Review of "Atomic Iran"--New Jerome "Swift Boat" Corsi Book

[TexasLawyer]

From super smarmy "Human Events" magazine. Guess what? They LOVED this book. It's a feel-good, page-turning call to pre-emptive war against an enemy that is bent on the destruction of America. Bring it to the pool for a great summer read. :sarcasm:

National Security & Defense



Corsi’s Atomic Iran Exposes Liberal Appeasement Blunders

Iran Poses Growing Nuclear Threat

by Larry Kelley
Posted Jun 1, 2005


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Jerome Corsi, in his new book, Atomic Iran, makes the case that the West is again poised with Persia for a confrontation of the ages. And like the men who fought at Marathon, we cannot afford to wait for Persia to attack.

Co-author of Unfit for Command (Regnery—a Human Events sister company), a book that undeniably influenced the presidential election in favor of George W. Bush, Corsi’s current book has a two-part central thesis: First, Iran is extremely close to having all the components necessary to launch a nuclear-tipped missile at Tel Aviv or to develop and detonate a modular nuclear device in the center of Manhattan or both. Second, because the Mullahs ruling Iran are themselves of the same mindset as the suicide terrorists they fund and deploy, they are likely to use those weapons sooner rather than later. Corsi’s mission is even more messianic than influencing a U.S. presidential election. It is nothing less than the jump-starting of a populist revolution in Iran.

Atomic Iran is also a useful compendium of the contributing events and themes that have influenced this current buildup to the new cold war with militant Islam and its looming 21st Century version of the Cuban missile crisis. For example, he convincingly contends that the United States is already at war with the entire Islamic terror network, including Hamas and Hezbollah and their financier, Iran. After first taking American hostages during the Carter Administration, Iran has been conclusively linked to the murder of American military personnel in the Beirut bombing in 1983, the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia and today in Iraq.

Another important theme developed in Atomic Iran is that the American left generally, and the Democratic Party specifically, has shown itself to have continuously fallen prey to the same appeasement philosophy as Neville Chamberlain, and in so doing, has hastened not only the Iranian but also the North Korean nuclear threat. Corsi exposes all too clearly for the timid the mundane symmetry present in the Democrats’ handling of the two rogue states.

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http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7596

[thebigidea]

1. what is it with these freaks and apocalyptic battles between good n evil?

enough with this "confrontation of the ages" stuff. I've had my fill of "clash of civilizations," too.

[TexasLawyer]

4. It's simple....

No messy shades of grey for the people to fuss about.

That makes it easier to kinda "catapult the propaganda."

[invictus]

2. "like the men who fought at Marathon" LOL!!!

Fundies are always so melodramatic.

[TexasLawyer]

3. See, the guys who fought the Persians at Marathon

did so pre-emptively. So we should too. Make sense? You bet!:sarcasm:

[newyawker99]

5. Hi invictus!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: