ABC News, home of America Held Hostage Day XXX, and Iran get together at Starbucks and talk about how great things are going since they broke up. From ABC News:
Although it was turned into a museum long ago, TV cameras have rarely been allowed in. But it recently was renovated, which may explain why Iranians proudly showed ABC News what they now call the "den of spies."Souvenirs seized by the hostage-takers are antiques now -- including old computers and circuitry, a device to destroy documents, and a massive code machine from the National Security Agency.
One of the central exhibits here is what they call the "glassy room" for top-secret meetings. Majid said it is set up more or less how they found it when the American spies operated here -- though he said they removed the green velvet drapes and added mannequins to depict one of the alleged secret meetings.
I wonder if the mannequins are discussing withdrawing support from the Shah? "Aw, c'mon. What's the worst that could happen?"
"We have no relationship with America now, so it's better," one visitor said."Kindly remove us from your list. DOWN WITH AMERICA! Yours sincerely..."
Very funny.
"We have no relationship with America now, so it's better," one visitor said.
So WHAT is better?
Who wants to vacation in Iran?
Every Islamic country on the face of the earth is a threat to humanity and freedom.
wanna lav
http://www.clipedesign.com/bmoon.jpg
I disagree - while every islamic nation may or may not be a threat to freedom (although certainly it's more likely they are than not), they needn't really be any of our concern. So if we have less relations with them - good! This is a good thing. It should be celebrated in the streets of America: "Iran has less relations with us now than yesterday! Hooray!" and there should be banners and dancing and confetti. I, for one, am genuinely happy.
Fewer relations with islamic nations, and less immigration - less those immigrants be those of the oppressed Christian, Jewish, animist, Zoroastrian minorities - should ever be the goal. Then, these countries can merely be left alone, so that the Platonic and Aristotelian societies can each, respectively, go their own way - the Aristotelians to enlightenment, the Platonians to deeper contemplation of their navels.
Geoff
O.T. Ward Churchill is an art thief too!
http://news4colorado.com/topstories/local_story055200531.html
(This story is posted at LGF)
Try, try again
http://news4colorado.com/topstories/local_story_055200531.html
Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran:
http://www.daneshjoo.org/
They have a fantastic photo gallery worth checking out here:
http://www.daneshjoo.org/article/publish/cat_photogallery.shtml
Wonder if they have the burnt remains of our airmen there too? I wouldn't put it past those medieval barbarians!
In the spirit of reconciliation, perhaps we could send the museum a life-sized mannequin of Jimmy Carter that blurts out "F**k the Shah" at pre-set intervals. It's sure to be a crowd pleaser!
A little bit of info on Peter Jennings of ABC News:
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1733
Carter, yes, he deserves to be memorialized by the Islamic Republic of Iran. And so does Zbigniew Brzezinski, the two-bit "strategic" [his favorite adjective] thinker, whose last name has been of such inestimable help to his speakerine daughter in show-biz news-reading, where "la carriere" is "ouverte aux talents" as long as you have a father whose name will help.
And along with Carter and Brzezinski, who have pride of place, Gary Sick -- the one who accused the Reagan Administration, entirely falsely and entirely without evidence, of having made a deal with Khomeini to hold onto those hostages -- deserves his own statue. He is still safely ensconced at Columbia (where else?), teaching what exactly? How to ensure that Iran would have to endure a quarter-century of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and counting?
And don't forget Robert Hunter, who went from a temporary lectureship at LSE (mightily opposed by Kenneth Minogue, Donald Watt, and Elie Kedourie, who took his measure at once), he was good at sniffing the wind, and ended up on Carter's National Security staff. And even followed that up with being appointed Ambassador to NATO. Good God. HIs wife Shireen is now the head of "Islam Studies" or some such at CSIS. While the major media, and universities, are receiving their due, when will the so-called think-tanks, with their absurd cushiony jobs for all sorts of self-descrbed "experts" be held up for inspection, and for ridicule?
It can't happen soon enough.
Mike,
That is an impressive website. Well worth a look. It is encouraging. I really feel that the only way things change in a country is if the people change it. Outsiders only complicate things cause more problems than they solve. The people of Iran will have to rise up and dispose of this evil government themselves. They really should do it before the mullahs lust for nuclear weapons imperils their country further.
In regards to Mr. Fitzgerald's article, Mr. Spencer had also written a piece about Carter and Iran:
http://hnn.us/roundup/comments/6884.html
Very interesting reading.
Somehow,someway, the Iranian people would be more supportive of a revolution to democracy.Student groups have been demonstrating for a long time there in hopes of democracy,if visionaries could ever get started the wheel to democracy in Iran would probably be forthright.
