Henry Kissinger's approval of Obama's handling of the post-election violence and crackdown in Iran is in inverse relation to his opposition of Reagan's confrontational policies with the Soviet Union as being provocative, dangerous and destabilizing. Kissinger is as mistaken about the clueless, weak, anti-Reagan appeaser as he was about Reagan's toughness and unwavering strength in dealing with the Soviets. And as Reagan's courage in international affairs and unyielding commitment to liberty and free markets made the world a vastly more peaceful and safer place Obama's invincible ignorance, lack of strength and moral blindness to evil is leading this country and the world into extreme peril.
Postscript l:
Reagan's failure at engagement with Iran, the Iran-Contra affair, is about to be repeated by the Clueless One. If the hoped for diplomatic breakthrough didn't happen then, with the US supplying arms to Iran in its war with Saddam, what can Obama hope to achieve? He can offer Khamenie the moon and it will do nothing to alter his regime's nuclear ambitions and imperialist goals.
OPERATION PRAYING MANTIS
Many of us are ignorant of, or have forgotten, Operation Praying Mantis when on April 18, 1988 Reagan ordered our destroyers in the Persian Gulf to open fire on Iranian naval ships in retaliation for a US frigate damaged by an Iranian mine. Our forces sunk two Iranian vessels, several armed speedboats and damaged two defunct oil platforms used by Iran to gather intelligence. Also hit several months later, was an Iranian commercial jetliner carrying and killing 290 passengers and crew*-though an accident the number of dead Iranians almost matched the number of murdered US servicemen who perished in the Iran backed Marine barracks attack five years earlier in Beirut*. Could it be that Divine Justice was at work that day evening up the score? Nevertheless, Reagan's actions stopped the bloody, horrific stalemated Iran-Iraq War and probably saved tens if not hundreds of thousands of lives from Khomenie's mad obsession to defeat Saddam.
*241 servicemen died in the barracks attack, 254 Iranians in the airline tragedy.
Postscript ll:
This piece was posted on Frontpage and Townhall as a comment to Michael Reagan's article: "Please Consider Tearing Down This Wall."
Below are three comments on my post together with my replies.
dcnative writes on Frontpage:
"Apollo, if the deaths of the innocent Iranian civilians on the jetliner is an example of "divine justice evening up the score," your conception of God seems not so different from that of the mullahs and ayatollahs running Iran.
The servicemen and jetliner passengers were each unique individuals, with lives, hopes, dreams, families, friends. They were not chess pieces to be be moved, means to an end of cosmic scorekeeping, whether by other people or "divine justice."
ApolloSpeaks
The 241 US Marines and servicemen were peacekeepers, they were the innocent victims of Islamonazi terror and murder. 13 more Iranian nationals were killed in the airline tragedy. Their deaths persuaded Khomeine to end hostilities with Saddam thus saving many thousands of lives from a stalemated war where a million horribly died. The downing of the jetliner that day had God's Justice and Mercy written all over it.
If the mullahs had my conception of God and theological views they would be at peace with us, at peace with their people, at peace with the world.
P.S. See my comment below.
CowboyUp writes on Frontpage:
"I have a friend who worked in the COM Center of the USS Ranger and had a front row seat for the platform ops. SEALs captured and cleared them of intel before 5in autoloaders blasted them down to the waterline.
That Iranian airliner was packed with Iranian war dead and squawking with an F-14 transponder."
ApolloSpeaks:
Packed with Iranian war dead you say? Fascinating! The downing of the jetliner was instrumental in ending the war, stopping the carnage and saving lives.
Zapdoodat writes on Townhall
""Reagan ordered our destroyers in the Persian Gulf to open fire."
Reagan's toughness was a little late, bud.
On May 17, 1987 the USS Stark was on patrol in the Persian Gulf. On that day Saddam Hussein ordered one of his fighters to fire an Exocet missile at our American ship. The missile hit our ship and 37 Americans died from the attack.
What was Ronald Reagan's response the reader may ask? Nothing, at first. Later his response was to proceed giving Iraq even more weapons.
Can someone please let me know if this is appeasement? "
ApolloSpeaks:
The two Bushes, with Clinton in between, wreaked hovac on Saddam. It was justice delayed, bud.