I know: a rather shocking title. Those of us born before the early 1960’s remember the days in the late 1970’s when some conservative youths hosted “Nuke Iran” parties.

My good friend Steve hosted such a party at his family’s home – I was all-in as a fellow organizer. Looking back, his parents were quite tolerant of our testosterone-laden bravado. It was really an excuse to play great music very loudly, drink plenty of beer, and enjoy friendships that wouldn’t last after college. Those were the good old days.

Nowadays I am concerned about Iran’s reticence to agree to a nuclear non-proliferation deal. They are literally a few months away from developing a nuclear warhead. It’s painfully obvious that our side is more interested in making a deal – any deal – than they are. What should America do when the evil whack-jobs who reign over the Iranian people won’t agree to the easiest of deals? Some say walk away. I say we get tough – really tough – BEFORE Iran completes building a nuclear bomb.

Now is the time to destroy some of Iran’s key uranium enrichment and plutonium processing facilities located in sparsely populated areas. Perhaps it’s just a matter of making a cyber attack, but I suspect that would only have a short-term impact. We could use Special Forces, but Iran’s facilities are buried deep and are well protected. Tactical nuclear weapons would do the job without losing American lives and with limited radiation fallout. From what I’ve read about weapons grade uranium and plutonium (that we would be destroying), it would burn and melt instead of exploding. We could help Iran seal up the aftermath.

However we choose to get it done, we would then come back to a negotiating table where the Iranian government will be anxious to deal. Still no deal? Vaporize another facility or two. Eventually, Iran would be on its knees for a change.

Moral relativism, pushed in our schools and on political soapboxes, has given many Americans the notion that all cultures are equal. That is why, for example, most American feminists aren’t openly incensed about the treatment of women and girls in Islamic countries. Before moral relativism, the American public was more concerned about the lives of American soldiers than the lives of our enemies. That’s why most Americans accepted the terrible loss of civilian lives in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The American people have lost their tolerance for real war, where historically there were a lot of civilian casualties.

Unlike in the past, it’s quite difficult for Americans today to accept even a one-day all-out campaign of destruction against Islamo-terrorist uranium and plutonium facilities. I believe this would be the case even if the body counts were relatively low and the nuclear fallout was inconsequential.

I’m going to catch hell from some of my Libertarian friends who spout their belief that if we just leave the Middle East alone, the crazy people will kill each other, and the region will turn into the Paradise of old. But then some Libertarians also believe in lax drug laws. In their world, fairies and unicorns are real.

Further chastisement will be directed at me by a small band of conservatives who somehow think that Israel and the Jews are as evil as Muslim terrorists and the backwards leaders of many Arab nations. I don’t get it. Just this week I had a brief sparring bout with a Tea Party friend on Facebook who believes that the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had a lot to do with defending Israel. As if 9/11 wasn’t a direct attack on America, to which we responded? Yes, Israel has benefited from our use of force, but I see no evidence that we fought these wars largely to protect Israel, nor is Israel incapable of defending itself.

Clearly, if the United States destroys Iran’s capacity for nuclear proliferation, Israel will be very much relieved. But America would do it for the protection of Americans. Once Iran becomes armed with nuclear weapons, surely they will supply nukes to the rest of the Islamo-fascist world to recoup their investment. The mullahs of Iran would like nothing better than to supply a rogue terrorist group with a suitcase bomb destined for America. What better way for them to destroy “the Great Satan” in the name of their god?

Meanwhile, back at World Hindquarters in Washington, D.C., President Obama spoke at the annual National Prayer Breakfast. I think it was a good speech, except for the part where he felt he had to make reference to Christians committing terrible deeds in the name of Christ during the Crusades. The only thing I can think of that links any of us to the Crusades is that we benefit from the fact that Europe and much of the rest of the world would now be Muslim if it weren’t for the Crusades.

The president also said that acts of violence and terror are being “perpetuated by those who profess to stand up for Islam but in fact are betraying it…” followed by, “We see ISIL (sic), a brutal vicious death cult that, in the name of religion, carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism…” He came very close to linking ISIS with Islamic extremism, which would have been a first for him.

Sadly, there’s no hope that President Obama will take a tough stand on Iran, just as he’s not taken a tough stand on much else, except for Christians in Muslim lands and Jews in Israel. Two more years of this president? Oy Vey! I hope that we can survive that long.

Peter Lachance is an executive coach residing in Lower Makefield Twp., PA. He is a staunch conservative and a supporter of the original intent of the Constitution. He can be reached at: peteralachance@gmail.com.

Sources

Enough is Enough: Time to Ditch the Iran Nuclear Talks, The National Interest, Tom Nichols, February 3, 2015:

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/enough-enough-time-ditch-the-iran-nuclear-talks-12173?page=1

Toomey: Obama Not Trying to Prevent Iran from Getting a Nuke, Breitbart, Dan Riehl, February 4, 2015:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/04/toomey-obama-not-trying-to-prevent-iran-from-getting-a-nuke/

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Iranian Interim Nuclear Deal: Politically Motivated?, Calkins Media Community Blog – Politically Correct, Peter Lachance, December 5, 2013:

http://www.theintell.com/blogs/politically-correct/iranian-interim-nuclear-deal-politically-motivated/article_f19317a6-5de3-11e3-bbdd-0019bb30f31a.html