Naive Americans need an adult's perspective

Nobody in the world understands the horrific threat to world peace that Iran represents better than Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel. And that is why his speech to Americans this Tuesday in the House of Representatives is so critical.

Israel is a tiny country of just 7 million Jews surrounded by Muslim nations with 300 hundred million people that have tried to annihilate Israel multiple times since 1948. Somehow Israel has survived these invasions and the thousands of rockets that have been fired into Israel from Gaza, funded by Iran.

Incredibly, Israel has not only survived, but it has defeated its enemies and prospered through tremendous bravery, leadership, and U.S. aid.

But if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, it can kill a majority of Israelis with just one nuclear bomb. To Israel, stopping Iran from getting a nuclear bomb is essential for its survival.

Americans don't live with this Iranian threat every day (yet), but Israelis do.

Unfortunately our president doesn't get it and has continuously caved to Iran and rewarded them by easing the crippling sanctions imposed on them for continuously breaking their promises in return for more phony promises.

At first Obama demanded that they stop enriching uranium, and then we allowed them enrichment capacity to 500 centrifuges, then 3,000, then 4,000, and now 6,000 centrifuges while they develop an ICBM that can deliver the nuclear warheads that Iran says it is not working on.

Our president and his administration have been naive beyond comprehension about Iran putting Israel, America, and world peace at great risk.

We need an adult to tell America the truth so we can stop Iran while there is still time. Netanyahu is that adult.

Randy Rossi

Grayslake