Posted by
lge on Sunday, September 30, 2007 10:35:01 PM
The question of Iran now comes down to, "Who will bell the cat?"
Everyone knows it must be belled. Iran can't be allowed to get nuclear weapons. And Iran won't renounce them voluntarily. So SOMEBODY has to act, to destroy Iran's nuclear program.
Of course, fatuous lefties in this country bleat, "Iran has as much right to develop nuclear weapons as any other country." In a petty-fogging, legalistic way, that's true. That's why there is no petty-fogging international authority, and no such thing as real international law. There's no world version of our corrupt Supreme Court, and no World Civil Liberties Union to twist issues to suit themselves.
What nations guide their actions by is not some abstract or hypothetical international law, but their own national interests. And it is not in our interests, nor in Israel's, to allow a lunatic who has vowed to nuke Israel, to develop nuclear weapons.
The cat must be belled, but the question remains, "Who will do it?"
We're adopted Iraq, and so our hands are full with that problem child. On the principle that "Bad wars drive out good," we have no energy left from a misguided enterprise, to perform this necessary deed to rid the world of a homicidal maniac with nukes.
So somebody ELSE will have to do it -- with us holding their coats, perhaps.
Any takers?