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One of the main goals of American foreign policy since the inception of the nuclear bomb has been to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of murderous regimes who have a disregard for human life. At his famous Reykyavic summit with Soviet premier Mikhael Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan insisted on the need for a Strategic Defense Initiative in order to prevent a Hitlerian organization from destroying millions of innocents with a nuclear weapon.
Unfortunately, their is no such defense that is capable of stopping all nuclear attacks. Therefore, the United States must focus on keeping atom bombs out of the hands of terrorists. This should be something that all Americans, regardless of party lines are on board with, even if it requires drastic measures to be taken.
The assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakrhizadeh last Friday is one of those provocative but necessary measures that must be taken to ensure a safe and secure world. Fakrhizadeh was instrumental in developing the Iranian nuclear program. The New York Times reported that even after the program was formally disbanded, Fakhrizadeh covertly kept it alive.
Additionally, Fakhrizadeh was a senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps which is a designated terrorist organization.
His death is a gift to international security and should not be condemned by those who want a peaceful world. Unfortunately, the mainstream left in this country seems to be so blinded by their desire for peace that they fail to recognize that it is a two way street. When the enemy will not give into your demands, you must break them in order to get what you want. Especially, if that enemy is a terror loving regime such as Iran.
Apparently Democrats would like to conduct a policy akin to the one Britain pursued before the outbreak of WWII. Their insistence on the Iran Nuclear Deal is telling of their failure to conduct a rational foreign policy.
Despite their claim that the Deal was beneficial for peace, the JCPOA wasn’t even meant to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. It was merely meant to expand the time needed for Iran to build a nuclear weapon from 2-3 months to one year. Additionally, the deal did not even prevent Iran from developing its ballistic missile capabilities. Missiles which could be used to carry a nuclear warhead.
By the time the deal would have ended Iran would have had everything it needed to make a nuclear weapon. This, in addition to Fakhrizadeh’s covert operations, illustrates that the Iran Deal was merely an attempt by the Obama administration to kick the can down the road with the naive hope that by the deal’s expiration, Iran would no longer be in bed with terrorist organizations around the world.
The left in this country have also gone soft on specific terrorists who support the killing of U.S. soldiers. Back in January President Trump ordered the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani was second in command in Iran and was the leader of Iran’s Quds force which conducted proxy wars by supporting terrorists in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq. Additionally, the National Council of Resistance of Iran reported that,
Soleimani ordered a systematic shoot-to-kill policy that has seen masked snipers on the roofs of government buildings, indiscriminately shooting unarmed, young protesters in the head and chest. IRGC goons and security agents then scoured the country’s hospitals, dragging the wounded from their beds.
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Suffice it to say, by all standards, this man deserved to die for his continuing support of violence and oppression. Despite this, presumptive President elect Joe Biden said that President Trump had “just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox.” He and his allies in Congress then decried the possibility of escalation. It doesn’t take a scholar of history to draw lines between the rhetoric of the Democrats to the appeasement of Hitler by the British.
The left’s worries about the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is a mere continuation of their inability to craft a hard-handed foreign policy in the Middle East. They vainly hope that an uncooperative and violent regime founded upon theocratic oppression will magically become virtuous and respectful. The approach of the Republicans may not be ideal, but it beats the alternative of allowing Iran to continue their destruction of the Middle East.
I’m sure 70,000,000 people agree!