“Convert or die” is not a religion of peace.
The author is telling us that it’s all a clean, professional, surgical operation, where Iran will immediately be pounded into submission. Anyone who mentions negative 2nd/3rd order effects is a simp
When the history of US military intervention, particularly in the M.E., over the last 60 years tells us the exact opposite.
Who you gonna believe? Me? Or your lying eyes?
The US DID NOT ATTACK Iran. They did attack the IRGC, and its bosses, which are, and have always been, terrorist organizations. We attacked the organization that has been directly responsible for hundreds of American deaths.
> I would suggest pondering the possibility that, even if “we are not at war with Islam,” Islam may well be at war with us. <
Islam is definitely at war with us. And unfortunately, this latest strike on Iran did next to nothing to help us win that war. At heart, Islam is about ideas, not about access to weapons.
Does the West have the stomach to really fight those ideas? I fear not. We are all on Bush’s “Islam is peace” train. Only a horrific attack much worse than 9/11 could possibly derail it.
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‘...there can be no doubt that if Iran possessed the bomb, it would use it. How many times have its spokesmen observed that Israel is a “one-bomb country?”’
I wonder what the target of that “one-bomb” would be.
‘Remember when President Obama told us that terrorist groups like ISIS were not really Islamic because “no religion condones the killing of innocents.” ‘
Yeah, but who decides who is an innocent and who is not?
Islam has been at war with the infidel world since the latter 600s AD. There are periods of quiescence usually when islam has been beeten so thoroughly that Mohammedans everywhere conclude that Allah does not wish Islam to prevail in “this” generation. Malta and Vieenna were such defeats. World War I destroyed the Ottoman Empire and much Mohammedan territory was occupied by infidel armies. With the rise to power of the Left in Europe and America Islam has risen up in the weakness and delusional thinking of Liberal regimes throughout the West. It is on the verge of subsuming Western Europe and making nasty inroads in America, all of it, North and South. We are looking at the likely advent of a three power world i.e. America (if Trump understanding and resolve are not an abeerration), China, and Islam. Unfortunately America and China are both empires in economic and moral collapse. Islam is strong and resurgent. Who will stop the advance at Tours this time?
In contrast to his predecessors, I can side with DJT’s strategy, despite my skepticism that this attack achieved anything but demonstrating POTUS’ will to act.
That stated, he must also engage an operation to frame the correct history of prior US policy and actions on Iran, as I see future coordinated WMD attacks by Iran as inevitable and, regardless the specifics, the results - i.e., ‘deaths’ - must lie at the feet of his predecessors and burn as though they were tied to stakes.
When Christians and Jews (and Buddhists, Sikhs, etc.) commit murder it is in contravention to the teachings of their religions. When Muslims commit murder it is in compliance with fundamental teachings of theirs. They are following the example of their “perfect man” and final prophet of God. This includes “honor” killings within families, parents murdering their own children. When western politicians, so called intellectuals, and religious “leaders” ignore and deny this they become accessories to murder.
Roger Kimball is truly America’s intellectual.
Author omits the Shia 12ers who are the most fanatical and the worst of the lot. They believe it is their religious duty to bring all of humanity to Paradise. Hence, the desire to get and use nuclear weapons in the hope of triggering an all out nuclear war.
What Trump’s Critics Still Don’t Understand About Iran.
Indeed it isn’t only their hate for America why they want such a weapon on target would be western Europe Canada and a few others.
If they did fires one off many paranoid countries would fire off too.
Moderate muslims (if that's not a paradox) fear radical muslims more than we do. Any muslim who comes out as moderate makes themselves a target of the radicals.