You don’t have to be Jack Bauer to agree

He could have. This is a thought-provoking essay by Herbert E. Meyer in the American Thinker.

To think clearly about the looming crisis with Iran, close your eyes and imagine that you’re standing outside your children’s school. It’s 2:55pm, and you’re chatting amiably with other parents while waiting for the 3pm bell to ring. Suddenly you see a man running toward the school, holding a hand grenade and shouting: “I hate kids. I welcome death.”

Now, what do you propose to do?

One option is to engage your fellow parents in a dialogue about the serious and complex questions raised by the running man with the grenade.

For instance, you might try to calculate precisely how long it will take him to reach the school. When he does reach the school, will he stop or go inside? If he does go inside, will he run toward the basement, or toward the auditorium where the third and fourth grades have been brought to watch a video? (It’s probably about “safe sex” – but what the schools teach our kids is another subject for another day.) Is the hand grenade real, or might it be a fake? If the grenade is real, does the man really know how to pull the pin? And if he does, how big will be blast radius be and what’s the potential number of casualties?

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Should you try to talk with the man? Or would it be better to notify the school’s principal, and perhaps suggest he call the police?

And remember—while you and your fellow parents debate all this, the distance between the man holding the grenade and your kids is narrowing.

Your other option is to take the man down – now, this minute, however you can – and to sort out the mess later.

Iran is the topic. You’ll want to read it all. Then read ABP, who suggest that the Dems stop acting like self-denying virgins and get with the program.