Iran

By: B.lawley

I believe in a clear difference between good and evil in this world. And although the Treasonous voice in this country seems to be growing louder then the voice of reason that clear line exists nonetheless. I am not in the least bit afraid to say that America is good and the Mullahs practice of poisonous ideology and terrorism is evil! “Good” is tiring to protect you and spread democracy while “evil” wants to “smite off the head of infidels.” Wake up from your academically induced (everything-is-subjective) comma because you’re the infidel! And while rattling off the mind-numbing mantra “It’s Bush’s fault” as a response to every global and social problem under the sun might delight your professor, it really just demonstrates that you don’t know your head from that cellulite factory just below your back.
The real problem with Iran is not just its nuclear program. The problem is the present regime. Iran is a terrorist-sponsoring state led by an apocalyptic lunatic who will soon have the ability to incinerate Tel Aviv or New York for that matter.

The lunatic in question is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a former member of the Revolutionary Guards (Iran’s SS), who was elected (in an undemocratic process) as Iran’s president. He has been busy making headlines with claims that the Holocaust never occurred and that Israel is a “tumor” that should be “wiped off the map.” You should know that it’s not just Jews Mahmoud Ahmadinejad longs to kill. Iranians found guilty of homosexuality are given a choice of four death styles: being hanged, stoned, halved by a sword or dropped from the highest perch. Efforts to crack down on homosexuality in Iran reached a high point shortly after the election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This timeline of events has an eerie parallel to the crackdown on homosexuality immediately following Hitler’s rise to power. History should teach us that when dictators make bellicose statements, prudence dictates taking them seriously.
Why does a nation with among the world’s most extensive energy reserves need nuclear power? Does it make any sense that Iran would risk isolation and sanctions to build a couple nuclear energy plants? Of course not! The world recently called Iran on its bluff, offering to build a nuclear power plant for Iran on Russian soil. This would guarantee Iran its power needs while making it impossible for Iran to use the technology for weapons purposes. Not surprisingly, Iran turned this offer down.

So what do we do with this ticking time bomb? Intellectually honest people will admit that the United Nations is plagued by incompetence and corruption. According to writer Michael Barone, 21 billion dollars meant to ease the suffering of the Iraqi people was siphoned off during the Oil for Food Scandal. All of this begs the larger question: if you can’t trust the UN to oversee a food program, how can it be trusted to solve the Iranian nuclear crisis?
Where does that leave us? I am the first to admit that massive air strikes and a potential new chapter to this war is not a good option. The consequences to the stability of the Middle East are unthinkable. Yet the alternative of allowing the mullahs to go nuclear is incalculably worse. As a member of the United States military I do not suggest military action lightly as it will likely be I who is ultimately in harms way, but the threat of genuine US military force must remain a viable option if we reach a point where there is no other way to thwart the mullahs nuclear ambition.

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Too proud to pray to the God that made us.

“We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.”
Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation

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