For years whenever the crazed antics and threats from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad haved raised alarm bells, a push back by supercilious liberals and TV Iran “experts” counter the nation’s government is complex and in many ways the holocaust denying madman is not really in control. They point out that the nation is a “democracy” where moderation exists and the nation, if just left to its own devices, will march toward freedom.
So my question is this, if crazy-pants doesn’t run the nation and we shouldn’t fear what is going on, how come Iran developed an air defense system, is raising uranium enrichment, is developing predator drones and seems to be building alliances and defenses to start a War against Israel and the West? Regardless of who is actually calling the shots, it is pretty clear Iran is not seeking to spread peace and love as it develops a war machine.
It seems to me that in the time we have wasted NOT blowing the Iranian nuclear plants to hell the nation has developed, with the help of Russia, the means to grow their arsenal and protect it. They have also, in that time, silenced their opposition, cracked down on people who actually want to participate in the aforementioned democracy and have pretty much told us the plan moving ahead is to make life miserable for sanity and freedom.
I was heartened and emboldened by the summer protests in Iran, but fear that these protesters represent a small fraction of Iranians. A fraction increasingly behind bars or facing worse consequences for registering their discontent at a sham election. My hope is that an open rebellion will occur and the Iranian government will be overthrown. My hope is that liberty will reign and the leadership will face imprisonment or death for their crimes. I see little evidence any of this will happen. I see instead, a government consolidating power and following through with a dangerous agenda it verbalizes every chance it gets.
Attacking Iran would leave us with yet another quagmire. Like Afghanistan or Iraq, I don’t see what a post overthrown Iran would look like. With that said, I don’t see a positive outcome if we let Iran continue on its current destructive path. I do believe, very strongly, our world is furthering down a path toward a global war. I believe Iran is one of many surrogates for Russia and China, booby traps meant to distract the West and bleed it dry. While we exhaust diplomacy Iran builds arsenals. If we finally address the issue, we will undoubtedly face a force aided by two powers with massive military resources and dozens more nations ready to join in the fight against us. In short, we have no good options and they get worse by the day.
While I abhor neoconservatism, embracing an odd mix of isolationism and economic globalism instead, their agenda would have been best if it was seen through. First Afghanistan, then Iraq, then Iran and Syria in a massive and definitive blow to Islamic extremism and rogue nationalism. Instead we had the befuddled leadership of men like Donald Rumsfeld and a weird collection of progressives and nation-building conservatives who quickly gained, then lost, the mainstream media and the American people. Now we have a mess, a terrible track record of building nations and every reason to drag our feet. All the while Russia, China and Islamic extremism are growing in power and influence while our nation goes bankrupt.
I don’t believe there are any good solutions but we reached the point for a decision a LONG time ago. Bush did nothing, Obama is doing nothing, Congress is asleep and Israel kept on a leash. All I know is that every day without real action, is one day Iran, China and Russia have to further their plan.
