Posted on 03/28/2015 11:02:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Maybe I’m too sensitive, but when a foreign autocrat leads his people in chants of “Death to America,” I take it personally.
President Obama and Secretary Kerry apparently don’t. The chant, which became a staple of the Islamic Republic during the 1979 revolution, is not a relic of the past. Just last weekend, at a rally in Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was interrupted by the chant as he was denouncing American “lies” and “arrogance.” He smiled and responded, “Of course yes, death to America, because America is the original source of this pressure.”
Some in Iran have said that during negotiations over a nuclear deal, Iranians should downplay the “Death to America” chant, common after Friday prayers and at political rallies. But the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) rejects this advice, insisting, according to the semi-official Fars news agency, that the United States “is still the great Satan and the number-one enemy of the [Islamic] revolution, and the Islamic Republic and the Iranian nation.”
Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark,) responded bluntly: “When someone chants, ‘Yes, certainly, death to America,’ we should take him at his word, and we shouldn’t put him on the path to a nuclear bomb.”
We are left to wonder at the equanimity high-ranking members of this administration show toward the unyielding hostility of the Iranian regime. In late February, Iran blew up a full size model of U.S.S. Nimitz, an aircraft carrier, in the Persian Gulf. The Supreme Leader’s representative on the IRGC, Ali Shirazi, recently boasted: “When we look at the Islamic world, we see that the culture of the Islamic Revolution has reached all countries and all Muslims throughout the world. . . . We shall not rest until we raise the flag of Islam over the White House.”
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Barack hears that and grins, he hates America, he thinks America should never have been as glorious as it has gotten.
Our Dear Leader is golfing today. He doesn’t have time for this foolishness.
What’s the potential for a huge karma factor here?
Why would Obama care about Death To America chants..he’s probably chanting them himself in the White House
Even Mona doesn’t get it. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
Yes indeed. If he could, he’d get out on the white hut balcony and yell at the top of his lungs this chant to all of DC. Since he can’t he has to be content with just carrying it out.
karma unto whom?
Yeah that’s my take on it too. Perhaps I have been giving her too much credit?
An ugly direction... that is a double entendre
Why should he? Obama is not American.
Might be American in some tenuous technical sense that he will not or can not prove, but his heart is still in Kenya, if not in some liberal never never land.
Obama hates America, too. There's is nothing innocent or... idealistic about it. Iran is Obama's precious country because it humiliated America with its grotesque act of war and is a vanguard against American...imperialism in Iraq, the middle east, and the rest of the world. And there are many Americans who agree with him or voted for him for racial guilt and some "American Idol" factor.
People in the 1930s didn’t take Mein Kampf seriously.
Well now....some bits of clarity aren’t worth providing.....
i don’t know, it could be america reaping something for sowing obama and jimmuh
or it could be iran asking for it
that was a dull screed, but it had hell’s amens behind it and that’s what counted
The nan not only hates his country, but also his life.
That America voted him in Twice speaks volumes.
The Achilles heel, as with Europe , is allowing people with no love of history or their country to become president.
you can add all major positions of authority to the list.
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