So, what are your policy prescriptions?

Submitted by Peter Herz (United States), Apr 12, 2010 at 21:20

Mr. Tovey, I believe very much in Jesus Christ, even if I stand somewhere between Preterism and Historicism in my views of Old Testament prophecy, rather than in the Dispensationalist tradition (and if some of my Dispensational brethren choose to say I'm not really a Christian because of it, so be it). But I trust you did not take my comments on the Twelfth Imam as meaning that I believe in the Twelfth Imam, for I am most emphatically NOT an Twlever Shi'ite Muslim.

But, what should the USA do in a situation involving a nuclear-armed Iran? I'm fbasically for waiting for Iran to grow up while keeping the proverbial powder (nuclear, if need be) dry--not trying to save Iran from its own internal follies when it is clearly Hell-bent on following those follies for the time being. After all, what happened to Japan when it decided to "save" China from Communism, and the USA when it tries to keep the former French Indochinese dominoes from falling?

And, I can't help but notice that many Middle Eastern mouths are far, far bigger than the fangs in them (I don't see Osama Bin Laden strapping on a suicide vest, for example). I suspect that a lot of what Ahmadinejad says about the Twelfth Imam's appearance being imminent is for the benefit of his "base". If not, let the Iranian Shi'ites wait and wait and wait and wait for the Twelfth Imam to appear--until they start asking themselves the questions they must inevitably ask about the whole business.

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