Will February 11, 2010 be a Day in Infamy? Iran Threatens

DRUDGE headlined this week that the Iranian Regime has been promising a “SHOCK,” to be delivered on February 11, 2010, the anniversary of the 31st anniversary of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. The BBC confirms the reports:

According to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation will use the occasion to “punch the arrogance” – a revolutionary term for Western powers – “in a way that will leave them stunned”.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8507085.stm

Arizona Democrat Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick, brow furrowed over “Senior issues” so she needs “citizen input” to help her craft legislation but reassuring that  her stated priority focus is “ to create jobs”, while with her other hand blithely supporting an evisceration of the private U.S. Health care sector and higher taxes, both of which will measurably harm our Senior’s quality of life, and cripple private enterprise which has always been the largest creator in the aggregate of jobs in the nation, replied to a constituent’s question regarding this Iranian threat during Tuesday’s telephone Town Hall with a vague, she’s concerned, but she hasn’t “been very impressed with ‘body scanners’.”

There has been no discernable comment from former Arizona governor now Homeland Security Democrat Janet Napolitano either, which isn’t surprising given her agency failed abysmally to intercept the Christmas bomber, but given that, one would expect more sensitivity from her to informing the public regarding “Man-Made Disaster Posturing with Attitude.”

Iran has been breathing not veiled, but public threats of acting on hostile intentions for weeks. But where is the rhetoric of a President and a Congress that has the authority to declare war, whose sworn duty, whose number ONE responsibility to the American People is national defense? Ann Kirkpatrick commented after a question that she supports the military, BUT she expects the military has to accept taking cuts and doing more with less, just like everyone else; a position solidly in line with the current Administration.

How is this position tenable when the Revolutionary Iranian Regime has declared for over two decades that America is their enemy and is blatantly proceeding with a nuclear weapons program? It’s not hard to believe; the regime is murdering and oppressing brutally its own citizens to keep itself in power, and has been long identified as the source of funding and a significant safe haven for terrorists over the years.

What does Iran have in mind? That is the job of our intelligence services. Do we know? Do we not know? Does the Democratic Party know? Kirkpatrick SHOULD be in the know as a member of the House Majority Party and given the committees she sits on, but an “ah-ah-ah ‘body scanners’ ” was not a credible informed answer to a serious Intel question, but perhaps her priorities are biased to domestic issues while she ignores the critical structural requirement which makes all national domestic activity possible: SECURITY from Foreign aggression.

It might not be prudent for the public to know what our intelligence knows – in order to thwart an attack on American interests anywhere in the world. The US Navy has been reported to have been dispatching ships to the region. With Iran part of the Axis of Evil – it could be in cahoots with the North Koreans to destabilize at the DMZ, it could be a strike against newly established Iraqi democratically elected Iraq; it could be an invading Iranian surge in Afghanistan, which shares a border with Iran. It could be collusion in concert with China to seize Democratic Taiwan, one of simultaneous aggressive moves to confound the United States and her allies. It could be a series of bombs, like the coordinated attacks on the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. It could be attacks on civilians on commercial jets, on trains, in crowded markets, streets. It could be an assault and slaughter of a school held hostage as in Beslan or the door-to-door systematic slaughter in a barricaded neighborhood in Saudi Arabia, or city-wide attacks as in Mumbai a year ago. It could be a cyber attack that takes out a power grid, a banking system. It could be a nuclear detonation, a warhead launched to massacre.

It COULD be talk. But WHERE is the stern and unyielding counter rhetoric of the President of the United States, the Commander–In-Chief warning the radical Iranian Regime if they try ANYTHING, they will face the full wrath, the full-bore firepower of the United States military?

Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush understood their duty in the face of threats and acts of war and spoke up hard and fast to DISCOURAGE tyrants and despots, to make them think twice, and when the despots who believed that America was too soft to care to defend itself and went ahead with acting on their threats, they were treated to a complete shock and awe of American military landing hard on their heads, making them rue during the few days they had left that they’d listened to the wrong advice. Saddam Hussein called in the US Ambassador prior to his invasion of Kuwait, to test the waters, to stir around the idea that Kuwait was really a wayward province of Iraq and should be restored to the fold. The US Ambassador didn’t react; her passive note-taking and mild response was interpreted by Saddam and his advisors to be a tacit statement that America would not intervene, so he implemented his invasion of the sovereign nation next door.

Fortunately for the Kuwaitis, the US Ambassador wasn’t representative of the American Administration which immediately and correctly translated Saddam’s diplomatic probing as an intention of engaging in open warfare to expand Saddam’s control over the region after his first failure at his invasion of Iran. Saddam was looking for American acquiescence before he made his decision. Had he received a strong reaction when he was fishing for one, he would have thought twice about invading Kuwait, and would have demurred for a more opportune time or abandoned his plans for regional dominance. He was after all, most obsessively concerned about his personal survival and personal comforts.

Where is the quick response of Theodore Roosevelt, who understood if even one American hostage was not defended, the world would perceive an easy target of any American abroad – “Pericardis alive or Rasuli DEAD!” or the angry promise of President Madison’s Commander, Stephen Decatur to the Muslim hostage-slave warfare racketeering of the North Barbary Coast despots, “If you wish to demand powder as tribute, then be prepared to receive ball with it!”

That Iran feels bold enough to start advertizing it is ready to strike against the West, is a plain sign that Iran is not worried about a credible American response. They perceive weakness and indecision, a lack of policy and understanding of the stakes. The Muslim kings of North Africa’s Mediterranean Coast, even after the lesson of American Super Frigates bringing war to their ports in 1801, judged a decade and a half later that America was weak after fighting the British folly of their three-pronged attack that made the War of 1812, and too feeble and war-weary to counter a renewed war of hostage and piracy against American merchant ships, so they snatched up another set of American merchant ships, needing “more American slaves.” The American Navy, immediately dispatched by Madison arrived, not war –weary, but “battle-hardened” and ready to finish the threat once and for all, breaking 300 years of institutionalized piracy and slavery that was the hallmark of the Barbary Coast.
The radical Iranians detected this weakness with Carter and overran the United States Embassy in Tehran, and held the Embassy staff hostage, by all international accords, an Act of War. Carter did not heed the experience and the successful actions of the presidents Jefferson, Madison and Theodore Roosevelt before him, and by that squandered American prestige and strength by negotiating as if it was a bank hold-up and a police matter, not a job for the US military. Carter’s inability to deal with the Iranian Revolutionaries, one of whom is now the current president of Iran, Mamoud Ahmedinejad, cost him re-election, and is considered by terrorist experts to be the catalyst for emboldening Radical Islamofascism.

Yet, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, speaking for the Obama Administration, talks of “dialogue” and “a new relationship.” Iran, awash in oil, is a large, populous and oil-rich nation in the region, quite secure from invasion, just needs nuclear weapons – and has helpfully publicized with arrogant pride that the nukes are not for defensive matters, but offensive strikes, as it shoots, beats and imprisons its citizens – young men and women both who defiantly wave American Revolutionary banners in the faces of their reviled oppressors, “LIVE FREE OR DIE.” What has this administration done to support these brave Iranians, who have been inspired by our own Founding Fathers, whose massive street protests against the stolen election denied cover to the Obama Administration’s intention to meet face to face with the terrorist, hostage-taking Ahmedinejad?

But there is no rhetoric from our government to inform or lead The American People. There is no warning of reprisal. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. What is it worth in human life and to the stability of this nation to have forced a hostile regime to back down, to reconsider? It is priceless. One cannot recover a single man, woman or child who has been slaughtered. Being first to the scene for clean-up is all one can do for ACCIDENTS, but it is a losing position for SELF-DEFENSE.

Where are our elected representatives, our senators and our President, the Commander-In-Chief, on this open threat to our national security, and which tests the credibility of our international relations, our national pride and stature which has over two hundred years of keeping American citizens safer than any other citizen in the world, declared for February 11, 2010?