According to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the most effective way to stop the Iranian Islamist regime from acquiring nukes, is to threaten them with a military build-up of other Islamist regimes:
"US allies in the Middle East should strengthen their respective militaries to deter Iran from continuing its suspected nuclear weapons program..."
If by that, Gates meant supplying Israel with all the bunker busters, refueling aircraft, and F22's it has sought to purchase, that might cause the mullahs knees to knock.
But since the U.S. Administration has denied Israel purchase of bunker busters and refueling aircraft, certainly needed for a preemptive strike,
Gates must instead have been referring to those "other" Islamist dictatorship regimes in the Middle East besides Iran.
As far as "our allies" in the Middle East are concerned, America only has one real ally. Israel. And the Obama Administration, instead of helping to strenghthen Israel's capability against Iran, have sought to undermine Israel.
But that is in keeping with the Obama doctrine:
Embolden our enemies, diminish America in the face of our enemies, and undermine our allies.
Neither the Saudis nor the Egyptians will mount an attack against Iran.
America should not sell or provide military aid to Islamist countrys like Saudi Arabia that spends $ billions to spread Wahabi Islam around the globe. As well as the financing of the building of mosques in America.
The 9/11 mosque in northern Virginian is a Saudi funded mosque.
Saudi Arabia is perhaps the world's most repressive dictatorship. Next to North Korea.
Egypt already has the biggest Arab military in the M.E., as well as the entire African continent. During the Bush Administration Congress came close to cutting over $500 million in aid. But Colin Powel and Condi Rice worked hard behind the scenes to defeat the move.
Rep. Tom Lantos was in favor of shifting aid to Egypt from "military" to "humanitarian". He remarked:
"The last thing this society [Egypt] needs is the ultimate in high-tech weaponry".
The government of Egypt still has in place a discriminatory "dhimmi" system. Christian Copts are routinely persecuted. Apostacy, blasphemy laws still in place.
What should happen is a joint U.S., NATO, operation to take out Iran's nuke sites. NATO and the U.S. certainly possess the capability. Unfortunately, with Turkey now a member of NATO, they have veto power, as well as closer ties to Iran.
What a terrible idea. We have no true Islamic allies and in the end they will team up and turn on the non-Islamic world. It is just a matter of time.
Posted by: Christopherl | September 08, 2009 at 04:24 PM