First Thoughts on Iranian Nuclear Problem: Let the EU Take the Lead

Iran's terrorist president has taken to the airwaves, suggesting that Israel be relocated to Europe and that the Holocaust never happened.

His remarks have unleashed a wave of fury in Western capitols that will ultimately result in a military conflict between Israel and Iran (at the very least), or a coalition of countries that are determined to stop Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

Analysis: Israel is ready to turn Tehran into glass right now. Iran is goading Israel into a military confrontation that will allow Iran to strike freely and openly at Israel. They also appear to be betting that Europe's pacifist movement will keep the EU from getting into a military confrontation with Tehran. AND they're betting that the U.S. military is too overstretched to take action.

Some off-the-wall thoughts: the U.S. should support Israel against Iran, regardless of what the EU decides. If this means reinforcing Israel's military by providing military hardware and ammo, so be it. But for all the noise the EU is making about Iran, their track record on supporting U.S. terror initiatives has been lukewarm at best. Why should we treat their terror initiatives any differently than they treated ours?

If the EU attacks Iran, they should do so without U.S. or British or Iraq-coalition support. Let the EU take the lead and THEN try to convince the U.S. of the worthiness of THEIR cause. That would be poetic justice.

In reality, that's not how it will unfold.

Israel will probably not wait for the rest of the world to catch on that Iran's president is about nine cans short of a six-pack. The EU will probably sit it out, the result of their unwillingness to use their militaries; and who knows what the U.S. will do? It will probably deal with Iran after shoving the Europeans out of the way and telling Israel to stay out of it unless it is attacked by Iranian missiles or aircraft.

In any case, Iran's clerics ought to be telling their hostage-taking bigmouth lunatic president to shut up and comply with UN and IAEA demands before it's too late. The Iranian people will suffer the most from cracked-open Iranian nuclear reactors and blown up nuclear fuel rods scattering radioactivity to the four winds.

While the Iranian president's comments about the Holocaust were absurd and motivated by pure hatred of Israel, it can be dealt with AFTER the nuclear problem is taken care of.

And the U.S. and EU should do what they must to keep Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. But if it becomes necessary to use military force OR force a UN Security Council resolution, the ENTIRE EU should be leading the effort, not the U.S. It's their turn.