The view we see here is all islamic but behind the scenes the people of Iran would welcome change.The islamic propaganda machine runs this museum.
From BBC World Service:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4297951.stm
"Zarqawi Aide caught"
The Iraqi government said on Friday it had captured Talib Mikhlif Arsan Walman al-Dulaymi, also known as Abu Qutaybah, a lieutenant of Zarqawi.
It said Mr Qutaybah was arrested on 20 February in Anah, north-west of Baghdad and about 60km (40 miles) from the border with Syria.
"Abu Qutaybah was responsible for determining who, when and how terrorist network leaders would meet with Zarqawi," the government said in a statement.
"Abu Qutaybah filled the role of key lieutenant for the Zarqawi network, arranging safe houses and transportation as well as passing packages and funds to Zarqawi."
OT:
"Hezbollah acknowledges pressure to designate it as Terrorist in Europe"
http://www.internet-haganah.co.il/harchives/003697.html
Excerpt:
* "[If] the world agrees with them that the resistance in Lebanon is a terrorist organization, that will necessarily mean a world war against the resistance [i.e., Hezbollah] which they will call a war against international terrorism. [That will mean] the sources of [our] funding will dry up and the sources of moral, political and material support will be destroyed... by exerting pressure on the countries defending the resistance one way or another, and exerting pressure on Lebanon, Iran and Syria , but mainly on Lebanon, to classify it as a country supporting terrorism..."
There's some more lunatic ranting by Hassan Nasrallah in there - enjoy!
Explosion in Israel by Islamic Terrorist at a packed Night Club!
I am begining to think they are all Islamic Terrorist and can not live with the rest of us!!
Love what Putin said Demorocy dose not mean anarkey!!
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER [ISRAEL TOO] GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT AND COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO VICTORY TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM OPEN THE WORLDS EYES TO THEIR THREAT GIVE THE WORLD COURAGE TO STAND UP AND FIGHT THIS EVIL AMEN
PS
Missle Test works!!!! Big Bullets!!
Iran's been developing the components for nukes, by the account of the bumbling IAEA itself, for at least twenty years!
A week ago, the Imam of a major Tehran mosque, Grand Ayatollah Emami Kashani, reputedly came out in public to label the construction of nukes as religiously FORBIDDEN, “HARAM”! - And that, he continued, was why Iran was NOT engaged in constructing them! What to make of this? …It’s patently a new exercise in the Grand Ayatollahs’ lengthy campaign of lies.
Such brazen denial of the ongoing Iranian nuclear weapons-assembly’s being applied by the Council of Islamic Guidance to confuse its principal - mortal - enemies (which the Islamic Republic CONSCIOUSLY SELECTED for itself, way back in 1979), America and Israel - and to further gull their allies and associates, primarily in the fools’ paradise of Europe.
These two, the “Great Satan” and the “Small Satan”, specifically chosen as foes by Tehran, are nuclear Powers. According to the logic of Khomeini in ’79 (and earlier) and of the reactionary Guardians of the Council today, in order to vanquish them, Iran’s therefore INESCAPABLY DRIVEN to accrue the equivalent weaponry, “defensively”.
For what could’ve been a truly Historic interval, on the heels of smashing Nazism and Japanese inperialism, between 1945 and 1949 (when the USSR tested its first Atom-Bomb) - as the late Dr Edward Teller, “Father of the Hydrogen-Bomb”, pointed out - the USA had the MONOPOLY of the A-Bomb… and, he remonstrated, it DID NOTHING POSITIVE with it internationally.
At our stage in developments, NONE of the other nuclear-armed nations on Earth are in a state of hostilities with the US. For the next six months to five years (maximum), there will be NO country or entity on the planet, antagonistic to America, which is able to strike it with nuclear arms. (- But following that period, there WILL be a sequence of challengers.)
In WWII, the Communist “Republic of Kurdistan”, a Soviet front, was founded in Iran’s former “Southern Azerbaijan”, during the Kremlin’s occupation of the northern half of Iran (with the British controlling the south). In 1946, sturdy pressures from Washington bore capital fruit, in forcing Stalin to ABANDON his bold bridgehead, his puppet-Kurdistan” - which he’d avidly set up on sovereign Iranian territory - and to promptly withdraw behind his previous borders.
Four brief years later, in 1950, having let off an A-Bomb several months before (to announce its breach of the American atomic Monopoly), the USSR was prepared to unleash the Korean War, having the North invade the South - aware that America could NO LONGER retort with nukes.
