Bag's Rants

Congress admits the US lacks intelligence.

This article talks about how the US lacks intelligence on Iran intentions. Read here.

They have no idea on weapons capability, including its possible plans to develop a nuclear bomb. How can that be? I'm told Iran is developing a bomb and they need to be stopped at this stage. Now it appears they don't have a clue. Something that we have been aware of for some time. For years people have be talking about middle east countries and their ambitions as if they are fact. Look at Iraq. Yet, they have no real idea what is going on. It is all guesswork and feelings.

Wonder how this revelation will play out at the UN particularly when Iran refuse to back down knowing they won in Lebanon and knowing the US can't find any more troops and the rest of the UN won't pony up. How can the US insist they know differently. Iran could very well use this as an excuse to start a programme. Knowing that we have no real capability to analyse the intention and because we have cried 'Wolf' too many times in the middle east nobody will believe us.

It could cause a problem for us making all these claims with no way to prove any of them. I hoped that we had learnt from our previous mistakes. Or, maybe it is me that needs to learn. We made it up last time and it worked with all these sheep. So it will work again. Nobody would think we would do the same thing twice in a row.

Iran is dangerous to us. The nuclear angle is only one way. We need a coherent way forward with them before it is too late that covers the nuclear angle to Iran's satisfaction as well as ours. It's called compromise for a reason. Both sides have to give something.

posted by Bag @ 7:44 pm