By Restraint, Not Stealth, Iran Will

By Mohammed Adamu

Someone disgustingly wondered why Iran could not even protect her military chiefs. And I said: how was she to have protected her military chiefs? By locking them up in a bunker or what? The most protected person in the world, the President of the United States, is neither unreach-able nor un-harmable! Even presidents and heads of state are vulnerable! Civilized leaders of the world merely restrain themselves from targeting and assassinating political and military leaders of other sovereign nations. Even in the thick of war it is a serious crime under international law to target and kill political and military leaders of other nations. But hey, Israel has been trying to prove to the world that it alone can operate in contempt of international law. The way and manner that it is brazenly standing up to the whole world, Iran is wise to be more cautious than courageous! And some of you naively believe that restraint is more the part of cowardice than it is of valor! Naaa! We all know that it is America that is egging Israel to warmongering tantrums. Iran has a commonsensical duty for cautious restraint! Russia, even though it is already under attack via a proxy war by NATO, is still in severe self-harming restraint too! They both know that the provoker is already paranoid to a point of madness! Those bent on igniting wars are damning all the consequences to themselves and to the entire world. So from verbal insult to physical assault, they are ready to go the extra mile to land you a blow below the belt. Provided they get that fight that they desperately angle for. It is part of war’s strategy to exercise strategic restraint when dealing with a man determined to get you into a fight. He sets impossible conditions for you. Conditions he knows you’d rather prefer to matyr for than meet! It is what they are setting for Iran! Accepting those conditions are worse than going to battle and losing the war! Remember what the late Dankwairo said of Sardauna in the lyrical panegyric of the fallen hero? “Da wulaqanci, gara shahada ga Muslimi”! (Martyrdom is more honorable than cowardice) Martyrdom is a code both of Islamic and Christian ethics of war! Knowing when death is more honorable than compromise! But if you can afford not to compromise and still are able to also beat death, why not? War is a gamble. Might and munition were on the side of India when it gambled and capitulated before an unassuming Pakistan! So let’s allow Iran unravel. Taking the lead in a long distance race does not determine the race! Laggards are known to come from behind and win! The wisdom has always been that delaying a fight at the behest of a desperate enemy is tactical. Always react on the side of caution when the enemy is the one sounding the beagle for war. As the Hausas also say: ‘Idan makaho ya ce azo ayi wasan jifa, tau a’kula, mai yiwuwa ya taka dutse’! (when the blind man says let’s play pebbles-throwing, he sits on a sack of stones). China has been in severe, even if self-harming, restraint too, in the face of extreme Euro-American provocation. It is restraint. Not cowardice. America, especially has long been in the epileptic kicks of a dying empire. It is hoping that before China attains the acme of its military might, it may well be lucky to provoke her into a war that should end all wars! And who knows, maybe the whole thing that there is to China’s growing military irreproachability, is a ruse! Maybe! God knows I do not want that EVER tested or proved! Because humanity may not even be alive to know the winner! But foolish America and her tomfooling allies can’t wait for that Armageddon! Restraint has to be on the side of who does not genuinely want a fight -even if he can fight! America, Israel and Europe live by the code of war. They will not care that in the course of it the entire world is imperilled. They want you all to die so they alone live. That’s why they are digging bunkers and creating space stations! Fools! China, Russia and Iran live by a totally different code. The ‘live-and-let-live code! The ‘let-the-eagle-perch and let-the-kite-perch’ too! They live by the dignity of labor. They care about what may happen to the world if they dare to fall to the provocative grandstand of warmonger West!

ADDENDUM
Israel did not do it! Just like Ukraine is not doing it! Israel, like Ukraine is an upstart crow beautified by the evil feathers of Euro-American warmongers! Pay attention. The war has neither been won nor lost! Let me give you the test of who wins this war! It is like the war between the regular army and the guerilla soldier. The guerilla soldier is not out to win! He is out only to prevent the regular army from winning. If he does that, he wins the war. Even if he has not killed a fly! And that is why the twin tactics of the guerilla soldier are ambush and hit-and-run. But the regular army is out to exterminate the guerilla soldier. He has to do that to win the war! In fact if he does not do that he loses the war. It is the reason war tacticians say ‘the guerilla soldier wins if the regular army does not win! Iran’s sole object is to keep its nuclear program. It wins the war if it is able to do that. Israel has to destroy the program to declare victory. It loses the war if it does not do that!