Post Columbia: Iran Postures As Soldiers Die

Quite a sad juxtaposition in the headlines we have coming over the wires tonight. One from Iran and one out of Britain, not the US.

President (Ahmadinejad) says Iran has an int'l mission

Iran 'arming Taliban with roadside bombs'

I think back to the recent, supposedly brave and scathing denouncement of Iranian President Ahmadinejad by Columbia University President Lee Bollinger, and I can't seem to recall any defining moment or statement meant to steel the world to confront a malevolent evil bent on imposing its theocratic vision upon at least the Middle East, if not the world.

In fact, with the Webb Amendment, co-sponsored by likely Democrat Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the candidate I'd wager Bollinger will most likely support, the American Congress led by the Democrat Party actually seeks to tie an American President's hands in that regard. And all this while brave young men and women with our coalition forces deploy, fight and sometimes die in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hands reaching out from the long arm of Ahmadinejad. And make no mistake, he's boasting about it as it unfolds.

Words fail, just as it was a foregone conclusion that the words of Columbia's President would fail to make any difference in the grand scheme of this pending confrontation. Perhaps in the realpolitik of our less than ideal world it isn't quite yet time to militarily confront the known and now well-documented and already costly threat from Iran. Perhaps. But young lives will vanish in the interim, that's just the truth.

And in their mourning, we will need more words. I wonder, were Bollinger enlisted to eulogize just some few of our best that will die at the end of a long Iranian arm in the interim, would he sound so brave, so noble standing over their graves?

Somehow I doubt it. Somehow I think his words would simply fail, again.

Comments

[ET]

The Bush Administration's decision to invade Iraq and establish a beachhead on the front line in our battle to repel Islamic fundamentalists in the long, global war of civilizations (which many denied) will be remembered as genius by future generations of Americans who are free to practice their various religions in a free society.

There. I got it all in one sentence.

[Fred Belot]

Well, ET, today big, bad, Buffalo Boob will assail you for this true statement you just made. But so what. He won't challenge your statement with ideas nor evidence. He'll just put on his usual Henny Youngman imitation with some lame one-liner. A t--d for him, eh?