Posted on 10/13/2011 12:29:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
What? There was nothing surprising, let alone “brazen,” about the Iranian attempt to assassinate the Saudi ambassador, or to blow up the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington. It is, after all, what they do. No new “red line” has been crossed. This is simply business as usual for the Tehran regime, you know, the one with which president Obama was so confident he could reach a good working relationship.
If you thought — as so many of the overnight experts have declared — that there was anything new about Iranian terrorists operating on American soil, forget it. Iranian agents have been busy in this country for quite some time. Just ask the FBI, who within the past few years broke up a very worrisome group of radical Muslims in Washington, D.C., who were receiving weapons from the Iranians. We have been aware of Iranian sleeper cells in the United States, often working in tandem with narcotics traffickers (Iran, after all, is very busy at the Afghan source of the global opium supply), for many years, and it’s not surprising that DEA had such a strong grip on the investigation. Surely the Bureau and the Agency were not surprised to find Iran in cahoots with (what the Iranians thought was) drug runners in the United States.
And for those who have scratched their heads and asked out loud how such smart people in Tehran could have done such a “stupid” thing, just think about the monumental mess these stupid people have made of their own country. Iran has lots of advantages, from natural resources to an educational system that was once one of the region’s finest, but the mullahs have wrecked the place. This by you is smart? Not by me. I think they’re fanatical buffoons, who are working feverishly to make their country even worse by enforcing gender segregation on a scale even a Saudi morals policeman could envy.
Most of the important lessons to be learned from this event have not been mentioned so far. Here are a few of them:
First, even if the assassination had taken place, it would not have been an act of war against the United States. It would have been a crime, to be sure, and if we had caught the assassin we would have prosecuted him, but not for attacking the United States of America. On the other hand, Saudi Arabia might have considered that an act of war against them.
Second, if you are interested in identifying Iranian acts of war against the United States, there is a target-rich environment for you to mine. Iran declared war on the United States in 1979, and has waged war against us, our citizens, and especially our military – wherever they are located – ever since. Although most of the pundit class rejected my evidence of Iranian complicity, command, and control of thousands of attacks against American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, no informed person any longer doubts that evidence, which has now been reiterated and expanded by American officials from the White House to the Pentagon.
Those are all acts of war, but no one has cared enough about them to catalyze a sensible American response (about which more shortly).
Third, despite a welter of doubletalk from the administration, it is ridiculous to speculate that such an operation could be carried out without the explicit approval of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, to whom the commanders of the Quds Force report. Indeed, as my brilliant colleague Tom Joscelyn has reported, the top man in Quds, General Suleimani, sits atop the chain of command for this operation, and he is an intimate of Khamenei.
So, to answer the often-asked question (how could the leaders of the Iranian regime have approved such a provocative action in this country?): they do not fear us, they do not believe that Obama is capable of doing anything that would threaten their grip on power, and they viewed the operation as both a provocation and a humiliation of him and his administration. So far, the pathetic lack of anything approaching a serious response – not even a hint of support for regime change in Tehran — combined with empty ritualistic incantations a la “nothing is off the table” suggest that their assessment is correct.
So what’s the bottom line? The same as it has been for 32 years. Iran is at war with us. We have yet to respond. Our best response is to support democratic revolution in Iran and bring down this murderous regime. The longer we dither, the more ambitious they will become, until one day some president, perhaps even this one, fearful of going down in history as a monumental coward, will take the military option from that tabletop and unleash it, thereby demonstrating the utter failure of decades of American non-policy.
Surprises me that so many rubes still blindly accept at face value from the gov't this kind of $hit - was it that long ago that shrub lied us into the Iraq war?
Feds and the US media have zero credibility with me and any other thinking person - let us know when a credible information source says this was an Iranian Gov't plot... you know, an outfit like Pravda, Russia Today or Al Jazeera, all far more truthful than the US gov't and their media propaganda stooges.
This whole thing does not pass the smell test. If you believe the story as told by a guy that has his head on the block along with an entire group of career screw-ups and appointed incompetents as well, you need to believe that a drug cartel that has revenues in the billions of dollars is going to buy into this dangerous plot for peanuts. The last thing a billion dollar drug cartel needs is putting themselves in the middle of the radar screen of a predator drone. Heck if Obama will kill an American citizen half way around the world they will sure come for your butt to protect the career of his feckless friend.
