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For nearly half a century, the theocratic leaders of Iran have waged war against the “infidel” West, especially the U.S. and Israel, dubbed the “the big Satan” and “the little Satan.” The Mullas’ malign intentions have been easy to read by their support for terrorist foreign proxy forces aimed at both enemies. Since its creation, Iran’s Mullas and their proxies with impunity have bathed their hands in American blood, as well as the blood of their own citizens. And their efforts to possess nuclear weapons, stopped for now by Donald Trump, were met by the West with useless diplomatic theater.
How is it that the country with the most powerful military in the world has let a pygmy rogue state serially murder its citizens for nearly 50 years, and thwart its interests and endanger its national security? By appeasing, feckless policies starting with Jimmy Carter and his “rules-based international moralizing” idealism, and continued by Barack Obama. Not until Donald Trump was elected president, have those blunders by Carter and Obama begun to be corrected.
Many other foreign policy missteps contributed to the loss of Iran from our side of the Cold War. One is the debacle of Vietnam, when the U.S. won the war only to lose the peace; and the other is what Henry Kissenger called the “disintegration of the CIA” that left an intelligence vacuum in Iran. The first led to a failure of national nerve known as the “Vietnam syndrome,” a political pacifism that privileged diplomatic engagement, civilizational self-loathing, and fear of using force to support a critical Cold War ally.
Carter’s moralizing foreign policy damaged our country’s deterrent power, as the Iran crisis illustrated. He also promoted the “power” of principled example over force to persuade other nations, especially our sworn enemies. Human rights, a principle of the West, was projected as a universal good, as was our Constitution. Another Western ideal, disarmament, similarly was considered universal.
These became the foundations of Carter’s foreign policy, along with acceptance of America’s limitations and guilt, predicated on the fiasco of Vietnam and the alleged depredations of the C.I.A. both at home and abroad, leading to what Kissinger called the agency’s “disintegration.”
Carter’s speeches disseminated these weak dicta around the world. In his inaugural address, for example, Carter acknowledged the nation’s “recent mistakes,” counseled Americans not to “dwell on remembered glory,” and reminded his fellow citizens that “even our great nation has its recognized limits” and can “simply do its best.” Not exactly a rousing way for a leader to fire up confidence in the citizens.
This self-loathing and hesitancy about American’s greatness was doubled-downed a few years later in the famous “malaise” speech, which insisted the country’s “commitment to human rights must be absolute,” and at the same time scolded that “we will not behave in foreign places so as to violate our rules and standards at home.” Surely our guiding principles should be ensuring our national security and pursuing our national interests, not reducing the world’s armaments rather than our enemies’ as Carter proposed.
Equally dangerous was Carter’s CIA Director Stansfield Turner’s fulfillment of Carter’s idealism. As Arthur Herman observed, “secrecy as well as human intelligence was passé; openness was the new catchphrase.”
Covert action and counterintelligence were abandoned or severely reduced rather than developing human intelligence assets. Herman added, Turner “concentrated on technical intelligence assets and attempts to run the intelligence community, ruthlessly disbanding what remained of the clandestine service,” and firing 1300 covert officers––a change that would reveal Carter’s fecklessness when the Iranian Islamic Revolution broke out, and our intelligence was lacking important information about the Ayatollah Khomeini, and the Islamic religious foundations of the revolt.
On top of that failure of imagination, the adherence to the “rules-based order of international moralism,” and Carter’s quasi-pacifism, the President’s foreign policy team seemed to lack any knowledge of Islamic doctrines and history.
The first consequence, as co-authors Michael Ledeen and William Lewis wrote in “Debacle: The American Failure in Iran”: “Throughout the whole crisis, the Americans were hobbled by their own doctrines. To supply the Shah was viewed in many quarters as a betrayal of Carter’s human rights campaign, especially if the Shah used American support as an excuse to deploy lethal military force against his enemies. But to permit the Shah to be toppled was a geopolitical risk of vast dimension.”
Moreover, the Iranian revolutionaries assumed from these moves that the Americans were abandoning the Shah just as they had cast aside the South Vietnamese.
Rather than basing their strategy on the tenets and practice of Islam, Carter’s team relied on the anticolonialism Cold War narrative in which the United States supported neocolonialist oppressors like the Shah who denied their people human rights and political agency. Carter’s human rights goals were challenged by some of his advisors, but to no avail.
As Barry Rubins reported, “By mid-December [1978] the United States did not have any coherent policy nor was there even a system of coordination between the different policymaking groups. . . each step was dictated partly by chance, partly by the relative strength of various personalities in the policymaking groups.”
