I wrote this over at Jihad Watch comments tonight. I felt strongly enough when I wrote it that I think it deserves a reposting here on my own blog:
I have never wanted to see bombs drop more than I do when it comes to the Islamic thugocracy in Iran. I want to see the dreams of a Caliphate come (literally) crashing down around the ears of Ahmadinejad and his leash-holding Ayatollah. Every bomb should be hand-signed by a parent of one of our soldiers lost in Iraq:
“Greetings from the USA, Ahmanutjob!”
We do not strike fear into the hearts of our enemies. This needs to change, because they will not love us. Even our allies no longer love us, though they will get very “friendly” again the minute China and Russia suddenly decide to become aggressively militarized and make a move on Europe and Asia. (Hell, I’m not convinced that Putin and Chinese communists aren’t firmly behind a plan to speed up the process of Islam vs Big Satan and Little Satan. They certainly are sending them gifts of guns and technology at the very least.)
The bottom-line is this: the only way to avert disaster is through violent means. I know that might strike some as strange, but the paradox here is that an imagined peace is the surest way to a worse war. Strike while we are the strongest, or prepare for a time when we are a shell of ourselves facing nuclear terror and the aftermath of such attacks, a re-emerging Russian threat and a well-prepared China that has never played by the “rules”.
War is inevitable at this point, but how we choose to wage it is what will matter most. Control the timetable of events or become the victim of apathy.
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There’s a very old “saying” to the effect that fire must be fought with fire which definitively applies to your words above, Foehammer! The ultimate in stupidity would be to allow the Dwarf Thug-in-Chief of Iran to get his claws on any nuclear device, however small. He has very clearly informed the USA as well as Israel he intends to use such weapons, as well as everything else he can muster, to wipe us and Israel off the face of the earth! Yes, indeed, we must prevent this nut case from any ability to carry out his sick threat, and it seems to me the Middle East is already issuing threats to us of their retribution if we so much as dare to consider a premptive strike to Iran et al to prevent them from killing everyone of us! Thanks, Foehammer, for bringing this again to my thoughts.
Your comment is right on target. Let’s face it, Iran respects nothing but the iron fist. War is best avoided but sometimes it is indeed unavoidable. And with Iran it truly is unavoidable because they never stop pushing that envelope.
I couldn’t disagree more. Iran does not pose any real threat to the United States’ national security; it only threatens our ability to dominate the middle east militarily. We need to be looking for a sustainable way to exert influence in the world, not a path which continues this asinine and shortsighted policy of global hegemony–a policy which only alienates our friends. The costs are simply too high.
@Will: Who are “our friends”?
You’d better not say Saudi Arabia.
And do you know what the definition of hegemony is? The United States has never been an imperial power. If we were, we would conquer nations, not liberate them — we would utilize overwhelming force and not quibble over brutality or the Geneva Conventions. We would have never put together the blueprints for the United Nations or strive to forge the path for freedom in the world for the past two centuries and the current one.
Are you so loathe to love your own nation that you cannot see that the enemies surround us and we are in the circle of covered wagons? Freedom has never been free.
Iran seeks power in order to make itself the center of Islam. From that seat the mullahs of Iran will hand out nuclear weaponry like toys to proxy jihad warriors.
Excuse me if I’ll take my own advice in this matter and not yours, Will. I’m a better study on the subject.