Shock Report: Iran May Soon Have A Nuke

Nuclear Iran: For many years the Free World has let a terrorist state inch toward full nuclear weapons capability. Now Tehran is nearly there. Is this part of the West's general

self-destructive trend?

The United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency is set to reveal new, detailed evidence that Iran is building nuclear weapons.

High-precision detonators, computer modeling of atomic bombs, steel container testing of high explosives associated with nuclear weapons will all reportedly be in the report.

The report will also apparently dispel, once and for all, the myth propagated by U.S. intelligence agencies years ago in an infamous National Intelligence Estimate that Iran ceased weaponization in 2003. It didn't.

If reading that Iran is on the verge of nuclear weapons feels like you're watching the Bill Murray movie "Groundhog Day," in which the same day is relived over and over again, you've got it right.

The free world's citizens have for many years watched this Islamist terrorist regime build nuclear facilities, spin centrifuges, refine uranium, test long-range missiles, and spread out nuclear facilities to make them invulnerable to attack.

We've seen secret facilities exposed at the holy Shiite city of Qom — a blatant violation of international law — and watched as Russia and China aided Tehran in its nuclear quest, then covered up and made excuses for the ayatollahs. And we've heard Iran's rulers make it clear they want to kill Americans and wipe Israel off the map. In Iraq, Iran's proxies have been blowing up our troops.

Yet we in the West dither. We haven't bombed. We haven't helped Iran's dissidents in regime change — not even in the summer of 2009 when bloodily suppressed mass street demonstrations offered a real chance to overthrow the government.

Instead, we've imposed weak economic sanctions, which the U.S. began backpedaling on last week.

Why sit idly as a terrorist nuclear storm gathers?

Is it the West's death wish? In his new book, "After America," columnist Mark Steyn warns that "Americans face a choice: you can rediscover ... limited government, a self-reliant citizenry, and the opportunities to exploit your talents to the fullest — or you can join most of the rest of the western world in terminal decline."

Patrick J. Buchanan's economic views may be grossly misguided, but he perceptively warns in his just-published "Suicide of a Superpower" that "Socially, culturally, morally, America has taken on the aspect of a decadent society and a declining nation."

And the Washington Times' Brett Decker and foreign affairs specialist William Triplett, in their newly released "Bowing to Beijing" warn, "Barack Obama has accelerated American decline and hastened Chinese global ascendancy" by covering up Beijing's misdeeds on technology and patent theft, currency manipulation, and illegal trade warfare.

A disturbing multiplicity of signs suggest that the free world may not consider itself worth defending. So why should we try to stop a nuclearized, 21st century, Islamist version of the Third Reich?