This ensured that Khomeini was running the show to achieve his jihadist religious purpose to “kill the infidel wherever you find him,” and protect Islam and the clerics from the Shah, whose “regime” according to Khomeini in 1963, “is fundamentally opposed to Islam itself and the existence of a religious class.”
In other words, the revolution was not about imperialism or oppression or a lack of human rights. It was about the Shah’s modernizing programs that were anti-Islamic, promoting foreign ideas such as a secular government, the emancipation of women and religious minorities, and the cultural and technological incursions from the infidel West.
In the end, Iran was lost to the free world––“a calamity,” historian Niall Ferguson wrote, “whose ramifications were and are incalculable.”
Carter’s handling of the Iranian Islamic Revolution quickly manifested the folly: The embassy hostages crisis ended with Carter paying the mullahs danegeld for their release; the earlier, ill-planned failed hostage rescue that left eight Americans dead, with a televised spectacle of mullahs gleefully poking the soldiers’ remains with their canes, and taunts of Carter from Khomeini; and Iran’s establishment of a terror proxy training camp in Lebanon’s Bekaa Vally, whence jihadist attacked the U.S. Marine barracks, killing 241 without any retaliation from the U.S.
These are just a fragment of the reckoning Iran still owes the U.S. Before Trump became president, Barack Obama had signed the U.S. up for the diplomatic groveling of the “Iran nuclear deal,” a de facto permission-slip and glide-path for the rogue terrorist nations to acquire nuclear weapons. Trump pulled the U.S. twice from this appeasement, and severely damaged the infrastructure the mullahs had already built.
But Iran is still a threat, and currently is brutally murdering its own citizens for protesting their leaders. Donald Trump has warned the clerical regime that “If Iran shots [sic] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue.” The president also said on social media, “We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”
The President shouldn’t put off this threat any longer. The Washington Post has suggested many ways of following through on the threat. “Trump has military options to make good on his threats. A kinetic approach might involve bombing the bases that belong to security forces or directly targeting top government officials. It could be as simple as directing drones to take out paramilitary militias as they drive to violently put down protests.”
We should heed the advice that in 1938 Duff Cooper, First Lord of the Admiralty in his farewell speech after resigning Chamberlain’s cabinet in protest over his handling of Hitler at Munich: “The Prime Minister has believed in addressing Herr Hitler through the language of sweet reasonableness. I have believed that he was more open to the language of the mailed fists.” Iran is long overdue for a reckoning.
It’s all over for the The Mullas if Iran……………until they call home Hamas and Hezbollah. Then what?
They have already called on the Hamas and Hezbollah. thy are in Iran and doing all of the killing of the innocent demonstrators.
Carter allowed Khamani in and there conservatively killed 10,000 Iranian.
i think our county owes Iran for all of the killing since 1979 to set the Iranian free from the Islamic republic.
The Iranian mullahs deserve a big plate of payback with a side of comeuppance and a tall glass of “eat sh*t & die” to wash it down.
President Trump is 100% right for siding the Iranian people in their righteous and just revolt against the brutal cruel oppressive and murderous tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran.
Many well informed Americans are well aware that back when Joe Biden was sitting in the Oval Office of the White House masquerading as a genuine m real US President , he, quickly caved ,to those Muslim despots of that Islamic tyranny of Iran giving in and granting them everything they demanded. Therefore ,, straightening the oppressive grip of those islamic tyrants on the Iranian people.
Consequently the people trapped in that brutal cruel death inflecting Islamic tyrannical regime didn’t dare endeavor into the righteous attempt to have their basic human rights and freedom to overthrow that horrendous “mullah regime” of Iran.
Now , with President Trump in Office , a real US President, ,who is not supporting and upholding those dictators of Iran but opposes them , unlike bogus “president ” Biden, the Iranian people are engaging in their noble action and quest to free themselves from the oppressive and deadly bondage of that horrific Islamic tyranny of Iran.
An observation about Trump: Unlike the past 3 or 4 presidents, he routinely demonstrates the courage of his convictions and doesn’t give a damn who doesn’t like it. That translates into world wide respect.
Like him or hate him but you can’t ignore him. Only pusillanimous weenies around the world and here in America (e.g., democrats, RINOs, leftist MSM and establishment sycophants) carp and whine about Trump. They’re jealous and envious because Trump is a man with moxie and they’re timid spineless wussies.
Two of the despots of the Islamic regime that recently who are responsible for the murder of at least ,1200 Iranian protesters. are that tyranny’s President Pezeshkian and Ayatollah Khamenei.
Even before Pezeshkian , the former , now dead President/tyrant of Iran, when he had military power and is directly responsible for have many innocence ruthlessly murdered. At that time and later he, for giving so many deadly orders was known as the “hangman of Tehran.”
