Well, I see President Bush has placed the use of force on the table along side other diplomatic tools in the coming US/Iran confrontation.This has been coming for a long time. Iran has done nothing but egg the west on by insisting on pursuing a nuclear bomb.
Iran has been totally unresponsive to diplomatic entreaties to stop their efforts to create a nuclear bomb and literally dug-in. By that, I mean two things, they had “dug-in” in holding their position on continuing to make the bomb and they have physically “dug-in” some nine, or more, nuclear installations which they have placed underground.
Iran would do well to understand that they will soon be on the receiving end of some serious military attacks against those installations. The patience of the west, meaning the US and Israel, has just about run out. This time there will be no “run-up” to the war. Our troops are already in place and for all practical purposes so are the troops of Israel. Military strikes could happen in minutes and at any minute.
I cannot fathom the seemingly total ignorance of the Muslims nations concerning the will of the US to back up its threats of war. They seem to think they can continue to flaunt their willingness to defy the west’s request for common sense on their part and blithely go their on way making, for all intents and purposes, the “Islamic Bomb”.
That is not going to be allowed to happen. The entire world knows the first target of such a bomb, Israel, and second, the US. Then, the Islamic Bomb would be used on carefully chosen targets in Europe. The western world cannot, and will not, allow this bomb to be made. What is so difficult for the Middle Eastern Muslims to understand about that? What?
Now the US President has officially placed the use of force on the table. They had better understand that this President will not back down and he will attack them with whatever it takes to destroy their bomb making capabilities. They have only to look to either side of their nation. Iraq and Afghanistan. Saddam didn’t think we’d do it, either. Today, he is lucky to be alive and in prison awaiting trial.
The days and weeks ahead will be interesting as the war of words escalates between the US and Iran. Once again the US has determined the unwillingness, or inability, or both, of Europe to cope with the growing threat of the “Islamic Bomb”. The US will now have to lead the way, as we have done nearly since our founding. We really have no choice. We cannot allow Europe to fall… and we are not about to allow Israel to fall, nor ourselves.
We are in a fight for our very existence. We have no choice but to win this one. The peacenicks had better just get out of the way. Unless of course, they want to live as the Iranians live and as the Iraqis lived under Saddam and the Afghans lived under the Taliban.
Most Americans understand the threat to America and we are ready, and willing, to defend our country. Islam should be warned… we are not ready for the slavery of Islam. Nor shall we ever be!
“Longstreet”
Iran's neighbor Pakistan already possesses an "Islamic Bomb". It is a predominately Islamic country. The government is pretty secular, because it is run by a military dictator. But Musharaff (sp?) is friendly (sort of) to us and is of use to the US, for now. But they have the bomb. Which means that whom ever rules Pakistan has the bomb. Are we alright with that? Are we using Pakistan? Or is Pakistan using our need for their help in the war on terror to make us ignore their nukes?
ReplyDeletePakistan is a train wreak waiting to happen in the Middle East. I expect that much of Iran's info, on the development of their bomb, came from Pakistan.
ReplyDeleteMushariff is , frankly, the only thing standing between the rest of the world and the terrorist having the existing bomb. The overthrow of Mushariff will be a very dangerous time for the US and the rest of the world.
My guess is, that US forces are, and have been, developing a contingency plan for the invasion, and take down, of any group taking over that government. I would expect that with all our poking, and probing, inside Pakistan, our Intelligence on that country is growing by leaps and bounds. By now we should have every existing nuclear facility, inside Pakistan, marked and targeted. Surely the Pentagon planners have this on the back burner.
Right now, I see a symbiotic relationship between the two countries. Each is using the other to get what they want. Musariff for his own security and the US for Pakistan's looking the other way while we romp all over their country looking for terrorists.
Who knows how may coups, against Mushariff, the US has quietly taken down in recent years.
But, I agree with you (I think) Pakistan is a developing problem which we will definitely have to deal with, I'm afraid, sooner rather than later.
"Longstreet"