Iranian Regime - A Member Of The Axis of Stupidity
Some years back, President Bush referred to Iran as part of the Axis of Evil. Now, in 2007, the renegade regime is showing its hand, and its utter stupidity in promoting its imagery as a poorly-run nation, whose leaders are engaging in stupid and negative diplomacy.
For those of you who find Iran just an irritant in a troubled word, there is much more to it than that. If you sensed that America and the West was distorting the Iranian threat, then you should think again. In most diplomatic standoffs, reason prevails. In the current impasse with Great Britain, and the capture of the British sailors, the Iranians are once again proving how scary and frightening that they can be.
If they thought that the British vessel intentionally violated Iranian waters, there could have been another direction. The Iranians would have received worldwide respect by simply lodging a complaint and letting it be. Instead, they decided to “capture” the crew, and create a dangerous international episode. This is the same mind-set that allowed the only criminal takeover of a foreign embassy in modern times, the illegal capture of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, an episode that led to the defeat of President Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Irrational leaders have been accepted by the world until it was too late. It was too late in Rwanda, in Uganda, and of course, there was the greatest example of “too late” when the criminal Adolph Hitler began the mass death movement in the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Iran is a dangerous regime. The British have showed great restraint. It is time for Tony Blair to step up to the plate and warn Iran that its waters and economic interests will be blockaded untll the sailors are freed.
Our failure to act in 1979 and 1980 allowed lawlessness to grow in a renegade regime. Can the world allow that to happen again?
We are fighting a desperate struggle for a questionable cause in Iraq, whlle the real threat is next door, where the religious fanatics in Iran are once again displaying the reasons we should be so concerned.
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Instead of looking at it as fighting a “desperate” struggle for a “questionable” cause in Iraq why do you refuse to acknowledge that from a military strategic viewpoint we have Iran surrounded on 3 sides.
The Bush administration has repeatedly said, apparently to deaf ears in the media, that Iraq is just one battle in the long war on Islamo-fascism (or whatever you want to call it just dont call it the war on chosen delivery method i.e. terrorism). Either you haven’t been paying attention or you don’t believe it or you don’t get it. Unforunately you happen to be correct in saying that our failure to respond to force with force in 79-80 led to the state of affairs today.
Iran has been at war and has perpetrated acts of war using proxies against the US for decades now (and continues to do it right now in Iraq).
Once upon a time the international community would not tolerate the actions of a country such as Iran. The world would be outraged and something (diplomatic or militarily) would have been done period end of story.
Now I am tired of the cop out well Bush (who I did not vote for) is to blame for lack of will in the international community to confront Iran because of Iraq. For the last fifteen years you have similar regimes in Somalia, Rwanda, Uganda, and North Korea the President in question was Bill Clinton. Now if the international community is against Bush why then did this body allow these regimes to exist then when a more favorable US President; Bill Clinton (who I voted for) was in office?
I agree with you Larry that we allowed this to happen by not acting in a decisive manner in 79-80. However, it seems that we are more worried about offending people in these despotic nations than holding their leaders accountable for criminal actions. I guess we are saving that for one for Bush since his crimes far out class any committed by the Iranian government. I just hope that we get a backbone and stand up to these nations by any means necessary.
Len: It is amazing. The pattern of the British sailors being marched out to announce their fake confessions.