We Need To End Teheran's Islamist Regime
We triumphed over both Japan and Germany in less than four years after Pearl Harbor. Yet more than six years after 9/11, against a far weaker enemy, our soldiers still die daily in Iraq.
Why? Because this war is neither assertive nor ruthless--it is a tragically meek pretense at war. Observe that, in targeting Iraq--not a major backer of the jihadists--Washington left the chief enemy--Teheran--untouched.
And the campaign in Iraq was not even aimed at crushing whatever threat Hussein’s regime posed to us. Our brave and capable forces were hamstrung: ordered not to bomb key targets, such as power plants, and to avoid firing into mosques (where insurgents hide) lest we offend Muslim sensibilities. Instead, we sent our troops to lift Iraq out of poverty, open new schools, fix up hospitals, feed the hungry, unclog sewers--a Peace Corps, not an army corps, mission.
U.S. troops were sent, not to crush an enemy threatening America, but (as Bush explained) to “sacrifice for the liberty of strangers,” putting the lives of Iraqis above their own. They were prevented from using all necessary force to win, or even to protect themselves. No wonder the insurgency has flourished, emboldened by Washington’s self-crippling policies. Crusades like Iraq can lead only to disasters.
The solution to the growing Iranian threat is not another selfless mission like Iraq. The solution is to wage a war to permanently end Teheran's Islamist regime.
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I agree with this argument entirely. The Islamic regime in Iran is not a legitimate government. Our government is. Iran is clearly posing a threat to our country. Our government therefore has a right, and indeed, a duty, to eliminate this threat as quickly as possible, using whatever force is necessary.
There is no proof that we "need" to take down a regime. They are a free and independent country that can have any type of government they want. I don't have to agree with it but then again they don't have to agree with ours. Let's see a list of our own governments terrorist activities and take care of that first. There is a reason that so many countries are against us and it's not about religion or jealousy. It's because our government has made bad decisions to involve itself in other countries internal affairs.
Like many people, we get tired of and irritated at those neighbors who barge into our house without calling beforehand or even knocking on our door.
After WW2, America's closest allies, the nations that copied her nearly-Capitalist culture, were not the nations rescued from Nazism and Japanese Imperialism. They were Germany and Japan. If the argument against attacking Iran is that its young people, eager to earn the well-being of the West, don't hate America, we should consider how to free them of oppressive Islamism which blocks them from emulating the West. The example of our dealings with Germany and Japan seem instructive.
What is lacking in this strategy is that the holy sites of Islam are in Saudi Arabia which supports Islamism and terrorism.
We don't need the oil of either country. We have enough of our own. The serious development of electric vehicles by GM could end the need for automotive oil soon after 2010.
What we need is to be able to argue that if Allah cannot protect Islamic holy sites, then maybe He doesn't guarantee an inevitable conquering of the peoples of the Earth, any more than Marxism did.