september
27, 2005
How is the
U.S. Gov't Dealing with The Iranian Threat?
It's widely acknowledged that radical Islam's official
declaration of war on the United States came during the
Iranian revolution of 1979. That's when a gang of wild-eyed
Iranian "students"-- including Iran's newly
elected terrorist-in-chief, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad--stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking
54 Americans hostage and making "Death to America"
the most popular catchphrase in the Muslim world this
side of "Allahu Akhbar" ("Death to Israel"
comes in a close third).
Since then, Iran has egineered numerous butcheries against
American citizens, most famously the 1983 bombing of a
U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 American
servicemen. We're currently engaged in a sort of latter-day
Cold War against the mad mullahs of Tehran, who are actively
aiding the insurgency in Iraq, developing nuclear weapons,
funding worldwide Islamist terror and-according to some
Iranian dissidents, looking to establish a modern-day
Persian empire in the Middle East.
So how is the U.S. government dealing with the Iranian
threat? On the surface, pretty weakly. As a matter of
fact, as columnist Debbie Schlussel documents on this
recent blog at her
website, debbieschlussel.com,
senior U.S. officials are even embracing friends of the
fanatical Iranian regime. What's even worse is that these
same Khomeini acolytes live not in Iran but right here
in the United States. I'll let Schlussel's blog speak
for itself--it's a must read, and the pictures she provides
to back up her claims are shocking. In fact, what Schlussel
describes is one of the most egregious examples of bureaucratic
brain freeze on the domestic side of the War on Terror
since the 9/11 attacks. And sadly, there have been quite
a few of those, so that's saying something.
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