Posted on 05/14/2006 9:00:55 PM PDT by familyop
No amount of negotiation or international pressure will persuade the Iranian theocrats to give up their longtime quest for nuclear bombs. To ensure Iran will not produce--or use--nuclear bombs, the United States and its allies must destroy Iran's nuclear facilities and wipe out its regime--and must do so without delay.
Iran presents a much greater danger to the United States' security than did Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Once Iran gets hold of nuclear bombs, the United States will be an easy target for blackmail and a likely target for mass destruction. As one of the principal ideological sources of Islamist totalitarianism, Iran is an avowed enemy of the United States and a leading state sponsor of terrorism.
Iran finances, trains, shelters and equips terrorists from organizations like al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad. Iran is currently waging a proxy war against the United States in Iraq and killing American soldiers by the dozens (if not by the hundreds). Under those circumstances the United States has a moral right--indeed, a moral obligation--to defend its people from Iran's threats and preempt future terrorist attacks.
The Iranian regime has repeatedly threatened to use its soon-to-be-produced nuclear weapons to wipe Israel off the map. It has repeatedly called for "Death to America." These threats must be taken seriously. We did not take Osama bin Laden's threats seriously, and lost thousands of lives in the Twin Towers. We do not want to make the same mistake with Iran, and lose many thousands more.
David Holcberg is a media research specialist at the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, CA. The Institute promotes the ideas of Ayn Rand--best-selling author of "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead" and originator of the philosophy she called "Objectivism.""
Quite right, and why was the treaty of Versailles unfair? The French.
Being famous Hollywood liberals, elected Democrats or Mel Gibson will not make you less of a target, only more likely to be honored by the Islamists for dying for their cause. It is not paranoia or fear mongering to believe the radical Islamists want us all to die for Allah, preferably under a nuclear cloud.
Their weapons must be destroyed. Their capacity to make war must be destroyed. The regime must be decapitated. Killing the figurehead will accomplish nothing.
I agree with the title.
We will have none of this common sense as a US policy./sarcasm
Not only would it be cheaper, the cost of a bullet, poison, mechanical failure of his air plane etc., but safer for our people and the rest of the world.
That tactic will not work, since they will regroup and you will have to go in again and again and again.
Well, a little bombing works for a short-term solution. But - as you have correctly stated - short-term solutions will be useless in the Mideast, if The West is _really_ of the mind to win in the War with Islam.
I see only ONE possible, workable, permanent solution to this struggle:
The Islamic world must be DE-Islamicized.
There is no other way.
So long as Islam lives and breathes, The West is in mortal danger.
If one believes that to be true (I do), what other possible solutions CAN there be?
- John
"I'm am not, and have never been, in favor of nation building in the ME. Get in, destroy their military, universities, all manufacturing capability, oil production, and all other targets of opportunity. Then get out."
i agree 100%. Unfortunately, political correctness has also found its way into war fighting strategy.
Anthing bigger than 5 sticks of dynamite is BIG to me, because 5 sticks of dynamite is the largest explosion I have ever seen!
Even 5 kilotons is more than I can vizualize with any accuracy.
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