Posted on 07/01/2015 3:43:08 PM PDT by Dave346
The Iranian regime is still holding American hostages. These include the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent, Jason Rezaian, and Amir Hekmati, an Iranian-American U.S. Marine sentenced to death in 2012 on bogus spying charges and still languishing in the mullahs’ hellish prisons. American flags are burned, and cries of “Death to America!” still ring out at Friday prayers across Iran. The Tehran regime continues to arm and fund Hezbollah, and Iranian forces and proxies now encircle the Arab lands. And the mullahs have in the intervening years raced to develop nuclear weapons. Their centrifuges still churn in defiance of five United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Now cut to the Oval Office. It’s Christmas 2014, and Barack Obama is sitting down for one of his periodic interviews with the liberal press. “You need to understand what their legitimate needs and concerns are,” the president tells National Public Radio, speaking of the Iranian regime. Washington should distinguish those legitimate needs from Tehran’s “adventurism,” support for Hezbollah, and threats against Israel. If the Iranians could separate the realist wheat from the Khomeinist chaff, the president says, the Islamic Republic “could be a very successful regional power.”
This was an astonishing moment: Who could have imagined, even two or three years earlier, the president of United States in effect wishing the mullahs well in their quest for regional hegemony? And yet here we were. The fact that the comment didn’t make more than a few small ripples indicates just how far the public’s perception of the relationship between Iran and the United States has shifted.
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Thanks Dave346.
Someday we will have to face Iran on the battlefield—we have been putting it off for decades—now they feel we are a paper tiger—who folds when their is real fighting to be done. I can understand their arrogance in the face of Obama but—we are just leting them get stronger—the fight will be harder.
You’re welcome.
I think Iran’s day of reckoning will come soon. Granted, I’ve felt that way for a long time now. But how much longer can Israel wait?
Surely, it should be clear to everyone now that the talks and sanctions relief of the past 2 years have led to a situation where the military option is the only think left to stop the Islamic bomb.
“Someday we will have to face Iran on the battlefield”
Before or after we negotiate to let them have nukes?
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