It's Wednesday, March 25th, 2006.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

We need to update ourselves a bit on the situation in Iran and the expanding situation around it.

So we're talking there geospatially. Yes, we're also

talking just in terms of big worldview issues. So let's just talk about where we are. Where we are

is that we are now several weeks into a sustained military action by the United States and Israel

intended, number one, to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons capability,

number two, to destabilize and potentially even to topple the regime.

And number three, to basically reorder the defense situation and the arrangement there in the

goal so that Iran does not pose such a threat

to its neighbors or to Europe or to the United States. But what we're looking at here really now

brings a lot of issues into clearer focus. One of the clearest issues in terms of renewed focus

is the fact that there is no really clear focus on how to end this military engagement.

Now, one of the interesting things you hear right now is you hear a lot of people, particularly

on the left, saying it was wrong to get into this, it was wrong to start this joint military

action unless there was a clear set of goals and a clear plan to accomplish those goals and then get out.

Well, that makes perfect sense.

Until you understand the reality of the threat that Iran has posed now for several decades,

we're talking about, and we've mentioned this before, asymmetrical warfare.

Let's just remind yourselves of what this means. It means that Iran is a

nation with a Shiite Islamic theocracy that has intended not only to order itself according to its

own vision of Shiite Islam, but it also intends to export that around the world. And one of the

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