HUGH FITZGERALD
WE MUST DEAL WITH IRAN Iran must be dealt with. And this is why the U.S. forces have to get out of Iraq -- get out of the way of any possible retaliation. What has been done in Iraq has been done. If the Iraqis, at this point, cannot deal with it, too bad. And there is nothing wrong with the "Somalia Solution" -- disarming Muslim countries, depriving them of outside resources to the extent possible, and letting them sink or swim on their own. As long as they cannot export their population, with the deliberately highest birth-rate in the world, to the Lands of the Infidels, and as long as they are deprived of all major weaponry, so that the non-Muslim buys time to educate itself about Islam, its tenets, its history, then Islam can be constrained. There is no "solution" and there is no "end" to this. It is simply a condition, a condition that was lived with for a long time, and many Infidels in fact were subjugated, and their cultures, their identitites, subject to slow asphyxiastion. What has complicated matters is that despite the primitiveness of Islam, so that modern medicine, modern technology, modern everything cannot possibly be produced in the Islamic world, arms can be bought, plans can be stolen (that is how A. Q. Khan got his infamous start), Western traitors can be bribed. The money is the problem -- and here only a campaign to diminish oil revenues to the Muslim states will help. Iranian nuclear facilities can be bombed, foreign aid to Egypt and Jordan stopped (and should be). But it is the money, to Saudi Arabia, to the U.A.E., to Kuwait, to Iran and Iraq, that is the essential problem. Who will staunch the flow of money? What if the tens of billions now being spent in Iraq were spent, rather, on solar energy projects, or wind, or making nuclear plants -- if nuclear energy was good enough for Andre Sakharov, and for Hans Bethe, it's good enough for most of us. What needs to be done to save the world from the Jihad is exactly what needs to be done to save the world from permanent, and possibly irreversible, ecological collapse. Can't this be seen? Can't the identity of interests be seen? And whether it is Bush or Kerry, surely both can agree, and agree now, that the country has to be put on a war footing to find other sources of energy than the oil that funds mosques and madrasas, which after all, are the most potent weapons in the world-wide and essentially endless, but containable, Jihad.
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