Posted by
VBushmills on Saturday, September 26, 2009 8:30:04 AM
Richmond, 26 September, 2009
Many years ago there appeared a book by Thomas Cahill entitled How the Irish Saved Civilization. A compelling argument, but also a reminder of just how long civilization requires to re-emerge after being overrun by barbarism. Approximately a thousand years.
Today France and Russia stands uniquely poised to do the same thing, save civilization, and of the two, I select Nicholas Sarkozy of France.
(I can't believe I just wrote that...France.)
Early in the week President Barack Obama stood before the United Nations and abdicated America's role as leader of the Free World. Indeed, he more or less declared it dead. He denied America's role as defender of the poor, the down trodden, the set-upon...assuming that no one would step forward to replace us. His vision, I am quite certain, is of a world of equals in which he, like Citizen Robespierre, would be just a tad more equal than others. Obama dreams of charade and expects the rest of the world to play along.
Then, three days later (yesterday) he strode across a stage, with the leaders of France and England in tow, to announce that only now had he discovered that there is gambling in Casablanca, and the world is shocked and outraged. (Leaks as to who knew what and when and was first in knowing about Iran's secret nuclear processing facility to follow.) Then followed the predictable threats of stern sanctions...although by who...the UN?, these three? others? remain undisclosed. The world has seen this before and has no reason to take threats from one and a quarter penises very seriously.
So now comes some sort of December deadline at which time Iran must open its doors and the United Nations and IAEA can once again parade its own useful idiots through the turnstile to reassure us that they (the United Nations) are doing everything that can possibly be done to protect the peace and insure its doctrine of fairness, which covers every country on the planet...save one. We've been down this path before, also.
Speaking of that lone pirate nation, whose own unshared intelligence also knew of this nuclear facility, just how long will Israel wait? That's the question everyone is asking. It's clear everyone expects them to do something...first. That's the stage Mr Obama seems to be setting. It's equally clear the United Nations has always wanted Israel to do what it hasn't the political will to do, and that is to end this nuclear nightmare in a flash, rather than through sanctions followed by another corrupt Oil for Food Program. It's a sucker play, for a peremptory Israeli air strike would allow the UN to breathe a sigh of relief that Iran's nuclear ambition has been set back at least a decade or more, while actually being able to beat Israel up even more for its piratical ways of blowing the place up.
I am quite sure, in this scenario, there will even be a place for President Obama to do a cameo and take a bow.
All that said, imagine a brave new world where one of the "other" major nations decides to take bold unilateral action and take out Iran's nuclear capability. Only France and Russia fill that bill right now...since there are no men at 10 Downing Street at the present time.
And of the two, only France could do it for the glory (and other existential considerations), without demanding more tangible reimbursements.
The result? Omigod!. Imagine.
Israel gets what it wants while being spared one more outrage from the world community. The United Nations gets what it wants in the sense that a non-cowboy nation committed this deed while sparing them the humiliation that normally comes just by showing up for work each day. The Islamo-fascist world gets a long overdue warning...and spanking.
Even the United States wins in that our talkative retreat-prone president gets a real lesson in real politik...that no vacuum goes unfilled. If the United States wants to abdicate leadership, someone will step in to replace us...and as long as Nicholas Sarkozy is that man....
Amen. Insha'allah.
Vassar