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 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
Did we do anything perhaps to piss them off over the past 47 years? Economic sanctions to destroy their economy? Attacking them now and then? You know that tit for tat stuff?
ReplyDeleteIf I put up a fence to block you and you climb on a ladder to piss over the fence, am I to blame for being angry?
Please look at a map and plot everywhere Iran "attacked us" and notice where they are. An oval around Iran and Israel oddly enough.
Really terrible they put their country right next to so many of OUR BASES. Almost like Russia being annoyed we continue to put multi-use quick strike potentially nuclear armed missiles so close to their country. Cuban missile crisis situation maybe?
We are not saint's friend.
Kissinger a noted American Diplomat said a few interesting things:
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” — Henry Kissinger
“It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.” — Henry Kissinger
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.
Henry A. Kissinger
THIS is how sanctions and wars to control oil happen. Control. We are for all our moralism's about events that happened decades ago really trying to screw China out of Venezuela and now Iran's OIL.
WHY? China shut off our supply of refined rare earths. We DON'T have any replacement for years from now maybe decades. Electronic dollars thrown at it doesn't speed up the building of mines, refineries and most of all SKILLS needed to do it.
Look up how much our fighters, warships, general technology and missiles NEED Rare Earths.
I NOTICE we COPIED and mass produced IRAN's cheap little flying lawnmower DRONE. Why NO RARE Earths required.
Trump think's I have your oil, give me my rare earths.
“Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by their world government.” – Henry Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberger meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992. (in an address to the Bilderberger organization meeting at Evian, France, on May 21, 1991. As transcribed from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates. )” — Henry Kissinger
Trump has thrown the dice on a bet that Iran will fold before we run out of missile interceptors.
Although Trump keeps saying shut down the Ukraine war USA STILL Provides ISR with our satellites so Ukraine can attack Russia with long ranged drones.
ODDLY China and probably Russia is giving IRAN the ISR to effectively target their massive missile salvos.
I wonder why?
When they seize an embassy, that is "Casus Belli" Latin for cause for war. Basically they started the ball rolling. And as far as attacking them now and then...they used terror to strike out, I was stationed in Germany in the 80's, we had clubs bombed over there with "Red Army Faction", and the Bader Meinhof gang liking to kill G.I's and blow shit up, they got a lot of their assistance from the Stasi and the Libyans with Iranian support. The Tanker War was Iran trying to shut off the Persian Gulf to oil traffic, we captured the "Iranian Ajir", going by memory after one of our naval ships hit a mile after they were laying them. which prompted the the U.S. Navy to sink several of their ships and destroy several of their oil platforms....remember that casus belli thing? The Russians and China are helping Iran out because Iran is their gas station. I knew that China was sending satellite intel to the Iranians, I am pretty sure the French are also, that is something that the French would do. The Mullahs believe in the 12th Iman, and if they can hasten the arrival by chunking a nuke at a major city in the United States, they would do it.
DeleteI was in my early 20s when the Carter apology tour was going on. The only thing that stupid worm farmer (he was, honest, along with peanuts) excelled at was apologizing. I was not in sense political at that point, but I was so disgusted by him that when Reagan crushed him, it was a highlight of my life and made me a conservative. Now I am sure that he and the ayatollahs are singing kumbaya around the campfires of Hell.
ReplyDeleteHey DrBob
DeletePresident Carter was honest and naive, he was a better statesman than president. The world is a better place without the wacky mullah's in it, it is up to the Persians to straighten their stuff out.