Tehran Regime Pokes Uncle Sam In The Eye.
The successful launch of the Tehran paid-for Taepedong missile over Japan and into the Pacific achieves the perfection of upstaging the Sunday talk shows in Europe and America. The talking point primary was the useful agreement on the IMF at the G20 and the avoidance of inescapable contrariness. A secondary point was that POTUS had survived the gauntlet of the potentates and found some promise at NATO for an Afghanistan boost. Now that it is all old news. The missile was an act of predation by the Tehran regime. The Kim regime is a useful idiot. HRC and POTUS himself have wasted their words on Kim. He is hireling. The Tehran regime pokes Uncle Sam in the eye. In some discomfort, Uncle Sam stamps his foot:
Within minutes, governments around the world were condemning the firing of the rocket. "The launch by the North Koreans is seen as a provocative act and will prompt the United States to take appropriate steps to let North Korea know that it cannot threaten the safety and security of countries with impunity," the US State Department spokesman Fred Lash said soon after the launch.
What Is To Be Done?
Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, and I have spoken for the last four weeks re the North
Korea missile and the inadequate response by the six-party talkers; and we will speak at length Sunday 5 in several parts. My contribution is to say that Tehran is running this show. Tehran responds to pressure and confrontation. When Washington is strong and assertive, Tehran play acts at being a sullen Third World victim. When Washington is beseeching, the Tehran regime tries a stealthy provocation such as abduction or naval exercises in the Gulf or a surrogate missile launch. It is the same Tehran regime, two sides of the same coin. Tehran is a predator. The regime consists of shrewd, fanatical, pious Twelvers who believe in hastening the apocalypse that will welcome the Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam. The delusional puppet Ahmadinejad is a Hastener. The pretentious Ayatollah Khameni and his greedy, ravenous, reportedly sexually-compulsive Council of Experts are Hasteners. You deal with Hasteners by hastening them. The suggestion of striking the missile on the pad was positive. There is also a chance of detaining and interrogating the Tehran ops as they fly back from North Korea. I have learned from Amir Taheri's new book, "Persian Night," that it is not necessary to bash or bloody the regime. A clap of the hands scares them. They also scurry from loud words or collective disapproval. They live in their own delusions. Very little of the regime's claims about a Twelfth Imam or descendants of Mohammed or even correct behavior while waiting for paradise is based upon reality. It may all be accidental or lunatic fiction. For example, the cranky and, at the end, hallucinatory R. Khomeini called himself the Thirteenth Imam. This was ludicrous, even by the rules that existed at the time. The Tehran regime makes up what
it needs at the moment and then forgets its own assertions. All is deception. Peace-making is a scam. War-making is only done with surrogates. Like other tyrannies based upon self-invented, non-rational beliefs, the Tehran regime must go too far, it cannot turn away from its own suicide. Just now, the Obama administration is pretending that Tehran is not connected to the missile launch by the Kim regime. This is shopworn appeasement. It will not work just because the Tehran regime will soon respond with another poke in Uncle Sam's other eye.
Ahmad declared himself the Mahdi, too... in the 1880's. ‘I am the Mahdi, the Successor of the Prophet of God‘ and he made war on the region. He claimed intercession with God and being above the prophet.
The Ansari practiced siege tactics, mostly against other believers of the faith, and attacked when the resistance was weakened due to starvation and deprivation.
The ones most threatened today by these fanatics are those who are easily within their reach. Why do they not take it upon themselves to prevent being laid to waste?
My read of the situation remains firmly rooted in the conviction that both, Pyongyang and Tehran would not act the way they do without having been assured of protection by even greater players. It would not even surprise me to learn - especially in North Korea’s case – that all the agitation is expressly choreographed by China itself; that any public pronouncement by ‘The People’s Republic’ claiming to be interested in helping to resolve global tensions is bogus.
Tehran is quite another matter. They too continue to bask under the umbrella of protection of a northern neighbor. However, they still feel they are acting primarily on their own; at least, insofar as their obsession with the destruction of Israel is concerned. In this, they have deluded themselves into believing that they are doing God’s work; that it is solely the business between them and the 12th imam who demands the destruction of the Jews before agreeing to come and deliver his people into the diabetic arms of redemption. It is a crazy, primitive, pathology, spawned by extreme existential uncertainty.
