Originally posted at The Minority Report.
The GOP path back to majority status is a hawkish stand against the War on Terror leader.
That would be Iran.
Our elected representatives in congress as well as our candidates for the 2008 presidential nomination should be calling for strong military action against Iran now.
They let moments like this pass at their peril.
Iran has the power to do great damage to our economy if left unchecked. Our forces have captured high ranking Iranian military officials and regular soldiers in Iraq.
Iran is desperate. They don't see the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the Gulf the way the Western left sees it. They see themselves surrounded on three sides. They have been and are suffering mightily from the economic sanctions. Russia recently cut off aid for nuclear power development. They see that their Democratic Party allies in Congress cannot stop President Bush from waging war in Iraq. They see a President that stripped them of their moral pretense by declaring them part of an Axis of Evil. They see the other two parts of the Axis either eliminated or neutralized.
Again they see American forces commanded by Bush on three sides.
They could try a desperate blackmail move to threaten oil fields of the ports in the Gulf.
We must pre-empt such a move.
Interestingly, the Blue Dog Democrats, despite their cave in to Speaker Pelosi on an Iraq War timetable this week, did prevent any provision in an earlier bill that would have attempted to prevent Bush from attacking Iran pre-emptively.
Of course, given that Iran has killed Americans in Iraq, any attack on Iran would not be pre-emptive, but let's humor the left and the DEM-MSM just for kicks.
The surge is working so well that a Holiday Carnival proceeds unabated in Baghdad as an amusement park has re-opened.
Iran can see even as the MSM averts its eyes.
We need to act directly against Iran now much as we have needed to so act against them for years and much as we needed to act against Saddam earlier than after 11 years of defiance and as we needed to act decisively against the Taliban and al Qaeda soon after he African embassy bombings in 1998.
Must we wait until soldiers' heads are cut off on Tehran TV? Or when 3000 or more are again killed in the Lower 48?
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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