This piece is long and scares the bejeezus out of me, because I believe he's most likely right.
AndAnyone who spends half an hour looking at Iranian foreign policy over the last 27 years sees five things:
1. contempt for the most basic international conventions;
2. long-reach extraterritoriality;
3. effective promotion of radical Pan-Islamism;
4. a willingness to go the extra mile for Jew-killing (unlike, say, Osama);
5. an all-but-total synchronization between rhetoric and action.
The cost of de-nuking Iran will be high now but significantly higher with every year it's postponed. The lesson of the Danish cartoons is the clearest reminder that what is at stake here is the credibility of our civilization. Whether or not we end the nuclearization of the Islamic Republic will be an act that defines our time.
We know some sort of strike coming... the questions seem to be who will actually do it, and which countries will be arranged on which side?
2 comments:
Holy... That's one seriously depressing read. There's one guy I hope is horribly wrong. Unfortunately, it feels right.
Steyn is pretty good at laying it out generally uncomfortable clarity. Glad you posted it, because I totally missed this one.
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