Diplomacy Has Run Its Courseby dailyalert |
The
intentions of Iran's rulers could not be clearer. They have repeatedly
threatened and incited genocide. Most recently, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel "a cancerous tumor" which will "soon
be excised." He added: "The nations of the region will soon finish off
the usurper Zionists." The website of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
declared that there is religious "justification to kill all the Jews and
annihilate Israel, and Iran must take the helm." To achieve these
goals, Iran's rulers have been developing nuclear weapons. The Israelis
would be very much justified in using military force to prevent the
revolutionary Islamist regime from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Winston Churchill called World War II an unnecessary war because it could have been prevented: The Nazis should never have been allowed to obtain the weapons they would use to overrun Europe. Hitler marveled to one of his generals that no one challenged him while he was weak. They waited until he was at his strongest, thus guaranteeing a much bloodier conflict. The writer is president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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