Real compassion deals with the problem

From The American Thinker:

Tensions between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the West have been heightening. After years of appeasement in the hope of getting something in exchange, Western leaders now seem to have realized that multilateral talks on the nuclear issue inevitably lead nowhere. Hence, the idea of imposing UN sanctions is gaining consensus among the once-reluctant Europeans. No doubt that the Ahmadinejad factor is playing a significant role in further isolating Iran from the rest of the world.

The international community and public opinion are growing suspicious of the Mullahs' plans, and they are right to be. In every international dispute between two sides, psychological war is the rule, not the exception. In the case of the Iranian nuclear issue, we are witnessing just such an example: threats of an imminent military strike by the United States and Israel, naval maneuvers in the Persian Gulf and so on. But the reality is much more complicated, and it looks as if neither the Americans nor the Israelis are disposed to attack Iran, at least for now.

Unfortunately, many ignore that the Iranian people are the main victim of the Islamic regime and its reign of terror and oppression, for the last twenty-eight years. There seems to be a worrisome trend to mix what the Ayatollahs' regime stands for with Iran as a nation as a whole. Without any doubt, this might well be the result of ignorance, as well as the lack of a deep knowledge of Iran's history, society and culture.

The author of this article, Stefania Lapenna, makes an error which has become typical of modern Western nations. That error is drawing a distinction between the people of a nation and its government. It is true that most of the Iranian people do not support the mullahs, however that is beside the point.

The majority of the German people voted against the Nazi Party in free elections (they never got as much as 50% of the vote) however Adolph Hitler still commanded the military and industrial might of Germany. In the same way the Ayatollahs control the military power of Iran and its oil wealth. It is at their command that their nuclear scientists are creating atomic bombs and it is at their command that their special forces are financing and equipping insurgents in Iraq. It is at their command that their terrorist surrogates are destabilizing Lebanon and carrying out attacks on Israel.

It is true that the first and worst victims of the totalitarian religious insanity of the Iranian theocracy are the people of Iran. But it is also true that the kindest thing we could do for those oppressed people is to blast the outlaw Iranian government into smoking rubble.

The best course, of course, would have been to prevent the Ayatollah Khomeini from taking power. The CIA should have put a bullet through his turbaned head while he was still living in exile in Paris. Just as the UK and France should have marched against Nazi Germany when Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles in March 1936, by reoccupying the demilitarized zone in the Rhineland.

Failing that the US should have used its military power to put down the uprising that led to the downfall of the Shah. However we were saddled with the most contemptible weakling ever to hold the office of president at that time and so we did nothing.

The only course open to us now, other than doing nothing until Iran completes its nuclear program and becomes the world's first nuclear armed Islamic loonacracy, is to save the Iranian people and the other peoples of the world from their own government in exactly the same way we saved the German and Japanese people from their own ruling madmen.

Anything less is the phony liberal "compassion" which fails to solve anything and only allows problems to grow worse at exponential rates until the final conflagration is many orders of magnitude worse than it had to be.