Norman Podhoretz - The Case for Bombing Iran

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/11/30/Norman_Podhoretz

Neoconservative commentator Norman Podhoretz argues for a pre-emptive U.S. military attack on Iran.

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Norman Podhoretz discusses his new book "World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism," and reflects on the Bush administration's middle-east policies. - Hoover Institution

Norman Podhoretz is editor-at-large of Commentary magazine, where he served as editor-in-chief from 1960-1995. He is the author of 10 books, including The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of his Writings from the 1950's through the 1990's; The Prophets: Who They Were, What They Are; My Love Affair with America; Ex-Friends; The Bloody Crossroads: Where Literature and Politics Meet; Making It; Why We Were in Vietnam; The Present Danger; Breaking Ranks: A Political Memoir; and Doings and Undoings: The Fifties and After in American Writing.

Podhoretz has written hundreds of articles for most major American periodicals and lectured at many universities and before many civic and religious groups on foreign policy, American culture, and Jewish affairs. He appears frequently on radio and television.

He was a Pulitzer Scholar at Columbia University, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950. Podhoretz also holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Cambridge University, England, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Kellett Fellow. In addition, he has a Bachelor's degree in Hebrew Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
He is most recently the author of the book, "World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism."

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[GaryVonGary]

I always wondered who our enemies within were. Hey Norman, if you want to bomb Iran so bad, why don't you strap a bomb to your chest and do it yourself?

[livek100]

I WANT TO BOMB HOUSE Norman Podhoretz 

[phooey108]

so what does he think will happen after Iran gets bombed? 

[RonPauladvocate]

@LuckyPierre78 A Clean Break became a part of US policy, showing the Israel's advocates are using the US to advance their ethnicity's interests. That is why "A Clean Break" is held up as an example of a Zionist conspiracy/lobbying.

[LibertePositive]

Norman Podhoretz strikes me as an intelligent man who fails to realise that he became one of the greatest exemples of a one-note ideologue. The belief that noting short of a military intervention could change the path Iran is on strikes me as misguided, at best, or overzealous, at worst.

The Iranian regime, though religious, is quite pragmatic. Even during its most anti-american streaks, it never relly did anything that could be qualified as irrational. They changed their positions before.

[antekification]

Funny how it is always the rabiate jews that are the biggest islamophobics just to turn away the focus from israhells crime!

[antekification]

US SHOULD BE PUNNISHED FOR ITS UNLAWFUL ACTS! GO IRAN! DOWN WITH ISRAHELL AND USA!

[ryanthomastew]

@aweiss Nuclear Triggers? Please see: More doubts over Iran's 'nuclear trigger' By Gareth Porter

When did Iran state they would use nukes? Please cite references.

The flag of Hezbollah is not a mushroom cloud. Please use Google before you just start making things up.

Nukes are NOT used to counter other nukes. We have anti-missile defense systems to prevent a warhead from hitting the U.S.

[aweiss]

@ryanthomastew all the recent intelligence estimates ahve them researching nuclear triggers etc.

This is the only country that says they want nukes with the intent to use them

The flag of Hezbollah, an Iran subsidiary is a mushroom cloud.

we can have a nuke but it is not as if we can fire it and prevent ourselves from being destroyed lol

[aweiss]

@maghra why would they say fuck you to a democracy? WHy would they say fuck you to a potentia ally agaisnt terrorist groups and nuclear states?