Posted on 06/19/2019 8:44:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
Media hysterics take note. Honest commentary on the Trump administration's 2019 diplomatic, economic and military clash with Iran's vicious dictatorship requires historical context.
Here's critical historical Fact One: Since 1979, the year the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his initially broad coalition toppled Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the revolutionary Islamic Iranian regime Khomeini established has been at war with the United States. My sources include Khomeini and his fanatics who commandeered dictatorial power in 1980 after marginalizing non-Islamists in the anti-Shah coalition. Contemporary sources include the disgustingly corrupt clerics and Revolutionary Guard Corps officers who mastermind regime rackets, graft, oppression, war-making and terror operations.
In November 1979, Khomeini's thugs seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran. These terrorists held American diplomats and Marines hostage for 444 days.
The Carter administration's failed Desert One rescue mission was a combat operation supported by the CIA and U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force units in the Middle East and Central Asia. Agreed, CIA is a covert organization, operating in war's gray zone. However, USAF strategic bombers and USN carrier battle groups epitomize military power. Desert One was an inept act of war by then-President Jimmy Carter. Describing Desert One as anything other than an act of war is to collude in the distribution of fake history. (Working definition of fake history: ossified fake news recycled by propagandists.)
Fact Two: The Khomeinists released their hostages in January 1981 when Ronald Reagan became president. Why? They knew they were at war. They feared Reagan would unleash the B-52s since he had the will to do so. The Ayatollah knew his regime needed time to gain strength. Read his speeches: He fervently believed the Great Satan (the U.S.) was fading (Vietnam syndrome, Jimmy Carter); lesser Satans Russia and France would wither; Zionist entity Israel would die. Khomeini's vision was imperialist. Iran would return to the center of world history.
Fact Three: Iran continued to prosecute bloody war on America. I'll cite two of several hundred atrocities: the 1983 U.S. Marine barrack bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, and the 1996 bomb attack on Khobar Towers that housed USAF personnel in Saudi Arabia. Iran used proxy agents to target American personnel. However, solid intelligence work connected these acts of war to Tehran.
Several military historians make the argument that the 1979 embassy seizure was the beginning of America's global war on terrorism (GWOT, the bowdlerized acronym for global war on militant Islamist terrorists). After all, Khomeini claimed to speak for the entire Islamic world.
The Obama administration erased the term GWOT; however, what your enemy says and does matters. Al-Qaida, the Islamic State and Khomeini's regime continue to wage war against America.
Fact Four: In the 1996 edition of "A Quick and Dirty Guide to War," my co-author James F. Dunnigan and I identified Iranian involvement in 18 different conflicts. Tehran instigated or escalated these conflicts to achieve its political goals.
Fact Five: In 2019, the Khomeinist Iran is a globe-girdling pariah. My latest book, "Cocktails from Hell" (Bombardier Books, 2018) notes that Iran wages proxy war "throughout the world, from Iraq to the Balkans to South America to Southeast Asia to Afghanistan." It is savaging Yemen and has hijacked Lebanon.
The Obama administration capitulated to the Khomeinists' nuclear weapons quest. Well, that's changed. President Donald Trump made it clear in a June 17 Time Magazine interview that the robed regime will not get nukes. If the Khomeini regime escalates its war on America, it does so at its own peril.
We wouldn’t be involved in these stupid endless military campaigns if we left other people alone around the world.
We have been in a state of war with North Korea since the 1950s.
I don’t really care that Iran has been at war with us for 40 years.
I’m not looking for more Middle Eastern adventures.
I don’t want boots on the ground or ships in the water.
I do recognize that nuclear weapons are a big deal. I support continued economic sanctions. I might even (possibly) support an explicit US threat that a single nuclear test in Iran would lead to destruction of Tehran (possibly by a US nuclear weapon).
But anything we do, we should do from thousands of miles away. No more fun in the sand box, please.
I have held that position ever since OUR Embassy was occupied by Iranian “students.”
Corker led the entire Senate, except for Tom Cotton, in turning the Constitution on its head so the Kenyan from Indonesia could get his Iran “deal”.
Actually, I think there was an Iranian formal parliamentarian declaration - never rescinded. Hence the Iranian trade marked declaration: DTA.
But every one seems to just shove that aside as if its a forgettable bit of nonsense. I wonder what will be “forgettable” when the first Iranian nuke finds NYC, Rome, or Israel?
And Mexico has been at war with us since 1846. Their current invasion is going well for them as they now dictate policy and law in most of the Southwest.
So uh, when does John Bolton get upset about that?
As angry as that character is, boy, if we could get him going on the real issue, gee, things would get done fast!
One of the biggest proponents of the Iran deal was Boeing. That company makes a fortune selling aircraft to the state-owned airlines in Third World dumps all over the globe.
Pure propaganda
Keep our military boys and girls safe for various forms of social experimentation and operations to change sex. Let's be fair to Iran and all those harmless fellas in the ME playing in the sand.
That’s cute. islam declared war on the entire world 1600 years ago.
Firan. Send them back to the 7th century where they belong. Should have been done in January 1980. Would have saved the lives of thousands who died due to their terrorist acts.
I agree - we really need to stop all the military adventures.
So we should throw away American lives and many billions of dollars on military adventures being the world’s police? No thanks, that’s not what I voted for Trump for.
That was thanks to that peanut farmer from Georgia
Mad Mo launched his war on humanity in 622 A.D., that would be 1397 years.
If weak-kneed Jimmy Carter had not been president, we would have hit them then. We certainly should have hit them hard so as to preclude them from pulling that junk again.
Really, the CIA and Brits declared war on Iran 66 years ago when we launched a violent overthrow of their government. The worst of their society overthrew the nut-shocking Shah, and then turned on us as the correctly saw us as the people who installed him.
And now out actions in 1953 took a nation that is far more civilized than the Saudis ever dreamed of, and made it a bitter enemy. Operation Ajax was a fairly minor operation in a sense.
So what wars are we creating for America 2085 with the exponentially more stupid foreign policy of today?
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