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Old 7th Jan 2012, 20:31
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Easy Street
 
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I am curious as to what strategy might be under discussion between No. 10 and the White House (NATO aside) re: Iran and what thinking prevails as to who would lead any potential strikes (from the West) and which targets might be considered.
I suspect that Iran themselves, not to mention Russia, China and a host of other nations are also extremely curious about the current thought process in the White House (perhaps only mildly interested in No. 10!) and would lap up any suggestion of a target priority list! For "Experience-based speculation" can unknowingly stray close to "informed opinion" and perhaps inadvertantly to "the facts" and there you have an undesirable topic of discussion, in my view.

Even though we might consider ourselves outside of the 'inner circle' of planners, our knowledgeable views and opinions on 'live' situations are of great value in building an intelligence picture. Why lay things out on a plate for them?
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