Posted on 05/10/2026 5:51:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There are moments in American foreign policy when the warning signs are flashing so brightly that failing to act becomes its own form of negligence.
This is one of those moments.
Senator Ted Cruz and his fellow sponsors of S. 4063 are not engaging in political theater. They are responding to a gathering national security threat that too many in Washington have either underestimated or deliberately ignored for years: the growing cooperation between the Polisario Front and Iranian-backed terrorist networks operating across North Africa and beyond.
The Senate should move quickly to advance this legislation.
Not because it is politically convenient. Not because it fits neatly into the latest partisan narrative. But because the world has changed, and America’s enemies have changed with it.
Iran no longer limits itself to the Middle East. The regime has spent years building a sprawling web of proxy groups, covert relationships, financial pipelines, and ideological partnerships stretching far beyond Iran’s borders. Intelligence analysts and regional experts have repeatedly warned that Iranian influence is expanding into Africa through militant networks and aligned organizations willing to destabilize governments, threaten allies, and create new operating environments for extremist activity.
That is precisely why S. 4063 matters.
The bill, formally titled the Polisario Front Terrorist Designation Act of 2026, would impose sanctions on the Polisario Front if it is found cooperating with Iranian-affiliated terrorist organizations. It is a targeted, measured response to an increasingly serious geopolitical problem.
Critics will inevitably try to dismiss the legislation as overly aggressive or alarmist. But recent history should have cured Americans of the fantasy that terrorist networks remain neatly confined to one region or one battlefield.
They do not.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
You would drop my name without putting me on the post?
Captain Walker knows that there are always two sides to a story, so he read a little more than what the school curriculum required. That's when he learned that the government that was overthrown in 1979 was nothing more than a puppet government friendly to US and UK interests. It was an illegitimate government that had no moral standing.
I understand Iranian history began in 1979, because if it starts there, then the Greatest Country in the World can pretend to have clean hands. (If it starts in 1953, then it can't.)
But if it was acceptable for us to kill Iranians by proxy during the Iran-Iraq War, what's the issue?
We can't fight the mullahs, because 1953.
The mullahs should be free to slaughter their citizen protesters, because 1953.
Iran should be allowed to build nukes, because 1953.
Did I miss any?
Did I miss any?
Because God loved Abel’s sacrifice more than Cain’s.
Not in a specific sense https://www.bucksafa11.org/2024/09/12/leadership/ but generally, I did.
While it is US who ultimately are dragged into the ring by the globalist players, I don't think any of the skin We the People might have in the game is valued by them.
Therefore, we deny the reality and cheer or embrace the lie and disparage. Either way, the devil runs the table.
Just one.
Because the roots of the current conflict with Iran go back to actions we ourselves instigated against that country 73 years ago, we must present the most foolproof case before the nation and the world that the use of military force against Iran is both necessary for the defense of the United States and a last resort; to date, we have done neither.
(Because 1953.)
Feel free to support a bunch of murderous pedophile savages if that’s your thing.
But don’t expect to not be called out on it.
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But don’t expect to not be called out on it.
And you can feel free to support a president who has deviated 180 degrees from his campaign speeches and gotten this country into another ME war if you would like.
But don't expect to not be called out on this.
So go vote for Democrats. My money says you are already doing just that.
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The mullahs are mad about 1953, so they can kill any of their own citizens who want elections like they had before 1953. I guess that makes sense to you.
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