Re: IRAN: The Fateful Hour has Arrived . . .

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The Fateful Hour has Arrived

Jerusalem Post
April 13, 2006

Caroline Glick

This week Iran presented the US with the ultimate challenge and
Washington must now make a decision. Is it fighting to win?

Since the September 11 jihadist attacks on the US mainland, President
George W. Bush has stated repeatedly that the greatest threat to
global security is the specter of rogue regimes and terror groups
acquiring weapons of mass destruction. At his January 2002 State of
the Union address, the president declared that the regimes of Iran,
North Korea and Iraq comprised an axis of evil and a central goal -
indeed the most crucial goal - of the US-led war was to prevent them
from acquiring or maintaining arsenals of weapons of mass destruction.

If we accept Bush's definition of the aims of the war, then five years
on, the inescapable conclusion is that the US and its allies, such as
they are, are losing this war and losing it badly. Iraq's arsenal of
weapons of mass destruction was not captured by US forces who
heroically brought down Saddam Hussein's regime three years ago this
week. It vanished before they arrived.

Israeli intelligence reported before the US-led invasion that starting
in late summer 2002 Saddam's WMD arsenal was shipped by truck convoy
to Syria. Recently, documents seized from Iraq after the fall of the
regime were released to the public. Those documents revealed that
under the direct command of former Russian prime minister and KGB boss
Yevgeny Primakov, Russian Spetnaz forces oversaw the transfer of
Iraq's WMD to Syria ahead of the US-led invasion. These reports have
been corroborated by Saddam's Air Vice Marshall General Georges Sada.

So rather than being destroyed or secured, Saddam's WMD arsenal was
simply moved from one rogue regime with intimate ties to terror
organizations to another rogue regime with intimate ties to terror
organizations.

As for North Korea, 10 months after Bush labeled the Stalinist regime
in Pyongyang a member of the axis of evil, North Korea announced that
it had systematically breached its 1994 agreement with the US not to
develop a nuclear arsenal and had harvested plutonium from some 8,000
spent fuel rods at its Russian-built Yangbon reactor. Immediately
after the North Koreans admitted their duplicity, the US acknowledged
that China, Russia and Pakistan had all actively assisted North Korea
in developing its nuclear weapons program behind America's back.

So Bush was being played for a fool. A year after the September 11
attacks, America learned that neither its enemies nor its purported
allies took Washington's war goals seriously. North Korea thumbed its
nose at Bush, and Pakistan, China and Russia willfully betrayed him.

The Bush administration reacted to the ruin of its Asian strategy by
pretending that it hadn't failed. Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and
other top administration officials lauded Pakistan for its commitment
to preventing North Korea from acquiring nuclear capabilities even as
it became public knowledge that Islamabad had transferred centrifuges
for uranium enrichment to the North Koreans. They said that China and
Russia both knew that a nuclear-armed North Korea was inimical to
their national interests and to global security even as neither
Beijing nor Moscow expressed the slightest regret for their assistance
to North Korea's nuclear program and gave no pledge to cease that
assistance.

The Bush administration continued to negotiate with the North Koreans
through the six-party framework with South Korea, Japan, China and
Russia with the aim of convincing North Korea to stop developing
nuclear weapons. Last February, this continued attempt to maintain a
failed policy was exposed in all its preposterousness when North Korea
announced that it had nuclear weapons. Again the US refused to
acknowledge that its policy was a failure.

Last September, the US agreed to a South Korean proposal to offer
North Korea aid and security guarantees in exchange for a commitment
by Pyongyang to turn back the clock on its nuclear program. Pyongyang
responded in November by cutting off all talks in the six-party forum.

This week, the US tried again to engage North Korea at a symposium in
Tokyo. Pyongyang reacted by threatening America with destruction.
North Korea's Defense Minister Kim Il Chol said last Saturday that in
the event of a US strike on the country, North Korea, "will mobilize
its political-ideological might and military potentials built up
generation after generation and mercilessly wipe out the enemies and
thus viciously conclude the stand-off with the US."

The US chief negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher
Hill, responded to Pyongyang's call to obliterate America by saying,
"We've got the right format, the right deal on the table - the
September deal - so we have to be a little patient and realize that
this is the right approach."

But the right approach to what? It may be the right approach for
allowing North Korea to humiliate the US while expanding its nuclear
arsenal and selling missile technology to Iran, Egypt, Syria, Libya,
Saudi Arabia and anyone else who wants it. It is the right approach
for placing Washington at the mercy of Beijing, which Washington
believes is the only country capable of forcing North Korea to improve
its behavior. It is also the right approach for ensuring that Russia,
China and Pakistan believe that they can betray the trust of the US
whenever it suits their purposes. It is the right approach to take,
that is, if the US wishes to fail in its mission of preventing rogue
regimes from acquiring and maintaining weapons of mass destruction.

