Pardon My Radioactive Dust

Ten months ago, I posted about a non-violent method of taking over a nation. George Soros' "Occupy" minions didn't get the memo, but are instead playing by their version of the communist playbook.

I don't care as there are bigger fish to fry. What the Occupy morons could do to us pales in comparison to what I see on the immediate horizon. Even if they succeed in helping this most inept president to usher in martial law and he gets his wish to suspend the Constitution he loathes, I still don't care. For it is not Obama, aka Captain Zero, whom I fear.

In 1976, after tiring of Watergate and all things Republican, Americans erred in electing the man who was, until this current presidential term, the dimmest bulb ever to occupy the White House. Jimmy Carter gave us Iran while taking away the ultra-strategic Panama Canal, a critical passage now supervised by our friends from across the Pacific, the Chinese. (There was a time these folks were referred to as Red Chinese, a term that has fallen out of use thanks to a variety of attacks on truth--the communists are no friend of the Americans, never have been, and never will be.) But the communist peril is yet another digression. I'm here to bring to mind what I call the Persian Peril.

The United States currently faces its gravest existential threat: The one-two punch of radical Islam, backed up by political correctness, has hamstrung the judicial system in such a way as to bring Sharia Law onto American soil regardless of the wishes of the vast majority of US citizens. Reinvested back into the US, Saudi Arabian petrodollars have purchased news sources, universities, and American lawmakers, steering popular opinion and giving rise to the shadowy Thought Police, an entity whose existence cannot be proven though it seems to have a will of its own. Sharia Law is coming, will of the American people be damned.

Sworn enemy of the West, Islam's other violent face does not walk lockstep with the Saudi flavor (Sunni Islam), but seeks to invoke its will upon the world one nation at a time. Shiite Islam, the ruling party of Iran, has used America's precious freedoms to wrap its vile tentacles around our collective jugular vein.

Beginning with the fall of the Shah of Iran and the subsequent Iranian Revolution in 1979 (a big thank you to Jimmy Carter who naively welcomed Ayatollah Khomeini as a man of peace), the Islamic Republic of Iran overnight became the sworn enemy of both the United States and Israel. Iran immediately opened the spigot of hatred toward the two nations it regards as The Little Satan (Israel) and The Great Satan (United States), and has promised, quite brazenly during the past five years, to destroy both nations. Presumably it will carry this out using its peaceful nuclear energy program. (It is permissible by Islamic law to lie as long as it is done to advance the cause of Islam. That Iran's president misrepresents his nation's intention to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes should come as a surprise only to the most naive.)

Perennial thorn in the American side, Iran will need to be solved, sooner rather than later. As I see it, we have two choices, both of which have been allowed to fester to the point of being gangrenous, neither alternative offering a tidy solution. In fact, the best we could hope for would result in oil prices of $300 a barrel, a shock the current fragile worldwide economy cannot withstand. Consider each alternative separately:

Option I:
We ignore the Iranian nuclear program and allow them full membership into the exclusive club. This option is clearly extremely perilous as the Mullahs of Iran, through the mouthpiece of Iranian president Ahmadinejad, have made clear their intentions of erasing Israel from the earth. Tiny sliver of a nation that they are, Israel could be destroyed entirely with merely one or two modest-sized atomic bombs. The deterrent offered by Israel's undeclared nuclear arsenal, an impressive array of bombs of various sizes which has never officially been stated to exist, would be ineffective against the insanity of Iranian mullahs. Why? The Twelfth Imam, a character known as the Mahdi, requires large scale loss of life in order to be summoned. The reasons for this are not clear, yet the apocalyptic scenario, even if it means the deaths of millions of Iranians, is demanded by the Mahdi before he makes his return to earth, presumably to save Islam by vanquishing its enemies (Christians, Jews, Buddhists, atheists--in effect, anyone who is not a Muslim). Therefore this outcome, welcomed by Iran, renders useless any threat to destroy the Islamic republic by preemptive nuclear attack (see option II).

