Regularly now, The Washington Post, as always concerned with
fairness and balance, runs a blog called "Right Turn: Jennifer Rubin's Take From
a Conservative Perspective."
The blog tells us what the Post regards as
conservatism.
On Monday, Rubin declared that America's "greatest national
security threat is Iran." Do conservatives really believe this?
How is
America, with thousands of strategic and tactical nuclear weapons, scores of
warships in the Med, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean, bombers and
nuclear subs and land-based missiles able to strike and incinerate Iran within
half an hour, threatened by Iran?
Iran has no missile that can reach us,
no air force or navy that would survive the first days of war, no nuclear
weapons, no bomb-grade uranium from which to build one. All of her nuclear
facilities are under constant United Nations surveillance and
inspection.
And if this Iran is the "greatest national security threat"
faced by the world's last superpower, why do Iran's nearest neighbors — Turkey,
Iraq, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Pakistan — seem so unafraid of her?
Citing
The Associated Press and Times of Israel, Rubin warns us that "Iran has picked
16 new locations for nuclear plants."
How many nuclear plants does Iran
have now? One, Bushehr.
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