Matt Patterson’s article is basically correct. Major powers are never threatened when they are perceived to be too strong. It is only when they are perceived to be too weak that there is a threat to global stability. And Americans have nobody to blame but themselves. They voted in a president who is determined to make us more like France, a weak, lazy, nanny state that offers high unemployment, stagnant growth, and low incomes in exchange for massive (and overpriced) healthcare and bloated and woefully inefficient federal and state governments. What’s interesting about a proposed Iranian nuclear attack on Israel, though, is that any nuclear bomb powerful enough to kill millions of Israelis will also kill hundreds of thousands of Palestinians too. The Iranians never seem to consider that the Israelis and the Palestinians live side by side and that the fallout and the radiation from a powerful nuclear blast will probably kill almost as many Palestinians as Israelis. But I guess when you’re in a country run by religious zealots (like Iran), inconvenient facts mean precious little to you. Also, the Iranians never seem to consider Israel’s retaliation and the massive amount of casualties that would inflict on Iran. China and North Korea should also wonder how the United States would react to an invasion of Taiwan or South Korea, both scenarios that could turn into a nuclear confrontation very, very, quickly given the growing weakness in America’s conventional military strength. Finally, I wouldn’t worry about the Europeans being intimidated by an influx of Muslim immigrants. If the Europeans ever feel threatened by a Muslim minority, they will do what they do best and kill them. Don’t believe me? Well it already happened in the Balkans, in Bosnia and in Kosovo. Europeans are very fond of ethnic cleansing and are very efficient at it. Does anyone around here remember the Holocaust? So if you push the Europeans too far, there will probably be a pogrom just around the corner. Yes, the 21st Century should be a blast.
