Nuclear Threat

May 27, 2009
Defeating a Hitler with nukes: Nothing else matters
By James Lewis
May 25, 2008: Kim Jong-Il explodes his first full-sized nuclear bomb . 
This day shall live in infamy.

North Korea helped build a secret nuclear power plant in Syria, which was 
destroyed by the Israeli Air Force in 2007 while the CIA was still asleep. 
North Korea sells nuclear and missile technology to Iran and Pakistan. Kim 
can easily sell his nuclear Bomb in the Middle East; today his bomb also 
threatens Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China.

Like it or not, we are being dragged into the Second Age of Nuclear 
Terror.

Nothing else matters now.

Forget Obama's grabbing the banks and the car companies. Forget his eleven 
trillion dollars of new debt for the next generation. Forget his egomania. 
Eight years after the jihad assault of 9/11, 2001, on New York City and 
Washington, D.C., we are back to national life or death. Americans were 
suckered into believing that the world was suddenly a safe place, and 
elected a grossly unqualified Chicago pol to lead the nation, because he 
looked good on TV. That is a mistake we may come to bitterly regret.

Four days ago, Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told 
the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee:

     "I'm one who believes that Iran getting a nuclear weapon is calamitous 
for the region and for the world ... neighbors ... (who) feel exposed, 
deficient (will) then develop or buy the capability themselves ... (it) is 
absolutely disastrous."


Obama is the worst person to have in the White House at this time. At 
least John McCain, for all his faults, understands that this is an 
extremely dangerous world. So do Dick Cheney and George W. Bush. But we 
have no hint whatsoever that Barack Hussein Obama is intellectually or 
morally equipped to cope with the nuclear proliferation we are seeing 
today. Just the opposite. We are seeing the most foolish, ignorant, and 
self-obsessed administration since Jimmy Carter.

All of Obama's foreign policy advisers believe in cringing to tyrants. 
They think we jMad and Kimust haven't been nice enough to malignant 
regimes in Tehran and Pyongyang. That isn't even for grown-ups; it should 
have been left behind long ago in summer camp. But Bill Clinton's SecState 
Madeleine Albright was photographed toasting Kim Jong Il, the pudgy tyrant 
of North Korea, who starved a million of his own people to death to divert 
Abdullah Bowresources to a gigantic army and nuclear program. For his 
part, Obama has already bowed down abjectly, in public, to the medieval 
King of Saudi Arabia. The symbolism is unmistakable.

Those two iconic photos capture the Left's understanding of international 
danger. Nobody who is so completely ignorant can ever be charged with 
protecting our national welfare. But here they are again.

Kim's Hiroshima-type Bomb is big enough to wipe out Tokyo, and in a few 
years, San Francisco. For decades the West has begged and pleaded with 
Kim, bribing him with vast gifts of oil and food. Kim always suckered the 
West and just kept starving his own people for better nukes and missiles. 
Today, he's got his Bomb and the means to deliver it to Japan, South 
Korea, and China.

Iran is next.

This is the Second Age of Nuclear Terror. The first one started when 
Stalin used stolen secrets from the Manhattan Project to build a Soviet 
Bomb. Even Stalin's closest associates were terrified that he would start 
a suicidal nuclear war. According to one history Lavrenty Beria and Nikita 
Khruschev assassinated Stalin to stop that from happening.

After Stalin's death the Soviet Union and the West were able to establish 
a balance of terror. Both sides thought the other was rational, and no 
rational actor would ever use nuclear weapons.

Today's Second Age of Nuclear Terror is different, because Kim and 
Ahmadinejad don't act like rational leaders. Ahmadinejad is a Twelver, a 
fanatical member of an Armageddon cult that believes the Twelfth Imam will 
return to earth after the destruction of the enemies of Islam -- which 
means everybody on earth who isn't one of them. That's why the Arabs next 
door are running scared of A'jad's nukes and missiles. They are Muslims, 
but the wrong kind, according to Ayatollah Khomeini, who founded the 
modern mullah state in Tehran.

