Iran "moderates?"
Michael Ledeen thinks the US needs to move fater against the mullahocracy of Iran.
"...the shoe is on the wrong foot here, for it's the State Department that has repeated one of Iran-Contra's momentous blunders by believing that there are 'moderates' in Tehran with whom the United States can and should work."
"...Why doesn't some reporter ask our diplomats the obvious questions: is it not correct that al Qaeda terrorists have been operating out of Iran? And if that is true, could that only have happened if the regime approved? And if the regime approves (as the State Department's own annual surveys of state-sponsored terrorism invariably document), then why on earth should anyone expect the regime to turn them over to us? After all, one of the effects of surrendering terrorists to us would be to enable us to further document Iran's role in the terror network."
"...And the hell of it all is that this president has it right, and has had it right from the beginning. He knows Iran is at the heart of the Axis of Evil. He knows that America, because of its very essence as the embodiment of the democratic evolution, must support the fight for freedom in Iran. He says it all the time, only to have many of the others gainsay him.
"Americans are being murdered in Iraq and Afghanistan, in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, by terrorists supported by Iran. Yet those who try to unravel the terror network are treated as if they were somehow suspect, while those who appease Tehran pompously proclaim the righteousness of their endeavors. One wonders what they will say when Iran tests an atomic bomb in the near future, and one wonders what they will say to their president when he asks them why they acted so desperately to shut down the possibility of getting all available information about our enemies."
Michael Ledeen thinks the US needs to move fater against the mullahocracy of Iran.
"...the shoe is on the wrong foot here, for it's the State Department that has repeated one of Iran-Contra's momentous blunders by believing that there are 'moderates' in Tehran with whom the United States can and should work."
"...Why doesn't some reporter ask our diplomats the obvious questions: is it not correct that al Qaeda terrorists have been operating out of Iran? And if that is true, could that only have happened if the regime approved? And if the regime approves (as the State Department's own annual surveys of state-sponsored terrorism invariably document), then why on earth should anyone expect the regime to turn them over to us? After all, one of the effects of surrendering terrorists to us would be to enable us to further document Iran's role in the terror network."
"...And the hell of it all is that this president has it right, and has had it right from the beginning. He knows Iran is at the heart of the Axis of Evil. He knows that America, because of its very essence as the embodiment of the democratic evolution, must support the fight for freedom in Iran. He says it all the time, only to have many of the others gainsay him.
"Americans are being murdered in Iraq and Afghanistan, in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, by terrorists supported by Iran. Yet those who try to unravel the terror network are treated as if they were somehow suspect, while those who appease Tehran pompously proclaim the righteousness of their endeavors. One wonders what they will say when Iran tests an atomic bomb in the near future, and one wonders what they will say to their president when he asks them why they acted so desperately to shut down the possibility of getting all available information about our enemies."
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