We’re now at a turning point. Breslan and islamicization of the Chechen rebellion; the nuclearization of Iran and the complete failure of EU appeasement there; France’s shameless claim to side with the “resistance” against Allawi and the Bush admin; and Bush’s imminent re-election signal that we are entering a Phase II in this war.
Phase I saw the US overturn a decade of half-measures, appeasement of Iran and coaxing the Saudis and replace it with aggressive pre-emption to remove terror-sponsoring states directly to the west and the east of Iran. In this effort we recived half-hearted EU support in Afghan and outright resistance from France and Germany over Iraq.
The next target is clearly Iran. We have 130,000 troops next door; they have opened their borders to Al Qaeda and have already sent hundreds of their own provocateurs and jihadists into Iraq.
Can we count on the EU to help us? Clearly not. The IAEA, the UN? Get real.
Assuming Bush is re-elected, we will soon have to choose between
1) continuing a phony war with Iraq in which they continue to make a mockery of our diplomatic proxies, the Three EU Dwarves, and start to arm their own military proxies, Hezbollah, AQ and their own jihadists, for direct strikes against the US
or
2) recognizing the fact that we are indeed fighting a cold war with a terror-sponsoring, soon to be nuclear-armed islamist state and that this war requires a new, forward-based alliance structure and strategy focused on powerful neighboring swing states that heretofore have assisted Iran.
If # 2 occurs, then we will see the end of NATO and its replacement by an alliance of realpolitik states which seek jointly to contain Iraq and crush Al Qaeda and the other jihadists.
Would Maria Theresa’s boytoy have the intelligence, the vision and the courage to let NATO die and move this nation forward into the Asian Century?
Is there anyone among this joker’s foreign policy handlers who grasps that France is on the other side, that Germany’s unreliable and that we desperately need Russia and India’s active support to win, hell, even to survive, Phase II of this war?
