A canny US President would seize on the Iranian unrest to supply forward air controllers and arms to the democratic and offended masses now crying out in the streets of Tehran.
Obama is not that man.
But George Bush might have been. When you consider the 9/11 report, generated by the omission commission of the same name, even they noticed and understood that Iran was the headliner problem. The Bush administration was replete with warnings that the next genocide was being incubated in Tehran, and few in the world doubt it besides Obama, a man who is either treasonous or treasonously naïve.
Netanyahu, masterfully playing the cards he does not have, essentially agreed to a stateless Palestinian state in order that Obama has now nothing to say. The hopeful people of the world should be greatly amused by Netanyahu’s sucker punch, where Obama may well now spend years trying to take weapons away from the Palestinians, while the Palestinians, and Iranian Hezbollah, empty them at him first.
But the Iranian democracy opportunity, and its loss, represents something larger than Iran itself, larger than Palestinian machinations, and larger than Obama looking bad. It is about survival for us all.
What is always, in history, the best way to prevent genocide? Of course, everyone looks back at Hitler, at Pol Pot, at Rwanda, and notes with clamor and hand wringing that if the international community had acted upon the clear signs and precursors, a few years prior, thousands of lives might have been lost in order that millions would have been saved. George Bush, recognizing the pattern of history, but unable to articulate it, acted in Iraq and now Sadaam Hussein no longer is free to place an additional half a million non-combatants into mass graves. But with Tehran, we have all the makings, we have all the opportunity to dissolve it, and we have the sad inertness of an arrogant Whitehouse, too disrespectful of revolution to participate in it.
Mr. Netanyahu needs to realize that an aggressive and sane person like Bush is not in the White House. There will be no forward air controllers amidst the democrats of Persia. No Seal Team on horseback with laptop. There will be no deals of air strikes for ground strikes. In short, there will be no American support in piling on what is a golden opportunity to upend the terrorist regime and stop history’s next genocide cold.
Instead, Mr. Netanyahu must recognize that Israel is the sole actor, the shadow government of the United States in exile, while the US endures its social experiment in affirmative action; the most socialist and the most jihadist executive in history. As such, Mr. Netanyahu must seize the moment.
A quick and forceful strike by Israel, before the Iranian demonstrations die out, the disappointed masses sulking back to their homes, could empower the democrats to critical mass. The Persian democratic argument is that the terrorist regime is illegitimate. If Israel is surgical, and hits nuclear sites only, and humiliates Iranian defense and Ahmadinejad’s apocalyptic invincibility, the democrats in the street would have that necessary impulse, that added boost, that self-assurance, to rid themselves once and for all of these Tehran Nazis, before the V-2’s screech again, a new blitz, this time to Tel Aviv.
Mr. Prime Minister, pile on.
Now.
