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Rabbi Moshe Reiss




Should we worry more about Pakistan and less about Iran?

Pakistan is more a failed state and very likely more dangerous to Israel and the West that Iran!  They already have sold nuclear technology to terrorist governments under past and possibly future Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.


Pakistans Collapse:


What will happen if the government of Pakistan fails; can a nuclear-armed Pakistan descended into chaos?


Pakistans officer corps and ruling elites remain largely moderate and more interested in building a strong, modern state than in exporting terrorism or nuclear weapons to the highest bidder. That was also the case with the Shahs government in Iran until it was too late.




Could Pakistan collapse and could an extreme Islamist movement fill the vacuum; or a loss of federal control over outlying provinces, which splinter along ethnic and tribal lines; or a struggle within the Pakistani military in which the minority sympathetic to the Taliban and Al Qaeda try to establish Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism.



The task of stabilizing a collapsed Pakistan is beyond the means of the United States and any willing allies.


There may be internecine warfare within the Pakistani security forces.

Splinter forces of radical Islamists could take control of parts of the country containing crucial nuclear materials. 





Norman Podohertz the former Editor of Commentary Magazine

wrote in his new book, "World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism," was published on Sept. 11, 2007.


For other articles on this subject see:


Podhoretz urges bombing Iran as soon as it is logistically possible

The Economist (Early Nov. 2007) tallied up the risks of a potential Shock and Awe II this summer: Iran could fire hundreds of missiles at Israel, attack American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, organize terrorist attacks in the West or choke off tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the worlds oil windpipe.


Podhoretz claims as have others that by the end of the 21th Europe will become Eurabia, that is dominated by Muslims. Europe will react to the Islamization of its continent. A recent poll by the U.N. documented that over two thirds of the population of Italy, Spain, Britain France and Germany favor restricting immigration (IHT, Oct. 7, 2007, pg. 2). Actually it is not clear that Podohertz believes it himself. In an interview he gave to his daughter Ruthie Blum he stated I find it impossible to believe that the evil forces Islamofascism will prevail over the political good that embodied in Western civilization. (Jerusalem Post, Magazine, June 8, pg. 23).


Jihadism represents a medieval religion. Jihadisms ideology is not an ideology of Living but a culture of Death; that can never overcome an ideology of Life. Only losers back death, the Islamists are losers and cannot win!! There is no Islamofascism ideology that can win a victory over the West. Iran is close to a failed state (Iraq IS a failed state) and not a threat to the U.S. and not likely to Israel.


As Ali Salem, Arabic Playwright and Poet (25 play and 15 books published)  has stated "The culture of death is a culture of irresponsibility. This culture may not be ready to die but it surely  will whether in a another decade or score of years or another generation or even a jubilee.


Former Secretary and General of the Chief of Staff Colin Powell stated in an interview: What is the greatest threat facing us now? People will say its terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. Can they knock down a building? Yes. Can they kill somebody? Yes. But can they change us? No. Only we can change ourselves. . .  We are taking too much counsel of our fears. (GQ Magazine Sept 11)


The War in Iraq and Afghanistan is a skirmish compared to any of the two wars or genocides of WWIII. The chances of the West (both America and Europe) becoming Muslim, the objective of bin Laden, the late Ayatollah Khomeini and President Ahmadinejad approach zero. The War on Terror may continue for a long time, but it is not a World War. It is like the Red Terrorist group that prevailed in Germany and Italy in the 1960s and 1970s.



Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld (Hebrew University) says Israel must and can learn to live with a nuclear-armed Iran.






Third, continue developing the countrys anti-missile defenses. Currently Israel is the only country in the world whose skies are defended by an operational anti-missile system, the Hetz, or Arrow. Still, now that billions have been sunk into it and it does exist, it should be put to the best possible use.


That use would consist of convincing the leadership in Tehran that if they decide to attack Israel, their missiles may not get through. And if the missiles dont get through, just as if they do, Iran will open itself to awesome and terrible retaliation, as Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir once put it.





