Facing Down Iran BY MARK STEYN
The Bear on Apr 21 2006 at 7:28 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
Our lives depend on it.
Most Westerners read the map of the world like a Broadway marquee: north is top of the bill–America, Britain, Europe, Russia–and the rest dribbles away into a mass of supporting players punctuated by occasional Star Guests: India, China, Australia. Everyone else gets rounded up into groups: “Africa,” “Asia,” “Latin America.”
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That moment of ascendancy is now upon us. Or as the Daily Telegraph in London reported: “Iran’s hardline spiritual leaders have issued an unprecedented new fatwa, or holy order, sanctioning the use of atomic weapons against its enemies.” Hmm. I’m not a professional mullah, so I can’t speak to the theological soundness of the argument, but it seems a religious school in the Holy City of Qom has ruled that “the use of nuclear weapons may not constitute a problem, according to sharia.” Well, there’s a surprise. How do you solve a problem? Like, sharia! It’s the one-stop shop for justifying all your geopolitical objectives.
The cost of de-nuking Iran will be high now but significantly higher with every year it’s postponed. The lesson of the Danish cartoons is the clearest reminder that what is at stake here is the credibility of our civilization. Whether or not we end the nuclearization of the Islamic Republic will be an act that defines our time.
mullah, nuclear weapons, sharia, Iran, Islamic
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Is there any surprise to the timing of the jump in oil and and the words of war from Iran. They know that the only thing that really matters to americans is the comfort level we live in which we live. We don’t really give a hoot as long as we live better than the rest of the world. The whole world knows that the only way to bring us down is through economic hard-ship and that is what they are doing.