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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Remember mickey mouse flipping the bird to the ayatollah? And the bumper stickers telling iran to go eff themselves? And I was only 9 at the time, and I remember that because I was born and raised in the US. Did obama experience that? I highly doubt it.
This could be God’s set up for making someone like Cruz acceptable. To have a Barack dig such a deep hole that the only one who has any proposal to fill it, gets the nod in spite of the chattering class’s screaming.
Good point...In 1935, I don’t think any Brit could have imagined Churchill being PM, until events made it a reality.
Great divine deliverances tend to begin with extremely sucky situations. Just ask the Hebrews of Exodus.
And, at the risk of presuming to try to look through God’s eyes, probably for a good reason. People will not get a move on as long as their immediate circumstances are comfy.
Eat with your left hand Obozo, You too Skerry.
Obama is many things but a thinker isn’t one of them he’s flat out dangerous.
Death to America is the Muslim version of Wright’s God damn America.
In the early years of Hitler’s rule, most gave him the benefit of the doubt, thinking he just didn’t understand. Mona is so naive.
What do you wish the answer to be?
I don’t know, they’ve been chanting it for a long time. I’ve kind of lost interest.
Barky isn’t an American, he doesn’t care.
??? Anything wrong, hell he sings it every day himself
I don’t know why 0bama should be concerned. By his own actions, he chants those same words every day and works to fulfill them...
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