Want peace? Prepare for war as Iran, Syria ready nuclear programs
By Joseph L. Giacalone / joe@theklaxon.com / 03.09.2010
Updated on: 03.09.10 at 9:48 pm
Cardow, The Ottawa Citizen/caglecartoons.com
Build the bunkers and head for cover. Reports indicate that several Middle Eastern countries have plans to push the envelope and “go nuclear.”
Israel, Syria, Jordan and Egypt are just a sampling of countries from the Middle East that have plans to build the ultimate weapon. Several of the countries will build nuclear facilities for “energy,” a clever ruse used by the Iranians for months, and other countries say nuclear power is better for the environment. (Al Gore must be ecstatic.)
The rest of the world and the Middle East is watching and waiting for Iran to build a nuclear weapon without any negative sanctions from the United Nations—all talk and no action.
This “me too” philosophy will have dire consequences for the state of affairs in world politics. If Iran cannot be negotiated with now, how bad will they be once they have a bomb? It has long been rumored that Israel already is a nuclear-power country, but may have been using disinformation to keep their enemies at bay.
Syria, however, is looking to level the playing field.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Syria a few weeks ago may have been more than a friendly visit, as both countries have had a long-standing relationship. The visit may have in fact sowed the seeds and muddied the political landscape for the United States. Syria is planning to move ahead on their nuclear program, more than likely with Iran’s blessing and help.
Any way someone looks at the nuclear situation in the region, the track record of failed nations and rouge regimes in the Middle East is staggering.
It is no secret that both Iran and Syria are two of the biggest sponsors of terrorism in the world, as their love child, Hezbollah, reveals.
Ironically, Hezbollah had killed more Americans pre-Sept. 11, 2001, than any other terrorist group in the world. Their penchant for suicide bombings make them a force to be reckoned with and, if they have a bomb, President Barack Obama no longer can wait out regime change in Iran.
Obama must pressure the United Nations for real sanctions with teeth that make Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons or any country for that matter, a Pyrrhic victory.
If not, military action is a possibility—and maybe the makings of World War III.
To that, it’s said, “Sic vis pacem, para bellum.” (If you wish for peace, prepare for war.)
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