Iran: March 2008 Archives

Oh, no, it's not, reminds Geert Wilders:

Remember: Syria is undefeated.  Iran is undefeated.  Iran is within five months of the grand-opening of their nuclear weapons production line.  Do you really think they won't use those warheads against Israel, and against us, as soon as humanly possible?

And we're about to elect people who want to surrender - as fast as humanly possible.

I'd put this video on my sidebar if I could make it fit.  I'll have to settle for a permalink.

The reasons are actually legion for why the notion of working through the UN to halt Iran's nuclear weapons program is an utter waste of time we do not have, but here's one that is fairly high on the list: We can't even get resolutions of same passed:

Russia and China on Tuesday scuttled a Western attempt to introduce a resolution on Iran's nuclear defiance at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, diplomats said.

The decision appeared to be the result of lingering unhappiness by the two world powers about not being informed earlier of plans for such a resolution.

It came a day after the U.N. Security Council imposed another round of sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment. Iran defiantly vowed to continue its nuclear program, which it insists is aimed only at generating power.

Another round of toothless, ineffective sanctions not even worthy of the term, or Moscow and Beijing would have vetoed them.  Obviously this US-backed IAEA resolution was going to be more aggressive, and the Sino-Russian Axis - which has a vested interest in propping up the mullahs as a check on and distraction of the U.S. in the Middle East, just as they continue to sponsor Kim jong-Il's nuclear-armed North Korean regime in the Far East for the exact same reason - simply could not have that.

The difference between the two, of course, is that the NoKos have already crossed the nuclear Rubicon.  Taking them out would be ruinously costly for us, and would lay waste to much of South Korea and Japan.  That's why the so-called Six-Party Talks, while doomed to stalemate at best, and wholesale appeasement at worst, were the best we could do about a bad situation of our - which is to say, Bill Clinton's - own creation.

Tehran is approaching that same Rubicon at a furious pace, and the window for pre-empting a guaranteed (at least) regional Armageddon is closing just as fast.  And what are we doing?  Still dicking around at Turtle Bay with sactions and resolutions that Iran's two large sponsors will continue to parry.

Everybody says we cannot allow a nuclear Iran, but nobody is willing to do what it will take to prevent it.  Everybody, that is, except Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who don't even pay lip service, and already have their summit prayer rugs shampooed and ready to go for their grand joint state visit to Tehran and ass-kissing sessions with Adolph and the Paramount Leader himself.  Darth Queeg probably wouldn't go that far; he'd just maintain the Bush policy of multilateralist five-knuckle-shuffling.

The outcome will be the same either way - a nuclear armed mullahgarchy that will promptly use those warheads to carry out their years of bellicose threats.

Looks like that White House phone is going to be ringing even more than the Empress and B.O. think.