It is not, however the right approach for ending North Korea's nuclear
adventure. It is not the right approach for forcing North Korea to
stop selling ballistic missiles to anyone who wants them. And it is
not the right approach for destroying Pyongyang's ability to threaten
the US and its allies with nuclear attack.

North Korea is a frightful place. It is led by a fanatical regime that
carries out a systematic, monstrous genocide of its own people. It is
fully capable of acting with deliberate malice and devastating
depravity on an international level.

But it is alone. It has no vital natural resources that make it an
attractive trading partner to states throughout the world. It does not
lead, nor does it purport to lead a global movement of Stalinist
millenarianism. It is not like Iran.

IRAN ANNOUNCED this week that it is a member of the nuclear club. Over
the past five years this new member of the nuclear club has become the
undisputed leader of the global jihad. It controls Hizbullah and
Islamic Jihad. It has open and warm ties with al-Qaida. It has
transformed Hamas and Fatah into its clients. Syria has become its
vassal. It controls the majority of Iraq's Shi'ite politicians and
militias. It is feared by Saudi Arabia and Egypt. It is respected and
revered by European Muslims.

With the largest proven reserves of natural gas in the world and huge
deposits of crude oil, Teheran is flushed with oil and gas profits and
has recently signed multi-billion dollar oil and gas deals with China.
It has close business relations with Europe and Russia. It is a member
of OPEC. And it is led by men who believe that they are living in a
messianic age which demands millenarian behavior on the road to divine
victory on earth.

Iran, the single greatest enemy of the US and everything it stands
for, which has repeatedly stated its goal of destroying America and
erasing Israel from the map of the world, is now on the verge of
acquiring a nuclear arsenal. It already has delivery systems capable
of launching nuclear strikes against Israel and most of Western
Europe. Through its own Revolutionary Guards units, Hizbullah and its
other terror clients, it has been actively warring against the US for
27 years.

Iran made its fastest leaps towards nuclear capabilities since the
September 11 attacks. When in late 2002 Iran's secret nuclear
facilities in Natanz, Arak and Isfahan were revealed to the world, the
US reacted not by moving to destroy this emerging threat which it
acknowledged to be the greatest threat to its own national security
and to the security of the world. It reacted by backing Britain,
Germany and France's attempts to appease the mullahs into giving up
their nuclear weapons program.

The Europeans' diplomacy never had any chance of ending the Iranian
program. Iran did not embark on it nuclear weapons program in order to
be bought off but in order to have a nuclear arsenal. Yet Washington
complimented the Europeans' worthless summitry by clearly signaling
that Iran had no reason to worry about US military intervention. This
it did by studiously ignoring the fact that Iran was actively warring
against US forces in Iraq and flooding Iraq with its agents, spies and
weapons.

To date, the US's official policy for contending with Iran is to seek
redress in the UN Security Council. That is, the US has placed the
responsibility for meeting what it has itself admitted is the greatest
threat to global security in the hands of nations that do not share
its assessment of Iran. By seeking Security Council action on Iran,
the US has delegated the power for contending with the Iranian nuclear
threat to China and Russia which have both assisted Iran in developing
its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Like its policy towards North Korea, the US's policy towards Iran
serves not to thwart Teheran's nuclear aspirations but to facilitate
them. It serves not to expand America's options for contending with
this grave and gathering threat to its national security and global
interests, but to limit them.

After the September 11 attacks, George W. Bush was revered by
Americans and lovers of liberty around the world. His soaring rhetoric
and stated determination to fight for all that is good and sacred in
this world won the hearts of millions and instilled in them the hope
that the great battle for civilization had been joined by a force
capable of defending it.

America is the greatest nation on Earth and it does have the ability
to defend the world against regimes like Iran and its allies. It can
prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. It can take those weapons
out of North Korea's hands. It can bring Damascus to its knees and
force it to cough up Iraq's arsenal of pathogens. And no, military
might is not the only way for it to accomplish these tasks.

But America cannot, and it will not accomplish any of these goals if
it continues to abide by strategies and frameworks that serve only to
strengthen its enemies and permit its "allies" to behave perfidiously.
It cannot and will not defend the world from evil, demonic regimes
like Iran's if it continues to allow the likes of the EU, Russia,
Egypt and China to undercut its will at every turn.

This week Teheran threw down the gauntlet. The greatest battle of this
war - the battle to prevent the world's most dangerous regime from
attaining the most dangerous weapons known to man - has begun. The
moment has arrived for President George W. Bush to make clear if he
is, in the final analysis, the leader of the free world or its
undertaker.


Lets get it rollin!!!! TIME TO KICK THE *** OUT THEM IRANIAN
MUSLIM ARAB SHITSTAINS!!! *** YAH!!! *** YAH!!!

i sure miss watching all that Iraq *** getttin blown up everyday on
the TV when the major kickass combat was rollin cant wait for Iran

*** YAH!!! *** YAH!!!

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