Mark Steyn really cuts through all the crap in his article on Iran in the current issue of City Journal:
Anyone who spends half an hour looking at Iranian foreign policy over the last 27 years sees five things:
1. contempt for the most basic international conventions;
2. long-reach extraterritoriality;
3. effective promotion of radical Pan-Islamism;
4. a willingness to go the extra mile for Jew-killing (unlike, say, Osama);
5. an all-but-total synchronization between rhetoric and action.
As examples, he cites the takeover of the American embassy in Tehran, the Salman Rushdie fatwa (which was recently renewed), and the bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. The common denominator: a lack of respect for sovereignty (the American embassy sat on American soil).
So the prospect of a nuclear Iran scares the dickens out of Steyn, as it does me. His conclusion is that “Whether or not we end the nuclearization of the Islamic Republic will be an act that defines our time.” He’s right.
Steyn’s article is a must-read.
Out Of Time Part II
As I have said before we are Out Of Time. It has become increasingly obvious that when Thug-In-Chief Ahmadinejad fails to comply with United Nations demands to freeze their uranium enrichment program, a strike will indeed become necessary, and assessin…
EUrope to take a nap before sleeping.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5406
The “international community†today is a gang of jackals surrounded by wolves….
If the Pax Americana were to crumble, as Dominique de Villepin so fervently hopes, we would have a world in which French-led Europe dominated one part of the globe; the Chinese and Russians competed over another; and the rest would be torn among three virulently Islamist Caliphates—-
Marc: Thanks for the lead on the Steyn piece. He left one thing out. In October 1987 the Ayatolla Khomeni declared war on the U.S. (you recall the day the Dow dropped 500 points? It was that one).
We have been at war with Iran for at least 19 years, 27 if you count the embassy takeover. The day after the hammer and sickle was hauled down from the Kremlin for the last time (25 Dec 1991) we should have exercised our recognized international rights and created a place in the middle east that was “flat, glass lined, and glows in the dark.”
But instead, in D.C. the “Peace Dividend” was all the rage.