Commitment to Talk, Failure to Act

"Make no mistake, a nuclear-armed Iran is not a challenge that can be contained.  It would threaten the elimination of Israel, the security of Gulf nations and the stability of the global economy."
"That is why a coalition of countries is holding the Iranian government accountable.  And that is why the United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon."
U.S. President Barack Obama

Few have been mistaken in not being aware that a nuclear-armed Iran would represent a challenge to the security and stability of the Middle East and the world at large.  Iran has gone to great lengths repeatedly to ensure that the entire Globe is well aware of its deadly antipathy to the presence of the State of Israel within the Middle East.  Tehran has spoken in contemptful details of the Zionist plague it feels duty-bound to Islam to destroy.

What might it be that would so massively motivate Tehran and the Ayatollahs to dedicate so much of their resources to build underground mountain bunkers and devote signal military installations to the enrichment of uranium and the testing of new and improved-in-distance ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads?  Medical isotope production does not require nuclear enrichment to the degree Tehran now boasts.

President Obama feels great antipathy to the Islamic Republic of Iran which slapped away his conciliatory gesture and loftily defies international objections to its accessorizing its weapons systems with atomic strength destruction.  But much as he deplores what Iran is planning and successfully acquiring, he has no quarrel with the world of Islam, despite that that very world consistently and regularly howls its despisal of America.

Insisting that the reaction against the United States that keeps erupting in viciously vociferous and rabidly violent mob action is entirely attributable to the actions of a handful of mischief makers using the American First Amendment for their own nefarious purposes.  The offending film, the Innocence of Muslims, he declares, though foul and unfair does not justify the violence it has extracted from faith-sodden Muslims.  Nor does it, all the more so sans apologies.

"It is time to marginalize those who - even when not resorting to violence - use hatred of America, or the West, or Israel, as a central principle of politics.  I know there are some who ask why we don't just ban such a video.  The answer is enshrined in our laws: our Constitution protects the right to practise free speech."

And on to a required denouncement of the Syrian regime: "The regime of Bashar Assad must come to an end so that the suffering of the Syrian people can stop and a new dawn can begin.  In Syria, the future must not belong to a dictator who massacres his people", he warned.  UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned of Syria's conflict turning into a "regional calamity with severe global ramifications."

Without Iran's dedication to ensuring the full and complete routing of the Syrian opposition, drawing from the Republic's own experience with the green revolutionaries who proved no match for the Presidential Guard and the Basiji units that beset them with violence, torture and death, President Bashar al-Assad would doubtless not have been able to prolong his assault against the Free Syrian Army and the rebels, as he has.

Qatar's Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, echoed the Secretary General: "It is better for Arab countries themselves to intervene out of their humanitarian, political and military duties and do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed", he avowed.  Representing the usual useless, hot air that emanates from that august body.  Why then, has the Arab League endowed collectively with well armed militaries, not marched on Iran to remove its threat?

Giving due warning to state malefactors that their threatening and potentially destructive, and murderous activities will not go unchallenged.  They are challenged, however, by words, certainly not through the firmer commitment of deeds.  As the United States is compelled to act so that Iran does not procure nuclear weapons, so does the UN commit itself to solving state brutality against its people.  Verbally, for whatever that's worth.

And so too do the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Emirates, all claim through the Arab League to distrust and apprehension about Iran's nuclear program, insisting that they are capable of solving Syria's intractable war against itself, speaking with the courage that their actions belie of their frail convictions.