Robert Tracinski at The Intellectual Activist lays out the moral and practical justifications for war against the mad mullahs of Iran:
Iran's global ambitions are as grandiose as anything put forward by Osama bin Laden-but they are backed by control of a country of 70 million people with an army, navy, and air force, a vast network of terrorist organizations across the Middle East, and, very soon, nuclear weapons.
If America's failure to act against the comparatively minor threat from Bin Laden in the 1990s resulted in the horrors of September 11, we can expect far worse if we fail to act against Iran.
A war with Iran must begin with the destruction of its nuclear facilities, but it must not end there. Iran is likely to respond to any American attack by escalating, inciting an uprising in Southern Iraq, unleashing a wave of terrorist attacks, launching missiles against US targets in the Middle East, attacking oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. And even if we neutralize all of these threats, Iran's theocrats will not drop their global ambitions. They will merely wait for our attention to wander and attempt to strike us again. The goal of a war against Iran must be to topple the Iranian regime- and to support the rise of a new government formed by the secularist dissidents who now languish in Iran's prisons.
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There can be no victory in the War on Terrorism until we confront - and defeat - the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is the real war, and it's time we started fighting it.
The war currently being fought is a preemptive one by the left and their allies in the media against our government's ability to take the war to our enemies. They must not be allowed to prevail.
20 Apr 2006 @ 8:32am