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America’s Security Is Also On The Line – Investors.com.

Election ’10: Economic issues dominate this year’s campaigns, with voters furious at big-spending members of Congress. But there’s an even more pressing reason to “throw the bums out” — they’re failing to protect us.

Voters know they’ll throw a legislative monkey wrench into the liberals’ machinery on Tuesday when it comes to more stimulus spending, health reform, environmental activism and the like. But a Republican House and especially the possibility of a GOP-controlled Senate could also obstruct the Obama administration’s perilous foreign policy.

Take the president’s timid accommodations with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. We’ve canceled the construction of an anti-ballistic missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic, for instance, which could protect against Iranian and Russian attacks alike, because it rubbed Putin the wrong way.

And even a Huffington Post blogger like “Peace Scholar” Jonathan Pearl complained last week that “when Russia recently signed a deal to supply Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with nuclear reactors, the silence from Washington was deafening.”

The U.N. Security Council’s imposition of a fourth round of sanctions against Iran — which the Obama administration touts as such a victory for its “tough diplomacy” — didn’t stop Moscow from delivering fuel for Tehran’s Bushehr reactor this summer.

Iran’s going nuclear is, after all, the name of the game in the continuing global war on terror. We can have as many fighter escorts of suspicious passenger flights from the Middle East as we like, and we can foil jihadist plots against the U.S. homeland as effectively as the Bush administration did. But if jihad goes nuclear, with Iran giving a device to its financial beneficiaries in Hamas or Hezbollah, or installing the bomb on top of one of its ever-longer-range missiles, we will have entered a whole new world.

Does any rational observer believe containment of a nuclear Iran is a feasible objective? In his recent book “Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War Against the West,” Michael Ledeen warns that “having forgotten how close we came to losing the Second World War, we are repeating our past errors. We could lose this war against the Iranian terror masters; our traditional strategic buffer — the oceans — is no longer effective, and our land borders are porous.”

The mullahs who rule Iran do not think in Western — or even logical — terms. Like your garden-variety Islamist suicide bomber, the destruction of their foes is what matters, even if it means death for themselves and the devastation of their homeland.

And as far as depending on Israel to solve the Iranian nuclear threat for us, the peace-loving Obama administration has been pressuring the Jewish state not to defend itself and bomb Tehran’s nuclear sites.

The American people are about to exercise the ultimate power of a free country. With it, they can get rid of John Kerry as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, or at least make things tougher for him as he, among other shenanigans, pushes to ratify Obama’s New-START treaty, which would impede our missile defense against nuclear attack.

Republican control of Congress wouldn’t end Obama’s dangerous foreign policy. But it would put the brakes on its more dangerous aspects.

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