Thanks to Trump, the
Forty-Year Appeasement of
Iran Is Over
American Thinker,
by
E. Jeffrey Ludwig
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
1/6/2020 5:18:03 AM
The assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani is an unusual, possibly aberrant, event. The killing of this individual leader of a sovereign state may lead to all-out war between Iran and the U.S. — or, on the other hand, the assassination may bring an end to the cycle of Iranian violence countered by U.S. and world diplomatic flatulence and appeasement. (snip) the Iranians have been in an undeclared war with the U.S. since the ayatollahs and their religiously inspired and power-mad henchmen took over the reins of government from the despotic but pro-American Shah in the seventies.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 1/6/2020 5:37:24 AM (No. 280010)
It won't be all out war,just have to keep cutting the snakes heads off.
I don't think they forgot what Reagan did to their Navy and oil faculty's.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GO3 1/6/2020 6:05:39 AM (No. 280021)
Hopefully the author is right that this will begin to set things straight. I haven’t read all the reports out there, but has anyone asked why a spec ops general is free to openly use Baghdad Airport? Short answer: zippy turned Iraq over to the mullahs further squandering the sacrifice of our troops and wasting the expenditures of our money. Shooting at dawn is too good for that creature.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
globalwarmer 1/6/2020 6:31:37 AM (No. 280036)
It's funny to watch all the Pearl clutchers acting crazy scared about possible war.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
walcb 1/6/2020 7:21:44 AM (No. 280073)
Rep. Elissa Slotkin "what always kept both Democratic and Republican presidents from targeting Soleimani himself was the simple question: Was the strike worth the likely retaliation, and the potential to pull us into protracted conflict?"
This may have been the reasoning for Bush's lack of action but he was a brother to Obama.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
little guy 1/6/2020 8:01:32 AM (No. 280101)
For the first time in 40 years the Imams and Mullahs look in the mirror and are saying to themselves; "I could be next!"
Yes --- this guy Trump is serious enough to kill you too if you mess with the USA. As any parent will tell you, often a week's grounding and a cut off of all allowance and use of iPhone will get attention and change of behavior. Trump just grounded Iran.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Clinger 1/6/2020 8:23:40 AM (No. 280113)
The war on terror has presented a twist on conventional warfare since we have been attacked so often by entities that don’t look like our enemies of the past. When we are attacked by a movement that crosses multiple sovereign boundaries we are not fighting against a definable country. But then we have Iran, the one exception to that unconventional adversary construct and we sat on our hands for forty years. Well that is until Obama threw in with them to the tune of $150 billion and a green light on building nukes. Now Trump dares to act rationally, in the best interest of the USA.
What an odd thing we are in the eyes of the rest of the world. Our intramural squabbles are so much more of our focus that we’ll change sides in international conflicts as suits our domestic political posturing. If that isn’t the height of arrogance I don’t know what possibly could be.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/6/2020 8:31:06 AM (No. 280119)
FTA, the last two sentences, "This strike against the head of the Revolutionary Guards may cause the cowardly leaders of Iran to reconsider their modus operandi on the world stage, or it may lead to a lashing out. Whichever path they take, our resolve to stop participating in the cycle of terror attacks and subsequent appeasement of a rogue state is now affirmed."
Putie and Xi, any questions?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HotRod 1/6/2020 9:11:17 AM (No. 280155)
I think President Trump has made it pretty clear. Retaliate and we will strike back against 52 targets (last count I heard), among them is the Iran oil refineries. THAT scares the mullahs more than anything because they lose what money they can make, while the sanctions are in place. When the source of money is gone, the people of Iran will dispatch the mullahs and their henchmen. The people of Iran are already wanting regime change, so it wouldn't take much more to set it off.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 1/6/2020 9:34:28 AM (No. 280180)
President Trump's message, 'don't start anything and there won't be anything'. We don't need Iran it's up to the people to choose their leadership and deal with the mullahs but there was a clear message sent. I'm still fuming about the pallet of money donated by Obama for Iran's cause to build nukes, support terrorism and the skinny coward's hatred of Israel.
Obama the Muslim lover was the worse thing to ever happen to the United States but President Trump won't pay to play with Iran the ATM cash machine is closed. Trump says if you want cash meet me at the airport in Bagdad the money will be there.
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52 targets...
Iran is not going to take on the US military with a frontal assault. No need. They and their allies in terror share the same Great Satan. A bomb here, a mass shooting there, a few random stabbings and slashings, and the popular crowd rundowns...and who gets blamed? In Iraq, what's a few more IEDs?
With the public nature of this assassination, violating international assassination protocol, the US is not going to find much sympathy when the retaliation comes, especially without clear establishment of Iranian government involvement.
Soleimani deserved his fate, as did the others killed. There were better, less bombastic ways of doing it than a CIA drone-launched missile and chortling afterward.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
kono 1/6/2020 9:35:58 AM (No. 280182)
Maybe undeclared by us -- but Iran made almost daily their promise to destroy us (both their secular and religious leaders) for decades.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Firebase 1/6/2020 9:39:42 AM (No. 280185)
That the Iranian general was in-country in Iraq reflects the comfortable amount of appeasement the US had provided Iran all these years. Then, in a flash, because of complacency and feeling a little bit too comfortable, Iran's military crown jewel is gone. Good job President Trump, we know who has been behind many of those roadside bombs killing our loyal troops in Iraq and it was time for some payback! Good job too using the reference to "imminent threat", the democrats' own words re the impeachment hoax. So much for their "imminent threat", lol.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/6/2020 9:40:02 AM (No. 280186)
There were better, less bombastic ways of doing it than a CIA drone-launched missile and chortling afterward.