After Rasis had become the President/dictator of Iran he had over a hundred people executed in the short span of time, from January to March, in the year 2022.
All this misery and death –inflecting horrendous evil is keeping within that evil essence of that tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran.
Now the lasted information the the number of Iranian protesters murdered by that Islamic tyranny of Iran has exceeded three thousand people.
I’ve heard it us now 14,700. Since mullahs gave internet turned iff only a few videos came come out and information is spotty
Murderous violence is the method of handling people and events in the bloody Islamic tyranny which has as its official title of “The Islamic Republic of Iran. Furthermore, the reason why this is so is because the essence of Islam is that of cruel vicious death inflecting violence.
Therefore it should be made known that if the founder of the current Islamic tyranny ,Ayatollah Khomeini would still be alive today ,he would spit on those Westerners who say that “Islam is a non-violent religion.”
If Ayatollah Khomeini had clearly announced that “Those who know nothing about Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war….There are hundreds psalms and hadiths urging of Muslims to value war and to fight. …I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” [1] So if he was alive today who would spit on those Westerners who say that “Islam is a non-violent religion.” [1]
There are also many places in the Qu ‘ran that instruct in violence and killing for the cause of Islam.
As found in ,for example Surah 2:191. 4:89.. 5:33. 9:5, 111,112 ,123. 47:4.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 339.
“Iran is long overdue for a reckoning.”
Yes, it should’ve happened back in 1979 but better late than never. The mullahs and their “Revolutionary” Guard need to go.
The Iranian People aren’t protesting and being murdered by the thousands for no reason. They’re sick and tired of the oppressive bullshit.
Take them out, Big Don.
Pres Trump avoids mention of the reason the people are out there protesting: regime change. Stopping killing isnt enough if the same regime stays. The people chant for the Shah. That’s their choice. Heaven help them if Trump doesn’t help or the woke right(leftists) impose more Islam on these Persians
Only about 25% are Muslim. Many claim to have no religion or have a variety of other faiths. These people are ready for freedom of religion and everything else and are ready to hope again.
Yes, and reportedly only 20% of Iranians are ethnic Persians. I don’t know if that’s true but those people need to be liberated and the mullahtards and their “Revolutionary” Guard need to be exterminated as the cockroaches they are.
I laugh ironically at stupid American leftists hyperventilating about how Christians supposedly want to establish a “theocracy”, while all but cheering for the m usl ims who really are..
Trumps already backing down. He’s betrayed the Iranians after encouraging them to rise up with promises of aid.
That horrendously malicious and murderous tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran is 100% pure evil.
Many times over that terrorist state of Iran, which started during the year 1979 it is a brutal cruel death inflecting machine. Now it proved that it is s not a genuine government but an unconscionable despotic regime of horrific wickedness.
Read the Qur’an
•Allah constitutes the highest authority for human affairs;
• Shari’a, based primarily on the word of Allah {the Qur’an) and the practices of the Prophet Muhammad constitutes the ultimate law for all humans;
• apostasy consists of any rejection of the first two principles and constitutes a crime punishable by death;
• Muslims who reject the first two principles, any non-Muslim who rejects Islam by failing to convert, and democracies, because they assume that the people who are governed constitute the ultimate authority for human affairs, count as examples of apostasy. The norms of jhadic behavior follow from these assumptions:
• democracies should be destroyed; and
• all individuals guilty of apostasy, Muslim or non-Muslim, should be killed. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
A major point left out is that “Jimmah” Carter received quite a bit of money from muslims after leaving office. I would not be surprised if it started in office.
Point 2 is that the author assumes the people that receive checks from tax dollars in DC are competent. They only wish to enhance their wealth and status. Government requires little intellect. Dilberts flock there.
As the original ayatollah Khomeini said to the west–“We don’t want your freedom.”
If Trump is going to act in Iran, he needs to do it quickly. Every hour that passes permits the Mullahs to murder thousands of protestors. There will be no one to rescue if he delays much longer.
There’s a report out that the Gulf states convince Trump not to attack Iran. Hard to know what’s true, but given this delay in action in light of Iranians being slaughtered in the streets and Trump’s new found adoration of places like Qatar and Saudi Arabia, perhaps we’re seeing how his naive and dangerous connections with these places is impacting his judgement.
Obama: The real “Manchurian Candidate” elected by the American people, historical illiterates.
Now that’s a truly evil man.
Wasn’t it Jimmy Carter’s policies that permitted a thriving and successful first world standard country, South Africa, to be taken over and destroyed by black communists, thugs, and criminals?
White hatred among the commies is not a new phenomenon, it’s inbred in their dystopian ideology.
I think Rhodesia and South Africa were test-beds for what these wicked people have planned for the whole of Western Civilisation. And they seem to be winning.