Analysis here.
Was Obama thinking of the 1980s? In April 1983, Iran’s jihadist proxies in Lebanon rammed a truck bomb into the U.S. embassy in Beirut; the Reagan administration responded by doing nothing. Months later, encouraged by Washington’s inaction, Teheran issued a kill order -- via its ambassador in Syria -- to its allied groups in Beirut. Early one morning, an Islamist suicide bomber set off a massive explosion at the barracks where U.S. marines were sleeping and killed 241 of them.
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In 1996 a team of jihadists -- financed and trained by Teheran -- blew up the Khobar Towers building in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 American servicemen. Clinton’s administration learned that Iran was behind the attacks. But Washington brushed aside any notion of retaliating against Iran, in order to facilitate a “reconciliation” with that murderous regime. In an eerie parallel with today, Iran expressed its openness to U.S. groveling -- an opportunity Clinton seized.
(...) Bush was no exception to this trend. After 9/11 his administration invited Iran -- the leading sponsor of Islamist terrorism -- to join an anti-terrorism coalition(!). Talk of an Axis of Evil was quickly abandoned, and Washington backed the European scheme to bribe Iran to halt its nuclear program. By late last year, there was talk of opening a U.S. Special Interests Section (a step down from an embassy) in Iran. Meanwhile Bush’s welfare mission in Iraq negated U.S. security and left Iran untouched to grow more powerful and resolute.
A genuinely new, rational policy toward Iran would turn away from the last 30 years and begin by facing up to Teheran’s ongoing proxy war against us.
I thought Barack Hussein Obama promised change? And hope? He's delivering the opposite! What an epic fail!
And just for LOLs, I'll post some funny 'LOLBADDIE' pix...
