by Ferell Anderson

Created on: June 05, 2008   Last Updated: June 14, 2008

As a spectator of world events, it is apparent that the policy of Iran has always included the destruction of Israel. One need only to pay attention to the words of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad himself as he discribes the level of hate he has for Isreal. However, according to Ahmadinejad, the title of the "Great Satan" is resevered for America. We don't have to look far to understand such a titles' implacations, or meaning. Islam has a long, firm foundation stained in violence and we acknowledge how extremists in this religion hate the western influence both politically and socially in the world. Regardless, just as Israelis and Americans absolutely must heed the warnings of the Iranian President when he speaks of making Israel vanish, so should Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, never associate US and Israeli war plans as merely bluffing.

While it is true a change in Iran's Iran's foreign policy is necessary, the US is not "bluffing" about war plans in order to bring about policy changes. According to the Sunday Times Online, Sarah Baxter writes "The Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians' military capability in three days, according to a national security expert." While certain war ideas and exact planning may be fictionized, in order to gain the victory without compromising the element of surprise; certainly the US understands the concept of peace through strength, never again to be lolled into a false sense of security.

The world remembers a madman who slaughtered thousands that in the end, numbered in the millions. The madman Hitler managed to have the support of his entire nation during his murderous campaign against the Jewish people. And at the same time that Hitler was sending thousands to the gas chambers, furnaces and death camps, he fooled the world by promises of peace. And because of this horrible description of a snapshot of history, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can rest assured our plans are not an imprudent bluff. Rather, the Sunday Times Online reports, "President George Bush intensified the rhetoric against Iran recently, accusing Tehran of putting the Middle East "under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust". He warned that the US and its allies would confront Iran "before it is too late". In other words, the US will not stand idly by, issuing "bluffs" while Iran proceeds to make Israel vanish.

Additionally, the Sunday Times Online reports, "Israel has warned it will not allow

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