Day of Reckoning

Day of Reckoning
War on Terror/Mark Silverberg
March 18, 2006
As Gerard Baker wrote recently in the Times of London: "Those who say war with Iran is unthinkable are right. Military strikes, even limited, targeted, and accurate ones, will have devastating consequences for the region and for the world. There are many fearfully powerful arguments against the use of the military option. But multiplied together, squared, and then cubed, the weight of these arguments does not come close to matching the case for us to stop, by whatever means may be necessary, Iran from becoming a nuclear power."

Born to a blacksmith, educated as a revolutionary, trained as a killer and attacked as a mystical fanatic, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the personification of everything there is to fear about a nuclear Iran. He has stated, not once but on many occasions, and not privately, but publicly in many world forums, that Israel is a cancer that will be "wiped off the map", that "the Holocaust was a myth", and that "if there is to be a Jewish State, it should be in Europe or Alaska."

The religious ideology of the Islamic republic is tied to the belief that Iran’s Supreme Leaders (Ayatollahs Khomeini, and later Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) are just temporary guides pending the return of the Imam Mahdi, who vanished more than a thousand years ago. Ahmadinejad has linked himself to a mystical movement that believes the way must be prepared (through Armageddon) for the return of the Mahdi and that is precisely what he is doing.

Nor are his threats new. Several years ago, Iran's former President Rafsanjani stated that "the use of a nuclear bomb in Israel will leave nothing on the ground, whereas it will only damage the world of Islam" (showing an appalling ignorance on the ramifications that would necessarily flow from a nuclear exchange). And speaking to Hamas leaders in Damascus in late January, Ahmadinejad confirmed that the Middle East conflict, for the Islamic government of Iran, has become "the locus of the final war" between Muslims and the West.

So why should we take this Iranian rhetoric seriously? Because, such rhetoric comes from the same Islamic regime that, twenty years ago, sent Iranian children scurrying across Iraqi minefields with yellow plastic "keys to Paradise" made in Taiwan hanging around their necks. Thousands were sacrificed as "martyrs for Allah." While many may not believe that Almedinejad intends to carry out his threat (by the way, the world didn't believe Hitler in Mein Kampf or Saddam Hussein's stated intentions to invade Kuwait either), the Israelis, the Americans and now even the Europeans are convinced that he does. A "balance of terror" deterrence philosophy may have worked during the Cold War, but we live in the post-Cold War era and the Iranian mullahs are not the Communists.

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Let me explain it this way and most people will catch on.

Two men are going outside to fight. These two men hate each other and have a real history. Now if the men are serious there will be little or no motor mouthing. Instead the two men will go right at it, hammer and tongs so to speak.

If one of the men is considerably larger than the other man and in better shape and has more fighting skills the end comes swiftly and surely. The smaller man is soon on the ground where the boot is used with considerable freedom.

Then bystanders intervene and pull the larger man away before he kills the smaller man.

We are faced with this very scenario visa via the US/Iran. The time for talk has long since passed. Now is the time for swift and sure action and bystanders better mind their own business lest they get what Iran will get.