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Much of the quite proper outrage expressed by many Tea Partiers and conservatives against the Political Class has centered on Democratic politicians fostering an intrusive and grasping government as well as on some prominent members of the GOP Establishment who fail to make a visible and tenacious stand for right-sizing government.

But Tea Partiers and conservative grass-roots are also deeply concerned about an essential role of the Federal government - - the “common defense,” to use the precise phrase from the preamble to the Constitution of the United States.

Consequently Tea Partiers and conservatives urgently need to get the right recommendations about our common defense to members of the Congress promptly and skillfully.

Here are chilling and time-sensitive messages from three defense experts on what we may well face this summer.

Vallely: “We cannot allow Israel to Stand Alone in This”

Former general Paul Vallely’s 12-minute video “Mid East on the Edge 2010″ warns of coming attacks on Israel:

“Gen. Paul Vallely speaks to PJTV exclusively and reveals how Iranian submarines are now equipping Israel’s enemies with Scud missiles armed warheads filled with chemical weapons.”

Don’t miss the Vallely video. This long-time warrior brings home the full force of the imminent threat.

Glick: “Time to Plan for War”

Jerusalem Post columnist, and senior fellow of the Center for Security Policy Caroline Glick puts our situation as baldly as one can here.

“The US’s abdication of its responsibility as the leader of the free world to prevent the most dangerous regimes from acquiring the most dangerous weapons means that the responsibility for preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons has fallen on Israel’s shoulders. Only Israel has the means and the will to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.”

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“Syria and Iran have armed Hizbullah with some 40,000 missiles and rockets, including hundreds of Scud missiles and guided surface-to-surface solid fuel M600 missiles with a 250 km range and. This week Hizbullah threatened to attack Israel with non-conventional weapons. Syria itself has a formidable chemical and biological arsenal as well as a massive artillery and missile force at its disposal. 

A sometime embedded journalist with the U.S. Army in Iraq, Glick points out - -

“As for Iran, as its seemingly endless military exercises make clear, the mullocracy has the capacity to use conventional weapons to imperil global oil shipments from the Persian Gulf. So too, this week’s report that Osama Bin Laden may have decamped to Iran in 2003 merely served to underline Iran’s ability to utilize jihadist terror forces throughout the world.” (Underscoring Forum’s throughout.)

“Feathered Cocaine”

Last month, Mid-East expert Ken Timmerman revealed that  - -

“A new documentary film [”Feathered Cocaine”], premiering at the prestigious Tribeca film festival in New York this week presents stunning new evidence that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is living in Iran, where the Iranian regime is sheltering him.”

Also last month, author Timmerman reported - -

“One scenario being floated in national security circles in the event of an Israeli pre-emptive strike on Iran is a shift by Obama to condemn Israel as an aggressor state at the U.N. Security Council.

Newsmax asked [Florida Representative Ileana] Ros-Lehtinen if Congress would step in to counter such an order from the president.

‘It’s very important for us to give all of the support that Israel needs in terms of financial support, in terms of military support, in terms of the hardware we’re talking about,’ she said.”

Meridor: ““Iran must see there is an iron wall that they cannot cross.”

Timmerman interviewed the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister on Iranian nuclear weapons - -

“Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor views the U.S.-Iran standoff over Iran’s nuclear programs as ‘the most important struggle in the world today.’

Meridor, a member of Israel’s Inner Security Cabinet, made the comment during an exclusive interview with Newsmax after he led Israel’s delegation to this past week’s international nuclear summit in Washington, D.C. His portfolio includes Israel’s intelligence services and atomic energy, putting him at the crossroads of the most sensitive issues facing the Jewish state.”

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“‘I look at the way the Arabs look at it. If the Arabs see Iran winning, Iran getting nuclear weapons, they will lose confidence that America can save them from a very negative development. America’s relationship with the Arab regimes has been built on the mutual understanding that America will help them — first, against the communist subversion in its time, and today against radicalism. If they see America can’t do it, some of them will go with Iran; others will go nuclear. And world stability will change.”

Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons is not about Israel,although Israel is certainly on the receiving end of Iranian terror, Meridor said. ‘I think this is understood now by the U.S. administration. This is a very important struggle, and America needs to succeed so that Iran will not go nuclear.’”

What to Do?

We should promptly raise with our friends in the Congress our concerns about the how president Barack Obama is weakening our international leadership and our military strength. 

This administration’s hostility to Israel, for example, is palpable.  The administration’s treatment of long-time allies like the United Kingdom and Poland and the Czech Republic and Honduras is shameful as is the gross neglect of the security of our border with Mexico.

Don’t be put off with glib assurances from politicians ostensibly on our side.

Establishment Republicans who squirm when asked whether they support Arizona’s efforts to survive may not be eager to take a firm line in behalf of “distant” allies.

Understandably, rank-and-file Republican members of the Congress are expecting a substantial turn-around next November. Unfortunately the hope for that consummation - - which we all share - - may tempt some members to avoid taking on any tough national-security battles in the months before the election.

Our friends in the Congress, however, must somehow get this administration to take the lead in acting decisively now against the Iranian regime, and to stop undermining our long-time ally Israel.  Otherwise the administration’s current feckless course will speed a major conflagration.

If there is a serious attack on Israel this summer or fall, the consequences for the U.S. will be grave:  militarily obviously; but also in terms of some activists, immediately.  How, for example, will the Jihadists in our midst act if Israel is fighting hard for its life?  And, if Israel should go down, will the Jihadists among us be doubly energized?

Will our friends in the Congress act while there is still time in the Middle East?

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