Countdown to Armageddon
This man wants to wipe Israel off the face of Earth and will have the means to do so in just a few months. The "international community," as shown here, is perfectly content to let him do it. And this time, the "Road Map"-happy Bush Administration appears unwilling to come to the rescue of the Jewish state, endangering all the progress it has made over the past four years in the GWOT.
So, just as Golda Meir declared over thirty years ago, "Israel will not perish so that the world will think better of her":
As usual, it is up to the Jews to defend themselves. And the bottom line is that, faced with the choice of a destablizing pre-emptive strike or certain destruction, they will do what they have to do.
Given that Ahmadinejad's candor makes even his superiors skittish, and with every Western diplomatic initiative to talk the mullahs out of their nuclear ambitions a laughable and predictable failure, a U.S. ultimatum - perhaps even, heaven help us, in conjunction with our European "allies" - would go a long way toward forcing Tehran to back down, at least for the moment. Given how close the Iranians are to possessing nukes, even buying some time would be a step in the right direction.
I fear, though, that both Iran and Israel have taken heed of the words of the American domestic political opposition as much as has "Emir" Zarqawi and his "Iraqi insurgency," and are expecting no such ultimatum - as they, indeed, have no reason to. And, ironically to the peaceniks and jihadi-symps, inevitably to the inhabitants of the reality-based community, that has given both foes a free hand to pursue other-than-peaceful policy options.
Hugh Hewitt compares this looming showdown to the Nazi reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 as perhaps a last chance to avert a nuclear Islamic Iran and all the perils to which that will give birth. I see it as part of a process that has perhaps already made eventual global dictatorship and thermonuclear war inevitable. And this time, unlike in World War II, it'll take divine intervention itself to avert mankind's self-extinction.
It's like the old Autolite commercial: "You can pay me a little now, or a lot later."
Welcome to later.
God save us all.
[HT: Powerline]
UPDATE 12/12: Saul Singer of the Jerusalem Post elaborates at toe-curling length on this subject on NRO today. Here's an eloquent sample:
Militant pacifists always think war can be avoided by doing the very things that in fact make it more likely, and catastrophically so. Thanks to the EUnuchs - and the Bushies - we have just about run out of margin for error - and time as well.
So, just as Golda Meir declared over thirty years ago, "Israel will not perish so that the world will think better of her":
It's been said many times of the Holocaust over the past sixty years, "Never again!" Yet in the Holocaust-denying Iranian "president" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, we have a man who openly declares his intention to finish the job Adolph Hitler started, and where are all the pro-Semitic piety- and platitude-spouting potentates now? Hiding in diplocowardice and/or wallowing in moral corruption, and all washing their hands of their pieties and platitudes, Pontius Pilate-like, now that the time has arrived to back them up with actions.Israel’s armed forces have been ordered by Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, to be ready by the end of March for possible strikes on secret uranium enrichment sites in Iran, military sources have revealed.
The order came after Israeli intelligence warned the government that Iran was operating enrichment facilities, believed to be small and concealed in civilian locations....It is believed Israel would call on its top special forces brigade, Unit 262 — the equivalent of the SAS — and the F-15I strategic 69 Squadron, which can strike Iran and return to Israel without refueling.
As usual, it is up to the Jews to defend themselves. And the bottom line is that, faced with the choice of a destablizing pre-emptive strike or certain destruction, they will do what they have to do.
Given that Ahmadinejad's candor makes even his superiors skittish, and with every Western diplomatic initiative to talk the mullahs out of their nuclear ambitions a laughable and predictable failure, a U.S. ultimatum - perhaps even, heaven help us, in conjunction with our European "allies" - would go a long way toward forcing Tehran to back down, at least for the moment. Given how close the Iranians are to possessing nukes, even buying some time would be a step in the right direction.
I fear, though, that both Iran and Israel have taken heed of the words of the American domestic political opposition as much as has "Emir" Zarqawi and his "Iraqi insurgency," and are expecting no such ultimatum - as they, indeed, have no reason to. And, ironically to the peaceniks and jihadi-symps, inevitably to the inhabitants of the reality-based community, that has given both foes a free hand to pursue other-than-peaceful policy options.
Hugh Hewitt compares this looming showdown to the Nazi reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 as perhaps a last chance to avert a nuclear Islamic Iran and all the perils to which that will give birth. I see it as part of a process that has perhaps already made eventual global dictatorship and thermonuclear war inevitable. And this time, unlike in World War II, it'll take divine intervention itself to avert mankind's self-extinction.
It's like the old Autolite commercial: "You can pay me a little now, or a lot later."
Welcome to later.
God save us all.
[HT: Powerline]
UPDATE 12/12: Saul Singer of the Jerusalem Post elaborates at toe-curling length on this subject on NRO today. Here's an eloquent sample:
The nations that wrap themselves most tightly in international law are actually those responsible for turning that law, and its aspirations for the world, into a dead letter. As in the case of Iraq, by refusing to join the U.S. in effective non-military collective action against Iran, Europe is making military action or an Iranian victory inevitable.
It is in this context that I found it difficult to watch European ambassadors placing a wreath on the spot where a suicide bomber killed five Israelis, including 38-year-old Eliya Rozen, outside a mall in Netanya. On Tuesday, at his wife's funeral, Gadi Rozen spoke of their three childrens' questions when he told them their mother was dead. Roi, the five-year-old asked, "Who will be my mother?"
What wreath will these ambassadors lay if Israel gets hit by a nuclear weapon? Or if Israelis are killed in a war to destroy Iran's nuclear program? Or if 9/11s continue to multiply, including in Europe, because al Qaeda enjoys the tailwind that a nuclear Iran would bring?
Militant pacifists always think war can be avoided by doing the very things that in fact make it more likely, and catastrophically so. Thanks to the EUnuchs - and the Bushies - we have just about run out of margin for error - and time as well.
posted by JASmius at 9:43 PM
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