Though President Bush frequently mangles words, his own ineloquence does not rob him of the sharp and lasso armed ability to wrap the rope around the neck of rogue terrorists, both independent and state sponsored, who pursues nihilist objectives under Allah’s banner. “Islamic fascist” is not a description thrown out lightly.

While Arabs and the European left are cheering the “defeat” of Israel for failing to end the armed rocket mad militias of South Lebanon, the governments of Iran and Syria may have demonstrated to the world that their own support for terrorists is evidence of why there must be regime change in Damascus and Tehran.

As the Jerusalem Post writes:

“Indeed, by transferring advanced rockets and weaponry to Hizbullah, Teheran and Damascus have just unwittingly proven one of the Bush Administration’s central contentions regarding the need for preemptive action against rogue states in the global war on terror.

The two countries have demonstrated that they are ready and willing to share missile systems with a terrorist organization, thus strengthening the case that they must be prevented from obtaining weapons of mass destruction at all costs.

This very point was at the heart of an important speech made by US President George W. Bush last October in which he outlined America’s strategy for fighting terror across the globe. Speaking at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, Bush made clear that, “we’re determined to deny weapons of mass destruction to outlaw regimes, and to their terrorist allies who would use them without hesitation.”

Furthermore, he stated, “Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization. And the civilized world must hold those regimes to account.”

THUS, BY supplying weapons to Hizbullah, Syria and Iran have inadvertently provided concrete evidence for all the world to see of just how dangerous the combination of “outlaw regimes” and their “terrorist allies” can be.

In this respect, Israel is fortunate that the conflict erupted when it did, because had it occurred in another five or ten years, who knows what types of horrific weapons might then have been found in Hizbullah’s arsenal.

And so, by inciting the start of hostilities last month in an effort to divert the world’s attention from their nuclear program, Iran may actually end up achieving precisely the opposite.

Through their actions, Iran has just made the case, better than the most eloquent of Washington press spokesmen ever could, as to why they pose a grave and immediate threat to the entire free world with their obstinate pursuit of nuclear weapons. And it is this very same argument, which the Iranians have just unwittingly bolstered, that Bush may one day soon choose to make in justifying the need for possible military action against Iran to stop their drive toward nuclear weapons.

All along, Bush has been a strong supporter of Israel. Maybe it’s a cynical move, designed to bring Jews into the Republican Party, but perhaps the President can look ahead, and see that the only Levantine government by the people, for the people and of the people has its capital in Jerusalem. It is also the only country that sits at the very precipice of extinction. If it dies, not only the Jews will perish, but the entire concept of Western freedom, liberty and enlightenment.