Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

December 6, 2011

The American Enterprise Institute is one of the most prominent of the Washington-based think-tanks promoting pre-emptive war against Iran. Danielle Pletka, who heads the group?s foreign policy section, is an unabashed war hawk regarding Iran.

In a recent address, Ms. Pletka offered a revealing assessment of the real dangers posed by a nuclear Iran: ?The biggest problem for the United States is not Iran getting a nuclear weapon and testing it; it's Iran getting a nuclear weapon and not using it.? This would result in Iran being perceived as a ?reasonable power,? rather than a rogue regime.

Thomas Donnelly, Pletka?s comrade at AEI, insists that war with Iran is necessary not to prevent nuclear genocide, but in order to preserve ?the balance of power in the Persian Gulf and the greater Middle East.?

For years, the American public has been barraged with apocalyptic predictions that a nuclear-armed Iran would launch a genocidal attack on Israel. The AEI, which is one of the most hawkish neo-con think-tanks in Washington, appears to believe that if Iran is seeking a nuclear arsenal, it?s doing so for the purposes of deterrence, not aggression. This is a problem that can be addressed by means less drastic than war.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.