Iran Does It Again and No One Cares
Ken Hughes
March 25, 2007
This past Friday Iranians involved themselves in the Iraqi conflict once more by taking 15 British citizens [Sailors and Marines] hostage, and why not with the appeasement anti-war crowd being the west’s most vocal group the terrorists and their facilitators feel free to do whatever whenever they want.
There’s no question of Iran’s insolvent and support for international terrorism. Although the MSM doesn’t report their involvement there are other creditable sources that do report Iran’s 25 [plus] years of support for terrorism around the world. In the 1960’s and 70’s Teheran was a vibrant city where all religions and most lifestyles were tolerated. Islamic law was observed but wasn’t the dominating factor. Today Islamic law dominates every part if Iranians lives. Not the Islamic law taught by the Qur’aan but a new and more radical Islamic law that preaches violence, and even murder as a way of achieving their goals.
Regardless if these British Boats were a foot or a km into Iranian waters if in fact they were it’s immaterial. It’s always been a custom of the sea to disregard minor infractions of territorial climes of sovereignty. At sea unlike land they can’t build fences or paint yellow lines defining boarders. For Iran this is an offset for the coming vote by the UN Security Councils calling for sanctions.
As much as I detest conspiracy theories I can’t help but blame much of Iran’s bravado on former president Jimmy Carter. Carter, Chamberlain and Quisling were all cut from the same cloth, Cowards-R-Us. There are some men who rise to great power who should never have gotten beyond a peanut harvester. Carter was elected when the nation needed a doctor, I know doctor and Carter was no doctor. With few exceptions great persons with outstanding abilities never see the light of politics they go in other directions to establish themselves.
What will be the outcome of Iran’s capturing and holding British Citizens? Will Tony Blair submit to the terrorist’s demands and ask President Bush to release the Iranian insurgents captured in Iraq? Will President Bush submit, will the US House pass a non-binding resolution demanding the president submit to the terrorist’s demands made in the name of not offending the Iranians? There aren’t frivolous questions this seems to be the way the good guys fight wars these days. It’s gotten to the point a soldier must check the ID’s of enemy combatants to make sure they aren’t innocent civilians with explosives strapped to them for their own protection. The enemy is given every advantage in fighting this war on terrorism. Our military is strapped with inconceivable restriction on them there are those who argue captured enemy combatants should be afforded the same rights as American Citizens.
It’ll be interesting as well as devastating if we elect a Democratic President in 2008. It seems to be their intentions to walk away from Iraq and concentrate on the war in Afghanistan. No invader has ever won a war in Afghanistan, America has troops scattered throughout the world maintaining the statuesque and that’s about the best we can expect. The days of winning wars has long passed. Harry Truman defined it best when he said “In the future it will be police actions and no longer wars we engage in.” [Paraphrased.]
To change pace:… I’ve often wondered why the Media is so intent on covering the successes of the enemy and not the successes of our fighting men and women. American and British troops have given Iraqis an opportunity to create a nation of their own making. Most of what we hear coming from Iraq is negative, it makes us wonder who the media is talking to or even if they’re talking to anyone over there. Perhaps it’s all being made up in the editorial rooms of new sources here at home.
Changing pace again:…. How has this congress sunk so low they would even consider not funding the troops they sent to war. It’s one thing to play politics it’s quite another to do it with the lives of men and women who volunteered to take the war on terror out of our back yards and into the terrorists back yards.
To those Democrats and RINOS who are abstracting a victory and lending encouragement to the enemy in Iraq, I can only quote the words of a famous lawyer of the McCarthy era. HAVE YOU NO SHAME MR. CONGRESSMAN?”
There’s no question of Iran’s insolvent and support for international terrorism. Although the MSM doesn’t report their involvement there are other creditable sources that do report Iran’s 25 [plus] years of support for terrorism around the world. In the 1960’s and 70’s Teheran was a vibrant city where all religions and most lifestyles were tolerated. Islamic law was observed but wasn’t the dominating factor. Today Islamic law dominates every part if Iranians lives. Not the Islamic law taught by the Qur’aan but a new and more radical Islamic law that preaches violence, and even murder as a way of achieving their goals.
Regardless if these British Boats were a foot or a km into Iranian waters if in fact they were it’s immaterial. It’s always been a custom of the sea to disregard minor infractions of territorial climes of sovereignty. At sea unlike land they can’t build fences or paint yellow lines defining boarders. For Iran this is an offset for the coming vote by the UN Security Councils calling for sanctions.
As much as I detest conspiracy theories I can’t help but blame much of Iran’s bravado on former president Jimmy Carter. Carter, Chamberlain and Quisling were all cut from the same cloth, Cowards-R-Us. There are some men who rise to great power who should never have gotten beyond a peanut harvester. Carter was elected when the nation needed a doctor, I know doctor and Carter was no doctor. With few exceptions great persons with outstanding abilities never see the light of politics they go in other directions to establish themselves.
What will be the outcome of Iran’s capturing and holding British Citizens? Will Tony Blair submit to the terrorist’s demands and ask President Bush to release the Iranian insurgents captured in Iraq? Will President Bush submit, will the US House pass a non-binding resolution demanding the president submit to the terrorist’s demands made in the name of not offending the Iranians? There aren’t frivolous questions this seems to be the way the good guys fight wars these days. It’s gotten to the point a soldier must check the ID’s of enemy combatants to make sure they aren’t innocent civilians with explosives strapped to them for their own protection. The enemy is given every advantage in fighting this war on terrorism. Our military is strapped with inconceivable restriction on them there are those who argue captured enemy combatants should be afforded the same rights as American Citizens.
It’ll be interesting as well as devastating if we elect a Democratic President in 2008. It seems to be their intentions to walk away from Iraq and concentrate on the war in Afghanistan. No invader has ever won a war in Afghanistan, America has troops scattered throughout the world maintaining the statuesque and that’s about the best we can expect. The days of winning wars has long passed. Harry Truman defined it best when he said “In the future it will be police actions and no longer wars we engage in.” [Paraphrased.]
To change pace:… I’ve often wondered why the Media is so intent on covering the successes of the enemy and not the successes of our fighting men and women. American and British troops have given Iraqis an opportunity to create a nation of their own making. Most of what we hear coming from Iraq is negative, it makes us wonder who the media is talking to or even if they’re talking to anyone over there. Perhaps it’s all being made up in the editorial rooms of new sources here at home.
Changing pace again:…. How has this congress sunk so low they would even consider not funding the troops they sent to war. It’s one thing to play politics it’s quite another to do it with the lives of men and women who volunteered to take the war on terror out of our back yards and into the terrorists back yards.
To those Democrats and RINOS who are abstracting a victory and lending encouragement to the enemy in Iraq, I can only quote the words of a famous lawyer of the McCarthy era. HAVE YOU NO SHAME MR. CONGRESSMAN?”
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