The media world is flooded with analysis and commentary regarding the joint American-Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear weapons infrastructure, but little is being said regarding what the future would hold if Teheran’s radical Islamic regime had been able to move ahead to create an atomic bomb.
Much the way Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf, left nothing to the imagination were he to secure power, as far back as 2005, then Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was unequivocal when he called for Israel to be wiped off the map.
The Qatar’s state-owned Al Jazeera TV network reported on the Iranian’s leader address before hundreds of students:
“‘As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map,’ said Ahmadinejad, referring to Iran’s revolutionary leader Ayat Allah Khomeini.”
And how does one “wipe Israel off the map?”
The obvious and only answer is with nuclear weapons.
Without the targeted aerial assault on Iran’s military nuclear installations, what would the future look like? Radioactive is the answer. Given Israel’s modest number of square miles, even two missiles with nuclear warheads getting through their air-defense systems would effectively “wipe Israel off the map” UN Security Council members would undoubtedly clasp their hands in “horror,” decry the attack, and then move on to other business that might include where to make dinner reservations that night.
Adjacent nations such as Egypt and Jordan would be deeply concerned about resulting radioactive nuclear fallout on their populations, but not as concerned as with the realization that Iran would dictate their futures and that of the entire Middle East.
Might Israel have delivered a nuclear counterpunch? Perhaps. Israel has never acknowledged possession of nuclear weapons, but for this scenario, let’s assume Israel managed to respond with a nuclear strike on Teheran. In the calculus of strike and counterstrike, would Iran’s ruthless leaders be willing to lose nearly ten million of its own citizens in return for “wiping Israel off the map?” If their past rhetoric is any indication, we know the answer.
There will be a number of lessons gained from President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a pre-emptive attack on Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities. Russia’s President Valdmir Putin needs to “recalibrate” if he previously thought Trump was incapable of unleashing American might on behalf of world peace. North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un just realized that Iran’s nuclear weapons development program was not the ultimate pressure point in dealing with this White House. Trump’s wisdom of pursuing a “Golden Dome” air-defense system to protect American cities from ballistic missiles was also validated, as it adds a strategic level of strategic uncertainty to enemies of freedom that nuclear weapons will succeed where their hateful ideology has failed.
Trump’s decision to use military force to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons program is a historic turning point for world peace and the legacy of a president who has used Teddy Roosevelt’s “big stick” to push the world back from the brink of a Middle East nightmare that would have engulfed us all.
{Reposted from Gatestone Institute|
