The Gathering Nuclear Storm

If you were Iran, and you wanted to put yourself into a place that would give you power beyond compare in the Muslim world, how would you go about doing it?

First, you would neutralize the United States military by reducing its morale, and weakening its support at home. You would accomplish this by turning Iraq into a trap for America. You would cause Americans to be divided, thus taking away their greatest natural strength. And by sending your elite troops into Iraq to ferment instability, you would increase American pressure to withdraw from the region. This is exactly what is taking place now.

Second, you would have to neutralize the Israeli military. By using the techniques you learned in Iraq, you could also drag Israel into a war for which it was unprepared to fight. You would use every resource in the West to show how Muslims were being victimized. You would use your political connections gained through oil sales to pander to the anti-Semitic European countries, thus eliminating any support that might be given Israel. You would, through your propaganda, encourage the West to pressure Israel into accepting a ceasefire - knowing this would be seen as a victory for Hezbollah (your agents of destruction). This is what is happening now.

Finally, and again, through your oil connections, you would ensure that Russia and China - America's most powerful potential enemies - would not support a western economic embargo. This would allow you to pursue your nuclear program without pressure. And, because of their involvement in other wars and low support at home, the American and Israeli military would be unable to stop you. Again, we have now reached exactly this point.

If I didn't think Iran had a form of outside help (and by outside, I mean outside of this world), I would be missing something that should be plainly obvious. Iran has executed control of world affairs for its own purposes with near-perfection. Their obectives are not peace, love and respect for their neighbors. On the contrary, their objectives are the destruction of a nation (Israel), the dominance of other religions (see Sharia law) and the physical expansion of their empire (Iraqi and Syrian Shia interests are making this happen now). All of their goals are rooted in evil. The master of this deception should be plain.

On top of all of this, you have a leader of Iran who believes it is his religious duty to bring about the cataclysmic "end times" so that his Mahdi can return. And in the western corner, you have a US President who believes with all of his heart that God wants him to stop Iran from attaining those goals. The game pieces are nuclear weapons. The stakes are high.

While the world may be uncomfortable with Bush's faith in God during times of crisis, I am not. Even though our application of Christian beliefs may differ, and even though I believe that he has made a few mistakes along the way, I still believe Bush to be a just man. I also believe that while our nation may be wicked, we still have a role to play in bringing peace to parts of the world where there is now only murder and religious oppression. God will sort out the indivduals who are to be punished. But for now, the goals of our nation are consistent with the Lord's will, that is, that His Kingdom will roll forward. And right now, Iran's vision is definitely not the tools by which that divine plan will be accomplished.

For the article that inspired me to write the above, click here.