Khomeini tried to overthrow the Saudi regime by stirring riots during the 
annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Today the Iranians are still stirring up 
Shiite Muslims in the oil provinces of Saudi Arabia. They control a 
"Shiite Crescent" from Iran to Syria and Lebanon and Gaza. Everywhere they 
go they preach jihad and martyrdom. Their target is Israel, yes, but also 
Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and especially the secular. According to 
Islamists atheists are much worse than Jews and Christians: Off with your 
heads, infidel swine!

So an ego-tripping rookie from Chicago is now supposed to protect us from 
mortal danger. Good luck to all of us.

There are only two rational strategies for sane nations in the Second Age 
of Nuclear Terror. Obama has spoken out against both of them.

The first is preemptive strikes. If somebody is pointing a gun at you, 
threatening to kill you, you have to kill him first. George W. Bush made 
it work with Saddam Hussein. For his great wisdom and courage George W. 
Bush was hysterically abused for eight solid years by the Democrats and 
their saboteur brigade in the media. In 1981 Israel's Prime Minister 
Menachem Begin also acted preemptively by destroying Saddam Hussein's 
Osirak nuclear power plant.

Those two preemptive military actions helped to postpone the Second Age of 
Nuclear Terror that Kim's nuclear bomb has just ushered in. They kept us 
safe for more than two decades.

SecDef Robert Gates has pretty much ruled out preemption: The Iraq War was 
too costly, he believes.

What else can we do? The second rational strategy is anti-missile defense.

But the SecDef just announced 1.4 billion dollars in cutbacks to our 
missile defense program. Thanks to very active development culminating in 
the Bush Administration, the United States now has the makings of an 
effective defense against nuclear-armed missiles. That was never possible 
before. The First Age of Nuclear Terror had no defenses. That's why it was 
terrifying. But we are well within reach of an effective defense.

Every other sane nation in the world is trying to rush anti-missile 
defenses, including the Russians, the Chinese, the Japanese, South Korea, 
Israel, and all the Arab nations. If we cut back they will just go into 
high gear and do it without us. Nobody is going to wait for Obama to 
change his mind, least of all Japan, the Arabs, India, and Israel.  Their 
homes and children are on the line, just as much as ours.

A US retreat on missile defense would be clinically insane.  Not only has 
North Korea exploded a nuclear bomb, it also helped Syria to build a 
nuclear plant on the Euphrates River that the Israeli Air Force knocked in 
2007. Iran's Armageddon regime is closely allied with North Korea, and 
with Pakistan's nuclear proliferation network headed by AQ Khan -- who was 
educated as a nuclear engineer in the West.  There are thousands more like 
him around the world.

In his last days in the Fhrer's bunker, Hitler still had control over the 
world's most advanced weapons of 1945, including V3 missiles, jet planes, 
poison gas bombs, and incipient nukes. At the end, Hitler was staging his 
own Gtterdammerung, the Twilight of the Gods, and it suited his sense of 
drama to commit suicide with a bullet in the back of his brain. For a man 
as revenge-driven as Hitler, dying in nuclear bomb explosion along with 
his enemies would have been preferable.

Japan's Emperor worship cult might well have done the same if the nuclear 
bomb had been invented just a few years before it was. We lucked out -- 
again.

So we have the recent historical example of two deadly enemies who likely 
would have risked their own survival at the end of World War Two in order 
to destroy the United States and the West.

What makes us think that today's fanatics are not different? How often 
does Ahmadinejad have to threaten genocide for us to take it seriously? 
How many Sudanese Africans have to be killed by their jihad regime for us 
to take that seriously? How many North Koreans have to be starved to death 
by their own government for us to see?

Most people live in denial of clear and present dangers. We know this 
administration is full of such people. Obama's Chicago gang just told 
Israel not to defend itself. But the Israelis are a lot more morally 
serious about such things. It is simply not imaginable that they will 
allow the mad mullahs to have their own Armageddon weapon.

When Israel strikes out against its genocidal enemy  the Obama gang may 
try to punish them. But Menachem Begin showed the morally serious decision 
to make in such a case: You defend your people first of all.

Being approved by this Chicago Mob isn't even a close second.


Source: 
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/defeating_a_hitler_with_nukes.html