Adventures in Iran - again

"And now this shivering pile of goo we call a President, wants Israel to 'pause' for a while. Meanwhile, the IDF is kicking butt and taking names over in Gaza City. A pause? That would only help the bad guys. But in the land of weakness, that is often overlooked." 

Back when I first started working at Sperry Univac, one of the larger FMS (Foreign Military Sales) was Sperry had was with Iran. Iran? Those bunch of zealots? Pre-revolution Iran. When the Shah was in charge. We had some Iranian pilots going through training on the simulators on the Sperry campus. Then the unthinkable happened. A bunch of college kids in Tehran, spun up by some old Mullah, overthrew the government. Then all of sudden, we lost an ally, an FMS customer, and had a HUGE hostage crisis to deal with.

How in the world could a third world bunch of misfits best the very powerful United States, take sixty American hostages, and hold them for 444 days? Simple answer - we had a squish for a president. Jimmy Carter. A good man, but a lousy president. Weak. Indecisive. All of those bad things about Carter set off an aroma the Iranians could smell a half a world away.

But - as much as they scoffed at Jimmy Carter, this "cowboy" from Hollywood who was going to be our next president - scared the pants off of them. In fact, Reagan was barely sworn in, when the hostages were released. Why? They picked up the aroma of strength from Reagan. And it scared them.

Flash forward to today. Obama. Kerry. Biden. Harris. The stench of their cowardness is almost overwhelming. All of the world's bad guys can smell it. And for reasons beyond human comprehension, our weak leadership wanted to give Iran scads of money and goodies to jump start their nuclear program. Knowing that Iran was one of the world's bad guys, our weak leadership thought they could "buy them off". If we did this, Iran would behave. Boy were they ever wrong.

Unfortunately, we don't have a Ronald Reagan waiting in the wings to assume the position of POTUS. No - we are stuck with the master squish - Joseph Biden. And Iran is the puppet master in the Middle East, causing all kinds of havoc. People keep wondering why we don't threaten Iran with all kinds of bad things if they can't behave. Well - we did. Biden told them, "Don't". Over and over again, he said "Don't". Even though our military has suffered dozens of attacks from Iran's proxies, Biden keeps saying "Don't".

And now this shivering pile of goo we call a President, wants Israel to "pause" for a while. Meanwhile, the IDF is kicking butt and taking names over in Gaza City. A pause? That would only help the bad guys. But in the land of weakness, that is often overlooked. 

How weak in Biden? While in Minnesota, some female Rabbi bought a ticket to his fundraiser, and heckled our commander-in-weak. "We need a cease fire!", this traitor to the Jewish faith yelled out. Biden caved like melting ice. "Well, maybe we could do a humanitarian pause" (whatever that is). What did the IDF say to this nutso idea? No thanks. 

Maybe we could just put Trump in as a temporary president for a month or so. He already stood the Iranians up after they killed one of our contractors. Trump all but vaporized General Soleimani to teach them a lesson. Then Trump let the Iranians know (through back channels), if they try and retaliate for killing the general, Trump was going to destroy Iran's four seaports. All of a sudden, things got very quiet from Iran.

Pease through strength. Carry a big stick. Stiffen your spine. All of these are like a foreign language to the squish squad. Can we make it until January 2025 with this bunch hanging around? I sure hope so. But right now, hope is fading away.