What Would America Do if Situation Were Reversed? Kennedy Taught Us A Lesson by Daniel T. Zanoza
Barack Hussein Obama says we should use diplomacy with Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, regarding that nation's plans to develop a nuclear weapon. This wouldn't be bad advice if that same Iranian leader had not promised to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. And, with a nuclear weapon, that threat one day would become a reality.
It is obvious Mr. Obama has never heard of the saying, "Those who forget history are bound to repeat it." And Obama has also forgotten what Democratic President John F. Kennedy did when the former Soviet Union installed strategic nuclear weapons just 90 miles off the Florida coast in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Kennedy didn't call for bilateral meetings, including the Soviet Union and Cuba, for those who may have forgotten something called the Cuban Missile Crisis. Even though Kennedy essentially caved to some Soviet demands regarding U.S. missiles with nuclear warheads being removed from Turkey, Kennedy still made it clear America would not stand for these weapons of mass destruction affixed primarily in our back yard.
It has been said the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world has ever been to an all out thermal nuclear war. Indeed, if things had not fallen exactly into place, the world would still be recovering from the cataclysm such a conflict would have wrought. I believe Kennedy received far too much credit for his actions during those trying times. In fact, the new President, and the weakness he showed, may have given the Soviets and Castro the courage to challenge the United States which, at the time, held a vast superiority in nuclear weapons and the systems needed to deliver them. But facts are facts and Kennedy stood up to Nikita Khrushchev when he had to and the rest is history, twinged with a touch of revisionism.
In the same sense, if the Israelis do not attempt to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons-making capabilities, it would be criminal on that nation's part. After what the world has seen from Islamic extremists during the last 30 years, Ehud Olmert, Israel's Prime Minister, should be brought up on criminal charges by the Israeli Knesset if he didn't act against the Iranians and soon.
Olmert cannot wait for the United States because the political situation in this country will prohibit President George Bush from taking the military action necessary to prevent Iran from coming up with the ultimate weapon. An attack by the United States on Iran would virtually guarantee the presidential election in November for Obama, no matter if a high-level Iranian defector walked out of that nation with the blueprints of a workable nuclear bomb in hand. Obama and the Democrats are the party of appeasement and, like Neville Chamberlain in 1939, who told the world we had achieved "peace in our time," Obama and the Democrats would be willing to sacrifice one year of world peace for the future destruction of Israel and the subsequent blackmail of the entire Middle East by Iran that would be sure to follow.
Some believe the upcoming Israeli attack on Iran, which was first reported on June 23rd by RFFM.org, http://rffm.typepad.com/republicans_for_fair_medi/2008/06/rffmorg-excusive-high-ranking-member-of-israeli-military-says-attack-on-iran-imminent.html was nothing more than a bluff. Nothing could be further from the truth. The entire world has known for years the Iranians could not be permitted to develop a nuclear weapon. Even the spineless Democrats agreed to this fact five years ago when the menace was so far away it didn't have to be taken seriously.
But the time for threats of sanctions by the Europeans on Iran and other hollow threats has passed. Israel can either deny the danger which lies literally hundreds of miles from its border or act while it can to defend their citizens and country from eventual destruction.
Olmert should disregard American politics when it comes to the defense of his country. If an attack on Iran by Israeli forces leads to the election of Barack Hussein Obama, so be it. But the one bastion of democracy in the Middle East--and the millions of people who live there--cannot be sacrificed to political expedience. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) most certainly has the plans, the weapons, and the motivation to eliminate a problem which, if not dealt with, will one day result in Israel's annihilation. The time for Israel to act is now.
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