US plans to crush Iran forces in 3 days
By MICHAEL D. EVANS
Published: September 4, 2007
The latest buzz out of Washington is the apparent revelation of a Pentagon plan to remove Iran's growing nuclear threat by a massive attack at some 1,200 military targets. This once-and-for-all strike would last three days and destroy Iran's entire military capability.
This does not seem to be a bluff on the part of President George W. Bush. On the contrary, according to Dr. Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security studies at the Nixon Center think tank, the Pentagon has chosen the strategy of a vast assault over pinpoint attacks on Iran's nuclear bomb-building network.
The idea behind such an attack is to eliminate both Iran's offensive capability and defensive response. There would be nothing left with which Iran could retaliate. As London's Sunday Times quoted Debat as saying, "They're talking about taking out the entire Iranian military."
One indication President Bush has decided to stop Iran's march to nuclear warfare is the sudden escalation of his rhetoric. As if to prepare the American people for a showdown, Bush said in a speech last week that the ayatollahs had put the Middle East "under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust."
This was a clear indication that the time of waiting for UN sanctions to take effect and for Iran to voluntarily step back from the brink had passed. As leader of the free world, the US is bound to act, as Bush said, "before it is too late."
The president's use of the term "holocaust" was deliberate, for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has both repeatedly denied that the Holocaust ever happened and at the same time has repeatedly threatened to "wipe Israel off the map" in a second Holocaust. Just as Israel didn't wait for UN sanctions before destroying Saddam Hussein's nuclear threat in 1981, Bush is clearly hinting that the US does not lack reasons to eliminate Teheran's threat.
This is not only because Iranian Revolutionary Guards troops are killing American soldiers in Iraq with weapons smuggled from Iran, and not just because Iran supports al-Qaida in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hizbullah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza, and not even because Iran is working as fast as it can to develop warheads for its Shihab ICBMs that can hit every capital in Europe.
These activities are just a warm-up for Iran's main mission, which is to foment and spread jihadist revolutionary chaos around the world. When they finish remaking their neighbor into the Revolutionary Islamic Republic of Iraq, the ayatollahs will next target America's Sunni allies in the region -- Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf states – not to mention Afghanistan with its resurgent Taliban and then nuclear Pakistan. If Pakistan falls to the combined forces of Osama bin-Laden and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, no UN resolution could save the world from the coming dark age of Islamofascism.
It is probably no coincidence that officials from the Pentagon, the State Department, and the departments of Homeland Security and Energy have just recently concluded a four-month-long Iranian war game with Washington's Heritage Foundation think tank. The bottom line: destroying Iran's military capability is doable in a few days, and any retaliation by Iran cutting off oil supplies to America and its allies would be temporarily disruptive, but not critical.
Those who worry lest President Bush is setting the stage for America's next war in the Middle East should take a harder look at what we are about in Iraq. For we are already at war with Iran there – and a massive preemptive assault would be a righteous act of self-defense on behalf of mankind.
Perhaps French President Nicolas Sarzoky summed it up best last week when he warned that Iran could face an armed response unless it abandoned its nuclear pursuits. Iran, he said, presents the world with a "catastrophic choice" between "an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran."
Published: September 4, 2007
The latest buzz out of Washington is the apparent revelation of a Pentagon plan to remove Iran's growing nuclear threat by a massive attack at some 1,200 military targets. This once-and-for-all strike would last three days and destroy Iran's entire military capability.
This does not seem to be a bluff on the part of President George W. Bush. On the contrary, according to Dr. Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security studies at the Nixon Center think tank, the Pentagon has chosen the strategy of a vast assault over pinpoint attacks on Iran's nuclear bomb-building network.
The idea behind such an attack is to eliminate both Iran's offensive capability and defensive response. There would be nothing left with which Iran could retaliate. As London's Sunday Times quoted Debat as saying, "They're talking about taking out the entire Iranian military."
One indication President Bush has decided to stop Iran's march to nuclear warfare is the sudden escalation of his rhetoric. As if to prepare the American people for a showdown, Bush said in a speech last week that the ayatollahs had put the Middle East "under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust."
This was a clear indication that the time of waiting for UN sanctions to take effect and for Iran to voluntarily step back from the brink had passed. As leader of the free world, the US is bound to act, as Bush said, "before it is too late."
The president's use of the term "holocaust" was deliberate, for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has both repeatedly denied that the Holocaust ever happened and at the same time has repeatedly threatened to "wipe Israel off the map" in a second Holocaust. Just as Israel didn't wait for UN sanctions before destroying Saddam Hussein's nuclear threat in 1981, Bush is clearly hinting that the US does not lack reasons to eliminate Teheran's threat.
This is not only because Iranian Revolutionary Guards troops are killing American soldiers in Iraq with weapons smuggled from Iran, and not just because Iran supports al-Qaida in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hizbullah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza, and not even because Iran is working as fast as it can to develop warheads for its Shihab ICBMs that can hit every capital in Europe.
These activities are just a warm-up for Iran's main mission, which is to foment and spread jihadist revolutionary chaos around the world. When they finish remaking their neighbor into the Revolutionary Islamic Republic of Iraq, the ayatollahs will next target America's Sunni allies in the region -- Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf states – not to mention Afghanistan with its resurgent Taliban and then nuclear Pakistan. If Pakistan falls to the combined forces of Osama bin-Laden and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, no UN resolution could save the world from the coming dark age of Islamofascism.
It is probably no coincidence that officials from the Pentagon, the State Department, and the departments of Homeland Security and Energy have just recently concluded a four-month-long Iranian war game with Washington's Heritage Foundation think tank. The bottom line: destroying Iran's military capability is doable in a few days, and any retaliation by Iran cutting off oil supplies to America and its allies would be temporarily disruptive, but not critical.
Those who worry lest President Bush is setting the stage for America's next war in the Middle East should take a harder look at what we are about in Iraq. For we are already at war with Iran there – and a massive preemptive assault would be a righteous act of self-defense on behalf of mankind.
Perhaps French President Nicolas Sarzoky summed it up best last week when he warned that Iran could face an armed response unless it abandoned its nuclear pursuits. Iran, he said, presents the world with a "catastrophic choice" between "an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran."
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