an iranian preemptive nuclear strike on israel's civilian population.

it's a bombing raid versus the apocalypse. when you think about it. which western diplomats are apparently incapable of doing.

if anything, the west would be bigger cowards in reacting to anything israel does, because israel has a genuine military capability, as opposed to the bluff and bluster of iran.

were i an israeli strategist, i would have to conclude that the west would do nothing in reaction to an israeli strike on the iranian nuclear facilities.

and, i would consider previous middle eastern reactions to israeli actions as indicating that the middle east would do nothing except piss and moan. what, syria and egypt are in any position to do anything about anything. they are sort of in a position where they would be hard pressed to justify not doing anything, but they are absolutely in a position of not being able to because of their own problems. there will be no pan-arabic rallying to the cause in this matter.

china is out of the picture. it is incapable of projecting power into the middle east by any means other than ballistic missile. were i an israeli analyst, i would discount this possibility.

likewise russian, which though closer, is equally incapable of projecting power into the mediterranean. the missile frigate w/ airplanes, which the rest of the world calls an aircraft carrier, could not push its way past the straights of gibraltar against israeli opposition, and they know it. russia cannot get there by land, as their "invasion" of georgia clearly demonstrated, ... , they ran out of gas and exceeded their supply line in that limited misadventure.

of all the powers in the region, turkey is the most likely and most capable of formulating a reaction. and, quite frankly, i think the chances are pretty damned good that turkey would do nothing, as i don't think they like the idea of iran having nukes on missiles any better than anyone else, especially nukes capable of reaching turkish airspace.

i think this is the way israeli analysts would look at the matter. they will choose acceptable risk in the face of annihilation.

i think israel will strike unilaterally, and will suffer whatever mission losses necessary to eliminate iranian nuclear weapons pretensions. they will work behind the scenes, to see if they can secure enforceable limitations. if they cannot, they will strike.

before the vernal equinox.

john jay @ 12.22.2013

p.s. once they are done with iran, maybe they might want to consider taking out the north korean facilities? eh?

p.s.s. one of the below "instant links" says that hezbollah will invade israel in retaliation to any israeli strike against iran. my goodness gracious, could a benevolent god be any kinder than that? the first comment that i would have, is with what? chests & flags? the second comment would be, could the israelis be gifted with anything better than hezbollah coming out of their bunkers and planned defensive positions, and moving their rag tag out onto open ground? such ground would become a field of slaughter.

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well, when do we get to watch the highlights?

seems to me that the latest round of geneva based international negotiations between the western democracies and iran over iran's quest for a nuclear weapon, has ended in a basic capitulation of the west allowing the iranians to do just about anything they want with their nuclear program.

which means to build a bomb.

anyone have a vague and uneasy feeling that this is chamberlain getting off the airplane from munich, and intoning, we shall have peace in our time.

now, let me get this straight.--

we in the democracies are to give up our periodic raucous intramural brawling, so that we may enjoy an international order & peace gained for us by an international diplomacy carried on in our name by the international community. (hint: the guys w/ the gray pallor, the cheap haircuts, and the gray suits that orianna fallaci described as "mollusks." i prefer "chickenshit bastards," but, it is just a stylistic difference, w/ little substance. with me so far?)

this present "order" (as in here & now) seems to mean that the international community will enjoy "peace in our time" by abandoning israel to the tender mercy of an islam armed with nuclear weapons.

in other words, just as it did when chamberlain came home from munich, peace means that the international community quails at the aggression of the biggest bullies on the international scene, and abandons the symbol and substance of peace, to the ravenous and destructive appetites & aggressions of that bully.

in other words, peace means to let the bullies of the world, in any given time and epoch, wage war at their convenience, because the international community will not intervene, having secured "peace."

not much changes, does it. we have chamberlain, and hitler and stalin who devoured poland, and then turned on each other. we have the nameless mollusks of europe, aided and abetted by the idiot kerry and the muslim obama, hand israel to the mullahs on a silver platter. bowing and scraping their obsequious way out the door, and the iranians grinning.

[a "hat tip" to theo spark, as this following article was made available to me by a link there. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4102/geneva-iran-islamic-bomb . this is a very good analysis by the way. *** see below, for what the iranians think of the geneva accord on iran's bomb aspirations.]

well, now then, when do we get to watch the highlights of the israeli air force taking out the iranian nuclear installations, w/ the aid and connivance of the saudis? neither has much choice in the matter, except to bow into dhimmitude and/or face destruction at the hands of the iranians, if and when the iranians so choose.

i am expecting the israelis and the house of saud to choose survival.

and, to launch. any time soon.

john jay @ 12.22.2013

p.s. maybe on christmas. it would be suiting, for the west to be handed such a gift on christmas day.

*** the iranian view. from, http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4102/geneva-iran-islamic-bomb :

"A few days later, Ali Larijani, Speaker of Iran's Parliament and senior negotiator on Iran's nuclear program until 2007, showed that these "openings" toward Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States did not alter the regime's positionand were essentially an attempt to isolate Israel even further. "The Zionist regime is the modern form of racist fascism," he said, and added that the Geneva agreement is a "great victory" for Iran and a "big step forward" for the regime."

you figure it out. even if john kerry hasn't the native wit to understand, you figure it out.