Used & abused
posted by robert - May 8th, 2006 at 1:02 AMIran threatens to pull out of nuclear treaty
Why is it so painfully obvious to me (and just about everyone else not in government or the talking head community) that our own civility and decency is going to be our undoing? Iran, headed by hardline Islamic militants looking to overthrow Western society starting with the little and Great Satans (Israel and the U.S.), has blatantly stated as much. They don’t stand a chance against Western technology and economic power, however — unless they have nukes. Now, as they’re pursuing the very capability that would give them nuclear weapons, the “civilized” world wants to stand around and wring our collective hands about the issue, scuttling to and fro from one summit to another talk, as if we were dealing with another first-world, Western-style rational democratic entity. All the while, the Iranian mullahs are clearly beating us at our own game, running us around and around and around — buying time.
Time is all they need to tip the scales, and it is wholly within our power to deny them that precious time. The truly sad part is that our failure is not one of capability, but one of nerve, of moral authority. Our half-century cultural steeping in the paradoxical brew of relativism is finally boiling over: the most powerful nation the world has ever known is paralyzed by a leeching culture of Islamofascist thugs who have correctly identified our greatest weakness: we don’t feel we have the “right” to tell another person (or country) what to do …until they interfere with the goings-on of another person (or country). That logic fails when the “interference” is a mushroom cloud or a bioweapon attack that hundreds of thousands if not millions will pay for with their lives.
While the mass-media world talks, nations scheme alongside the main issue, and the mad mullahs get ever closer to being able to provide nuclear weapons to legions of fanatical wanna-be-martyrs to act as stand-in delivery devices, to fill in the technological gap that their own dysfunctional society, parasitic on Western culture for anything advanced, can not provide. What will the lesson of history be? My gut tells me that the U.N. will be written up in pages next to the League of Nations: failed bodies built on the ethereal Siren-song premise that man’s heart is good, and that if we all just talk enough we can actually truly put an end to war.
May God, our children, the future, and those who will pay the price of our present inaction with their lives forgive us for committing the same mistakes of history all over again.