And some wonder why a lot of Iranians do not have many warm feelings toward us.
Posted on 11/04/2013 2:39:23 PM PST by LSUfan
Thirty-four years ago today, Iranian “students” stormed the US embassy in Tehran, Iran with the approval and, later, outright support, of the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran and the Islamic Revolution.
This should properly be regarded as the opening action in the modern era of a global Islamic jihadist insurgency directed at the US in particular and the West in general.
To be sure that insurgency is not homogenous and has been executed in fits and starts with often violent disputes between Islamic jihadist factions, but a global insurgency it is nonetheless.
To those of us old enough to remember, these images are vivid. Today, America will do nothing to commemorate the events of 4 November, 1979. But in Iran, it is annually a day of celebration.
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I hear a bunch of exchange students are headed to the financial district in San Francisco to commemorate the event by shouting Down Down Down wid de Shah...during “Lunchhour”.. as they did thirty plus years ago.
Thank Jimmy Carter for being too stupid to support our ally, the shah, in Iran. Obummer is doing the same thing in Libya, Egypt, and Syria.
I was married...............
Nobody was afraid to defy us then, and now.
Will the tragedies never cease...just kidding...happy anniversary.
And about 30 years later, one of those “students” was the president of Iran. The dude is a certifiable nutjob.
I followed that incident up with the real life experiences dealing with Hezbollah in Iraq and Sadr...during Operation Iraqi Freedom:
And some wonder why a lot of Iranians do not have many warm feelings toward us.
Happened on a Dimocrat’s watch because the Muzzies correctly identified America as weak.
But this gave us 8 years of Ronald Wilson Reagan!
Remember the day well, was in the Army in Germany at the time. Went on alert, finalized my will and got ready to go. Then jimmy left our people hanging in the wind.
Col. Boing boing, I don't care what the Iranians or any other rag headed camel jock thinks of US. If they like us, ok, if they fear us, better. It was a wise move to have that despicable SOB Saddam Hussein slaughter Iranians as they needed slaughtering.
Could not know it at the time but we were exactly 444 days from seeing those hostages finally released and seeing Ronald Reagan sworn in as the President of the United States. And three weeks after that date (February 10, 1981), I was being sworn in as a recruit of the United States Marine Corps.
If Saddam did a needed work against Iran, I wonder why we spent so much blood and money to get rid of him.
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American support for Saddam is largely an urban legend propagated by conspiracy theorists and the Blame America First Crowd.
The only assistance he got from the US were agricultural credits to feed his people and some satellite intelligence at one or two times.
His entire order of battle was commbloc.
The most appealing facet of a lessening of tensions with Iran is that Iran does not have the oil money, nor the influence to buy our venal US Congress.
Well, if that’s how you say Al-Qa’ida, then yes.
At the very least, we leaned Iraq’s way. And in the context of the Cold War with the still dangerous USSR, that was probably a good policy. Same with the Mossadegh coup in the fifties. But the Cold War is over and it’s past time that we quit living and dying with each tremor in the eternal Mideast rivalries and blood feuds before we bleed and spend ourselves beyond repair.
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