Iran has
restarted the use of the nuclear bomb-making equipment it received from Noted Bastard AQ Khan. It may now be too late to stop the Iranian bomb. As the entire world absorbs itself in the pomp, pageantry and spectacle of the Turino Olympics, it's worth remembering the lesson of the ancient Greeks-the world-beating civilization that was able, displaying admirable heroics, to prevent the far more numerous forces of Persia from successfully eradicating it. Unfortunately, the Greeks didn't manage to remain a viable concern, and their Olympics perished for thousands of years before a successor Western civilization revived them.
If modern Persia is allowed to join the nuclear club, we can't be too far behind the ancient Greeks in history's scrap-book. Victor Davis Hanson has also noticed how far our liberties and sense of self-assurance have declined:
Losing Civilization. In addition, Ahmad-i-nejad is now directly threatening to
punish the American and European people collectively for the Danish cartoons...I have an inkling of what kind of punishment he intends.
This is no joke.
President Bush has made repeated, personal assurances, in more than one forum, that Iran will not be allowed to attain nuclear status while he could do anything about it. It is time for you to act, Mr. President.
Now. Yesterday. Or your word is as hollow on preventing nuclear Iran as it was on preventing a Rwanda-like genocide.
"Not on my watch", you wrote. Really?
We're in a living nightmare, stuck in a do-loop. Enjoy the Olympics; if we were serious in the first place, Nazi Iran would have been excluded from them.
Yes, FRance there will be some deaths. Yes, Allemagne, you will be siding with the Jews. Yes,Angleterre,you will need to conjure up back-bone.
Surely, the Nuke prep plants need water for cooling and electricity for power. Can't the Brains figure it out where it is coming from and splat those utilities now?
Who hard is that? (they want to be sufficent on nucke power anyway, we'll just help it along faster.)
It was Alexander who demolished Achamenian Persia and conquered the known world. It's the Persians who never recovered.
Greece fostered Rome and gave it an alphabet. Greek was the official language of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Greeck Civ co-fathered Christianity with Judaism. The Byzantine Empire was a Greek Empire and lasted until 1453.
Greece defeating Achamenian Persia was one of those sad and rare events in history where one force for progress defeats another force for progress. Ancient Greek and ancient Persian philosophers and scholars were known to each other. The reason you can rattle off the names of half a dozen ancient Greek philosophers and probably can't name one ancient Persian philosopher or scholar is that history is written by the winners and Greece defeated Persia.
I really do think this might be the end.
(So, if there's anything you've really been wanting to do, and have been putting it off, do it now, before it's too late. Believers, make some sort of peace with G-d, however you envision the deity; non-believers, make peace with yourselves, do what seems best to you, etc.)
And I hope that G-d does help and preserve us all. But it doesn't look good at this point.