Posted by
Frigglesnitz on Saturday, September 02, 2006 4:49:02 PM
It was beginning to seem as though I were the only one talking about and asking for what Mark Alexander, in his September 1, 2006 column "American Hiroshima," calls "pre-emptive warfare against our enemies."
It seems harsh, being mindful of the horrors wreaked upon Japan after we Americans had had enough of its and Germany’s years-long attacks upon peaceful people in countries all over the world. Today it brings only sadness to know this had to happen before criminal aggressors were halted in their tracks.
Our current criminal enemies, now realistically called "Islamic fascists," are as mindless as mad dogs. As far as this writer knows, nobody yet has successfully reasoned with rabies. This in and of itself is justification for any American pre-emptive strike.
Mr. Alexander’s column stated that Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadi-Nejad recently claimed that "the Holocaust was a hoax dreamed up by the Allies and their Zionist cohorts...." Apparently in the next breath the Iranian President stated that "The peoples of the Middle East have also borne the brunt of the Holocaust. By raising the necessity of settling the survivors of the Holocaust in the land of Palestine, they have created a permanent threat in the Middle East in order to rob the people of the region of the opportunities to achieve progress...."
There seems to be some type of disconnect here. On one hand, the Iranian president apparently denied the Holocaust occurred; on the other hand, he seemingly blames the survivors of the Holocaust for the failures of others in the region to grasp opportunities to improve their lot. He can’t have it both ways.
That being said, however, Iran’s president appears to be unswerving in his determination to "experience a world without the United States and Zionism" (again quoting from Mr. Alexander’s column).
The United States cannot sit on its hands and wait for Iran or any other country or group to dictate the terms of our existence or that of our ally Israel.