THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VIII, Issue # 7, January 8, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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AN ATTACK ON IRAN IS INEVITABLE
By Alan Caruba
IRAN: STATE SPONSORSHIP OF TERRORISM, PURSUIT OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, & THE THREATENING
RHETORIC OF ITS LEADERS -- INVITING A MILITARY ATTACK -- THE VERY HIGH PROBABILITY THAT IRAN WILL BE SUBJECT
TO A PREEMPTIVE MILITARY STRIKE BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR BY THE STATE OF ISRAEL WITH THE
BLESSING & ASSISTANCE OF THE U.S.A.
FULL STORY:
A military confrontation with Iran is inevitable. Israel will need to destroy as much of Iran’s nuclear weapons capability as
possible. If it does not, Iran’s ayatollahs will launch nuclear-armed ballistic missiles at Israel.
If the Israelis attack, it will be with the assistance and blessing of the U.S.A. because a nuclear attack on America using
innocent-looking merchant ships as launch platforms is a significant fear among counterterrorism experts. Or, the U.S.A. will
undertake its own preemptive military operation.
This isn’t conjecture or speculation. The President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has made it clear to the world that Israel
is to be “wiped off the map” of the world and, in the first days of its Islamic Revolution, it was American diplomats who were
held hostage for 444 days by the Iranians.
For the ayatollahs, America is the “Big Satan” and Israel is the “Little Satan.” No ambiguity here. No slippery rhetoric to
disguise their intentions.
Ahmedinijad recently told an Islamic summit in Mecca that an alternative to killing all the Israelis would be to have them all
move to Europe! He is not merely certifiably insane, but he is virtually begging for a war with Israel.
In a chapter in a new book, War Footing: 10 Steps America Must Take to Prevail in the War for the Free World (by
Frank J. Gaffney and colleagues), the collective thinking of some of America’s best defense, diplomatic, and intelligence
gathering experts looks at Iran and says, “It is surprising to most terrorism experts that, even after four years of a global war
on terror, there has yet to be any serious national debate about the need and the means to confront Iran.”
When asked how far Israel was prepared to go to protect itself, one of its top military leaders replied, “About two thousand
kilometers,” the distance between Israel and Iran. Guess who will be refueling those Israeli bombers and fighter jets over Iraq?
Guess who will be flying with them? It will be the United States because Iran leaves neither America, nor Israel, any alternative.
With a news media beleaguering Americans daily with reports of every casualty in order to sap our national resolve to remain
in Iraq long enough to eliminate the threat that emanates from the entire Middle East, Americans are most surely not being
reminded that, in the years prior to the attacks of 9-11, “Iran was responsible for the deaths of more than fifteen hundred
Americans — more than any other state sponsor of terror or terrorist organization in history.”
A U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, leaked to the media in August, 2005, stated that Iran is unlikely to produce the
fissile material it needs for a nuclear weapon until “early to mid-next decade.” Bear in mind the intelligence community has
been taking a beating over its estimates of WMDs and other reasons to invade Iraq. The NIE estimate is probably too
cautious. Iran may well be closer to what it needs to make nuclear weapons.
What will stop this? A massive bombing campaign to degrade their capacity to make or launch nuclear missiles. Take away
their nuclear option, along with their command and control capabilities, and there will be no need to invade. Indeed, with
sufficient planning, resistance groups inside Iran could be armed to finish off the relative handful of ayatollahs in charge.
Recently, an Iranian opposition group, based in the United States and calling itself the “Iran of Tomorrow Movement”
issued a statement calling on Iranians to begin a period of resistance just prior to the next election on June 17 and calling on
all governments worldwide to support the resistance. There is momentum gathering among Iranian resistance groups and one
can only hope that Iranians, who are mostly young and pro-American, will respond to the call. Iran, however, is a total
dictatorship and the risks are literally a matter of life and death.
What are the alternatives? War Footing offers a number of steps the U.S.A. and the rest of the world can take. Its
authors dismiss any “détente” or negotiated resolution. The experts recommend such measures as making freedom in Iran a
declared U.S. policy; an active effort to delegitimize the Tehran regime, declaring it a threat to humanity; waging economic
and political warfare, inside and out of Iran; and supporting resistance movements. They see the foregoing measures as being
among the options available.
In the end, however, the experts conclude that military power may be the only option. I believe this will prove to be the only
way to avoid a nuclear Armageddon.
We are dealing with religious fanatics who want to bring about the return of the twelfth Imam al-Mahdi. Born 800 years ago,
the lunatics running Iran believe that, before the twelfth Imam returns, “one third of the world population will die by being
killed and one-third will die as a result of epidemics.” The ayatollahs of Iran have decided to kill one-third of the “unbelievers”
with nuclear weapons. This is Islam’s gift to the world: murder on a scale no one can conceive.
If they succeed, the world will plunge backward to a time comparable to the Dark Ages. The destruction of Iran’s nuclear
and other military facilities is a small price to pay to avoid this. Let’s do it sooner than later.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The Middle East & the Problem of Iran
Military Weaponry & International Security:
Weapons of Mass Destruction & Arms Control
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
© Alan Caruba 2006
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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