Posted on 10/19/2014 5:02:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
Editor's Note: This column was coauthored by Bob Morrison.
Several years ago, the Israeli satirical series, Latma, produced this funny sketch on the Iranian mullahs’ push for a nuclear bomb. “The bomb, the bomb, I’ll get the bomb. Listen to me, Honey, it ain’t gonna be too long” sings the frolicking mullah in the online version of this humorous look at a most serious subject.
The Israelis can joke about an Iranian nuclear bomb because they are on the front line. They know what it would mean. They don’t go on and on about “stability” in the Middle East the way our State Department types do. There hasn’t been stability in the Mideast in our lifetime and there is no likelihood of stability being achieved there in the future. All the Western journalists’ gushing about the “Arab Spring” has produced not one country with a semblance of stability, freedom, or genuine change.
Egypt has settled down for the moment into a familiar pattern of military dictatorship.
Hosni Mubarak maintained his dictatorship for three decades the same way Tsar Nicholas II had maintained his autocratic rule in Russia. The Tsar embraced the democratic Western nations. He happily took billions in aid from the democracies. But at home, he unleashed his brutality.
Now, we hear the Obama administration is negotiating with the Iranians in an attempt to stop their nuclear weapons program. “We know each other well enough to make jokes.” says a State Department spokesman in this story in the Weekly Standard.
They joke about the “peace process” because it is a joke. Nothing is clearer than that the Obama administration has no serious commitment to stopping Iran from getting the bomb. Negotiators are supposedly trying to give Iran freedom to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without allowing them to go ahead with construction of a nuclear weapon. The truth is that if Iran has nuclear power plants, it can readily produce nuclear weapons.
Left unasked are key questions. Why should the No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism in the world be allowed to develop any nuclear capacity? Even without an atomic bomb, the radioactive waste that is produced by every nuclear power plant could easily be used to create a so-called dirty bomb. That would be an explosive device that spreads deadly radioactivity in any Western capital city. Another key question is this: Why should one of the world’s leading oil producers be allowed the fiction that they need nuclear energy for peaceful purposes? Iran’s record since 1979 abundantly shows the ruling mullahs have no peaceful purposes.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, recently put the Mideast turmoil in perspective. “A nuclear Iran would be a thousand times more dangerous than ISIS,”
the envoy told guests at his suburban Maryland home.
Ambassador Dermer is right. This administration is simply not serious about stopping Iran from getting the bomb. The fact that Mr. Obama has set November 24th as his artificial deadline for progress in the nuclear arms talks is most illuminating. That is Monday before the traditional get-out-of-town fever hits Washington. Congressmen and staffers will be focused on Thanksgiving Recess, not on talks in Europe about Iran’s endless and monotonous negotiations. Iranians have long since mastered the technique of talking their opponents to death.
This much we know from the 444 days of captivity our U.S. hostages faced in Tehran from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981: They were subjected to regular “mock” executions by their captors. Imagine being beaten, tortured, starved and then put up against the wall and told you were to be shot. Only with the click-click-click of the empty rifles to you learn you have been the victim of another cruel hoax.
In just this way, the Americans, British, and other victims held by ISIS are probably prepared for their eventual slaughter. Those haunting pictures of kneeling captives show them passively going to their deaths. Might it be they have been through this drill so many times they cannot believe that this time they really will be beheaded?
We do not have to watch these savage acts to learn from their heinous repetition on the Internet. Iran may well be subjecting the entire West to this same process. One day, we will awaken to find that this time Iran has actually gone through with a nuclear explosion.
Nothing this administration has done can prevent that dread day. And, if a nuclear explosion is “a thousand times brighter than the sun,” Ambassador Dermer is right: A nuclear Iran is a thousand times more dangerous than ISIS.
Yep. They need to be stopped b4its2late.
~Hosni Mubarak maintained his dictatorship for three decades the same way Tsar Nicholas II had maintained his autocratic rule in Russia. The Tsar embraced the democratic Western nations. He happily took billions in aid from the democracies. But at home, he unleashed his brutality.~
LOL.
What is so funny about this, noobie?
They build a few nukes. Pass it off to terrorists, who detonate it in a major city in a democratic nation. Then Iran is turned into a sheet of glass. Does Iran honestly think the world will let them get away with it?
I honestly don’t think the Iranians are that mad. We would know within 24 hours where the material used was produced.
Wheres your favorite President when he could be speaking out against Obama? None of the GOP leadership show any balls. They are either being blackmailed, or threatened. Or they want what Obama wants.
I just fond comparison funny. 2nd Nick and Hosni are totally different types. But they both weren’t that much a brutes too.
Boko Haram in Nigeria might beat the Iranians at obtaining the first megadeath WMD and launching it at America.
Ebolo virus is viable in liquids for a long time. Long enough for Boko Haram to slip into the hot zone to obtain hazmat disposal bags full of viable Ebola.
Bring the bags back to Nigeria, infect a volunteer martyr, put him on a plane from Lagos to JFK. Hell, infect a dozen volunteers.
Once in the USA, they wait for symptoms to show, and start deliberately spreading the Ebola in crowded places.
There last act could be to fight a dozen policemen, engage in a wrestling match with them.
Put THAT genie back in the bottle.....
But this pres wouldn't turn Iran or Mecca into glass. It'd have to be someone who loves this country in order to do that.
In the space of a week, Obama referred publicly to it on two occasions.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/iranian-nuclear-fatwa-cited-obama-may-not-exist
“The supreme leader has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons,” he said during his address at the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 24.
“Iran’s supreme leader has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons,” Obama told reporters after the phone call three days later, described as the first direct communication between sitting U.S. and Iranian presidents since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Can you say 'taqiyya'? I thought you could ...
The best way to fix the problem is to let Iran make a bomb but make sure the fuse is hacked so it goes off while still on the ground in Iran. Rinse and repeat.
That works for me.
I look at the picture and I see God in his eyes......... LOL LOL LOL. I am at the point where I believe we as a nation have had it with OBAMA. The Silent Majority will be heard in 2016, if the GOP has finds a non milk toast candidate wrapped in the American flag, holding the Constitution in his hand, and not be afraid to speak out. Its time to cut the crap and man up! (or Woman up.) This country deserves far better than having 4-8 years of an Evita wannabe.
The Bible points out in Ezekiel 39-39 that Iran will be a main player in a Russian Coalition to destroy Israel. They are going to eat their words as the G-d of Israel does to them what they have in mind for Israel. There is reason to believe that this could come in the very near future...
I honestly don’t think the Iranians are that mad. We would know within 24 hours where the material used was produced.
They do not care. There are Islamic Doomsday cults in Iran. They believe in the return of the 12 imam, and that by bringing world destruction, they will *CAUSE* him to return.
They are religious nutbags, and they will gladly kill everyone on the planet for their religion. People over here simply do not grasp how dangerous they are.
We could threaten the Soviets with retaliation, and being sane men who didn't want to die, that strategy worked. It WILL NOT WORK with lunatic Religious fanatics in Iran.
Thanks Kaslin.
In terms of a covert nuke attack, the Russians are the most able to do that, and likely after the “terrorist” bombs go off, and cause surprise and chaos. The ICBMs, SLBMs and so on will follow shortly after. When nuclear war is possible, you really want to open with a surprising, disorienting, attack that weakens, even delays, the possibility of your enemy firing back. Even Iran knows that I America got nuked, the retaliation would screw them over.
Actually, the Russians potentially have more ability to perform a covert nuke attack than Iran, especially if they could use the initial attack to cause additional chaos on top of their massive nuclear attack following up.
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