Jewish World Review July 9, 2002 /29 Tamuz, 5762
The chroniclers will describe Osama bin Laden and the few thousand fanatics he gathered in Al Qaeda as horrible terrorists
who managed to attract the attention of the world for a short time.
They will describe Saddam Hussein as a megalomaniac and glory hunter who wanted to be remembered as the hero of the
Arab world who stared down Washington. But the historical records will emphasize the massive, well- organized,
state-subsidized terror that stemmed from and flourished in Iran. That country, history will record, was overtaken by a religion
that incorporated itself into a so-called legitimate state for one strategic purpose: the Islamization of the world as the endgame.
Iran is the personification of Islam, equipped with a navy and an army, which is developing what would be, in effect, the Islamic
bomb. This nuclear missile will be ready within two to three years at most.
Iran will have no moral dilemma about using weapons of mass destruction against infidels once it has such devices. It certainly
will be comfortable using such a tool for blackmail. Indirectly, of course.
Iran is much stronger than Iraq, and its religious fanaticism cements its mission to eliminate nonbelievers wherever they are. You
can read nowadays open analysis by military pundits in the Iranian press debating whether two Hiroshima-size bombs would
be more than enough to destroy Israel, or whether one would be sufficient, thus allowing the second one to be saved for bigger
and better things, say Philadelphia.
Iran--a terror organization with a country, a flag and embassies all over the world--can use its diplomatic pouches to deliver
whatever it sees fit: intelligence information for terrorist attacks or even small containers of the appropriate germs produced in
laboratories 38 miles southeast of Tehran.
It is inconceivable that we'll attack Iraq, succeed, destroy its unconventional laboratories and arsenal, come home for a
ticker-tape parade on Wilshire Boulevard and go to the beaches--while Iran is still there. Imagine a brain surgeon penetrating
the skull of a patient who has two malignant tumors and yet extracting only one of them. Logic says that, as long as you are in
that skull, the same incision should serve for the removal of the second tumor.
The application here would be that once 250,000 U.S. and British troops mass to strike in that festering part of the world, they
would hit in two quick blows at Iraq and Iran. I believe that's the reason for the delay in striking Iraq.
The White House and the Pentagon have the responsibility of planning the big picture. Remember the two bulls, a father and
son, walking pleasantly down the meadow and seeing ahead of them a group of attractive cows? The excited young bull
requests permission from the father bull to run and make love to one of them. Walk, and make love to all of them, answers dad
with a grin, reflecting common sense
JWR contributor Ranan R. Lurie, a senior adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., is a syndicated columnist and political cartoonist. Comment by clicking here.
Bush's warnings on Baghdad are so clever, most don't grasp his M.O.
By Ranan R. Lurie
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President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are talking about Iraq, but they're contemplating Iran. It may eventually be
written in the annals of contemporary history that the ultimate clever deception by the United States was concentrating the
warnings on Baghdad while the intended target was Tehran.
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