RSSIran carries out secret missile tests while Waldo goes to Iowa!
Michael Haltman | June 29, 2011
Iran carries out secret missile tests of weapons capable of deploying and delivering a nuclear payload!While President Obama jets off to an Iowa campaign stop at a manufacturing plant designed to try and counteract the surge in popularity enjoyed by Michele Bachmann from her presidential campaign announcement, the news on the Iranian front continues to be extremely troubling and very much ignored by those in Washington.
In the article "Iranian nukes through political humor cannot soften the message" on June 22nd this scenario of U.S. government malignant neglect was described.
Seemingly content to allow the Iranian nuclear weapons development crisis to proceed at its own pace and on its own terms, the attention in Washington, and more specifically in the Obama White House, is focused on certain important issues such as the debt-ceiling debate, and many insignificant ones such as the 2012 presidential campaign.
This as the Iranians tested missiles that are reportedly capable of reaching both Israel and U.S. military bases.
What is the plan to deal with the Iranian nuclear development problem?
Unfortunately, in the face of the real and present danger faced by the west from Iranian nuclear ambitions, there is no clear and potentially effective plan in place to deal with it.
What we have are a coalition of countries, led by Obama, who are more than happy to proceed down the merry path of playing a game of charades.
In this game the coalition, led by the U.N., imposes "biting" sanctions on a rogue regime that could care less about them now, and who will continue to be dismissive of them in the future.
Meanwhile Iran's development of a nuclear weapons capability moves forward, for the most part unfettered by any resistance from outside forces.
The Iranian threat
From Human Events, "... The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Nuclear Threat Initiative states that Iran’s now twice-successful Safir satellite launch vehicle, if converted into a ballistic missile, would likely be able to carry a 1,100-pound warhead 1,875 miles (reaching Berlin), or a 2,200-pound warhead approximately 1,250 miles (covering the entire Middle East). Put that capability into perspective.
The warhead’s weight and explosive yield depend on the technology used. The “Fat Man” atomic bomb that destroyed Nagasaki in 1945 weighed 10,300 pounds and produced an explosive yield of 21 kilotons. By comparison, modern atomic weapons can weigh just a few hundred pounds and produce an explosive yield equal to hundreds of kilotons.
Today, Iran is experimenting with all the technologies necessary to produce a powerful nuclear warhead, and the missiles to deliver those weapons. The question for the West is not whether, but when, Iran will field such a weapon..."
This situation, more than any other, needs to be addressed in a proactive fashion because having to react to a nuclear missile strike is certainly the less attractive of the two options!
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