Or, as Crittendon so aptly puts it, a “call to inaction.” Antiwar, anti-Western propogandists are gearing up for their next “let’s all lay down and spread ‘em for our enemies” campaign:

Iran’s efforts to produce highly enriched uranium, the material used to make nuclear bombs, are in chaos and the country is still years from mastering the required technology.

Iran’s uranium enrichment programme has been plagued by constant technical problems, lack of access to outside technology and knowhow, and a failure to master the complex production-engineering processes involved. The country denies developing weapons, saying its pursuit of uranium enrichment is for energy purposes.

Despite Iran being presented as an urgent threat to nuclear non-proliferation and regional and world peace – in particular by an increasingly bellicose Israel and its closest ally, the US – a number of Western diplomats and technical experts close to the Iranian programme have told The Observer it is archaic, prone to breakdown and lacks the materials for industrial-scale production.

This should surprise no one, of course; these are liberals, after all, who would rather suck the barbed cock of Satan on national TV in prime time than ever employ the word “evil” in anything other than mocking, sarcastic tones — much less frankly acknowledge its existence, or lift a frail, anemic finger to resist it.

They don’t believe in war or self-defense, they don’t believe in the severity of the threat from state-sponsored Muslim terrorism, they don’t believe in the worthiness or superiority of Western culture; they don’t believe in anything but humiliation and self-abnegation through cowardice, delusion, and appeasement of every least adversary that rattles its saber or kicks in its door, and the “fairness” and “equality” between nations that is defined only by weakening the just via vapid moral equivalence.

Indeed, the only people these fainthearts have the courage to come to grips with are those of its own countrymen who recognize the symptoms of the liberal disease, but are constrained by respect for the rule of law and will therefore only assail them with the tools of rhetoric and political dissent. Long having mastered the guileful manipulation of these tools themselves, and sure of the support of their drooling lapdog propagandists in Old Media, they don’t in the least fear that sort of confrontation. “Martyrdom” for them means a possible appearance before a magistrate or an hour or two in a holding tank, resulting from tossing a rock through a shopkeeper’s window at one of their “peace” protests and then not running away fast enough.

And meanwhile, Iran’s bid to become a nuclear power, and the only relevant one on the ME stage once Israel is reduced, continues apace despite liberal wilful blindness:

The disclosures come as Iran has told the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA], that it plans to install a new ‘cascade’ of 3,000 high-speed centrifuges at its controversial underground facility at Natanz in central Iran next month.

None so blind as etc. And none so pusillanimous as one who would choose subjugation over confronting an implacable, determined foe by any means other than simpering diplomacy.

Not that the Idiot Left really needs to bestir themselves here; unfortunately, they’re “bravely” resisting a feckless Western opponent who has no intention whatever of doing anything about Iran beyond mild, empty bluster. Like our enemies in Iraq, all the cowards need do is wait us out, and the desired result (a West as emasculated, passive, helpless, and contemptible as its weakest, most mushminded denizens are) will eventually become reality.

And as you’d expect, it’s all about teh Joooz anyway:

The sense of imminent crisis has been driven by statements from Israel, not least from Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who has insisted that 2007 is make-or-break time over Iran’s nuclear programme.

And of course, one of the more degraded examples of the sole genre of “war heroes” liberals can lay claim to — fraudulent ones — is right there to help the cause of Iranian supremacy along. This is what happens when a nation loses its will to charge, try, and imprison or execute its traitors; a hangman’s rope should have been knotted and waiting for this scum on his return from his 70’s Paris trip in support of his Communist Vietnamese masters and betrayal of his country:

Kerry was asked about whether the U.S. government had failed to adequately engage Iran’s government before the election of hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005.

“When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy,” Kerry said.

“So we have a crisis of confidence in the Middle East — in the world, really. I’ve never seen our country as isolated, as much as a sort of international pariah for a number of reasons as it is today.”

Kerry said the government needs to use diplomacy to improve national security.

“We need to do a better job of protecting our interests, because after all, that’s what diplomacy is about,” he said. “But you have to do it in a context of the reality, not your lens but the reality of those other cultures and histories.”

Kerry criticized what he called the “unfortunate habit” of Americans to see the world “exclusively through an American lens.”

And never mind that the treasonous cur Kerry, and every other US Senator present, voted against Kyoto long before Bush was President. Never mind that Bush has tripled AIDS relief to Africa, and that funds are currently being held up by Democrat budgetary gamesmanship and not Bush. Every word out of this repellent Benedict Arnold’s mouth is a lie, and is intended to provide propaganda aid, PR comfort, and a diplomatic leg up to America’s enemies.

And for liberals, he’s a “hero.”

You can’t even parody the vile, miserable worms anymore. Sadly, the joke would seem to be on the rest of us.