How Close Are We To Nuclear Breakout In Iran? Is Tehran About To Reset The Table?
Originally published by AND Magazine.
Location Iran. Green pin on the map.
If you have spent time down range or in the field face to face with our nation’s adversaries, you know “the enemy gets a vote”. You can plan all you want. You can predict all you want. Ultimately, the enemy is under no compulsion to behave the way you want him to, or you think he will. He is perfectly free to change the game at any time and reset the board.
The Japanese were supposed to modify their behavior and come to the negotiating table in 1941. They chose instead to bomb Pearl Harbor.
Al-Qaida was supposed to continue to limit itself to attacks in the Middle East in 2001. It decided instead to take the fight onto our soil and kill almost 3000 Americans while we watched in horror.
The Russians were supposed to line their troops up on the Ukrainian border, rattle some sabers, and then accept the status quo. They opted to launch a lightning attack on Ukraine and gamble they could take Kiev before the West could react.
As we try to dig out from the wreckage of the Biden administration, we would do well to remember these lessons. Our enemies, who are legion, do not have to respond to our alternating overtures and threats by agreeing to see reason and talk. They are perfectly free to decide that it is time to jump.
A case in point is Iran.
The Iranians are a great people. They are heirs to one of the world’s great civilizations. I have worked with many Iranian patriots over the years. They were, to a man and a woman, educated, cultured, and yearning to breathe free again.
The men who control Iran today, the mullahs and the leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), exhibit none of these qualities. They subscribe to a dark, twisted form of Islam, and they yearn for Armageddon. They believe absolutely that we are in the end times and that they will emerge victorious from a final battle. For them, the Madhi, a mythical Islamic superman, is absolutely real. His return is imminent. The final victory is at hand.
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