Russia is using Tehran to advance its own political interests (which amounts to weakening the West to the point of where it can be plucked and made to swerve into its own orbit). It is confident that once it has achieved its goals, it can easily eliminate the viral condition that animates Iran’s present leadership. What will be of more than passing interest to note is the mullahs’ reaction when they find out that the 72 virgins they were expecting are named Lenin, Stalin, Marx, Obama, etc.
It was the US Intelligence comittee which gave the nuclear info to Iran. They though the Iranian scientist couldnt figure out the blueprints. The Russians gave them a hand to get the rest of the pieces together.
You see the US broke international law giving nuclear info to Iran as well as India. If the Iranians decide to use of thier knowledge albeit rocket knowledge to North Korea so be it.
If the US continues to harass countries which are not nuclear tipped then prepared to be attacked. The US foreign policy has not changed since Bush in the mid-east. Obama bomed Pakistan within two days of being in office. He has been constantly sending pretator drones over to Pakistan to kill some terrorists.
He is not pulling out of Iraq. Obama is leaving 8 permanemt bases there plus 25,000 troops so they are not going anywhere.
The US should dismantle 786 military bases worldwide, decommission it's aircraft carriers and use their nuclear engines to power american cities and coastal regions.
O Sammy boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling- WOP U BEN SMOKEN??? p~~~ ooo ooolalalalaland
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"With this provocative act, North Korea has ignored its international obligations, rejected unequivocal calls for restraint, and further isolated itself from the community of nations."
--President Barack Obama
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"The Secretary-General regrets that, against strong international appeal, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) went ahead with its planned launch. Given the volatility in the region, as well as a stalemate in interaction among the concerned parties, such a launch is not conducive to efforts to promote dialogue, regional peace and stability."
-- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
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"This is an extremely provocative act that cannot be overlooked…It is a clear violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution."
-- Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso
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"It's disappointing and a pity that North Korea's reckless action brings serious threats to peace on the Korean peninsula and the world, at a time when the world is seeking wisdom together in order to overcome the economic crisis. We will cope with North Korea's provocation firmly and resolutely. At the same time, however, we'll take an open attitude and wait for North Korea to change, with patience and consistency."
--South Korean President Lee Myung-bak
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"We hope that all sides will maintain calm and restraint, handle the matter appropriately, and work together to jointly safeguard regional peace and stability.. The Chinese side is willing to continue to play a constructive role in this matter."
--China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu
These are just words (sound familiar?). The one who acts always wins. The others are reduced to reacting - with words. Can anybody tell me whether or not the N. Korean test was successful? Online news organizations seem to have it both ways. In any case, North Korea did what China told it to do. If our State Department doesn't know that, "Shame on them!" But we couldn't blame China, could we? They hold the plug to our financial drain. Why don't they just go in and grab Taiwan as well - and get it over with. It'd be so much better than dying a death by a thousand cuts.
It appears these good fellows, whose responses are quoted above, were partaking 'round the fire, too. Whorled up and passing the peace pipe while dancing under the moon.
What's the bar for a successful or unsuccessful multi- staged ( and I do mean stagedstagedstaged) missile launch? Did it get off the ground? Did it traverse some distance and how far? Did the booster separate from the second stage ~== ~=> ??
I don't know about these things, but, it seems to me this unsuccessful experiment provided the data they were wanting to glean. The regime claimed it was a success and that the "satellite" was broadcasting the Songs of the Leaders for the enjoyment of all. What can be read into that statement?
Personally, I wouldn't have been offended if the Japanese had carried through with shooting the thing down.
Yes it was a success. Third stege aparantly failed, but the missile traveled twice as far as their last attempt. How far this launch advanced their missile technology is something we wont know untill their next launch. Does anybody doubt that that will happen, or what our response will be? No one in Pyongyang.....
I guess what I was saying was that it performed exactly as it was supposed to.
And got the desired result without being overwhelmingly provocative.
The Japanese should have taken it out...
....or us, launch pad and all. With a polite offer to launch their "communicaton satelites" any time, free of charge.
Obama should have told Kim Jong Il to call the UN if he experienced a missile flight lasting more than 4 hours ....
Spencer I wish you would either rebuttle my facts instead of insulting me.
I don't need to rebut your facts- you do that quite well yourself.
I didn't mean to insult. If I did, I apologize.