Senator Harry Reid: One of Tehran's best friends
Here’s a good example of the kind of leadership that we could be getting more of if only the Democrats were in power. In an address before The Northern Nevada Faith-Based Services Summit, Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced to his audience, the world, Allah and everybody that the U.S. has no military option in Iran. “We don’t have the resources to do it because of the ongoing war in Iraq,” he said.
Thanks a lot, Senator. Why don’t you just make a formal announcement to Tehran that the U.S. will do nothing to stop its madcap mission to get nukes and they may proceed with no worries? Anyway, who believes Reid would want to do anything to stop Iran even if there was no war in Iraq?
Unfortunately for the Senator’s argument for doing nothing, there’s this one little inconvenient factoid he apparently forgot to consider: Despite the war in Iraq, the U.S. still has enough air power to bomb Iran back into the Stone Age, or at least to prevent it from entering the Nuclear Age, which is the main thing the world should be interested in.
But what about diplomacy? Reid chastised the Bush administration for not doing enough on that front in regards to Iran. Only someone living on Planet Dem could believe that diplomacy can dissuade the nut job regime in Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, from pressing on to get nukes.
If Reid believes that diplomacy can work with an outlaw regime like Iran, he probably also believes their claim that all they want is electricity. Sure, they’re oozing oil from every pore, but they need an alternative way to generate power. It must be because of their deep concern about the burning of fossil fuels and global warming. Since much of Iran is barren desert with lots and lots of sunny weather, maybe Reid could talk them into pouring their scientific energies into the development of solar power. Why wouldn’t the ayatollahs get on board with that?
Getting back to reality, in case Reid has forgotten, those who lead Iran, and with whom the diplomatic palaver would have to be made, hate the Great Satan’s guts with a purple passion. And they’re not going to be talked out of their ultimate mission, which is to see to it that the word “Israel” is finally removed from all the world’s atlases.
Unless the United States does something to stop Iran, the world could end up seeing the least desired solution for global warming: nuclear winter.
Greg Strange provides conservative commentary with plenty of acerbic wit on the people, politics, events and absurdities of our time. See more at his website: http://www.greg-strange.com/
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