What is the upside for a billion dollar drug cartel to wake up a sleeping dog?
Now it seems entirely plausible that the Iranians have no fear of being hit with a teleprompter, the most powerful weapon in the arsenal of the Commander and Chief. I need much more proof before I buy into the Mexican drug cartel story.
Pardon me while I book a trip to the Gulf of Tonkin.
Occam’s Razor: when confronted by two different stories that give the same outcome, the simple story is best.
Just been doing some research on 9/11. Remember the democrats immediately started pointing their fingers at Bush/Cheney and an inside job? Like a bunch of kiddos who raided the cookie jar and pointed at their brother?
Remember how hard the democrats fought for the 2000 election to get an Al Gore win? They pulled out all stops even to the SCOTUS.
The many researchers are starting to point to the democrats ties with the mozlems and are finding, of course Obama’s connection to the US mozlem mafia, but also a lot of big democrats, like Bloomberg (ties to the CCX in Chicago-Satish Nandapurkar, Cuomo, Gore (ties to Occidental College which is funded mainly by mozlem states and students) and others.
The new information emerging says 9/11 was implemented to bring the US down, interrupt America’s dependence on oil and to usher in the the sucking up of US investment dollars into the green energy myth, and the CCX in Chicago.
The democrats though they could get their green energy/CCX BS ushered in by Al Gore and they invested heavily in him. But they didn’t get it. Voila! 9/11....
Remember the November 26, 2010 car bombing false flag in Portland, Oregon? This was right after the November elections where Obama received a shellacking from the Tea Party in the elections and had to humble himself as 70 of his leap frogs in congress, in state houses, governorships, and mayorships all over there US. The Marxists were being expelled and he was made almost a lame duck. Well, what do you know! Obama! Obama! Obama! Saved Portland and Seattle from terrorist bomb attacks.
Now here comes 2011. Obama has just been kicked in the teeth by his own party who helped reject his Jobs Bill. Holder is about halfway to indictment for Fast & Furous, and congress is looking into subpoenas for Solyndra. Wheeee....Obama/Holder are heroes as they rescue a Saudi Arabian minister from a terrorist attack from Iran that came up through our own southern border. A freaking foreigner rescued, no less, not even an American citizen.
Folks, these Marxists know they’re about to be kicked out of our White House and congress. And they’re getting more desperate and dangerous by the minute. We need to be keeping our heads up, and ready.
False.
An act of terrorism on US soil, sponsored by a foreign regime, endangering American civilian lives, is an act of war.
Period.
...You said "zero credibility with me" and I agree. And everything else you said...
I’m amazed at the large number of freepers who are giving Iran the benefit of the doubt.
And just another reminder...in December of 2010 the US was almost uprising over the TSA patdowns, lo and behold, the Underwear bomber.
...I may be wrong, but, even the killing of a foreign diplomat is not an act of war. Can you cite that law???
I’m amazed at the # of freeps who would believe such obvious dreck, coming right as the AG was getting subpoenaed for Fast and Furious docs.
Iran needs TIME to further enrich Uranium and doesn’t need this right now. The job was so amateurish, and the needs of the Admin for distraction is so dire.
I loathe Iran, and yet there is NO WAY I’m believing this.
This is pure artifice who would put us at war with the whole world.
This is a sure formula for bankruptcy and dictatorship.
BTTT post # 2!
This is wag-the-dog if I’ve ever seen it.
...Everything about this and past administrations stinks. And most of Congress is in bed with this too. Can you say "Business interests"???
Well, the F&F subpoenas haven’t gone away, have they? They’re still there. And do you really believe that if this really is ginned up, that everyone in the FBI is going to go along, and keep it secret? It boggles the mind that you think Iran’s assertions are credible.
The killing of American citizens is.
I don’t think you’ll be needing that citation of law.
Iran’s in the final stretch of developing their nuke, after which they’ll be untouchable. And nobody is hassling them over it right now. No way they’d risk all that by doing something so stupid and bringing the heat down on them. No way.
Then the US (Obama) committed an act of War against Yemen, Pakistan and every other country where drones have been utilized.
Yes, that’s correct.
And we already declared war on any country that harbored terrorists.
Well then obviously we just declared war on ourselves.
will take the military option from that tabletop and unleash it, thereby demonstrating the utter failure of decades of American non-policy.
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Demonstrate it now. Nuke Iran.
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