Option II:
The United States, acting alone or with the assistance of Israel, launches a preemptive strike against Iran for the purpose of canceling Iran's nuclear program. While this may have been a viable option in the recent past, it probably is not any longer. Nuclear warheads from the old Soviet Union have mysteriously gone missing; Pakistan and North Korea ostensibly are sources of atomic weapons that could be provided to Iran; Russia and China are also capable of furnishing these weapons to Iran, so it is unclear whether there is anything to be gained by an offensive attack at this point without risking a regional, if not global, nuclear war with untold American and allied casualties. (The Europeans likely cannot be counted on to defend Israel or assist the United States, so the term "allies" is used in a very limited sense.)

Whether or not Iran possesses nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons can only be guessed. But one thing is certain: Any attack against the bellicose Ahmadinejad likely would set off a cascade of attacks on American soil, to say nothing of all the hundreds of (possibly nuclear-tipped) missiles which would rain down upon Israel from every conceivable direction. With regard to our own problems, assume the simultaneous detonation of a hundred Oklahoma City-style fertilizer-and-ammonium nitrate truck bombs at shopping malls, airports, power stations, nuclear power plants, interstate bridges, refineries, oil pipelines, national monuments, The White House, churches, temples, and a list that is as endless as the supply of cheap domestically fashioned bombs easily assembled without suspicion or discovery. This attack would represent the first wave against American interests. It is what sleeper cells are training for while you are reading this, waiting for the signal to come out of the woodwork like rats to wreak unimaginable havoc upon a sleeping civilian adversary.

The second wave would consist of mining the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway referred to as the Jugular of the West by the deposed Shah, thereby shutting down half of the world's oil supply in a matter of hours. Per-barrel and per-gallon prices would skyrocket to unfathomable heights, sending shock waves through a teetering global economy. A secondary result could be a regional war to secure oil supplies for those nations with the military means to do it. China and Russia, due largely to their proximity to the Middle East, would be best poised to carry out such action. The United States would likely be spread too thin by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to say nothing of the new attack on Iran. Advance planning to avoid this scenario seems to be out of reach of the limited abilities and understanding of Barack Obama.

The third wave of attacks, perpetrated against Americans on our soil, could include hundreds of AK-47-weilding Iranians and Iranian sympathizers, marching like ants against a nearly defenseless citizenry. Think North Hollywood bank robbery and shootout; think full body armor; think police forces stretched so thin as to be non-existent. (Recall that two armed madmen that February morning in 1997 held three divisions of LAPD officers, including SWAT teams, at bay for forty-five minutes before being felled. We dodged those bullets that day, and no one died except the perpetrators. The next time, we won't be nearly so fortunate.)

Thanks to the flood of Mexican freight parading through our nation via the system of interstate highways, Iran could easily bribe Mexican officials to allow passage of their own special cargo, nuclear weapons which would pass undetected and arrive at their pre-assigned destinations. Sealed in locked containers and destined for large American cities, five-megaton nuclear bombs would reach their respective targets in twenty-four to thirty-six hours, parking at First and Main Streets in every downtown. Activated by cell phone, mushroom clouds would simultaneously appear over the North American skyline, erasing what had remained of the populace after the earlier attack waves.

The corrupt government to the south, in concert with the freedoms on which we have come to depend and the sieve we call our southern border, make this scenario as easy as flying airplanes into skyscrapers filled with innocent civilians. It is the way of the radical Muslim, to shed as much blood as possible, all to satisfy their inexplicable hatred for Israel and the country who has consistently supported her.

When not vacationing in Hawaii or Africa or bowing to foreign leaders while apologizing for actions of his predecessors which he perceives as wrongs that need to be righted, Ayatollah Obama is incapable of defending the United States. Having never served in any military capacity (at least not for this country), he cannot possibly act effectively as Commander-in-Chief. Yet he paradoxically bears the title.

Given the psychopathic mad dog who controls his country's growing nuclear arsenal, it would seem that attacking Iran to deprive them of their war machine is no longer a survivable option.

The future of our planet is steadily unraveling, taking worldwide stability with it. Keep watching Oprah and Rosie and Ellen and MSNBC who all assure you that there is nothing to worry about. Keep watching Dancing with the Stars and American Idol and reading the New York Times and the National Enquirer. Keep your head buried firmly in the sand and maybe all of this will vaporize like a dream, but most likely it will end in a radioactive nightmare. I'm afraid the time to act was five years ago. The time to pray, however, is right now.