Iran — Obama is a fool playing a fool’s game
Nov. 4 marked 30 years since the hostages were taken prisoner at the American Embassy in Iran. Those 444 days of the hostage crisis were one of America’s darkest periods. The entire free world watched our country’s agony.
Just as sad as those 444 days is President Obama’s stance on Iran’s continued hatred of the U.S. Rather than speak of forming a relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran based on mutual interests and mutual respect, our president should give speeches that reflect the feelings of the majority of Americans and freedom-seeking people everywhere.
Today’s Iranians are a brave people, opposed to the theocratic regime that delights in using its fist of power to hold the Iranian people themselves hostage in their own land. The Iranian people desire the freedom to chose their own leaders and trade freely with the world outside their borders. Shame on an American president who not only encourages the Iranian rulers to torture and kill their own citizens by his lack of anger regarding the assaults perpetrated on our interests, but also says he would like to form a working alliance with the theocrats. What would he have us do? Submit to an Iranian authority that openly seeks the death and destruction of Americans? How many more attacks must there be on our people and property before President Obama comes to realize the full extent of the evil that exists in Tehran? Has he never heard of the horrors of Beirut, Khobar Towers, TWA 847, Sept. 11 and the jihad against the West — all financed and led by Tehran and Hezbollah fighters trained by Iran? For over 30 years, Iran has repeatedly reminded us that they hate us and cannot be trusted.
President Obama has not stood up to the current regime in Iran. He will not loudly declare that his presidency will be one of strategically planning the support of the Iranian people’s uprise and overthrow of their despicable rulers who relish the blood of innocent Westerners. To do so would take great courage and a conviction Obama does not possess. He seems to actually believe that talking to terrorists will change their hard fist of dominance into a friendly hand of peace and cooperation. Obama is a fool, playing a fool’s game. If he continues to insist on this unwise foreign policy, the American people will pay a heavy price of blood and destruction. It sends a message to the rest of the world’s petty dictators that America fears taking a strong position against the murderous rule of despots. This absurdly weak approach will only invite the rise of still more American enemies. It is helping to strengthen Iran’s resolve to use violence against us while it finances and trains still more terrorist organizations. Has Obama not heard them declare jihad against us? Their true goal is to impose sharia law at all costs.
Just as our nation once had to fight for its ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the Iranian people will have to continue their fight. For now, they will receive little from us beyond the prayers and words of encouragement of the American people.
Hopefully, President Obama will eventually be persuaded that our country should not recognize the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I am not optimistic that will happen. As long as murdering dictators rule Iran, the U.S. is in grave danger — and that is the most unacceptable point in this discussion.
—Jayne Andrews
