What Will it Take to Condemn Iran?

All that diplomacy’s really been working well, hasn’t it?

The sudden flurry of digging seen in recent satellite photos of a mountainside in central Iran might have passed for ordinary road tunneling. But the site is the back yard of Iran’s most ambitious and controversial nuclear facility, leading U.S. officials and independent experts to reach another conclusion: It appears to be the start of a major tunnel complex inside the mountain.

The question is, why? Worries have been stoked by the presence nearby of fortified buildings where uranium is being processed. Those structures in turn are now being connected by roads to Iran’s nuclear site at Natanz, where the country recently started production of enriched uranium in defiance of international protests.

As a result, photos of the site are being studied by governments, intelligence agencies and nuclear experts, all asking the same question: Is Iran attempting to thwart future military strikes against its nuclear facility by placing key parts of it in underground bunkers?

Two things are worth noting.

1. Iran has never, for a moment, slowed its quest for nuclear weapons.
2. Iran is ruled by Islamists who have told us hundreds of times that their only goal is to establish a worldwide Muslim Caliphate.

Is there any chance – any chance at all – that we will actually take them seriously now or are we going to have to wait for the mushroom cloud?

This isn’t a political thing I’m talking about. The Bush administration has been played nice with Mad Mahmoud for years and all it’s bought us is a few thousand dead soldiers and civilians in Iraq, some kidnapped British wuss soldiers, and an Iran whose strength and influence has grown many fold in the past five years. Both parties have swallowed the multi-culti Kool Aid and can’t manage to even stammer out a basic condemnation of Iran’s Islamist goons for fear of a harshly-worded press release from CAIR.

I’ve been reading Mary Steyn’s “America Alone” recently and I have to say it’s a heck of a wake-up call. If only half of what Steyn predicts actually comes true, we’re in for a world of trouble. Once you get a couple of chapters in the book, stories like this one will bother you a whole lot more than they do now, for good reason. Muslim populations are growing everywhere and they are filling the vacuum left by rapidly-shrinking native populations all over Europe and in Canada. Far from being beneficial, the rapid influx of Muslim immigrants have brought the Islamists a global reach they’ve never had before. It’s also come at a time when the civilized West has grown terribly ashamed of having the most advanced civilizations the world has ever seen, by any measure. That mixture has led to the situation where we can not condemn Iran for the rampant abuse of its population who live under Sharia law yet we can equate American soldiers at Guantanamo Bay with Pol Pot and his genocidal fellows or the thugs who did Stalin’s bidding.

I tell you, we have to change the way we’re thinking, else we simply won’t survive this war. For a start, we can start treating the rulers of Iran like the rabid dogs they are.

UPDATE: Meanwhile, in clueless-land:

VIENNA (AP) — Iran has scaled back its uranium enrichment program, the head of the U.N. atomic agency said Monday, suggesting a new willingness from the government to resolve the international standoff over its nuclear defiance.

IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei spoke at the end of a special meeting of his agency’s 35-nation board that approved sending an agency team to North Korea, a decision that began the process meant to dismantle that country’s nuclear program.

While expressing hope that Iran might go as far as totally freezing enrichment — as demanded by the U.N. Security Council — ElBaradei told reporters that there had been a “marked slowdown” in centrifuges on line and in using them to turn out enriched uranium.

Far be it from me to suggest that a man named Mohamed might be the slightest bit sympathetic to Mad Mahmoud’s causes, but the head of the IAEA has not exactly been the model of effectiveness in slowing down nuclear proliferation, especially when it comes to Iran.

ElBaradei was the guy who leaked a bogus letter that led to a bogus New York Times story right on the eve of the 2004 election so we’re not exactly talking about the model of honesty here, either. He’s also on record as saying “the jury was still out” on whether or not Iran was even working on nuclear weapons – only a month ago. Not only is he a liar, but he’s intentionally providing cover for Mad Mahmoud’s quest for the bomb.

I wonder if he’s considered that the reason Iran has slowed down on enriching uranium could be that they’ve enriched all they can handle at present. Perhaps they’re ready to move to the next phase of their program, which might involve that enormous tunnel complex they’re boring into the side of a mountain.

Note that the construction project doesn’t appear anywhere in this story. Almost like Elbaradei’s completely ignoring it because if he stopped for a moment to consider what it could mean – worst case – he’d have to actually do something to justify his rather large salary. That would mean bucking an Islamist government right out where people could see him do it.

I don’t think that’s any part of his future plans.

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