47 years Past due.....

 

    47 years...47 years, we have been taking crap from the mullah's in Iran, I remember as a kid in 1980 in Alabama by Ft McClellen when they rolled a TV in a cart to play President Jimmy Carter's speech apologizing for the debacle of "Desert One"

I remember the shame and the anger. we as Americans felt after hearing that. On top of having our people hostages, I remember the "Yellow Ribbons" that were tied on the front of the trees in the yards all over America. as a symbol of the hostages.

     I have to explain to people why we attacked Iran to push the mullah's out of power, "for 47 years the Iranians have been calling us the "Great Satan" and Israel "the Little Satan",  The Mullahs were behind the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut where 17 people died, the marine barrack in Beirut where 241 Marines died, by proxies of Iran.  The capture of the CIA chief in Lebanon Mr. Buckley I believe, they tortured him for 444 days, and mailed us the tapes of the torture, and finally his heart gave out. They also snatched up the head of the U.N peacekeeping force in Lebanon, also an American, and tortured and killed him too, and sent us the video's for their amusement.  The acts of terrorism on airplanes, nightclubs were linked to proxies of Iran with Libya throwing an assist.  Actually they swapped technical information back then along with the "IRA", kinda like the trifecta of terror if you will.  Also remember the brief war with the Iranians during Operation "Earnest Will" when we reflagged Kuwaiti tankers after Iran was throwing mines and silkworm missiles at the tankers in an attempt to close the Persian Gulf to the West. We can't forget the "U.S.S. Cole".  Plus all the IED's used to kill and maim U.S. Troops on Iraq and Afghanistan were designed and built by the "QUDs"  So I am glad we are putting paid to that account.

     I found out much later, there was a backroom deal between the Carter Administration and the French about Ayatollah Khomeini returning to Iran after the Shah came to the states for medical treatment, apparently there were assurances from the French "people" that the Ayatollah was going to be a moderate so the Carter administration had no objections to the Ayatollah going to Iran to formally take the reins of government basically screwing over the "Shah" an American Ally.  Well being true to form, the Carter Administration naivety bit us in the ass...Remember "Detente" where the Carter administration tried to make nice with the Soviets and the Soviets took full advantage of it, making us suckers ...yeah....Pepperage Farms Remembers.  They were greenhorns all over the foreign affairs stage, this was the same administration that gave away the "Panama Canal" for a $1 and now the Chinese runs the locks.... I am proud that we finally have a president that doesn't care about world opinion and finally taking care of business.  We should have handles this back in the 80's but every time Reagan then Bush Senior tried to use the military, you heard from the lefties and democrats "Vietnam Syndrome", and this was used to stymy any military action.  It took the 1st Gulf war to put that to rest.  

There will not be any boots on the ground, that ain't Trumps style.  We suck at nation building, unless the nation being rebuilt really wants it.  Iran before the mullah's was a very western based country.  After the mullah's are kicked out, this will be up the Iranians er the Persians to figure out.   And yes they are celebration all over the world.....except here in the states from the usual suspects.

And of course we had people in Pakistan rush the U.S consulate to seize it in a fury of religious zeal, and they paid the price.  Trump and Rubio ain't Carter and Clinton.  The cynical part of my wonders if the ISI sponsored the riot because the Pakistani's are lukewarm allies in the best of times. or am I being cynical