Iranian leader celebrates: U.S. has 'given up'

WDN ^ | June 09.2014 | DREW ZAHN

[moonshinner_09]

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to the stage last week to proclaim the U.S. has “given up” on using military force to stop its ambitions and to boast that a worldwide “Islamic Awakening” cannot be stopped. Speaking on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the death of his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic who died in 1989, Khamenei issued his first public reaction since U.S. President Barack Obama asserted in a foreign policy speech at West Point that his diplomatic relations with Iran were proving more effective than the threat of military action.

Obama had said that a U.S.-led international coalition has afforded “an opportunity to resolve our differences peacefully” with Iran and, “For the first time in a decade, we have a very real chance of achieving a breakthrough agreement – one that is more effective and durable than what would be achieved through the use of force.”

Khamenei, however, took away a very different conclusion from the negotiation table.

Speaking from a stage decorated with a banner proclaiming “America cannot do a d— thing,” according to a New York Times Report, Khamenei proclaimed on June 4 the U.S. has “given up” on military action.

“They have renounced the idea of any military actions,” the leader said. “They have understood that in Afghanistan and Iraq, after a military invasion, they were harmed. Therefore, it can be said that they have given up on the military attack.

“They realized that military attacks are as dangerous or even more dangerous for the assaulting country as they are for the country attacked,” he continued.

[moonshinner_09]

The whole world is laughing at us..Obama made us the best new joke of the year..

[Paine in the Neck]

I’m sure Barry did a little jig to celebrate, too, when he heard this.

[molson209]

Obama has a much much bigger security treat to worry about , Global Warming

[AU72]

Iran’s perception is accurate.

[Diogenesis]

“Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion,
ethnicity or ideology. They do not fear the United States for its diplomatic skills or
the number of automobiles and software programs it produces. They respect only the
firepower of our tanks, planes and helicopter gunships.”

— President Ronald Reagan

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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan

[ScottinVA]

Iranian leader celebrates: U.S. has 'given up'

Looking at our weakness overseas and our surrender of the southern border, I can't see a reason to disagree.

[2001convSVT]

Now is the time for Iran to act, but what are they going to do?

[ScottinVA]

We will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

When those children aren't off in their starched "Obama Pioneer" uniforms dutifully learning to be good little servants of the State. And when you do tell them what it was like, employ caution in word selection... they'll be instructed to inform Party authorities in the event "hateful" words are thought or spoken.

[ckilmer]

The way Reagan won the cold war was to kill the price of oil. The Russian government then as now got its funding from oil revenues. Reagan collapsed the price of oil. The Soviet government could not pay their people so they could not give orders. Because the country was a command economy—The country fell apart.

The way to kill Al Qaeda is to kill the price of oil. What’s the connection?

In 1980 there were 10 madrasses in Pakistan. Now there are 13000. They form the mouth of the funnel that sends Al Qaeda and taliban soldiers to the front. Shut the mouth of the funnel and the supply of soldiers dries up.

How do you shut down the madrases? They are funded by the gulf oil states. The gulf oil states get their money from oil. So you kill the price of oil and money for the madrases dries up and therefor the supply of soldiers for Al Qaeda and taliban dries up.

How do you kill the price of oil. By raising supply and shrinking demand. The US is now on a +-15 year path to do just that. The fracking revolution is raising supply (by 1 million barrels@ year). And cheap natural gas is supplanting oil in houses, trains trucks and buses. Further out Tesla is making electric cars a viable option. That won’t be clarified until 2017 when we find out whether he can deliver electric cars with the same range and power as the S Class for $35k. At that point his cars will have moved out of the luxury range. And into the high volume range. More importantly—Tesla will force the major car companies to make stronger investments in electric cars.

Still further out are category killers like 4th generation nuclear power plants which can cut electrical cost to 1/2-1/4 the cost of cheapest coal or gas.

The cumulative effect of these in the next 15 years will be to collapse the price of oil down to about $35@ barrel which at equivalent btu’s — is where coal and natural gas currently reside and which is where the trend line is for oil.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took to the stage last week to proclaim the U.S. has “given up” on using military force to stop its ambitions and to boast that a worldwide “Islamic Awakening” cannot be stopped”

Can’t disagree with that statement. And I never thought I would say that.

[ScottinVA]

Can’t disagree with that statement. And I never thought I would say that.

Knowing we've surrendered our southern border, Iran and other bad players will up their numbers of terror operatives coming in from Mexico.

[luvbach1]

There’s no doubt our enemies are emboldened and in invigorated by Obama’s vacillation and series of actions detrimental to the US. The Iranians also perceive that “the one” can be easily rolled, which perception is dead on.

[ScottinVA]

Now is the time for Iran to act, but what are they going to do?

With Obama sitting in the White House... pretty much anything they want.

[edpc]

Problems with the first quote now that we have the benefit of historical hindsight. After the Beruit Marine barracks bombing, we left instead of retaliating against Hezbollah and Iran. A terrible decision, IMO.

Though Reagan was far from the first or last to make a bad decision where Iran is concerned, I feel he was in a unique position to do something about it. The military was getting back on track and the 1979 hostage situation was not a decades-old memory for the nation.

I'll always feel that moment and the public disclosure of Iran's nuclear ambitions in the early 2000s were our best (and missed) opportunities to deal with this wretched regime.

[onedoug]

Just wait until the little islamist really gets going.