By Stan Goodenough
Oct 06, 2008
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be vowing to destroy Israel as his country races to manufacture the nuclear weapon with which to carry out that genocidal deed, but the international community that allowed Hitler to wipe out a third of all the world's Jews just 65 years ago will not succeed in stopping him.
This dark view was conveyed Monday by NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
Addressing a conference in France, Scheffer said he was worried by the failure of the United Nations to slow down or stop Iran's race for an A-Bomb for Allah.
"It is a major challenge to prevent Iran from continuing to strive to get the bomb," Scheffer said, according to a Reuters report.
"I am not positive about the world being able to stop Iran from fulfilling its ambitions."
Israel's leaders across the political spectrum have vowed that their nation will not allow Iran to go nuclear, and have appealed for American support to enable them to successfully strike the Islamic Republic's atomic facilities.
Newspapers in Israel recently reported that Israeli Prime Minister personally asked US President George W. Bush for a green light to hit Iran, but that the American turned down the request.