"The Fateful Hour has Arrived"

The moment has arrived for President George W. Bush to make clear if he is, in the final analysis, the leader of the free world or its undertaker. Read all of Glick's latest here

Iran, the single greatest enemy of the US and everything it stands for, which has repeatedly stated its goal of destroying America and erasing Israel from the map of the world, is now on the verge of acquiring a nuclear arsenal. It already has delivery systems capable of launching nuclear strikes against Israel and most of Western Europe. Through its own Revolutionary Guards units, Hizbullah and its other terror clients, it has been actively warring against the US for 27 years.

Iran made its fastest leaps towards nuclear capabilities since the September 11 attacks. When in late 2002 Iran's secret nuclear facilities in Natanz, Arak and Isfahan were revealed to the world, the US reacted not by moving to destroy this emerging threat which it acknowledged to be the greatest threat to its own national security and to the security of the world. It reacted by backing Britain, Germany and France's attempts to appease the mullahs into giving up their nuclear weapons program.

To date, the US's official policy for contending with Iran is to seek redress in the UN Security Council. That is, the US has placed the responsibility for meeting what it has itself admitted is the greatest threat to global security in the hands of nations that do not share its assessment of Iran. By seeking Security Council action on Iran, the US has delegated the power for contending with the Iranian nuclear threat to China and Russia which have both assisted Iran in developing its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

After the September 11 attacks, George W. Bush was revered by Americans and lovers of liberty around the world. His soaring rhetoric and stated determination to fight for all that is good and sacred in this world won the hearts of millions and instilled in them the hope that the great battle for civilization had been joined by a force capable of defending it.

America is the greatest nation on Earth and it does have the ability to defend the world against regimes like Iran and its allies. It can prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. It can take those weapons out of North Korea's hands. It can bring Damascus to its knees and force it to cough up Iraq's arsenal of pathogens. And no, military might is not the only way for it to accomplish these tasks.

But America cannot, and it will not accomplish any of these goals if it continues to abide by strategies and frameworks that serve only to strengthen its enemies and permit its "allies" to behave perfidiously. It cannot and will not defend the world from evil, demonic regimes like Iran's if it continues to allow the likes of the EU, Russia, Egypt and China to undercut its will at every turn.

Comments

[Azgad]

I am French and I have shame of the coward European policy and its support for Iran and especially of the French foreign politics !!

I hope that Europe will awake soon and support the USA against the Iranian and islam

[Jim The Kafir]

"...support the USA against the Iranian and islam"
Posted by: Azgad

The USA isn't against Islam. The USA has been extraordinarily tolerant of Islam.

I hold out hope that there is a majority of fearless Muslim moderates; those who would openly condemn suicide bombers targeting civilians. I hope there is a majority of Muslims for whom Mohammed Bouyeri is not a hero, but rather a villain who stains the name of Islam.

I hope to hear these voices of moderation soon.

Else I may begin to believe that they don't exist.

[lowandslow]

I'm an American Azgad and I'm ashamed that that our MSM media and the opposition party has worked so hard to turn the American people against our leader that he has to weigh that in any action he has to take regarding Iran. I pray he does takes the right course.
As a Christian this day is our most holy day, our savior showed us his passion for us. I know the path that's right, I'll pray our leadership does also.
Happy Easter everyone!

[Narges]

Hi,I just came accross your blog. I'm Narges, a 22 year old iranian girl and university student who lives in Tehran in Iran and well... I just wanted to point out something.

Please don't think Iranian people are suppoirtive of Ahmadinejad's political views. As an iranian I tell you how he was elected so unexpectedly... He had a lot of economical promises and the poor population of the country simply voted to him because of their poor economical situations and in hope of a better one.

These people are too poor and illiterate to understand politics. And from we who did, half of us voted to the other reformist candidates and half of us didn't attend the election at all (An act which is really worthy of every blame, since they could prevent this and didn't) ... As you see, iranian people don't support these politics at all.

Anyway, this was something I thought you or people who come to your weblog need to know.

Iranians are a quite peaceful nation and want to live their own life and we don't want to wipe Israel from the map and certainly never ever want atomic bombs. Frankly, we insist that other countries that have these terrifying weapons get rid of them as well. This picture that you see in the media isn't a correct representative of iranians and, of course I know that you don't usually meet a typical iranian guy, and all you hear and see is from the news which is always about iranian mullahs and ahmadinejad so what you think about us is quite understandable...

Please if you ever cared, come to my blog and read about the life and ideas of a very typical persian girl and tell those of your friends who has never met an iranian about me too..

http://livinginiran.livejournal.com

We Iranian people are in the worst situation. On one hand our own government repress us, and on the other hand, other countries think we are terrorists! This is really painful. If anyone in iranian government reads this, I'm off to prison and if I don't try to at least show the truth about Iranian people, well, who does?

Love and Peace,
Narges.

[rocketsbrain]

Narges,

You are a very brave girl. RBT is sending your message to other bloggers . . .

IRAN - A Plea from an Iranian Girl to the Free World!

