World Stands Silent

"Never again" echoed around the globe as revelations about the Holocaust galvanized public opinion among the decent after World War II. The idea that a Shoah could never be perpetrated against the Jewish people again gained prominence. For many years, this apparent determination seemed a noble sentiment, but it is evident now that many seemingly well-meaning people only paid lip service to it. Iran is devoting vast national resources to a nuclear program. Iran is led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a circle of clerics who embrace the idea of precipitating world chaos to cause the return of the Mehdi- an End Time notion. Ahmadinejad has publicly declared his intention to wipe Israel off the map. But even Israel's traditional strong ally the United States has in this time of crisis that called for action, only equivocated. Even now, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US may still "talk" with Iran and that sanctions against Iran must not harm the Iranian people. What type of sanctions that would harm the Iranian regime and delay or prevent their acquisition of nuclear arms would not have the collateral effect of injuring some innocent Iranians? This is nonsense on the part of the West that will prompt non-action. It would be hard enough to convince Iran's erstwhile backers from China and Russia to go along with any sanctions regime in the United Nations, but the fantasy that the Iranian regime could be destabilized and overthrown without a grinding punitive regimen being imposed on Iran simply can not happen. White South Africans were hurt plenty as incidentally were blacks who were supposed to be the ones helped with the imposition of sanctions that eventually brought down Apartheid. No progress will be made on averting a nuclear confrontation between Iran and Israel, if the world does not take "never again" seriously and engage in a concerted effort to thwart Iran.