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Interesting article from Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek saying that Iran possibly isn't the threat that everyone thinks. Click HERE.
While that is a comforting thought, complacency about foreign threats by citing America's overwhelming industrial and military might (that we'd basically destroy anyone who attacked us) is exactly the kind of arrogant thinking that brought us 9/11. Our sense of martial superiority laid bare our weaknesses.
In the 90's, after the fall of the Soviet Union's Evil Empire, everyone, including me, thought that the United States could never be attacked and that anyone who tried would certainly have their asses handed to them post haste. In a sense, that did happen. The terror attacks of September 11, 2001 occured, and so we took down the Taliban; furthermore, while Iraq was not involved in 9/11, as a state sponsor of terror, as well as a declared enemy of the United States and a threat to world peace, we destroyed that regime as well.
But the consequences of their actions do not concern Islamo-fascist enemies of this country. As far as they are concerned, Allah will provide life or death, and in death provide paradise. All the radical Jihadists know is that they must kill infidels. The threat of retaliation cannot convince them to stop their nefarious plans.
And so we cannot simply compare the size of battlefield armies, or industrial capabilities, as we did against the USSR. Just because we'd defeat our foes in battle doesn't mean they won't attack us. We cannot say that because Iran cannot invade our territory that that nation is not a threat. Iran needs to stop its nuclear ambitions, or serious consequences must be meted out.
