Weekly Think Piece ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All Things Considered
The simmering conflict with Iran
that started with the overthrow of the Shah and the establishment of an Islamic
Republic by Ayatollah Khomeini has been heating up over the years with the
undisputed knowledge that Iran
is pursing nuclear weapons and their growing military interference in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It
might be a good idea to look back at this most virulent supporter of Islamic
world domination to gain some perspective on whom we are going to war with -
sooner or later, then look at the consequences. The Ottawa Citizen published an
editorial recently that detailed the past activities of this world enemy and
the case for attacking Iran.
Today,
Iran's
radical Islamist military, security and intelligence machine reflects the extremism
of its history and entrenched masters. It has made Iran an engine of global
instability and menace.
Start
with reports of early post-revolutionary Iran. Massacres of Baha'is and
other minorities. Razor-blade removal of lipsticked lips. Thumbtacks affixing
veils to reluctant women. Adolescent gays hanged from construction cranes.
Human waves of nine-year-olds attacking Iraqi forces.
The
performance abroad has been as shocking.
For
years, Iranian dissidents around the world have been hunted down and butchered
by joint teams from Iran's
foreign intelligence service and the country's other virulent creation,
Hezbollah. By the late 1990s, German prosecutors stated that the highest
Iranian officials authorized assassinations abroad through a "Committee for
Special Affairs." The Germans went on to prove that the Islamic Republic
murdered people in its notorious "Mykonos" operation in Berlin. South American
investigators fix the mullahs with responsibility for a mass-casualty bombing
in Argentina.
And, of course, writer Salman Rushdie lives under the multimillion-dollar
bounty offered by a quasi-governmental Iranian foundation.
Under
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime, Iran's
religious supremacists call for the destruction of Jews, Christians, Israel, the United States, the West.
Unfortunately, such virulence is nothing compared to the frightening nuclear
implications of this regime's delusional and apocalyptic fixations. In this
spirit, Mr. Ahmadinejad writes letters to the Twelfth Imam, who is said to have
inhabited a well for the past few centuries. The president believes he can
bring back the long-lost imam -- the Mahdi -- by precipitating the apocalypse,
something his doctrine tells him will trigger a Second Coming, and paradise.
All
of this means that an Iranian bomb would be under control of nuclear triggermen
who regards atomic annihilation as an incentive, rather than a deterrent. In
short order, Canada
and the rest of the world would face the mullahs' diktat.
Being
alarmed by such a dangerous madman is an understatement. The question is this.
Will we have the moral backbone to prevent a nuclear catastrophe through either
Shahab missiles or warheads smuggled into our country by sympathetic
terrorists? Have we really learned the lessons of Hitler in 1938 when he tested
the metal of Britain and France when he re-occupied the Rhineland
or will we resort to endless talk, diplomacy and appeasement?
History
shows that appeasing tyranny has never, ever, succeeded - especially when
tyranny's plans are made obvious
by tyranny itself. But when we do respond to the threat - sooner or later -
the price will be steep and long lasting and would most probably result in a
constitutional crisis in the this country.
After the attack, Iran's Hezbollah agents, its
foreign-intelligence sleepers -- known in Farsi as "submarines" --
and suicide-corps infiltrators will likely go into action throughout the West.
President Ahmadinejad has told us as much. The suicide corps alone is so
aggressive that a commander of Iran's
regular armed forces has complained about its uncontrollable nature -- if not
about its ultimate aims and purpose.
We should expect terrorist bombings in our commercial centers and
transportation facilities killing thousands of American citizens.
And how will we react to that?
Even without a nuclear attack on US
soil, the reaction to resident Muslims by the general public would be far from
amiable. The response would closely match the scenario outlined in the 1998
movie The Siege. In response to a wave of suicide bombings in New
York City the President responds by declaring martial
law and sending in the Army. The army detains people that fit the description
of the cells - namely, males of Arab descent. You can imagine the
constitutional crises that will ensue as young Muslim males and their families
at sent to detention camps.
But that's mild to the response that will be demanded by citizens if one or more
nukes are lit off on American soil. The public will demand retribution on
someone (Mecca, Medina, Tehran) - anyone - and rational debate on the who and
the what will go out the window because as of today, the American public has
not been informed as to the true threat we face and who is responsible for
advancing that threat.
There is a lack of courage and moral backbone in our leaders who will not admit which
nations advance and support the ideology of Islamism. They and the main stream
media can't even commit to the thought that we are fighting an actual ideology.
And no, it's not entirely Iran. The prime financier and supporter of Islamism is Saudi Arabia and it's time
that our leaders address this issue, identify the enemy, and put them on notice
that they and they alone are responsible for the advancements of Islamic
tyranny and that they will pay the price. The response, of course, from Saudi
Arabia and other supporters of Islamism is
to threaten us with oil. That is why our political leaders must demand that
this country be placed immediately on a 'war footing' and approach the energy
challenge like we did in World War Two. We have to get serious about energy
independence from foreign oil. Before we do all the warm and fuzzy things that
the eco-left says we must do, we must open up the oil fields in this country to
exploration. We must go on a crash schedule for building nuclear power plants.
We must build dozens of gas refineries. We must use the coal reserves in this
country which far outnumber the oil reserves in the Middle-East. Once those are
done we can switch light bulbs, ride a bike, and plant a tree. Either we get off the Middle-East oil tit or our country
will be held hostage by Islamic tyranny. Plain and simple. This is no longer an
economic debate but a question of national survival. Let's make it so.
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