The Right State

I just finished an article which is as scarey as any I have ever read. The NRO piece by Barbara Lerner paints a very bleak picture of how WWIV is playing out for the United States.

Today, Iran’s emboldened mullahs are on a triumphant roll, waging a bloody, three-front proxy war against us, using the Mahdi army to assassinate dreams of peace and democracy in Iraq, using Hezbollah to blow up those same dreams in Lebanon, again, and using Hamas to make a grotesque mockery of them in the Holy Land. Now they threaten to activate Hezbollah terror cells, here in America and throughout the world, to kill and maim us at home and inflict more carnage on our allies. This week, they mocked our efforts to prevent them from becoming a nuclear power, announcing that nothing we do — in the U.N. or elsewhere — will stop them from going nuclear, and sharing their WMDs with other rogue states and Islamofascist terror groups at will. More ominous yet, they threaten to unleash an apocalyptic surprise on us on August 22, the night they believe Mohammed lit up the skies by ascending to heaven from the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

Despite all this and more, we have yet to admit that Iran is at war with us, or to seriously consider striking back at her, and, in speaking of our own war aims, we never dare use the v-word — victory — anymore. Instead, we make head-in-the-sand happy-talk about “peace,” “democracy,” and “ceasefires,” rejecting any military action against Iran for fear of “widening the war” — as if Iran were not already at war with us — and rely on the U.N. and “the international community” to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions and to prevent her proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, from continuing to bring death and destruction to our smallest, truest, and most vulnerable ally, Israel. In doing this, we ignore two obvious realities: rather than restraining Iran, U.N. heavyweights Russia and China are busy arming her, and the perfidious EU will not even recognize the plain fact that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. Instead, these old-Europe “allies” join with our Islamofascist enemies in demonizing our brave soldiers in Iraq, and damning Israel for daring to fight back against unprovoked aggression, pursued with openly genocidal intent.

Lerner’s conclusion is that we must strike now before they have a chance to attack us and we lose even more than we did on September 11^th. I would have a difficult time tearing down her conclusion particularly since Iran has been in an undeclared open war with us for the last 24 years. For much of that time we treated Iran like the Mouse that Roared. Unfortunately for us, like the tiny fictitious republic Duchy of Grand Fenwick, Iran has turned into a greater threat than we at first realized. They killed 241 Marines in Lebanon in 1983, they continue to send fighters into Iraq to undermine the Middle East’s new fledgling democracy, they threaten to continue to develop nuclear weapons and send them to every rogue nation and terrorist group in the world, and they are now threatening us with destruction. How long do we put up with such nonsense?

During the Cold War, our declared policy, well understood by the Kremlin, was that any attack on the United States or our allies by the Soviet Union or any of their allies would be seen as a direct attack upon the United States by the Soviet Union. Perhaps we should revise the old Cold War strategy. From henceforth, any attack on the US or allies by Iran or their allies (terrorists) would be considered a direct attack upon the United States by Iran. The response of the US must be swift and varied according to the kind of attack, meaning, in my view, the attacks on 9/11 fell into the WMD category.

It is time to quite pussyfooting around with these mullahs. They want to kill us! Its about time we as a nation understood the threat posed Iran.

Hat tip: BlackFive 

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