[Anyone] Boom!

[Mike in Taos]

It is surely obvious now to anybody with even a basic understanding of 
history, politics and the nature of fascism that something revolutionary has 
to be done within months -- if not weeks -- if we are to preserve world 
peace.

Put boldly and simply, we have to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.

Not, of course, the unleashing of full-scale thermo-nuclear war on the 
Persian people, but a limited and tactical use of nuclear weapons to destroy 
Iran's military facilities and its potential nuclear arsenal. It is, sadly, 
the only response that this repugnant and acutely dangerous political entity 
will understand.

The tragedy is that innocent people will die. But not many. Iran's missiles 
and rockets of mass destruction are guarded and maintained by men with the 
highest of security clearance and thus supportive of the Tehran regime. They 
are dedicated to war and, thus, will die in war.

Frankly, it would be churlish of the civilized world to deny martyrdom to 
those who seem so intent on its pursuance. Most important, a limited nuclear 
attack on Iran will save thousands if not millions of lives.

The spasm of reaction from many will be that this is barbaric and 
unacceptable. Yet a better response would be to ask if there is any sensible 
alternative. Diplomacy, kindness and compromise have failed and the Iranian 
leadership is still obsessed with all-out war against anybody it considers 
an enemy.

Its motives are beyond question, its capability equally so. It is spending 
billions of dollars on a whole range of anti-ship, anti-aircraft and 
anti-personnel missiles, rockets and ballistic weapons:

The Shahab 3ER missile, with a range of more than 2,000 km, and the BM25 and 
accompanying launchers, which are so powerful that they can hit targets in 
Europe. Raad missiles with a range of 350km. The Misaq anti-aircraft 
missile, which can be fired from the shoulder. The Fajar 3 radar-evading 
missile and the Ajdar underwater missile, which travels at an 
extraordinarily high speed and is almost impossible to intercept. The Zaltal 
and the Fatah 110 rocket, the Scud B and Scud C and the BM25 with a range of 
3,500 kms.

Iran is also developing enormous propellant ballistic missiles and began a 
space program almost a decade ago that will enable it to bomb the United 
States. It is also assumed in intelligence circles that Tehran has Russian 
Kh55 cruise missiles stolen from Ukraine which are now being copied in large 
numbers by Iranian scientists.

Comparisons to the Nazis in the 1930s are unfair -- to the Nazis. Hitler had 
the French army, the largest in Europe, on his border and millions of Soviet 
infantry just a few hours march away. Iran has no aggressive enemies in the 
region.

Its fanatical leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, controls a brutal police state, 
finances international terror and provokes bloody wars in foreign countries. 
It is unimaginably wealthy because of its oil revenues and is committed, in 
its leader's words, to "rolling back 300 years of Western ascendancy" and 
wiping another nation, Israel, from the face of the earth.

A conventional attack would be insufficient because Iran and its allies seem 
only to listen to power and threat. Better limited pain now than universal 
suffering in five years.

The usual suspects will complain. The post-Christian churches, the Marxists 
in Taos including Tommy Myers, the fellow travelers and fifth columnists. 
But then, the same sort of people moaned and condemned in 1938. They were 
clearly wrong then. They would be just as wrong now.