These are dark times for the world: we are on the brink of the nuclearization of ancient pathologies.To permit Fuligo septica jihadi barbatus to go nuclear is to commit an error of statecraft of stupendous proportions.
Any sacrifice is not too great. A massive, immediate strike on Iran and Syria will change the history of the next 50 years decisively in favor of the West.
Failing to strike will continue to subject us to the scourge of terror that has been inflicted on the world by the Islamicists and their sponsors for over 40 years.
Saudi Arabia, too, must be made to pay a price.
America has the power to change events in one blow. Now is the time to use that power.
"The state as a rootless transient." By Mark Steyn, Jerusalem Post, 8/6/06 <-- Melanie Phillips.
2 comments:
I agree with you here Col. B, and that's why I find it so tragic that the US, Britain and Israel are all basically being led by cowards right now, who are appeasing and kissing the boots of Iran so much, they make the French seem like the Prussians in comparison.
This doesn't even need to be a grand operation like the Iraq invasion was. Just a series of massive airstrikes, backed by naval assaults and targeted ground invasion hits (with special forces playing a big role), can do so much damage to the Iranian nuclear program as to set Tehran back a decade or more. It would also teach them a lesson, as the Israelis taught Iraq with Osirak. We don't even need to strike every single Iranian target, we just need to slam them hard enough that they lose their momentum and lose the majority of the nuclear stocks they've built up. They can't effectively retaliate against us-- they're not even at the strength level they were at in 1980, when they were being pummeled by Saddam Hussein's pathetic military! All they can do is stir up trouble, which they're already doing anyway by supplying all those rockets to Hezbollah.
Strength, resolve and success are the only languages they understand in Tehran. Right now, Iran is mocking us, laughing at the boot-lickers like Bush, Baker and Condoleezza Rice.
Back in, uh, less complicated ancient times, any enemy who pathetically appeased and capitulated to Iran's leaders with such cowardice, would basically be laughed at and executed right on the spot by the Persians. The Persian leaders-- tough in appearance if not actual military strength-- would have no respect and only contempt for the cowards prostrating themselves like that, and would scornfully kill the fools surrending themselves so.
Right now, Bush, Blair and Olmert are taking on the roles of those pathetic, appeasing fools to Iran. Condi Rice bloviates about those sanctions (which Russia would never allow anyway), when the sanctions consist of essentially nothing more than preventing Iranian leaders from enjoying sabbaticals at posh resorts on the French Riviera. Yeah, that's a show of strength, way to go USA!!
The fact is, the US has become a shameful weakling right now. Our leaders, along with those of Israel, have basically taken a page from the French about how to confront deadly enemies-- and we're surrendering, appeasing, capitulating without even putting up a fight against lethal enemies.
I frankly don't have much respect for my country right now, and I'll never again applaud with agreement when a patriotic American tries to skewer the French. Right now, we're as or more pathetic than the French ever were, when despite all our advantages, we're too cowardly to undertake even limited operations against Iran.
(FWIW, I don't think we have the wherewithal to bother Saudi Arabia right now-- sorry, they just have too much oil that we do rely on. Let's take this one step at a time-- the Saudi leaders corrupt as they are, are still at least partially assisting us. Iran is the lethal enemy, and we need to focus on them first and foremost.)
Thanks for your extensive comments.
I agree with you completely. Needless to say. I see our national fascination with football and other sports as symbolic of our inability to focus. Serious, serious issues of national security are staring us in the face and where does the attention of American men go? ESPN, etc. People who otherwise have great common sense thus abandon policy formulation to people who live in a dream world.
I agree that Saudi Arabia can be dealt with later. But they do eventually need to be called to account for the money they've paid to terrorists and ridiculed mercilessly for their deadly sponsorship of Wahhabism around the world.
It is a tragedy that civilized nations have allowed barbarians to have as much influence over our lives as they do.
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