Senator Rick Santorum “charges that president Obama’s refusal to take
effective action against Iran allows the Islamic Republic to ignore the
U.S. and pursue its nuclear weapons agenda. In an exclusive interview
with NewsmaxTV, Santorum clearly argued that Obama’s disastrous foreign
policy of ‘negotiating with radical Islam’”[i]
leaves the United States and Israel dangerously close to a hot war with
Iran. In both Israel and Iran a multiplicity of civilian communities
are within range of missiles. It is believed that Iran may have
purposely placed their weapons-making facilities within populated areas
to prevent a full scale missile or air assault. Regardless, it appears
that Israel has drawn their own
red line as a timeline for a
preemptive strike against their nemesis in Tehran.
President
Netanyahu proclaimed, “We (the Jewish people) will never be uprooted
again.”[ii]
A statement that is also made in the Old Testament book of prophecy of
Amos when the Lord declares that He would never allow the Israelites to
be uprooted again; this coming, however, on the latter end of a time of
great distress for the people and the destruction of Jerusalem. In Amos 9
is: “I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be
uprooted from the land I have given them,” says the Lord your God.”[iii]
The Israeli president also declared that: “We want to see the three
great religions that sprang forth from our region – Judaism,
Christianity and Islam – coexist in peace and in mutual respect. Yet the
medieval forces of radical Islam, whom you just saw storming the
American embassies throughout the Middle East, they oppose this. They
seek supremacy over all Muslims. They are bent on world conquest. They
want to destroy Israel, Europe, America. They want to extinguish
freedom. They want to end the modern world. Militant Islam has many
branches – from the rulers of Iran with their Revolutionary Guards to Al
Qaeda terrorists to the radical cells lurking in every part of the
globe.”[iv]
The Israeli President gave not only a brief reminder of world history
but with it a warning that the time spent patronizing Hitler is as
dangerous or more as the placating of Ahmadinejad.
“Some 70 years ago, the world saw another fanatic ideology bent on
world conquest. It went down in flames. But not before it took millions
of people with it. Those who opposed that fanaticism waited too long to
act. In the end they triumphed, but at an (sic) horrific cost. My
friends, we cannot let that happen again. At stake is not merely the
future of my own country. At stake is the future of the world. Nothing
could imperil our common future more than the arming of Iran with
nuclear weapons. To understand what the world would be like with a
nuclear-armed Iran, just imagine the world with a nuclear-armed
Al-Qaeda. It makes no difference whether these lethal weapons are in the
hands of the world’s most dangerous terrorist regime or the world’s
most dangerous terrorist organization. They’re both fired by the same
hatred; they’re both driven by the same lust for violence. Just look at
what the Iranian regime has done up till now, without nuclear weapons.
In 2009, they brutally put down mass protests for democracy in their own
country. Today, their henchmen are participating in the slaughter of
tens of thousands of Syrian civilians, including thousands of children,
directly participating in this murder. They abetted the killing of
American soldiers in Iraq and continue to do so in Afghanistan. Before
that, Iranian proxies killed hundreds of American troops in Beirut and
in Saudi Arabia. They’ve turned Lebanon and Gaza into terror
strongholds, embedding nearly 100,000 missiles and rockets in civilian
areas. Thousands of these rockets and missiles have already been fired
at Israeli communities by their terrorist proxies. In the last year,
they’ve spread their international terror networks to two dozen
countries across five continents – from India and Thailand to Kenya and
Bulgaria. They’ve even plotted to blow up a restaurant a few blocks from
the White House in order to kill a diplomat. And of course, Iran’s
rulers repeatedly deny the Holocaust and call for Israel’s destruction
almost on a daily basis, as they did again this week from the United
Nations.” [iv]
According to internationally syndicated political commentator, Glenn
Beck, America is facing its biggest threat in Islamic extremism. With
the recent attacks in Egypt and Libya by the Muslim Brotherhood, there
appears to be a sustaining action of the ‘Brotherhood’ of their plan to
infiltrate the United States at all levels of government. As proof, Beck
refers to a treatise recovered in 2001. “In 2001, an inconspicuous
manifesto now known as
The Project was
recovered during a raid in Switzerland: A manifesto that turned out to
be a Muslim road map for infiltrating and defeating the West. Today,
files containing evidence from the largest terror financing trial in
U.S. history, which include details about
The Project, are being withheld by the Department of Justice.”[v]
Beck is not the first to accuse the Department of Justice and the
Department of State of collusion with the enemies of the United States
to forward some innocuous diplomatic or political goal. Such games, in
these times, are extremely dangerous; such as the ill-fated
Fast and Furious debacle
with Attorney General Eric Holder and the sale of guns to drug gangs in
Mexico that resulted in the death of a U.S. Border Agent, Brian Terry.
Taking one’s focus off of the war in which the U.S. is engaged is also
part of the blame being centered on U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan
Rice, for the Benghazi Consulate attack that resulted in the death of
U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens. Representative Peter King,
(R-NY) Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee contends that a
“failure of foreign policy message and leadership” were integral to the
failure in security that exacerbated the damage caused by the Benghazi
attack, as well as, not preventing the attack completely.
Where does all of this leave the U.S., Israel and Iran? It leaves the
three seemingly hopelessly locked in a showdown reminiscent of Gary
Cooper, American movie icon in his role as a Kane, resigned sheriff, in
the classic
High Noon[vi]
. The
plot centers on the tedious wait Kane must endure as the clock in the
saloon mercilessly and slowly climbs toward 12:00 when he must go into
the street to face a gun fight against four armed men, one of whom he
had sent to prison. Kane was unable to get anyone in the town to help
him and without help; he against four, his fate was set. In this case,
it seems that Israel is former Sheriff Kane and Iran, the Muslim
Brotherhood, HAMAS, and Hezbollah the four gun-slingers. The United
States is in the part played by Lucien Prival –
Joe the bartender
at the Ramirez Saloon where Kane (Cooper) must wait and listen as the
clock ticks the minutes so deliberately. Joe does very little from the
sidelines. Other than to offer a drink to Kane as he waits and then
watch Kane agonize until he must walk out the door alone. It is almost
prophetic that Joe the bartender never received a name-credit in the
movie. The most dramatic difference between this 1952 movie classic and
the 2012 reality is that Israel’s fate is not
set like
Cooper’s. Israel will have help, particularly if no one comes to her
aid. The U.S., Israel and Iran are on the verge of a hot war. When and
where this will begin is anybody’s guess (and there are many) but the
truth is that only perhaps the President of Israel himself knows when
that red line will be crossed. Let’s hope that in this real-life drama,
“Joe” comes out from behind the bar, takes a shotgun and stands tall in
the street next to “Kane” facing down the evil coming their way.
Dr. Ross L. Riggs, Director Security Consulting Investigations, LLC
www.docriggs.com www.security-consulting.us www.globalsecurityconsulting.us SCI
[i]
Israel Diplomatic Network, The Embassy of Israel to the United States,
President Netanyahu’s Speech to the United Nations, September 2012
[ii] Ibid.
[iv] Ibid.
[v] http://us.mg206.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.partner=sbc&.rand=32oe5tm7qab61
[vi] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044706/combined
