From the Ministry of Calm, NewSpeak for Harbingers of Fear, come these 3 stories back to back whose headlines pretty much tell the story by themselves.
1: U.S. sanctions will not halt nuclear work: Iran
2: Israel Ramps Up Preparations for Iran Attack
3: Poll: Majority of Jewish Israelis Favor Strike on Iran
Since the most important aspect of this story is the attitude of the Jewish Israelis, “A new Israeli opinion survey says the majority of Israeli Jews favor a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities.The poll published Monday by Haaretz newspaper indicates that 66 percent of Israeli Jews backed an attack on Iran. Seventy-five percent of those who supported a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities said they would continue to back the attack even if the United States opposed it, but 15 percent would not.Only 38 percent thought that Mr. Obama has a friendly attitude toward Israel, compared with 73 percent who thought George W. Bush did.”
The sanctions won’t work and have never worked. Obama’s diplomatic approach was naive but everyone already knew that except him. Iran with nukes is certain to result in war. Pakistans nukes are right now hanging in the balance as the internal battle against al Qaeda is certain to escalate, and it’s clear that they intend to take over the country.
We have two radical Islamist fronts both very close to becoming atomic powers with full intent to use those powers. This is the war on terror! If you’ve been looking for it, this is it. Not Iraq, not Afghanistan.
This is the true test of who Obama really is, what his agenda truly is and where his religious sympathies really lie. We know the man is a Socialist, but is he a pragmatist? Will he persue his vision of the future or will he deal with reality? This matters hugely for the future of all of us. Right here is the crux of the Pakistani part of this: “Obama has only limited options for dealing with it. Anti-American feeling in Pakistan is high, and a U.S. combat presence is prohibited.”
That’s the part that scares me. Because they don’t like us in Pakistan, that means we won’t take action against a Taliban takeover? Our presence is prohibited? What the Hell kind of logic is that? Who cares if the Pakistani people like us or not? What’s that got to do with letting the Taliban go nuclear and start a global holocaust?
Just as with Iran, there comes a time when our popularity with the locals has to take last place in the face of an urgent crisis. If Obama lets Islamists have nukes, he will have declared his allegiance and we will have a holocaust.
Hooray!!!!!!!! I spotted a spelling mistake. persue should be pursue!
Tough call, can US afford another invasion at the moment? Tempting to see if the Pakistan govt can handle it but if that judgement is wrong, with the Taliban about 60km from the capital, the problem wil only be vastly greater.
Pakistan’s capabilities are not huge at the moment but it seems they have under development missiles with a range of 4000+ km and could produce about ten bombs a year. If the Taliban did take over the only sane option would be military action and fast.
I think that time is short before “the bad thing” happens.
BHO has played the fool, all the way down the line, with our foreign policy. The jihadomaniacs are emboldened as they were in the days of the Clinton administration.