Iran has perfected the technology to create and detonate a nuclear warhead and is merely awaiting the word from its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to produce its first bomb, Western intelligence sources have told The Times.

At this moment, Iran has the capability to develop the bomb and can produce enough enriched uranium in about 6 months. Last January 20th it would have taken them 6 more months, but of course they were not stopped by the Obama administration. Instead, Obama decided it was time to engage in a long-term chat with the Iranian regime. Worse still, Iran’s Supreme Leader has just endorsed the hard-line, Holocaust-denying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iranian president, making these US-Iranian tea-time-chats even more useless in advancing our goal of preventing their production of nuclear weapons. When Israel suggested that a military strike was possible and it would push back their development 2 to 3 years, Obama told them ‘absolutely not.’ At what point does timidity become treason?

Worry not, though, I am not sticking to the right-wing talking points, the truth is that Bush also played a huge part in this appeasement strategy. Bush’s botched handling of the Iraq war gave North Korea and Iran the green light to develop nuclear weapons because they knew that we could not commit to another lengthy invasion/occupation like Iraq and Afghanistan. A successful invasion/reconstruction of Iraq would have been the best deterrent, but alas, a failed post-invasion strategy led to a near-civil war and an empowered Iran. Obama made it worse by openly advocating a kids-gloves policy towards dictatorships and terror-sponsoring states… it’s like the more dangerous the regime, the nicer that Obama acts.

If The Times report is accurate, then the civilized world better find a way to stop the Iranian regime or get used to a nuclear-armed state that openly preaches the utter destruction of our allies while sponsoring international terrorism. The thing that Americans need to ask themselves is “Why would president Obama work to further the goals of that hard-line Iranian regime?” The answer straddles the line between the sinister and the naive. The Left has long had a love-affair with totalitarian ideologies because of the fact that they are instinctively suspicious of American power and American freedom. Left-wing ideology stems from a rejection of individual initiative and instead embraces almost any ideology that posits that the collective is superior to the individual. This belief also applies to nations, where they believe that the inequality of nations, the inequality of powers in the world, is inherently evil and leads to war. That’s why Leftists ridicule and fear patriotism, disdain the military, and believe that the idea of “country” needs to go away and be replaced with a unified single world government. The only way to do this is to make countries equal in power, just like the Left’s domestic socialism strives to make everyone equal in wealth. This is why Obama embraces any regime that is willing to challenge American power, it is simply in his DNA to strive to create a world of multiple “equal” powers; he essentially said as much when he visited Europe telling them not to rely on America (economically) as much in the future. In the process, the role of democracy and freedom in the world will be diminished and instead of worrying about an intrusive federal government accountable to the people of America, we will have to worry about an authoritarian global government accountable to no one. It’s a brave new world out there.

-AG