Posted by
richstacy on Sunday, August 27, 2006 5:19:53 PM
When Iran sees the UN backtrack with respect to the ceasefire in Lebanon, especially on it's responsibility and commitment to disarm Iran's surrogate Hezbollah, why would anyone expect them not to kick sand in the international community's face with regard to their nuclear weapons program?
Iran has every reason to believe that it will get what it wants and that the Europeans will appease them, and give them repeated opportunities to make unreasonable demands.
They also know that the U.S. is bogged down in Iraq and spread too thin to pose any kind of credible threat to them -- that by virtue of Iraq, we lack either the capacity or the will to take them on, and that the American left has turned Bush into a wuss. For all of which, I'm sure they praise Allah and the invisible Imam.
Thus the cause of Islamofacism continues its advance in the face of what must seem to be a stumbling and impotent West.
Five years into the "War on Terror" we continue to slip back two steps for every step forward. We are not yet winning this war. We had better get our act together before it is too late. I have the impression we don't have a clue how to fight an asymetrical war. God help us.