The days are being counted!

Monday –December 6, 2010

The days are being counted!

Have you ever wondered how the strands of history can make today’s history more predictable or how it makes those who want to be powerful, dangerous?

This week, we will be hearing more about Julian Assange of Wiki Leaks and his doomsday bombshell. Mr. Assange is threatening to release a password to over 100,000 people who will activate the next series of files, if he is arrested or if his web site is taken down. He says that the new files will implicate Bank of America and BP (British Petroleum) in some embarrassing deals of cover up and misallocation of resources. He also has video tapes of prisoners at Guantanamo being unfairly treated along with American air raids in Afghanistan killing innocent people.

This week, Iran will move closer to getting its long sought nuclear bomb. The Iranian nuclear program has grown significantly while the State Department is still calling for more talks.
Iran can now mine its own Uranium from the ground and mill it down to Yellow Cake. This is the first step to converting the Yellow Cake to a weapons grade level. To create the chain reaction, engineers have to increase the proportion of U-235 from its natural concentration. This is the "enrichment" process. The enrichment begins with a chemical treatment of the mined uranium ore to create a concentrate called Yellow Cake. This is then combined with fluorine atoms to create uranium hexafluoride gas. At the Iranian enrichment facility, the gas is fed into a cylindrical centrifuge, which spins to set the gas rotating. Just as passengers in a car are thrown sideways when taking a bend, the rotation of the centrifuge throws the heavier gas molecules, the ones carrying the U-238 atoms, to the outside walls of the centrifuge.

The result is a higher proportion of the desired U-235 atoms in the gas in the middle of the centrifuge. This "enriched" gas is drawn off and fed into another centrifuge, where the process starts again. Repeating this procedure in a "cascade" of centrifuges will eventually yield a gas with the desired concentration of U-235 atoms. Once this has been achieved, the fluorine atoms are chemically stripped from the gas to give a "packet" of enriched uranium. This is where they are at now!

Three facts stand out on today’s date, that can be used to discuss how the current situations that we are presented with have grown more dangerous by our inaction.

On December 6th, 1966: Captain James L. Holloway III master of the globe’s most immense nuclear warship thinks that a second attack on Pearl Harbor on the scale of December 7th, 1941 was unlikely. He remarked, “Since World War II, we have been at war more than we have not been at war… This is the most proficient and most competent military that I can imagine has ever existed in history.”

On December 6th, 1979: Israel was hoping that the Iranian hostage crisis would propel Jimmy Carter’s government towards a more pro-Israel mode. For quite some time Israel had accused the president of leaning towards a pro-Arab stance.

On December 6th, 1990: Although sanctions and diplomacy were tried with Iraq its dictator, Saddam Hussein, remained defiant. Therefore, the Bush government threatened to forcibly throw Iraq out of Kuwait by January 15, if it did not leave peacefully.

In 1966: We had a military, but we did not use our military in the way militaries are supposed to be used. In 1966, we were embroiled in Viet Nam. We were fighting and loosing lives in the process. We were using the military and being politically correct at the same time.

In 1979: The Iranian Hostage crisis was just beginning. On November 4, 1979 The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. 52 US citizens were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981, after a group of Islamic students and militants took over the Embassy of the United States in support of the Iranian Revolution.[1] Sixty-six Americans were taken captive when Iranian militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, including three who were at the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Six more Americans escaped and of the 66 who were taken hostage, 13 were released on Nov. 19 and 20, 1979; one was released on July 11, 1980, and the remaining 52 were released on Jan. 20, 1981 the first day of the Reagan administration.

In 1979: Israel held out hope that the U.S would do the right thing and be an ally in spirit and it reality. The U.S. was again being politically correct and did not use our resources effectively to reduce the threat then that would surely have reduced the potential to create a modernized Nuclear Arsenal which can destroy Israel and potentially throw the Middle East into a 1,000 year age of darkness.

In December of 1990, President Bush (H.W. Walker) gave an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein. When we forced Hussein back into Iraq it did two things. It gave Russia a bird’s eye view of our military strength, because the Iraqi army was primarily Russian arms. It was an astounding victory for the U.S. and its coalition. It saved the world from further war for a short time there after. We know the history of the second go around with President Bush (W) ten years later. In retrospect, the Senior Bush should have gone into Iraq after Hussein’s troops were expelled from Kuwait and dealt with Saddam then. The U.S. was again politically correct with the use of our Military. And don’t forget we needed Saddam as a useful buffer against Iran. Iran is the focus and we cannot be politically correct with them any longer.

Captain James L. Holloway III, master of the globe’s most immense nuclear warship, was right when he said “Since World War II, we have been at war more than we have not been at war…”
We now are seeing a different enemy that has combined the high tech threat of terrorism with the explosion of secret files, bringing a country to take some sort of action. My question is what kind of action should we take? I believe this administration will be politically correct and we will see the effects of that correctness again in future history.

I hope these stories and the history behind them will make you think about what the right response should be. We have roughly two more years to change the response. That is our election cycle, but our enemies have a different cycle that is outside of the election process and that is what matters. Our enemies are counting the days we just don’t know what day they have picked to launch their plans.

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: Plans and cycles are two things that remain constant. The other thing is our enemies know we would rather be politically correct instead of doing the correct thing, even when the days are being counted!