Sure the nut-job liberals will give Adolf Ahmadinejad a pass for all
of his threats against Israel, Europe, and America, and his defiance
of the UN and the whole world by building nukes. We all can predict
what nut-job liberals will say in sup****t for the Islamic Hitler.
Regardless, Israel and America will completely decimate Iran very very
soon, and no pacifist is going to stop it.
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Israel on the Iran Brink
June 23, 2008; Page A16
Israel isn't famous for welcoming public scrutiny of its most
sensitive military plans. But we doubt Jerusalem officials were
dismayed to see news of their recent air force exercises splashed over
the front pages of the Western press.
Those exercises =96 re****tedly involving about 100 fighters, tactical
bombers, refueling planes and rescue helicopters =96 were conducted
about 900 miles west of Israel's shores in the Mediterranean. Iran's
nuclear facilities at Bushehr, Isfahan and Natanz all fall roughly
within the same radius, albeit in the opposite direction. The point
was not lost on Tehran, which promptly warned of "strong blows" in the
event of a pre-emptive Israeli attack.
The more im****tant question is whether the meaning of Israel's
exercise registered in Western capitals. It's been six years since
Iran's secret nuclear programs were publicly exposed, and Israel has
more or less bided its time as the Bush Administration and Europe have
pursued diplomacy to induce Tehran to cease enriching uranium.
It hasn't worked. Iran has rejected repeated offers of technical and
economic assistance, most recently this month. Despite four years of
pleading, the Administration has failed to win anything but weak U.N.
sanctions. Russia plans to sell advanced antiaircraft missiles to Iran
and finish work on a nuclear reactor at Bushehr, though spent fuel
from that reactor could eventually be diverted and reprocessed into
weapons-usable plutonium. Chinese companies still invest in Iran,
while the U.N.'s chief nuclear inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei, has
repeatedly downplayed Iran's nuclear threat.
As for the U.S., December's publication of a misleading National
Intelligence Estimate that claimed Iran had halted nuclear
weaponization signaled America's own lack of seriousness toward
Iranian ambitions. Barack Obama is leading in the Presidential polls
and ****trays as a virtue his promise to negotiate with Iran "without
precondition" =96 i.e., without insisting that Tehran stop enriching
uranium. All the while Iran continues to enrich, installing thousands
of additional centrifuges of increasingly more sophisticated design
while it buries key facilities underground.
No wonder Israel is concluding that it will have to act on its own to
prevent a nuclear Iran. Earlier this month, Deputy Prime Minister
Shaul Mofaz, a former army chief of staff, warned that "if Iran
continues with its program for developing nuclear weapons, we will
attack." Other officials distanced themselves from those remarks, but
September's one-shot raid on Syria's nuclear reactor ought to be proof
of Israel's determination.
An Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear sites would of course look nothing
like the Syrian operation. The distances are greater; the targets are
hardened, defended and dispersed; hundreds of sorties and several days
would be required. Iran would retaliate, with the help of Hezbollah
and Hamas, possibly sparking a regional conflict as large as the 1973
Yom Kippur war.
Mr. ElBaradei predicted this weekend that such an attack would turn
the Middle East into a "ball of fire," yet his own apologies for Iran
and the West's diplomatic failures are responsible for bringing the
region to this pass. They have convinced the mullahs that the powers
responsible for maintaining world order lack the will to stop Iran.
Israelis surely don't welcome a war in which they will suffer. Yet
they have no choice but to defend themselves against an enemy that
vows to obliterate them if Iran acquires the weapon to do so. The
tragic paradox of the past six years is that the diplomatic and
intelligence evasions offered in the name of avoiding war with Iran
have done the most to bring us close to this brink. Appeasement that
ends in war is a familiar theme of history.
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