It is no coincidence that the terrorist attack in Northern Israel on July 12 that resulted in the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers and the deaths of three others occurred on the very day that a deadline for Iran was set to expire. Iran was facing an ultimatum to either suspend its nuclear activities or be brought before the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.
Tehran-made terrorists have left a major imprint in Iraq as well, claiming the lives of countless Iraqi, American, and allied troops. Iran is, in fact, the primary sponsor of terrorism throughout the world while it has allied itself with rogue nations such as Syria, North Korea and Venezuela.
Throughout the Middle East, America, Israel and the Allied Forces are fighting Iran. They are fighting Iran in Lebanon; they are fighting Iran in Gaza; they are fighting Iran in Iraq; and they are fighting Iran in Afghanistan. When will they start fighting Iran in Iran?
Iran launched its war against the West long ago and it is winning that war by a long stretch. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has put into effect the very strategy that the United States and its allies have been advocating for so long: they are fighting the enemy abroad rather than facing them at home.
Moreover, Iran is winning the war on the diplomatic front as well. Indeed, while the international community fumbles around in its attempts at forging a united front against Iran, Ahmadinejad and the criminal band of mullahs standing beside him cross one nuclear milestone after another.
Meanwhile, countries like China and Russia have made clear that Iran is not a problem state. In fact, Chinese missiles are being sold to Iran, flown to Damascus, trucked to Lebanon, and exploded on Israel. Russian nuclear technology, on the other hand, can be found in North Korea and will certainly make its way to Iran.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is often described as a virulent anti-Semite, as an apocalyptic visionary, and as an enemy of the West. But, in fact, Ahmadinejad is the ultimate puppet master and, unfortunately, we are all just dangling from his strings.
Article comments
1 - Deano
I agree with your assessment of Iran but one of the points you seem to be missing is the "why"...
The Iranian revolution began as a more wide-spread politically diverse revolution then it has become. Over time the Iranian Revolution moved rpaidly towards theocratic dominance of the political sphere in Iran (spurred on by both the Iranian hostage crisis and the later war against Iraq).
One of the key elements in maintaining that dominance is to continue to paint Iran as "under perpetual threat from the Great Satan". Yes Iran is pursuing a strategy to become the dominant power in the region - an ascendent Persia so to speak - but it is very very dependent on continuing that "external threat" - one major reason for their continual policy of brinkmanship with the international community and the US. They use that external threat as a prop to justify their own internal policies and repression.
It makes coming to a diplomatic settlement an almost impossible task...
2 - Dave Nalle
The ongoing internal threat is always a great way to keep your totalitarian regime going. It's also traditional to have an evil minority to persecute, like Zoroastrians, perhaps...
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3 - You Dumb Moron
lots of opinions from dumb asses like Dimwit Gingrich and the rest of the treasonous Republican and democrat politicians. We need to clean house and bring real americans into politics.
4 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
To the commenter in #4 (I don't want to take you apart with that moniker - man, it's tempting - but you might have something intelligent to say). Having ditche daerica's present crew of traitors, who ould you replace them with?
5 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
Let's try that again... Having ditched America's present crew of traitors, who would you replace them with?
6 - Nancy
Anyone who isn't a professional politician, spinmeister, lawyer, or rich. 3-term limits, no exceptions. No "free" anythings from anybody, for either the seatholder OR any family member, no gifts, no favors, nada; they want to go on a fact finding tour of Hawaii, let them pay for it themselves & deduct it on their 1040s like everyone else (& have the IRS check it out, too). No special privileges: no special parking lots, no special or freebie limos, housing, staff, or anything else. I could go on, but this website doesn't have enough space.
7 - Georgio
I am curious but WHY does the Arab states with all their OIL money NOT have tanks ;jet fighters and modern weapons like Israel..maybe if they had the same capabilities as Israel leaders would think twice about bombing each other ..
8 - SFC SKI
Georgio, you might be able to find a link to an article called " why arab armies lose wars", IIRC, the authore was named DeAtkine, but I could be wrong. It is surely not politically correct, but it is a pretty accurate analysis of several of the reasons that most Arab armies are ill-maintained, mostly untrained, and poorly-led.
The short version is, many of the oil states can buy a lot of high tech weapons, but they seldiom have an educated populace to train to use it, or maintain it. Not only that, but in some Arab countries, working with your hands, or taking orders is considered beneath everybody, so you have a case of too many chiefs and not enough followers. There is also an unwillingness to admit ones mistakes, both individually and institutionally, that causes defeats to be glossed over or balmed away. These are just some of the reasons that most, though certainly not all, Arabarmies can't compete wit hIsrael or the West militarily.
9 - gazelle
#8 you must also look at US military and civil aid in $s to israelcompared with others. other allies are jordan, egypt and saudi. best
10 - gazelle
i dont want what the gingrinch wants (to steal) : WWIII - and he wants it bad. WWIII is not imminent unless some people succeed, who should be failed by being stopped.
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11 - gazelle
and it has to do with the palestinian settlement, and not so much iran as the article suggests in a political demonizing way.
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12 - gazelle
#8
this article A Beautiful Friendship by Glenn Frankel" might be useful from the washington post. It follows on the Walt and Mearsheimer articles which are on the net.
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13 - SFC SKI
Gazelle, you missed one of the points of my post; Arab armies, and Iran's for that matter, will not do as well against most Western armies because of training and education, not because of inferior technology.
Also, the Palestinian problem is used by Iranian backed Hizbollah, supported by Syria, to fight a proxy war against Israel. If Iran was not backing Hizbollah, they could not have maintained their existence and arsenal for such a long period of time. The fact that Iran has also aided Hizbollah to strike at the US as well is just further evidence for the case against Iran.
14 - gazelle
SFC SKI
I was replying to Giorgio actually. I take your point, but these countries are also poor. it would be interesting to look at the GDPs of the US and Israel and these countries. or defence expenditures.
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15 - Bliffle
The rash decisions of Arabs and muslims to back the lost cause of palestinians have retarded them for 50 years and will be their undoing. How stupid.
16 - gazelle
#15, B.
The rash decisions of the Americans to back the lost cause of new israel has retarded them for 50 years and will be their undoing. How stupid.
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17 - HA!
May the best well equipped country win!
18 - gazelle
#17
you mean like : "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" in iraq.
Thats wouldnt be news. May the best well equipped country lose ! or how about: May the worse equipped country not lose ? (very lkely).
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19 - durian
my advice to iran is be prepared to fight unless you intend to submit to the newcon in america.iran keep on stressing oil price will jump but has it occur to the iranian govt that is precisely what the oil companies in the usa hoped will happen.their greed knows no bound and they are the sponsors of bush incorporated.