Iran Puts a Weak America in Its Sights, With Big Plans for the Future

FoxNews ^ | January 10, 2012 | Michael Rubin

[nuconvert]

Addressing pilgrims on November 5, 2011, just over two weeks after President Obama announced U.S. troops would withdrawal from Iraq, Iran's Supreme Leader cited American "failures" in Iraq and Afghanistan as proof that, "Today, the West, the United States and Zionism are weaker than ever before."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad went further, declaring the American retreat was not enough. "So long as the American empire based in the White House has not been overthrown, we have work to do," he thundered.

In the weeks since, the Islamic Republic has ratcheted up both its rhetoric and its defiance.

Whereas Iranian authorities often harass Americans visiting family in Iran, its January 8 sentencing to death of Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine in the country to visit his grandparents, appears resolute. Hekmati is a now pawn to an Iranian desire to prove American impotence.

[Pollster1]

"Today, the West, the United States and Zionism are weaker than ever before." . . . an Iranian desire to prove American impotence.

American weakness and impotence - is there any need to prove it after the transition from what we used to be?

[elpadre]

It is when we are in a military slump that bad things happen.

Perry is right, we need to keep a sizable force in Iraq to quell any Iranian game playing in the region. We did it successfully in Europe and Japan after WWII, and in South Korea after 1953.

[GOPJ]

In the wake of the report, even Chinese and Russian diplomats find it difficult to maintain the fiction that Iran’s nuclear program is motivated solely by energy needs.

Generating electricity to power factories does not require designing bomb triggers.

They've got something in place to be acting this brazen...

[HereInTheHeartland]

Ron Paul supporters, can you hear us now?

[TheOldLady]

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[TexasRepublic]

"So long as the American empire based in the White House has not been overthrown, we have work to do," he thundered.

Is a more formal declaration of war upon us necessary to get our attention? Can we destroy our enemies now? Must we let them grow stronger?

[dfwgator]

"NUKE ME NOW!"

[bgill]

The headline says it all.

[ImProudToBeAnAmerican]

Who put fire ants in this guy’s pants?

Sooner or later, the US will swat this pesky brat, if he doesn’t learn how to play nice.

[Elsie]

Sooner or later, the US will swat this pesky brat, if he doesn’t learn how to play nice.

Gadaffi got REAL quiet, after the cruise missles slammed into HIS compound!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Libya_(1986)

[af_vet_rr]

Perry is right, we need to keep a sizable force in Iraq to quell any Iranian game playing in the region. We did it successfully in Europe and Japan after WWII, and in South Korea after 1953.

How do you propose we reintroduce troops to Iraq if they don't want our troops there?

[elpadre]

I doubt they wanted a full pull out but Obama gave them no choice. What we hear in the American media and what is actual are often miles apart.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

So long as the American empire based in the White House has not been overthrown, we have work to do

So long as you have your buddy Barry in the White House, your work will be easy. Watch out when you come to clainm the prize, though - some of us don't surrender easily.

[piasa]

weak ping