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  1. The Shah was our guy, definitely autocratic and corrupt, but pro-western nonetheless. Soviet intentions in Iran were greatly feared for plentiful strategic reasons. The Shah was our anti-communist bulwark against the long held desire of the Russians to extend their empire to the Persian Gulf. Its important to remember that Truman backed out the Soviet army occupying northern Iran after WW2 by threatening to use the atomic bomb to remove them.

    It is true Egypt is not Iran, Arabs are not Persians, and 2011 is not 1979. The only constant is that radical Islam, whether sunni or shite, remains very dangerous to the interests of Western Civilization. Ominous describes the current situation perfectly.

  2. Not bombing the crap out of Iran after the hostages were taken was a missed opportunity.

  3. Mr. Frank,

    As I’ve noted elsewhere, I agree with you. The Iranians should have received an ultimatum to release the hostages and allow us to retrieve them or the bombing commences. I will always believe that Carter’s shameful equivocations (along with Reagan hightailing it out of Beirut after the bombing of the Marine barracks) emboldened the jihad loons and set in motion all of the attacks by radical Islam from that day forward.

  4. I too am old enough to be having an Iran Flashback.

    And when the Iranian people were in the streets demanding, facing real murderous Islamist reprisals to demand Ahmadinijhad step down after the fake elections, Obama and the so called democracy lovers were no where to be found. Of course this was in the Obama reach across the Islamist aisle days.

    It’s time to remember the old Chinese curse, “May you get everything you ask for.”

  5. The embassy fiasco cost Iran millions of lives.

    It was the blow-back from our Congress that cut off military support to the mullahs.

    Which caused Saddam to attack…

    Which gave Iran eight years to rue the embassy fiasco.

    The Iranian-Iraqi Conflict duplicated the dynamics of WWI.

    How nice.

  6. You know what confounds me? Every feminist in the world would be stoned to death under Sharia law, and perhaps be shot three times in the head as we have all recently witnessed. I can’t for the life of me see how feminists, progressives, and all manner of left wingers can ignore that simple truth.

  7. br549,

    Whenever the Israeli-Arab conflict or radical Islam comes up in a conversation with my liberal friends I am no longer amazed by the dogmatic blindness they exhibit as I have heard their senseless blather for many years now: Israel bad – Palestinians good, Israelis the new nazis – Palestinians the new freedom fighters, radical Islam caused by our past actions, etc. I usually end the conversation by asking this simple question:

    If you believe in freedom of speech, if you believe women have rights equal to those of men, if you believe homosexuals should be free to practice their sexual preferences, if you believe that church and state should be separate where would you rather live: in Israel or any country where Islam is the predominate religion? This question causes a great deal of sputtering tergiversation that is amusing to behold.

  8. br549:

    It’s very simple, really. Feminists in western countries are following PC Commandments 13 and 14, here, which go like this:

    13) Tyranny in third-world countries is not our concern unless the US (or Israel) can be blamed in some way.

    14) All criticism or disagreement with any policy of a third-world nation, culture, or person is, by definition, racism.

    Many many western feminists (especially the most active ones) are leftists first, feminists second.

    As for the feminists in Iran who demonstrated for the revolution, many of them they truly believed that when it occurred the left would win out over the mullahs, and/or that the mullahs didn’t mean what they said and would compromise with the left. It was a big big surprise to them when women were clamped down on, although it shouldn’t have been.

  9. #14 says it all. And neo-neocon is correct, most feminists (and global warmers) are socialists first and foremost.

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