So, while everyone seems asleep at the wheel or intent on appeasement and accessing negotiations and the possibility of the possibility of negotiations with the likes of Iran (and now Syria again — thank Nancy Pelosi for starting that new trend), nuclear materials are missing in Pakistan and more critical time slips by. Each day brings us that much closer to the Iranians having the means to own and then proliferate working nuclear tech to its Muslim neighbors and, worst of all, putting actual nuclear weaponry or dirty bombs into the hands of Islamic terrorist front-groups that wish to do harm to Western nations and especially Israel and the United States of America.
Am I ruining your breakfast or lunch with this straight talk? Would you prefer picking up a newspaper with the headline ‘CHICAGO GONE’, instead? ‘D.C. UNDER A MUSHROOM CLOUD’, perhaps?
Or how about ‘EASTERN POWER GRID OFFLINE FOR A MONTH DUE TO EMP BLAST’. Is that idea a new one to you? Not to me.
From the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, on the electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, threat:
“An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the American homeland, said one of the distinguished scientists who testified at the hearing, is one of only a few ways that the United States could be defeated by its enemies – terrorist or otherwise,” wrote Kyl “And it is probably the easiest. A single Scud missile, carrying a single nuclear weapon, detonated at the appropriate altitude, would interact with the Earth’s atmosphere, producing an electromagnetic pulse radiating down to the surface at the speed of light. Depending on the location and size of the blast, the effect would be to knock out already stressed power grids and other electrical systems across much or even all of the continental United States, for months if not years.”
If we don’t find the stomach and the cajones to do what needs to be done with the mad regime in Iran and against its nuclear ambitions, damn us all for spineless cowards and fools.
Reuters reports (hat tip - Sheila):
May 2, 2007 — TEHRAN - Iran will not negotiate with the United States until it stops its “evil approach,” the government spokesman was quoted as saying yesterday, two days before the countries were due to attend a meeting on Iraq.
U.S. officials say Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is ready to talk with Iran on the sidelines of the conference in Egypt that starts tomorrow, if such contact is deemed useful.
But Iran appeared to dismiss the possibility of bilateral discussions at the meeting in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, which is aimed at seeking ways to end the violence in Iraq and will be attended by major powers and Baghdad’s neighbors.
Iran and the United States have not had diplomatic ties for nearly three decades and are sharply at odds over the conflict in Iraq and Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
Asked if Rice and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki may hold talks in Egypt, his deputy Mahdi Mostafavi said, according to the ISNA news agency: “No, so far the necessary situation for talks and negotiations is not ready.”
When will it be “the necessary situation” Ms. Rice? After the Iranians have nuclear bombs?
Government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham suggested Washington wanted to talk to Tehran because of its problems in Iraq and a realization Iran was a growing regional power.
Iran’s Islamic leadership has no reason to be anything but confident. They’re guiding the hands that are murdering American and Allied soldiers in Iraq, they’re in position to swoop in when the Democrats get their way and force us to leave prematurely and with our tails between our legs. Ahmadinejad can then claim a great victory for Islam against the Great Satan and at the same time bring Iraq (and its much needed oil) into the fold, and then the real fun begins. Since the Iranians know they can get away with kidnapping British soldiers and blowing up American ones, once they have nukes to extort with, we’ll be looking back on these times with sad fondness as the “good ole days” before Iran had the ‘Islamic Bomb’.
Mark my words.
UPDATE: Rice meets with Syrian counterpart
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