If Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were ready to precipitate the return of the Twelfth Imam, nuclear weapons would already have gone off in the sky over Tel Aviv. Obviously unprepared to commence a conclusive war, the Iranian apocalyptic chose to use Iran's surrogate, Hizballah, to precipitate a limited war between Israel and the Lebanese democracy-cum-terrorist regime of which Hizballah is a part.
Why now, and to what end? Knowing Iran's ambition to become the hegemon of a new Islamic caliphate, following its foreign policy as closely as we can, we must conclude that this campaign is a dress rehearsal for something Iran plans for the future, near or distant. In that context, we have to view Secretary Rice's trip to the Middle East this week with skepticism if not alarm.
Mahdi is an approximately 1100 year old normal man. This is nonsense outside of the Satanic bondage of the moon god religion. However, Muslims FULLY believe this Mahdi will lead the world to follow the true Islam. His name will be Muhammad and his father's name will be Abdullah.
He is a descendant from Ali and Fatima, the daughter of the prophet Muhammad, so he will be descendant from al-Hasan or al- Husain.
The moon god religion of Satan is perfectly set up for the antichrist. Just a few months ago, Iran's "Great Prophet" war games tested the regime's Chinese-built command and control systems and proved Iran could launch missiles from at least two independent command centers.
It proved Iranian naval forces could close the Strait of Hormuz (through which most of the West's non-Iranian oil flows) for some time. What it didn't prove was that the Iranian regime could survive a non-nuclear American attack. Let's not *****foot around it.
When Russia completes delivery to Iran of the thirty copies of its TOR M-1 antiaircraft missile system later this year, no nation that lacks stealth aircraft will be able to do much to Iran without launching nuclear weapons on ballistic missiles.
That narrows it down to us and China. And the Chinese aren't about to hit their best Middle Eastern ally.
The Hizballah attack on Israel has resulted in an Israeli response that is both highly destructive and far from conclusive. At this writing (Sunday afternoon), Israeli ground forces have not entered Lebanon in strength and Hizballah and Hamas rocket attacks continue from both Lebanon and Gaza. Even if the Israelis send a large force into Lebanon, it's clear that they won't go far or stay long.
In past campaigns, the Israelis have wanted to establish a buffer zone to keep Hizballah's arsenal of Katyusha rockets out of range. But now Hizballah is armed with longer-range missiles and -- unless its supply from Iran through Syria is interdicted -- will soon have all of Israel's main cities within their range. No buffer zone that is south of Beirut will suffice, and Israel cannot either maintain a buffer over half of Lebanon itself or expect anyone else to do it.
The best possible result from this campaign would be for Israel to so damage Hizballah that Lebanon's Arab neighbors could divorce Lebanon's pseudo-democracy from Hizballah and enable a legitimate government to arise there. But to expect such help from Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt is both unrealistic and unwise. The most likely result will be for Israel to continue its strikes in Lebanon for another week or two and then withdraw, giving Hizballah another victory and solidifying its control in Lebanon. Which sets the stage for Condi's failure and Ahmadinejad's next step.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10128 
