Friday, June 19, 2009
The Bush Doctrine is working. Iran is a prime example.
Only a true hot or cold war will topple Iran's fascist regime.
by Ferdinand III
You won't reform Islam, nor a theo-cratic fascism from within. It never happens. Hitler's Germany was in no danger of imploding during the entire course of history's bloodiest conflict. Soviet Russia only fell when challenged militarily and morally by the US in Afghanistan and across the world by the Americans and their proxies. Exogenous events force endogenous change. So it will be with Iran.
Iran's reigning fascism is in little danger of being toppled internally. The only way the Americans can remove the obnoxious and medieval regime of Ahmadinejad and his theocratic fascist supporters would be through war – either a revolution openly supported by the West and NATO – or a military confrontation which would shatter the mainstay of theocratic support, namely the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Arab, Islamic and totalitarian fascism's will only collapse if confronted and defeated militarily. Economic sanctions, cultural embargoes, and international restrictions on money flows, investments and exports will only serve in the end to solidify the regime's hold on Iran and its people. Moral relativity, inane speeches by the Prophet Obamed, and UN posturing will accomplish nothing. What will bring down the Iranian regime is uncompromising force and military buildup.
We saw the same with Iraq during the 1990s when the corrupt $1 Trillion UN Oil for Food scandal – the largest fraud in history – and its system of military and economic isolation actually abetted the Hussein regime and made it much easier to cast the Americans as the oppressors and originators of conflict and social disorder. It was only through war that the Hussein regime which had killed 1 million civilians in 20 years, was brought to an inglorious end. And it was only with US military strength that the remnants of Hussein's fascism, along with Iranian forces and Iranian trained terrorists, and Al Qaida were finally defeated.
The same will hold true for Iran – but on a larger scale. One of the main reasons to invade Iraq was of course its shared border with Iran. This is a fact that the neo-Marxists and wailing pacifists, so ostensibly concerned with 'rights', but just as quick not to criticise the fascistocracy of Iran, have never grasped. Iran is in a pincer between two states, Iraq and Afghanistan, which are under American tutelage and making the first nascent steps towards something approaching nation state normalcy – for the first time in the history of either country. Iranian reformers emboldened by US resolve in the two neighbouring states are now taking their chances at toppling an outlandishly totalitarian regime.
The Bush doctrine has in essence been a success. Pre-emption does work and is a necessary tool in geo-political power struggles. If you don't posses a real threat of force, your words are meaningless, regardless of how pretty they are, or how artfully they are executed.
There is absolutely no possibility that the Iranian people would be rising up in their millions to denounce their own government if the American military was not in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Iranian regime and Islamic fascist revolution of 1979 is illegitimate. The US has bases and forces in neighboring states and a plentiful reserve at home to redeploy abroad. Now is the time to side with reformers and democrats and demand a legitimate and lawfully elected Iranian government. If the US acts with moral and military clarity, this regime might yet fall. But it has to be confronted.
Iran is the greatest sponsor of terrorism in the world. Its allies Hizbollah and other groups have killed far more Americans than Al Qaida. Its soldiers and proxies were still fighting US troops in Iraq as recently as 2007. It ignores the basic rights and dignities of its own people. It wants a nuclear bomb to destroy Israel. And the regime is dogmatically fundamentalist, pining for a world-wide Umma of Islamic fascist governance – a nightmare which surpasses even the unbridled evil-fantasy paganism's of Nazism and Communism.
The Bush doctrine works. Iran must be reformed and saved. So far the Americans have pulled 50 million Muslims out of the depths of Islamic fundamentalist hell. Millions of Iranians desire the same change. Sadly many millions more don't.