May 19, 2006

LET'S END THE 'PHONY WAR'

"The prospect of being hanged in a fortnight", said Dr. Johnson, "concentrates the mind wonderfully." Apparently the good Doctor erred. But then again, who could have anticipated the Post-Modern Western mind, with its ability to deny reality and rewrite the past? Here's the latest from Iran:

"...Iranian expatriates living in Canada yesterday confirmed reports that the Iranian parliament, called the Islamic Majlis, passed a law this week setting a dress code for all Iranians, requiring them to wear almost identical "standard Islamic garments."

Iran's roughly 25,000 Jews would have to sew a yellow strip of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear blue cloth..."

So while Hitler's project continues, under the banner of the Religion of Peace, what is the West doing? Pretending to be at peace with Iran while its diplomats meet over drinks and dinner at the Four Seasons. Instead of concentrating its collective mind, to deal with the threat, it is trying to find the right food for the crocodiles. We're acting as if this is a 'phony war'---like the period from October 1939-April 1940, when, after the initial German invasion of Poland, the nations settled into a lull in the fighting, what the British press called a "sitzkrieg". Our very own Hitler wannabe, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, may be nuts, but he correctly understands these endless diplomatic ditherings as cowardly indications of weakness, and responds accordingly.: "...Your incentives are definitely not more valuable than nuclear technology...How dare you tell our people to give up its gold in return for chocolate...?".

The clock is ticking and no Churchill can be discerned. It's the 1930's, but this time a religious fanatic is about to acquire nuclear weapons. Reasoning with such a man is as useful as discussing quantum chromodynamics with my Bichon. Unlike my dog, for whom the prospect of a treat will cause her to behave gratefully, even listen attentively to whatever I wish to discuss, Mr. Ahmadinejad, possesses no such social deference when it comes to infidels. He's the leader of a global Jihad whose goal is to annihilate the Western infidel nations in the name of Muhammad. It is time to treat him, and Iran like dangerously rabid dogs.

Horsefeathers does remember the past, and not just the era of appeasement, the 'low dishonest decade' of the 30's. We also remember Harry Truman and the dropping of the A-bomb. (See earlier post here) We have had 61 years of peaceful relations with Japan since they surrendered. We would therefore tell the Iranians that planes are in the air headed towards Tehran, ready to drop atomic bombs, unless the Iranians immediately agree to halt their nuclear program and to turn their ongoing weapons program over to the United States. We would add that we will not limit ourselves to targeting their weapons programs. We will attack their oilfield facilities in order to utterly destroy their economy and their potential to make war. Whatever that does to the world price of oil, we're prepared to live with it and make the necessary sacrifices in order to remove this gathering danger.

If not now, when?