Six months to five years is ALL THE TIME LEFT, to take advantage of what Dr Teller would immediately recognize as a short, SECOND, Geostrategic “window of opportunity” for the US.
Let's stay away from Iran. Let them enjoy the purity of their Islamic revolution, or overthrow it on their own. An invasion will probably unify the country against us, just as Japan's intervention in China during the 1930's led to an unexpected resistence that tied down 1,000,000 Japanese troops until 1945. If the Iranian people truly hate the mad mullahs, they can overthrow them on their own; and if the successor government wants to reopen relations with the USA, well and good. Let us be the well-wisher of liberty everywhere, but champions of only our own, as Joh Adams advised.
While I agree with Mr. Spencer's piece on Carter and Iran, historical hindsight is always 20-20. In fairness to our ex-Prez aka the Grinning Gargoyle, those were the days when the USA desperately wanted out of the Cold War, even to the point of conceding defeat, for the wounds of Viet Nam were all too fresh. Carter knew that his country was in no psychological shape to fight anyone anywhere, so he started shedding our diplomatic albatrosses as quickly as he could, starting with Taiwan. He also began a process of undercutting Israel as well.
Carter, however, did the USA a service. The fact that the up-and-coming tide of international Leftism spat on us and kicked us when we were down regardless of the naive good will proffered by Mr. Peanut proved that no amount of trying to be "one of the boys" will work for the USA. A far better tack than either trying to be left-wing internationalist or the world's Messiah (sorry, Uncle Sam: Jesus of Nazareth already took that job) would be to let a good portion of the rest of the world stew in its own juices; and if anyone then has the temerity to take us to task for failure to "do something", politely remind the same parties that if we did, they'd be the first to scream "imperialist!" at us--and if they really, really want to do something themselves, we'll sell them the military hardware at wholesale prices, and, for a consideration, let their troops train at Camp Lejeune. The only borders the US should commit every ounce of its national prestige to protecting are its own. The whole foreign aid apparatus needs to be dismantled, and if people hold out a hand to beg, we ought to tell them that they'll have to accept the possibility of Christian proselytizing with, for we've privatized that business, and secular liberals aren't big on putting their own money (rather than what they tax out of the rest of us) into such ventures.
This is no recipe for allowing some kind of Islamicist superstate to form. Without outside interference, the Shi'ah and Sunni prove every day in Pakistan and Iraq that they'll go for each others' throats at the drop of a hat, while a few dozen national differences also divide the Islamic world. Not a single state in the Islamic world is capable of forming the core of a new Ottoman Empire--even if the Islamofascists were to win everywhere from the bend of the Niger to the Bend of the Huang He, or from Mauretania to Mindanao.
"Four brief years later, in 1950, having let off an A-Bomb several months before (to announce its breach of the American atomic Monopoly), the USSR was prepared to unleash the Korean War, having the North invade the South - aware that America could NO LONGER retort with nukes."
Relatively recent revelations from the Soviet archives don't support this. The Korean War (i.e. invasion of the south) was initiated and insisted upon by Big Fat Daddy Kim. Stalin was reluctant and only gave in to Kim in early 1950.
No statue for Peanut Carter in Teheran?
The Mullahs should show some gratitude to the man who allowed them to topple the Shah!
The Grand Ayatollah says "Nukes are haram?"
Once they have nukes, he will say "Allah gave them to us, let's use them against the Zionist monkeys and swine..."
What elso you want to know?
Why argue? Listen to his Sheikness:
http://www.terrorists-suck.org/fight/winds_of_jihad.html
Don Miguel:
Thanks for your confirmation on that item: indeed, Stalin (and probably Mao as well) DID HAVE some reluctance approving Kim’s scheme, at first. Instead of typing “having the North invade” I really ought to’ve said “acquiescing to the North invading”.
By default though - so at least tacitly - Stalin (and Mao), after all, HAD LET Comrade Kim proceed with his offensive in June, 1950, having equipped his forces beforehand, and done nothing effective to stop him when he struck - and then strongly supporting him in the conflict which he unleashed.
My point had been there that the Kremlin would definitely never have countenanced his attack in Korea, without the USSR having FIRST come into possession of the A-bomb in the previous year. Back in 1946, in the “Kurdistan Republic”, in northeastern Iran - principally because they’d then lacked nukes - the Soviets had had to bug out!
And don't forget that in 1948 they were forced to abandon the siege of West Berlin. Would they have done that - would they have so much as kept the allowed flight paths over East Germany without closing them by fiat - if they had the bomb then? And the Finns broke an attempted Communist coup - and again Stalin did nothing. Yes, I would say that having the bomb did make a certain amount of difference.