HT Atlas Shrugs

A MUST READ!

Please if you ever cared, come to my blog and read about the life and ideas of a very typical persian girl and tell those of your friends who has never met an iranian about me too..

See this comment that just popped up in a thread at Atlas Shrugs on Glick's JP article:

GWOT - Glick: The Fateful Hour Has Arrived [RBT Link]

RBT has been harping on this for a long time. This demonstrates the incredible the power of the Blogos to tear down the walls and of these repressive totalitarian regimes who try to repress the free will of men and women!

A call to other bloggers:

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORDS OF NARGES FOR ALL TO SEE!

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[epaminondas]

Narges, I hope you read this.
First and most importantly, it's impossible for me to believe the pasdaran/intelligence/security apparatus allows anything to completely slip by, so I hope you are in one piece. It's relatively simply to throttle the internet connections through choke points and filter ip's. If you came on my site, I'd have your IP address, and so can they. Even at a Univ site, this renders you vulnerable, or dupe-able.

Next, having read your site I see and understand you despair at changing things. But you must. While there are many comments there disparaging Bush, via your comments at Juan Cole (who many here regard as being an idiot on issues of physical and moral consequence) the reality is this...unlike the Guardian Council's limited choices offered by the Iranian mullahs, Bush was elected by what in the USA was a solid majority, and free choice. In the USA while we do not hold the Iranian people responsible as a whole for what Ahmadinejad says, there is no doubt his personal beliefs, theories about the west, and america (and americans) are not only fully supported by the mullahs, but also they have placed their trust and hopes in his basij/hojjatieh lunacy, and ideas about elimination of the jews and the Great Satan, which means me and MY family, now or later. I and probably at least the plurality, if the not the outright majority of americans firmly believe that Ahmadinejad and the mullahs cannot be deterred from developing nuclear weapons for the "islamic" purpose of killing the jews, and perhaps us as a step to fulfilling the mahdi from the well prophesy he believes in.

The USA has accepted with reluctance, nuclear wespons in Pakistan, so the problem is not muslims with the bomb,it is the Mullahs.

The best hope for the world is for people like you to remove them from existance. So your despair is, if not unexpected, disheartening, because it means that if what Iranian leaders have been saying since 1979 is truly their policy, a lot of people are going to get killed. However, since 1979 is a long time for a theocratic dictatorship to kill off independent thought, and identify those willing to act in defense of it.

I believe based on the words of your leaders since 1979 that the government there has been and is racist in the extreme, and cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons.

This means the best hope rests on people like you.
I believe the words of men will not dissuade the mullahs, and diplomacy will fail because they think they are on a mission from god.

So if you are real, spread the word. We'd love to help. The best hope for the world is for the Iranian people to get rid of the mullahs.

[rocketsbrain]

Lose Intapundit's Army of Davids ! ! !

Great reply epaminondas!

I just linked your comment in my initial post with the following suggestion:

RBT

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A suggestion to all in the Blogos lets take this mission to topple the Mad Mullahs of Iran to My Space ( http://www.myspace.com/ ) to unite youth of the world in this battle.

The youth at My Space can spread Narges word to their own email lists without a My Space domain address to avoid the filtering/blocking - agents/bots of the Mullahs' thought police.

The thought police will have a hard time blocking/filtering infinite web portals/IP addresses.

The truth will flow by osmosis through the void of interstitial CyberSpace.

Think chinks in the Mullahs' virtual walls as in Shakespeare's, A Midsummers Night Dream here at Act V Page 2, 2nd Prologue:

... Wall, that vile Wall which did these lovers sunder; And through Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content To whisper. ...

Lose Intapundit's Army of Davids ! ! !

Trust me, RBT, is no literary genius but had to memorize this prologue line as he played the Wall in a junior high play in a summer drama class.

His first and only great thespian moment.

RBT

[Azgad]

don't take me wrong please!!!
I didn't say that USA have to fight Islam ou some thing like that I said that for me as a simple european citizen Islam becomes more and more a real fear.

I'm a tolerant person and i expect the same from others i'm fed up with people who want to kill us in the name of God !!! I respect values of any people who repsect mine that's all !!!I don't understand people who live among us and use our values against us

remember the caricature's , agressive demonstrations and symbole's flarings.....it was'nt only make by fanatics !! even "moderate" muslims had participate !!caricatures also insulting are they ,cannot shock when we are quite conscious of our values and their veracity .

the message of the islam is full of violence against KEFIR ...and i feel that radicalisme is an easy way even for moderate people who are victim of anti-Western propaganda more and more.

this is from my own experience, i've lived in arabic country and i saw what they think about us about our way of ife and our value, i meet moslems in my country and trust me even the more moderate one think that we are dirty minded and Allah will punish us !!!

my real fear is about the the internal Islamic crisis because it takes place at the era of the nuclear , this is the real danger for me .

I apologize for my english i try to do my best to be understood
I apologize to moderate moslems if i hurt them it wasn't my own , they have to understand our fears and the have to fight with us among the radicalism of their religion