Posted by
Dr. Kerry on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:53:02 PM
Dealing with Iran
Marina Kats understands that we cannot ever allow rouge states such as Iran to dictate the course of events in the world because our lives and our freedoms are at stake. She does not support preventive warfare, attacking another sovereign country without having first been provoked. Marina, however, is wise enough to understand that we all must learn from the lessons of history. For example, opposing Hitler in the 1930’s, could have precluded World War II in the 1940’s. The Iranian leader sounds very much like the Hitler of our times. He wants to kill the Jews, he wants to wipe Israel off the map, and then he wants to destroy the United States of America and Western culture. He has referred to Israel and the United States respectively as the Little Satan and the Big Satan. Marina Kats will never passively sit by and let any of these things occur. She will take a proactive approach in Congress ensuring that we act first to prevent a disaster. She understands, as well, that it is our responsibility to determine how much of what Ahmadinejad is bellowing is just hot air and what is truly an actionable threat on the part of the Iranian government. She, therefore, fully supports bolstering our intelligence agencies (CIA, NSA, and DIA) and giving them the full powers they need to fulfill their vital missions to protect the citizens of the United States of America. Early-on, in the conflict with Iraq, our intelligence failed us to some degree and, thus, we cannot afford to have such failures repeat themselves in Iran. The stakes are just too great. The development of deployable weapons of mass destruction by an unstable regime --- that supports international terrorist organizations, has supported our enemies in Iraq by providing them with weapons that have killed our soldiers, and is hell-bent on destroying us and our closest allies --- can reasonably be construed as a provocation of the highest magnitude on the part of the extremist government of Iran.
Marina Kats will work with the governments of the United States, Israel, and our Arab allies to ensure through every means possible that Iran never obtains the ability to deploy any weapon of mass destruction.
Marina Kats will only support the deployment of American military personnel into harms way so long as she is satisfied that their missions and the determination of the U.S. leadership at the highest levels of government are always guided by two overarching goals: (1)—we must unconditionally defeat the enemy, and (2)—the loss of American blood must be minimized. Marina will further require that these two goals be met through the use of crushing force against the enemies. She will never support allowing our troops to enter any conflict “holding back our fists”, with the unrealistic hope that we won’t get hit back hard in return. History has shown that such hesitation to use massive force always leads to protracted conflicts. Marina Kats believes that the use of overwhelming force is the only way to win convincingly, and it also sends a clear message to any other potential advisories that they might meet the same fate should they challenge the United States with violent aggression. This is exactly the message radical Islamists need to hear form the United States. It’s the only message they understand, and it is the message that Marina Kats is more than willing to send to our enemies.