Tyranny of the Idiotic
So Iran will go nuclear and formally inaugurate the post-American era. The Left and the isolationist right reckon that’s no big deal. They think of the planet as that Arizona patio and America as the hotel room. There may be an incendiary hot tub out there, but you can lock the door and hang a sign, and life will go on, albeit a little more cramped and constrained than before. I think not.
Steyn brings up a interesting point. In the US it is a matter of common knowledge that regulatory agencies pretty much have their way. The forces of those arrayed against them are individuals who lack the resources to engage the federal government. All you have to do is walk into any new car showroom and look at the interior of a car. There are more hazard placards than there are interior. While on the other hand, those things that do require heavy lifting and engagement by the government are left wanting.
As Steyn points out the West should be beyond ‘engagement’ with Iran. For which I agree 100%. But there is something even more revealing. The Iranian nuclear situation is looking more like the 1930 Abyssinia Crisis every day.
In the period between 1930-34 Italy was slowly encroaching on Ethiopian territory through the process of building forts at strategic points. Several fire fights ensured and in 1935 Haile Selassie appealed to the League of Nations to intervene in the mounting crisis. Over the period of a first 6 months rounds of discussions ensued that lead to nothing concrete. Anthony Eden attempts to intervene for Britain only to be rebuffed. The end game being the UK abandons the Med by withdrawing its fleet. Oct 3 of that year Italy invaded and the war was on. Within a week the League imposed sanctions yet vital commodities like oil and Suez access were never denied to Italy. Ethiopia fell in May 1936. Italy withdrew from the League following Germany who had done so in 1934.
Sounds all too familiar does it not? The likes of the US, UK, FR attempt to prevent the Iranians from acquiring nuclear capability. Yet no serious actions are taken. The Russians and Chinese oppose. The US withdraws interceptor missiles out of the East Bloc. Israel makes plans with the Saudis for a backup plan. In the meanwhile the Iranians double their capability and raise their fissile % close enough for a bomb. As Steyn points out we now have the SoS challenging the regime with a ‘TV debate’. Like that will ever happen.
Watch very carefully ladies and gentlemen. All the pieces are in place to make our world very unstable very quickly.
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Just watch Israel, is all I can say.
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We be fudged.
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when I was just a kid my father taught me to do everything I could to avoid a fight, especially if I was facing long odds (size and/or number of opponents)…until the moment I realized that it was TRULY inevitable.
At that moment I was lash out with everything I had…everything. His theory was that I might not win…but at least I would do some damage before losing.
for Israel, it is becoming TRULY inevitable. Pray for them, and us.
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drdog: “All the pieces are in place to make our world very unstable very quickly”
And WHEN (no longer “if”) Israel takes the steps it must, International Opportunism will rule the day! Look for the Chinese to play AT LEAST the “Taiwan Card”…if not the U.S. Treasuries Card.
Russia might play the Ukraine Card…and ole crazy Kimmie might try to nuke South Korea.
The United States would look helpless abroad, and our economy would completely collapse…making us helpless at home.
Obammy might just have to delay the 2010 elections…for security reasons, of course.
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We I suppose the good news is we will not have to play police man any more.
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Sweet we killed another Canadian
The US killed a key al Qaeda military leader based in Pakistan’s Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan during an airstrike on Feb. 17.
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/02/senior_al_qaeda_mili.php#ixzz0gCvKGk1c
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Everyone is so focused on doemestic issues: the economy and health care. Very little was said about terrorism from what I’ve read of CPAC.
The world, incliding those who like Obama, view our President as a weak and indecisive man.
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btw watching beck’s cpac speech… 30 minutes in and errr nearly fell asleep twice so far.
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JR, 4,
Not a observation out of place. Obama is playing a hand of his own choosing, soft diplomacy, and it is about to be called.
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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/assets_c/2010/02/ramirez021910C2_FULL.php
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KH, interesting. I found Beck’s speech fairly rousing.
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Glad I read that twice (#11), drdog.
For a second there……
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Don’t get me wrong, I think Glenn is cute…..
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11 – Just an replay of his last 5 tv shows… it wasn’t bad, just yawn been there heard it from him before sort of yawn…. (he’s wrapping up now and my take hasn’t changed)
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13 – LOL!
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JM,
There is a lot about Beck I don’t agree with. But not much about his keynote I would disagree with. His reading of “The New Colossus” was the correct one in both content and tone. It was written to thumb the nose at old Europe. Bennett has a piece on NRO right now that agrees with KH. My only observation is, if the GOP is the cause of the rise of conservatism, I would like Bennett to explain why the Teas came into existence then??
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“Bennett has a piece on NRO right now that agrees with KH”
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What he yawned through he speech too? I wasn’t even saying anything bad about beck, just that all the content I’d heard from him before.
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Jim Demint is the most effective conservative leader.
While the leftist media would have you choose Limbaugh or Beck, or would like to make an even more absurd selection for you, I think Erickson at RS has this just about dead on.
Jim Demint
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18 – Agreed.
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KH, I would like to see him mentioned as a presidential contender, an obvious alternative to Romney or even Palin. I suppose it is his choice to work his conservative agenda on the periphery at the moment, perhaps while he builds his chits to cash in some future cycle.
The country is waiting for someone like him, IMO.
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20 – I’m sorry to say I think he will flop as a presidential candidate, I don’t say that because I wish it or anything but I can’t see him ever being elected president, frankly I can’t even seem him wanting to run either (different from wanting to be president). If he chose to run though he would be one of few with some credibility – better he keep it and become majority leader some time soon.