http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/03/22/Iran-Evangelical-Christians-Are-a-Threat-to-National-Security
In our concern for Christians, we should not overlook the Baha'i, who are considered by Iran's mad mullahs, and hence, Iranian law, to be heretics from Islam. They suffer the worst discrimination because their religion is not even recognized by the law.
We are dealing with an evil regime, and the sooner our leaders face up to that fact, the better.
This post reminds me of a quote by John F. Kennedy:
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The winds of adversity are blowing at a hurricane force and Obama and his feckless appointees have no clue about steadfastness. We saw this with the "Red-line" in Syria. This is the same Syria which has 8000 parentless/homeless children wandering the streets of the cities. With regard to the Crimea, Obama should keep his mouth shut, if he does not have an effective response to Putin, The Iranians are stepping all over Obama with their bogus nuke arrangement, as they behave in ways described in your post.
It amazes me to read that Obama, with his ineptitude and damaging behavior, both in America and abroad, can be honored by Steven Spielberg with a Democracy award at the Shoah Center at USC next May.
You cannot be ignorant and free, as Jefferson said, and survive such dangerous incompetence and rewarding it with prizes.
Squid
Spielberg should be ashamed. This will rank right up there with Obama's Nobel prize.
ReplyDeleteDuring all these efforts by the US to cut a deal at almost any price, it amazes me that there has never been a mention of including concessions on Iran's human rights abuses. If you are going to negotiate with a nation under the belief that their word is their bond, behavior is a pretty important component of any deal. Simply taking a regime's leaders at their word without any demonstrable proof is naive at best and stupid at worse. If the US were to hold Iran accountable for example in halting public executions, releasing political prisoners and loosening restrictions on a free press and internet and satellite TV access to outside news sources, then you might be persuaded to believe that Iran is indeed wanting to change. But absent any of those moves, there is little to show that Iran's leadership -- at its core -- has really changed at all and thus can't be trusted to hold up its end of any nuclear bargain.
ReplyDeleteExcellent points, Vanderwater. In a word, the Iranians cannot be trusted. They are a regime driven by a fanatical ideology. They will only understand and respect strength.
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