What Senator Clinton Doesn’t Get About Iran
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Special Report: What Senator Clinton doesn’t get about Iran
By Joel C. Rosenberg
Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday won a decisive victory in Pennsylvania, keeping alive her chances of securing the Democratic nomination for president, though Barack Obama still seems to have the upper hand for now. But barely noticed by the mainstream media was a serious foreign policy error she made Tuesday morning on ABC’s Good Morning America. I suspect, however, that should Sen. Clinton be so fortunate as to be the Democratic nominee — much less President of the United States — this error will come back to haunt her, and all of us.
“The question was if Iran were to launch a nuclear attack on Israel, what would our response be?” Clinton told interviewer Chris Cuomo. “And I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran, and I want them to understand that, because it does mean that they have to look very carefully, uh, at their society. Because at whatever stage of development they might be in their nuclear weapons program, in the next ten years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them. That’s like a terrible thing to say, but those people who run Iran need to understand that because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish, and tragic.”
It sounded tough at the time — threatening to annihilate the Islamic Republic of Iran if they were to launch nuclear attacks against Israel. But there were two serious flaws in what she said.
First, by offering a reactive rather than a proactive military strategy vis-a-vis Iran, Sen. Clinton is allowing for the possibility of another Holocaust. If Iranian leaders get nuclear warheads, and can attach them to the high speed ballistic missiles they already have, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could do in about six minutes what it took Adolf Hitler six years to do: kill six million Jews (the number of Jews in Israel today). What good is it really to say that the U.S. would nuke Iran after Ahmadinejad accomplishes another Holocaust?
Second, Sen. Clinton believes her tough talk will “deter” Iran’s leaders from launching a nuclear attack against Israel, but it won’t. Sen. Clinton revealed in those comments her fundamental misunderstanding of the nature and threat of Ahmadinejad and his regime.
No one who truly understands Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s eschatology — or end times theology — could honestly believe that Ahmadinejad can be deterred. Ahmadinejad believes it is his God-given mission to annihilate the U.S., Israel and Judeo-Christian civilization as we know. To what end? To create the conditions that will bring the Islamic Messiah known as the Mahdi or the “12th Imam” to earth. As I point out in detail in my non-fiction book, Epicenter, that Glenn and I have discussed numerous times on his radio and TV shows, Ahmadinejad is not just another power-hungry dictator in the mold of the Soviet or Chinese leaders of yore. He is a Shia Islamic fascist. He believes his life destiny is to kill millions of Jews and Christians and usher in an Islamic caliphate. He believes he is a John-the-Baptist, a forerunner, of the Islamic Messiah. If he dies, he believes he will spend eternity in paradise with 72 virgins. But he doesn’t really believe he’s going to die. He believes he has been chosen for a divine appointment, and that nothing can stop him. That is what makes him so dangerous.
Unfortunately, too many Washington politicians — Sens. Clinton and Obama included — do not understand this. But understand this we must. For to misunderstand the nature and threat of Ahmadinejad’s genocidal ambitions is to risk allowing the U.S. or our allies — Israel, the EU or others — to be blindsided by them. Ahmadinejad is not a terrorist in the classic sense. He doesn’t simply want to frighten Jews and Christians. He wants to annihilate us. He cannot be deterred. He must be stopped BEFORE he and his regime is able to build, buy or steal nuclear weapons. If we wait too long, millions will die in an apocalyptic nightmare that will change the course of human history forever.
Joel C. Rosenberg is the author of five political thrillers. His latest, Dead Heat, has spent the last four weeks on the New York Times hardcover fiction best-seller list. He is also the best-selling author of the non-fiction book, Epicenter: Why Current Rumblings in the Middle East Will Change Your Future. You can learn more about him at www.joelrosenberg.com, or at www.joshuafund.net.
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