Iran is next on U.S. hit list
If you step outside, face the White House and listen with the right kind of ears, you’ll hear it. It’s the sound that Creedence Clearwater Revival sang about. It’s the sound of two hundred million guns a loadin’.
A year from now, when the U.S. has mule-stomped Iran into the sand, remember March 23 as the day that Lee Peacock predicted that the U.S. was going to put Iran out of commission.
For those of you who weren’t watching, President Bush launched the first salvo last Thursday when he released a 49-page report that reaffirms his doctrine of pre-emptive war against terrorists and hostile nations with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
The report, a statement of U.S. defense priorities that’s required by law every four years, broadens the security polices that were developed by the Bush administration in September 2002, right before the U.S. military went into Iraq and choke-slammed Saddam Hussein.
Those new policies represented a major change in U.S. foreign policy. They were a shift away from decades of deterrence and containment toward a more aggressive stance of attacking enemies before they attack the U.S. In a nutshell, last Thursday’s report means that President Bush is going to stick with the policy of attacking countries before they can attack us.
Enter Iran.
The current situation with Iran is ominous. You can be sure that it’s more serious than it ever was with Iraq. The black marks against Iran make up a laundry list of unsavory behavior. First off, Iran is state sponsor of terrorism. Iran has vowed to wipe Israel off the map. Iran has pledged to destroy the United States. Worst of all, Iran is developing it own arsenal of nuclear weapons. Even more disturbing is the fact that Iran is controlled by a demented despot - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-Khamenei - who just might make good on its threats.
So what is the U.S. going to do about it? Here’s your first clue. In last Thursday’s report, Bush wrote: "If necessary, however, under long-standing principles of self defense, we do not rule out the use of force before attacks occur - even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy's attack."
The report also says that the Bush administration prefers diplomacy over an all-out war. Unfortunately, diplomacy has never worked with Iran, and it never will. At this point, the only way we’re going to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program is to go in there with our gloves on and do it ourselves.
How are we going to do that?
Not long from now, a handful of American pilots are going to rise from their bunks on some aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf (or in some tent at an airfield in Iraq). They’re going to put on their flight gear, climb into the cockpits of a few stealth bombers and then they’re going to replace Iran’s nuclear facilities with large, smoking craters.
Somebody will have to do it, and it might as well be the United States. I say, gentlemen, start your engines.
A year from now, when the U.S. has mule-stomped Iran into the sand, remember March 23 as the day that Lee Peacock predicted that the U.S. was going to put Iran out of commission.
For those of you who weren’t watching, President Bush launched the first salvo last Thursday when he released a 49-page report that reaffirms his doctrine of pre-emptive war against terrorists and hostile nations with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
The report, a statement of U.S. defense priorities that’s required by law every four years, broadens the security polices that were developed by the Bush administration in September 2002, right before the U.S. military went into Iraq and choke-slammed Saddam Hussein.
Those new policies represented a major change in U.S. foreign policy. They were a shift away from decades of deterrence and containment toward a more aggressive stance of attacking enemies before they attack the U.S. In a nutshell, last Thursday’s report means that President Bush is going to stick with the policy of attacking countries before they can attack us.
Enter Iran.
The current situation with Iran is ominous. You can be sure that it’s more serious than it ever was with Iraq. The black marks against Iran make up a laundry list of unsavory behavior. First off, Iran is state sponsor of terrorism. Iran has vowed to wipe Israel off the map. Iran has pledged to destroy the United States. Worst of all, Iran is developing it own arsenal of nuclear weapons. Even more disturbing is the fact that Iran is controlled by a demented despot - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-Khamenei - who just might make good on its threats.
So what is the U.S. going to do about it? Here’s your first clue. In last Thursday’s report, Bush wrote: "If necessary, however, under long-standing principles of self defense, we do not rule out the use of force before attacks occur - even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy's attack."
The report also says that the Bush administration prefers diplomacy over an all-out war. Unfortunately, diplomacy has never worked with Iran, and it never will. At this point, the only way we’re going to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program is to go in there with our gloves on and do it ourselves.
How are we going to do that?
Not long from now, a handful of American pilots are going to rise from their bunks on some aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf (or in some tent at an airfield in Iraq). They’re going to put on their flight gear, climb into the cockpits of a few stealth bombers and then they’re going to replace Iran’s nuclear facilities with large, smoking craters.
Somebody will have to do it, and it might as well be the United States. I say, gentlemen, start your engines.
posted by Lee Peacock at 3:00 PM
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