Topic: Decline of the West
The Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States was, of course, a flagrant breach of what our State Department is pleased to call “international norms.” I hope that no one is shocked. The Islamofascist mullahs who run the Iranian theocracy have never been noted for their devotion to the rule of law—unless it’s sharia law. Killing a person deemed to be an apostate, and doing so on the territory of the Great Satan? No problem there!
Those who have pointed out that the Iranian government has committed an act of war against the United States are technically correct. Under international law, this violation of the national sovereignty of the United States is a casus belli. Not that our mullah-hugging president and his West Wing cronies would actually do anything so vulgar as to retaliate. We can probably look forward instead to another protracted effort to get the “international community” to put the squeeze on Iran—an exercise in futility, given that Russia and China will never go along with tough economic sanctions.
Or maybe I’m wrong. Perhaps this outrage will open even Barack Obama’s eyes to the real nature of the Iranian regime. Anything’s possible. Maybe the President will finally realize that the mullahs respect nothing but superior power. “Let them hate as long as they fear.” That’s a good guideline for dealing with the hideous Iranian regime. I’m not advocating all-out war, nor do I think it’s necessary. But the mullahs have given us ample legal and moral justification for “kinetic military action.” Drone strikes, anyone?
However the Administration deals responds to this provocation, one thing is clear: its attempt to improve relations with Iran has been an utter failure. Obama’s past toadying to the Iranian regime was dangerously naïve—reckless, even. In an attempt to differentiate himself from the wicked George W. Bush, the President allowed the mullahs repeatedly to humiliate him. This assassination plot conclusively demonstrates the contempt with which the mullahs have always viewed Barack Hussein Obama. Seldom has an American president been made to look so irresponsibly frivolous.