Name one Number 11.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
coldborezero 1/6/2020 10:05:49 AM (No. 280208)
FTA: "The killing of this individual leader of a sovereign state may lead to all-out war between Iran and the U.S."
That statement is laughable. The United States of America have not waged "all-out war" since the 1945. Were we to do so now, bringing to bear against Iran every war fighting tool we possess and with total victory as our goal; that nation and all living things withing its borders would literally (and I mean LITERALLY) cease to exist on the first day of the conflict.
I wish that we would; but we won't.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 1/6/2020 10:10:24 AM (No. 280214)
No one in the MSM has so far asked ValJar for her opinion of the U.S. killing the "red ring" guy...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/6/2020 10:32:47 AM (No. 280239)
#14 - A simple IED would have likely done the trick, for example. A sniper or an ambush. It doesn't take much imagination...Ask the Israeli Shin Bet for their manual. And then shut up about it.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
NotaBene 1/6/2020 10:40:50 AM (No. 280247)
President Trump did the right thing. This is revenge so they may fear US.
You can chant Death to America but after 40 years you have to shut up.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 1/6/2020 10:55:59 AM (No. 280265)
Grab them by the wallet and squeeze. That's the Trump Way. And it is very effective.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Arby 1/6/2020 10:59:11 AM (No. 280267)
Let's get real. This sort of response is the only kind that they understand. They try something big . . . and years from now archaeologists will find their remains in sands that have been liquefied and turned into shards of glass. The Trumpster is for real. Do not cross him unless you are prepared to pay a very large price. Obama is gone. He's put on his little bicycle helmet and is riding around the grounds of one of his mansions. He is not coming back. Nor is Kerry or any other of the appeasers. The new sheriff is locked and loaded, boys, so you better be on your best behavior.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/6/2020 12:22:09 PM (No. 280349)
#17 And who would have planted that IED in exactly the right spot. and how much time and knowledge would that person have had to know where to plant it.
IMO The Drone was the perfect weapon to take him out AND to send the message to others that they are at risk.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/6/2020 12:35:06 PM (No. 280367)
#21 - The drone-launched missile was the "perfect weapon" to take him out. It worked.
It was also very public. If anyone thinks splattering this guy will scare off Iran, I suggest they have another think coming. And when the Iranian revenge comes, in whatever form, take full credit for that, too. Even nuclear threats don't deter religious fanatics from their form of dealing "righteousness", and toss nationalism in on top of that. Every religion offers a pantheon of willing, prayerful martyrs. An Iranian general was killed on foreign soil by public assassination. How about if some US flag officer met a similar fate with a similar weapon? There are more discreet, equally effective ways to have done this. And don't think this is the end of it, or that Iran will suddenly "moderate".
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Luandir 1/6/2020 12:39:01 PM (No. 280374)
I think the mullahs are smart enough to realize that if they make a retaliatory move, their oilfields and nuke sites will be pulverized, and their populace is likely to rise up and overthrow them.
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Turn their oil fields into a parking lot
Encourage their people to remove the mullahs and ayatollahs
And promote conservative new leaders
Whatever happened to Persia?
Those dirty bastids hijacked it!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/6/2020 3:12:09 PM (No. 280513)
Trump treats countries at war with us like enemies. Imagine that. Iran has been exporting their stupid war all over the world. Trump is holding Iran accountable.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
cor-vet 1/6/2020 3:57:47 PM (No. 280560)
Schumky is on TV right now, giving the President his take on how the Constitutions writers always wanted the President to work with congress on things as important as taking out terrorists. Talking in his school teacher tone with his glasses on the end of his nose, like some great oracle. Sickening, to say the least.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
XCenturion 1/6/2020 5:11:10 PM (No. 280616)
Iran attacked US property (our embassy) in Tehran in 1979 and held over 50 American citizens hostage for over 500 days. The hostages were only released after Ronald Reagan was elected president and assumed office. The Iranian leadership shouts "death to America and Israel" continuously and Iran has caused turmoil in the middle east for decades. They enjoyed appeasement policies under presidents Bush senior and junior, Clinton and Obama. Obama even went as far as bribing the Iranians with over 1 billion of our tax dollars, assuming they would cease their quest in making a nuclear bomb. The Iranians have shot down one of drones, attacked vessels in shipping lanes and are responsible for supplying our adversaries with weapons and training that led to the deaths of over 600 American troops. The Iranians are our enemy and General Salami was an enemy (terrorist) combatant, therefore was fair game. We need to look no further for Iranian sleeper cells than treasonous Democrats, and their lapdogs in the media, who have been criticizing President Trump for taking this action to protect American lives.
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The Iranians learned that they could play the US, based on their experiences with Jimmy Carter. During that same time period, Carter went on a videoed fishing trip and was successfully attacked by a rabbit.
And Ayatollah ass-u-hola immediately released the 52 hostages once he had confirmation that Ronald Reagan had just been sworn in as President.
Soleimani was involved in the Marine Barracks bombing of 1983, and many other terrorist acts. Don't shed a tear for him.
Despite the assurances given Iran by Obama, Kerry, and Brennan, Trump is actually the real President and he's going to get re-elected. There's a new sheriff in town - you play by his rules, not Obama's or Carter's!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Folsomguy 1/6/2020 5:30:52 PM (No. 280634)
Any war with iran would be over in fifteen minutes and create the world's largest glass parking lot.
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If the President had to tell the Democrat Congress everything, they would still be debating whether or not to camp in Valley Forge.
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