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Vedette on Monday, March 03, 2008 10:36:02 AM
Whatever your view of our entry into the war in Iraq our presidential candidates must stop looking back to the past and playing the blame game, we are there and should focus our energies on the future.
First, Americans should understand that this conflict is not about saving the Iraq's from themselves. The impact of our retreat from Iraq must be viewed on a much larger scale. It will signal Iran, Israel, Al Qaeda, and our allies around the world that we lack the stomach to stay the fight and will not be there when the going gets tough. In the vacuum we leave behind an emboldened and nuclear Iran will rapidly move to take control of the entire Middle East and threaten the annihilation of Israel.
The implications are sobering. Saudi, Egypt, Jordan, and all of the lesser Arab nations will face the choice of war with Iran or compliance with their political control, lacking the military force to resist Iran’s powerful and modern armed force they will have little choice but that of surrender. Israel will be forced to launch a nuclear strike against Iran or face extinction.
A radical anti-western Iran will control both the worlds’ primary source of petroleum and the shipping routes through the Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf. An emboldened radical Islamic terrorist movement will exploit this opportunity and acting in concert with, and supported by, Iran spread violence across the western world. The United States held hostage to the Iranian’s control of Persian Gulf oil, threatened by escalating terrorist attacks at home, and anticipating the inevitable nuclear war between Israel and Iran will be drawn into a conflict which makes the human and financial cost of the war in Iraq look quite insignificant.”
Both Al Qaeda and Iran are there because they fully understand the outcome as one that is pivotal in their quest of victory or a failure of unacceptable consequences. Americans who oppose this conflict should set their emotions aside, ignore the political hyperbole’ and reflect seriously on the critical alternatives in play.