Day #...? Who Cares?

This has become shameful beyond expression. A violent and inferior nation captures 15 military personnel of a modern nation, and that modern nation does nothing in response. The military personnel did nothing in response, they simply said "We give up." Supposedly they were engaged in a legitimate action sanctioned by the EU and the UN, and the EU and the UN do nothing, and the nation that lost those personnel says "Please, can't we work this out?"

That nation no longer exists.

I would like to be proven wrong. I would like to wake up one morning soon and read that much of Iran has been obliterated... but I fear that's just a dream.

There would be good reasons to do such a thing:

--It would feel good
--It would illustrate that we can destroy a Muslim nation at will and they can do absolutely nothing to stop us
--It would illustrate that we have the Will to do that
--And it would be the right thing to do. It would indicate that there is a moral order in the world and that that order is Western; and it would indicate that we are willing to kill for our beliefs. This is important. In the real world what establishes moral force is not the willingness to die for your beliefs --though that is essential-- but what establishes moral force is the illustration that you are willing to kill for your beliefs. That is conviction, that communicates conviction. One might say it is the first step towards reasonable dialogue.