For Iran - 31 days and counting down, while maintaining a war by proxy

Last night I commented briefly on the fact that the United Nations has given the nation of Iran 31 days to discontinue it's nuclear enrichment program, or face the possibility of sanctions. In truth, Iran just looks at that and laughs, because they know the track record of the UN when it comes to putting its money where its mouth is, and it's a terrible one.

Iran has already publicly stated that they will not abide by such notions. When will the world wake up from the slumber that it finds itself in? It has already been shown in the past what appeasement accomplishes, what happens when there is only words and no action - it invites the sort of vile action in response that happened on 9/11 - because the perpitrators think that they can get away with it. Even if in the end they don't, and they are captured or killed, irrreguardless the damage is done.

Nothing is being said here that hasn't been said in the past, the difference now being that Iran also has a proxy war going on against Israel that it hopes can be used to damage Israel physically and the United States diplomatically and politically, as we find ourselves responsible to solve the crisis. If we do and fail, we're damed - if we don't, we're damed there too.

Using Hezbollah, Iran wants to see Israel drawn into the same kind of conflict that the US Military is engaged in in Iraq - one they cannot leave even if they wanted to. As it was stated in a recent article on Why Hezbollah Fights -[to] "Draw Israel into an invasion of Lebanon and, following resistance, move to an insurgency that does to the Israelis what the Sunnis in Iraq have done to the Americans."

Hezbollah is a organization of terrorists, plain and simple, and as such they should not be negociated with or held back, they should be destroyed, as to never be able to rise like a pheonix from the ashes to haunt the earth once more. However it is international community opnion that this is too harsh.

Ben Stien puts it best...

Wise words from Peter Brookes of the Heritage Foundation

The Jedi Returns - again - hopefully for good this time...

I've been away about a month and a half now. I've just had other things to do and blogging on world events has become less of a priority. This doesn't mean by any stretch of the imagination that I don't try and keep up on what is happening in a world that seems to have a ever chaging geo-political climate, just that time is premium these days and I've slacked off. The jobs and classes keep me busy.

Irregardless though, I am going to try and get back into posting on a daily basis about what is going on around the world, but mainly with the Iran/North Korea nuclear situation and what is happening in the Middle East with Iraq and now the conflict between Israel and the Iranian proxy terrorist organization, Hezbollah; these are the issues, up against which decisions will be made that will mold the world as we know it for the next generation and beyond.

To begin such a journey though, one must begin here, with a article that Charles Krauthammer wrote this past week. He does a great job of cutting through all of the rhetoric and bull about "disproportionate responses" and gets to the heart of the matter.

Also keep in mind that as of this writing, Iran has 32 days to halt its nuclear proliferation or the United Nations Security Council will consider sanctions. (We've heard this before and so has Iran, things do not bode well...)

Until next time, at the same "bat blog" same "bat web address"