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« Back to Iran | Main | Nashville "Wheel Tax" Increase May Not Be Legal » June 29, 2005The Next Iranian Hostage CrisisSome previous American president signed an executive order forbidding the assassination of foreign leaders. I wish we could make an exception for Iran's President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who deserves it.
My views on foreign policy were forged during the 444 days of that hostage crisis, when a America was rendered impotent by Islamofascist thugs because America was lead by a weak and vacillating miserable failure of a president who allowed a group of thugs to lead America around by the nose for more than a year, until enough Americans got tired of it and elected Ronald Reagan. In 1979, Ahmadinejad was the head representative of IUST to the student gatherings that met with the Ayatollah Khomeini. In these sessions, the foundations of the first Office for Strengthening Unity (daftar-e tahkim-e vahdat), the student organization behind seizure of the United States embassy which led to the Iran hostage crisis, were created. During the seizure of the embassy, Ahmadinejad suggested a simultaneous attempt against the Soviet Union embassy, which was voted down.al-Jazeera reports: As a young student, Ahmadinejad joined an ultraconservative faction of the Office for Strengthening Unity, the radical student group spawned by the 1979 Islamic Revolution and staged the capture of the US Embassy. According to reports, Ahmadinejad attended planning meetings for the US Embassy takeover and at these meetings lobbied for a simultaneous takeover of the Soviet Embassy.IranFocus reports: Ahmadinejad was in charge of security during the occupation, a key role that put him in direct contact with the nascent security organizations of the clerical regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, which he later joined.[Hat tip: Michael Silence] Twenty six years after, the mass-murdering thug is now the president-elect of Iran, and soon his government will have nukes, and the civilized world will face the worst possible nightmare scenario: a nuclear-armed terrorism-exporting Islamofascist regime. It's a good thing America has a major military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, two countries that border Iran. Because the Iranian hostage crisis isn't over yet. UPDATE: Former hostages say Ahmadinejad indeed was among the hostage-takers - and was one of the ringleaders - though Iran is denying it. "He was one of the top two or three leaders," said retired Army Col. Charles Scott, 73, a former hostage. "The new president of Iran is a terrorist."I'm more likely to take the word of the hostages - some of whom were American military personnel - than the word of Iranian officials and former hostage-takers who, no doubt, are pleased to see a hardliner like Ahmadinejad win Iran's rigged election. More from the AP, from al-Jazeera, the BBC and Reuters. Posted in War on Terror
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Advocating the assassination of foreign leaders now, are we? That's a good idea. Do like want terrorism or something? It is the kind of foreign policy that you advocate that invites the election of extremists. This won't be the last one. Are you gonna kill'em all, Bill? Why don't you take on this piece of business personally, huh? How bout we get you a plane ticket to Tehran and an M-16 and see what you're made of, laptop warrior. How'd that be? Posted by: A. C. Kleinheider at June 29, 2005 08:50 PM"I wish" is a far cry from advocating it, A.C. I'm well aware of the blowback potential of assassinating foreign thug-leaders. But it would be legally justified as a response to an act of war against the United States perpetrated by Mr. Ahmadinejad 26 years ago (for that is what invading and occupying a foreign embassy is - an act of war.) That said, no I wouldn't do the job myself personally. I'm a lousy shot and not trained for it. We have people who are trained for it though, of course, I'm not advocating it, merely wishing for the closure that would come from it being done. And of course wishing for the enhanced chances for world security that would come from preventing Mr. Ahmadinejad from ever having the reigns of power and a nuke. Posted by: Bill Hobbs at June 29, 2005 09:22 PMSome previous American president signed an executive order forbidding the assassination of foreign leaders. I wish we could make an exception for Iran's President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who deserves it. Well, in the English speaking nation where I come from, phrases like "I wish" and "deserves it" amount to advocation. I don't know how anyone can read your first paragraph any other way. "A far cry"?? You passed judgment on the man's life and wished that our country's policy was such that we could carry out execution. How is that not advocating it? And of course wishing for the enhanced chances for world security that would come from preventing Mr. Ahmadinejad from ever having the reigns of power and a nuke. Hobbs, you want a nuclear weapon detonated on American soil? Start executing elected leaders of Islamic countries. You'll be faced with a big ole mushroom cloud soon enough. Posted by: A. C. Kleinheider at June 29, 2005 09:38 PMYou read into it what you want, but the phrase "I wish we could make an exception" acknowledges the reality that we can't make an exception, even for a thug like Ahmadinejad who clearly deserves it. Posted by: Bill Hobbs at June 29, 2005 09:47 PMWow, from my understanding the people who took the hostages were Communists. They wanted Khomeni to do a deal with the USSR. And by trying to provoke America would get that done. And Khomeni considered it until he realized that America was not going to do anything about the hostage taking. At that point he knew he had Carter over a barrel, and Carter just took it up the ole poop shoot. Anyway, times must have really changed if the Communist is now a Religious Hardliner. Posted by: James Stephenson at June 30, 2005 07:18 AMOkay, Mr. Kleinheider I am openly for taking the life of certain leaders. It would have been much easier if we had assassinated Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf War. Like Bill my foreign policy views were shaped by the Iranian crisis. For someone professed hard right, I would think you would join me and say, "Never again." Do like want terrorism or something? Looks like we got it. And Iran was one of the first to flip a finger at the US and say let's get it on. I suspect they may be harboring bin Laden. If we prove that, they need to hand him over. Whether we execute Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or not matters not to me. But on the very first conflict with him, we need to deal with him harshly. Unlike Iraq, Iran is probably more capable of detonating a nuclear weapon on American soil. I will always say, better to make them bleed there than have us bleed here. If killing one man saves many more it is a risk we must consider. He gets one chance. Posted by: JC Bowman at June 30, 2005 11:48 AMPost a comment
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