Thursday, March 4, 2010
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Walter Russell Mead: Thinking the Unthinkable: War With Iran - '...The Obama administration quite rightly does not want a war with Iran and it does not want to contribute unnecessarily to a crisis atmosphere. I don’t think Washington should rattle its saber and issue hotheaded threats; that hasn’t worked in the past and there’s no reason to think it will now. But there are cool and quiet ways of communicating a truth that for their own sakes as well as ours the Iranian leaders must never forget: that an attack on the forces of the United States would be an act of suicidal folly. But we should not be so polite and so low key that they miss the main point. Kaiser Wilhelm II, Hirohito and Hitler all made the same mistake: they underestimated how relentless and how powerful an enemy the United States would be. We must not let Iran repeat their mistake.'
Two unthinkables if a regime change does not take place internally, within Iran: the consequences of war with Iran and the consequences of failing to responsibly hold Iran to account. Consequences for the region and the world at large.
There is a sizable opposition living within the Islamofascist Regime of Iran.
As "the left" can see, in the US, you can demonstrate in Washington DC, and live to tell your grandchildren.
In the Islamofascist Regime, demonstrators are shot to death, hung.
Despite the difference, despite genocidal threats by the mini-haman ahm-mad-bout-jihad, "the left" is silent.
You don't see "the left" organizing "Islamofascist Iran Awareness Week/Fortnight".
Within Iran there are Persians who would do what is necessary to decapitate the ayatollahs.