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To get off on the Right foot, here is a copy of a letter I emailed to Pamela at Atlas Shrugs, which she was kind enough to post, as a response to an earlier post of hers.
Here it is:
Hallo Pamela,
This disturbing development actually dovetails nicely with what Prof. Marek Edelman (the youngest and only surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising) said in an interview with the weekly "Przekrój" when questioned about his support for the war in Iraq. He said that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has nothing to do with Palestinians. Take the Palestinian autonomy. They have no industry, no commerce, no schools, insufficient clean water, no medical facilities. Really, they have nothing which makes a modern society worthy of the name. They do, however, have guns, ammo and explosives aplenty. Which of course means that someone is supplying them with these things (but not with life's basic necessities). This has only one possible conclusion: that someone wants unrest in the region for political and/or economic gain. Please note that they want UNREST and not for the PA to win. If they wanted them to win, they'd give them tanks, warplanes etc., all those things needed to fight a modern military. Instead they give them toys, baubles to keep them pestering Israel, without posing an overwhelming threat to the latter. At the same time they rely on Israel not to go in and obliterate the PA, using Western fear of political correctness as a weapon against it. Meanwhile, the lack of life necessities is a powerful prod to the Palis urging them to keep on killing "for social justice". Unrest is forever, while a win for one side or the other is a termination of the status quo.
Now, to get back to your article, we have known for a long time that like the Saudis, the Mad Mullahs of Iran have been supplying the PA and as it turns out other terrorists with all forms of arms and money (which was promptly spent on weapons). This means that like the Saudis they have an interest in the PA being a thorn in the side of Israel and of the entire region., most likely to maintain artificially high oil prices and this has made Iran very wealthy, since they are the #4 world oil producer. It has also enabled them to become a regional powerbroker and a military power as well. Now, not content with being a grey eminence, the leopard is showing his true spots. The Iranian government feels powerful enough to issue challenges to the West, which it has always done, but also to its immediate neighbors. This means that they feel reasonably confident that they would end up on top, if the whole festering heap of the Middle East were to collapse; as it would during a general war in the region.
Thus, A) they have a military capability which is unknown to us ie. being closer to nukes than we think, or/and B) they are greatly overconfident in their military power and disdainful of any Western military response. This is a bad thing, in particular the latter option. A dilettante confident in his knowledge and skill will actually launch a war much sooner than a professional who is aware of the risks and realities (vide Hitler vs. Stalin). And if the two options both held true, as they might, then a dilettante with nukes is even worse. Of course, we know Iran would lose in the end, but this would involve the entire Western world, and at what cost?
This is indeed horrible news.
Testing testing. Hello blog, etc.
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