"I am ready to offer these guys plow shares to disarm and play nice with the others in their neighborhood. By the same token, I am also ready to show them our sword. And I know Bebe is also ready to show his sword."
Hats off to our Commander in Chief. Nobody will ever accuse him of not having a pair. That is, unlike the guy before him. This "thing", this agreement with Iran was never a treaty, never approved by Congress. It was put together by the "America hating" John Kerry, who had no problem working with this den of vipers called Iran.
Okay - now do you want to know how I really feel? I am pissed! And I am angry, even for the Very Angry Bird. I am still mad as hell at this Iranian regime for what they did to us in the 70's and into 1980. How under Jimmy Carter, this band of thugs, made us look weak and impotent. Since then, they have not changed. They have only become worse and more dangerous. But we have changed.
Kerry may have been as naive as a first grader, but the rest of us are not. There are many patriots in this country with long memories. Those who remember the debacle of Desert One. In April of 1980, our President (at that time Carter), who had orchestrated the neutering of our military, tried to cobble together enough helicopters and trained pilots to sneak into Iran to rescue our hostages. From a bunch of trained terrorists? Nope. From a bunch of disenchanted and fanatic Islamic college kids.
At the end of that fateful April day in 1980, one helicopter lay in ruins, and eight brave Americans were dead. Died under hostile fire? No - they died due to severe cuts in the military, which made an already risky maneuver even more risky.
Iran under the Mullahs, and Iraq under Saddam, loved to call the US the Great Satan. That is fine - sticks and stones. Saddam felt the wrath of a post-Carter military - twice. Once in Desert Storm, and once in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Mullahs never have felt it. They have been lucky so far. That luck might be running out.
Iran may hate us, but they are still a clear and present danger to Israel. To quote Bebe yesterday, "Dealing with Iran will be a lot easier today than it will be down the road." Amen brother. Iran does not yet have a nuke. But that is only months away.
It is time to have all our NATO partners (save Turkey), travel to Israel and view the intel the Israelis managed to get out of Iran. It is very important for all to know. Then they need to put on their big boy pants. Iran, although large in land mass, is puny in economic strength. Economically, they are about the same size as Maryland. We are huge economically, and so our our partners. We need to, with the help of our strong allies, to put the screws on Iran like never before.
One more thing. We need to make sure we are on the right side of history. Israel has been war planning for Iran for many years now. If they have to go it alone, they will. Why? It is they with the target on their backs. They live in Iran's neighborhood. Iran has pledged total destruction of Israel many times.
President Trump. Your legacy sir, might not be this roaring economy you promised us. It might be fixing two very hot messes. The Korea thing is coming along fine. The Iranian thing might be coming to a head.
I am ready to offer these guys from Iran plow shares to disarm and play nice with the others in their neighborhood. By the same token, I am also ready to show them our sword. And I know Bebe is also ready to show his sword.
Iran is at the cusp of an internal explosion because its political system has failed to comprehend and solve the economic, environmental, and social issues that have left most Iranians feeling frustrated at their country’s stagnation and obsession with foreign interventions.
ReplyDeleteHopefully, DJT's actions will push them over the edge and get rid of the ayatollahs and their political influence.
If we let events take their course naturally, Iran’s desire for regional influence will continue to be checked by the ambitions of other regional powers, while internal pressures may eventually produce a government more favorable toward us, all without any American military action.
(Mike here) Trump's doing pretty good with Iran and N.K., isn't he, Gjerdingen?? The guy liberals hate just might be the one who saves your ass.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what he is saving us from, but the Israeli's butt could be saved.
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DeleteTrump's approach may not be nearly as satisfying as what I proposed for the Iranian hostage crisis of 1980, to wit: having the President say, "at 2 PM your time today, an American passenger plane will land at your airport in Tehran to pick up our 80 American citizens and will take off as soon as they are on board. If they are not on board within an hour, there will be another plane, but it will not land. There will be no place for it to land and it will depart immediately thereafter."
ReplyDeleteBut, if this far more genteel approach brings down the economy, the ability to foment unrest across the region, their nuclear and megalomaniacal intents and the regime itself, that's even better. Sounds to me like it has a good chance to work, too.
I agree, and since Trump has backed off on preventing continuing US Business interests in Iran, ie Boeing, AT&T etc., we shouldn't be hurt economically, other than the continued increase in gas prices at the pump, which should end next year as the shale oil folks ramp up again.
DeleteIt will be the next few months in Iran that will tell the difference, how hard sanctions hurt (I don't even know what they are) and will the rest of the Iran Deal signees create a new deal without us, which is my expectation.
Certainly it is possible that the deal could continue without the United States, and at least the Europeans would like to do so in order to keep doing business with this pit of vipers. But since the US sanctions include banking transactions, sooner or later it is going to start to bite everybody involved, and the Iran economy is teetering already. That is partly due to previous sanctions and partly due to stupidity in their "government." Somehow, seventh century religious dogma is not well suited for guiding a 21st century economy.
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