By Stan Goodenough
Jan 27, 2009
While the world's nations dilly-dally around dealing effectively with the Iranian effort to acquire nuclear weapons with which to wipe out Israel, the Islamist regime continues to race ahead in its efforts to get "the bomb."
Iran is only the latest in a long line of nations which, down the ages, has sought to destroy Israel and/or wipe out the Jews. Even as he pursues the means to fulfill this "mission," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday denied that the Holocaust he is seeking to emulate even took place
According to a International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) expert cited in The Jerusalem Post Tuesday, Tehran could have its hands on enough enriched uranium to make an atomic bomb by the end of 2009.
While the uranium would need more enrichment before it could be used, the Islamic state would have passed the point of no return with what it had managed to produce in this year.
The IISS' Mark Fitzpatrick said that, nonetheless, the progress being made in Iran raised the question "whether military action is needed in the absence of progress in diplomacy."
But Fitzpatrick also endorsed new US President Barack Obama's declared intention to dialogue with some of the world's more monstrous regimes.
"The West, in particular the United States, should seek to engage Iran."
History scholars in numerous nations have pointed to the past rotten fruits of such appeasement approaches, and warned that Iran would only perceive this as weakness and work to exploit it.