EMP – Now more than ever…
( I am prompted by a comment made by our friend and frequent contributor “IAmSpartacus” to re-post for the second time something I wrote back in June 2010 – JW )
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The Time Has Come…
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose…”
Kris Kristofferson’s lyrics to his classic song Bobby McGee have never been more appropriate than they are right now to an Israel facing a soon to become nuclear Iran.
Any hope that the West, led by the US and Barak Obama would succeed in preventing this terrifying threat to world order have by now been completely dashed. The hysteria over Israel’s enforcement of it’s blockade against the Iranian proxy Hamas, removes all doubt that the West will find any and all excuses to avoid confronting the threat posed to the world by radical Islam.
The parallels to the catastrophic “appeasement” policy towards Nazi Germany prior to 1939 are more than an exaggerated overstatement. In many ways the parallels are frighteningly similar.
Germany, a country of 78 million in 1939 laid before the world its dream of an Aryan empire that would last a thousand years. They also blamed all the troubles of the world on the Jews and promised to put an end to them.
The West stood by and did nothing as the Nazis built up the most powerful war machine in the world in contravention to the Versailles treaty. What resulted was the greatest cataclysm in the history of the world.
Iran today, also a country of 78 million has announced its intentions to bring the world under the domination of Islamic sharia law. It also blames the Jews for all the troubles in the world, although it includes the US as well. While its war machine cannot compare to that of the US, its acquisition of nuclear weapons would make it safe from any retaliation for its continuing and increasing support for terrorism world wide.
Look at the reaction to the direct act of war by North Korea in its unprovoked sinking of the South Korean destroyer. While North Korea blithely denies having committed the act, they threaten the Korean peninsula with war if any response is made against them.
Other than mealy mouthed tut-tutting, what has been the response of the civilized world? Nothing at all. Nor will there be for the very simple reason that the North has nuclear weapons.
Understand that this is the very reason Iran is so intent on acquiring these weapons at any cost. They know that it will insure the survival of their corrupt and hated regime against any and all threats whether from without or within.
Israel at this point has nothing left to lose by putting an end to this Iranian threat once and for all. The endless pundits and military analysts who claim that the most Israel can do is slow down their progress for a few years do so out of their ignorance of the power of EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse).
A nuclear based EMP weapon launched on a Jericho III missile and detonated 150 miles above Iran would cause no casualties whatsoever to the people on the ground. What it would do is destroy all electrical based equipment from radios to trucks to power grids to tanks to missiles to centrifuges.
The destruction is not temporary, it is permanent. Every circuit board and electrical switching device in Iran would have to be replaced. The net effect would be to remove Iran as a military threat on any level whatsoever for a minimum of one to two decades.
No more threats against the straights of Hormuz; their navy simply won’t function. Their nuclear program would be permanently stopped dead its tracks.
The negative result would be an enormous humanitarian crisis as the basics for the functioning of a modern society in Iran would be wiped out. The entire world would have to pitch in to help the Iranian people survive the loss of their 21st century technology.
However, the cost of doing this and the unavoidable suffering that would result pales in comparison to the potential for true Armageddon should the radical Islamic mullahs gain the power of nuclear weapons.
Of course Israel would be roundly condemned by the entire world for taking this action, the same way it was when it destroyed Saddam Hussein’s Osirak reactor. Nonetheless, underneath the condemnation would be the biggest sigh of relief the world has ever experienced. The only powers that would be truly upset by such an action would be Iran’s terrorist proxies in Gaza and Lebanon and perhaps also North Korea.
Israel is a small country, but a great and powerful one at the same time. Golda Meir is quoted as saying, “We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.” That remains the truth to this day. While the Western nations look the other way while Iran develops the power to destroy the Jewish state, Israel does not have that luxury.
The time has come to put an end to radical Islam’s threat to the world. Almost every violent struggle in the world today has at its root this atavistic and intolerant ideology whose world leader and main source of funding worldwide is Iran.
It is a very frightening choice for Israel to make. The sad truth is that the weak-willed and hypocritical governments of the world have forced Israel’s hand. It is no longer a choice, it is a necessity.
The time has come…
Joseph Wouk
June 3, 2010
WarSclerotic 
September 13, 2013 at 5:06 PM
Well they better do it quickly because the can can’t be kick down the road much further because your running out of road. Israel is rapidly running out of time. Any conventional strike will not solve the problem for good but simply buys a little more time. An EMP strike would put Iran into the 12th Century and would result in total chaos and regime change. Once done then the taking out of the nuclear sites with conventional strikes would become much simpler. One thing is certain, if you are depending upon Obama to do something then you have signed your death warrant.
September 13, 2013 at 6:02 PM
Amen !
This is the most important subect discussed in the warsclerotic blog.
Unfortunately not one person in 10,000 has taken the time to understand the consequences of an EMP attack.
And… an EMP weapon could also be used against Israel itself.
There is a nuclear EMP arms race going on right now.
Iran is in a race to develop it’s own EMP weapon and has threatened to use such weapons against Israel.
An EMP weapon is an existential threat because it could destroy an entire nation.
It is also irreversible, there would be no recovery from such an attack.
Attacking a country with EMP would be like cutting off the air supply to the whole country, there would be only minutes, days or weeks to respond to such an attack before the population of the country would be dead.
It is also a blitzkrieg weapon times a thousand, there would be only minutes of warning and only minutes to defend against such an attack.
It is an impending threat because Iran has already promised to attack Israel with such weapons.
This is the one video you have to see if you want to understand EMP.
The most FRIGHTENING dramatization of what would happen if Iran attacks the US with an EMP weapon.
EMP: A Terrorist’s Dream – 1:24 minutes
EMP Nightmare: How Iran or North Korea Could Destroy America with s Single Bomb – 7:41 minutes
Includes a chilling explanation by Reza Kahlili of how Iran is working on an EMP weapon to destroy Israel and America.
EMP Attack : What Happen’s if America gets Hit ?
A conversation with Karna Small Bodman on “Coast to Coast AM with George Noory”.
It’s a good conversation about of the threat of an EMP attack on the US.
Based on a novel “Castle Bravo” by Karna Small Bodman
“One Second After” by William R. Forstchen foreward by Newt Gingrich
This is a novel that imagines in detail what life would be like in the US after an EMP attack.