One reader was kind enough to remind me that I had missed an important prediction for this new year.. And she was correct!
"Will Iran be allowed to become a nuclear nation in 2010"?
I guess I did not deal with this issue in my 2010 predictions since this is one area where I just don't know what to expect.
I can tell you though, if it was up to me, I would pound the Iranian Nuclear Installations into smithereens and would continue to blast away at them every time an attempt was made to rebuild.
But alas, it is not up to me.
What I do know, is that the world cannot afford to have any more unstable countries acquire nuclear weapons. It is scary enough with both North Korea and Pakistan having them.
I had thought that George W. Bush would have launched attacks against Iran's facilities in the dying days of his Presidency. I was wrong. Even his VP - Dick Cheney is on record as saying he begged George W to attack - all to no avail.
I suspect Bush's inaction was based on his attempt to preserve some stature in the face of continued and relentless attacks from the Left. He too was wrong to do that.
Accordingly, we are left with a very dangerous situation.
How can the West possibly let Iran have Nukes when their stated goal is to see the obliteration of Israel and indeed all of Jewry. Plus, Iran is the major backer of our common enemy Al Qaeda. Just imagine what would happen if Al Qaeda got its hands on small nukes!!! There goes New York...
And be assured, with Russia and China helping Iran behind the scenes - there are no other measures that can be successfully brought to bear against this rogue country.
So will Obama do what Bush failed to do. Not likely. His Leftist followers would not permit it and besides, I do not see it in his make-up. He will cling stubbornly to diplomacy, long after it has proved senseless.
It falls to Israel to act and yet I am not so sure they are prepared to go it alone. Heretofore they have known that, come what may, the United States would stand behind them but with the Obama Administration - it is no longer a certainty. Quite the opposite.
If nothing is done by either the States or Israel, this year will see Iran enter the Nuclear Age. With its unstable and radical Theocracy it can be assumed that sooner or later use will be made of these mass weapons of destruction. First against Israel and then against the West.
Indeed, I am not so sure that Iran does not already have nuclear capacity and thus it may be too late already.
Regardless, should an attack on their nuclear facilities come about, the World will incur a major economic shock - as oil prices rocket up to the $200 a barrel and stock markets around the Globe swoon.
Israel will be the target of numerous Iranian Missiles - hopefully only conventional ones - but even they will do great damage to such a small country.
So we are damned if we do and damned if we don't.
But far worse, I believe, if we don't; the time has come to take the gloves off with Iran and with Al Qaeda.
Will it happen?
I just don't know.
"Galagher"
