The Mullahs in the Americas
We don’t have to speculate about Iran’s willingness to carry out a terror attack in a Latin American country. Two decades ago, in March 1992, Tehran orchestrated a Hezbollah bombing at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29. Then, in July 1994, Iranian agents conspired with Hezbollah to bomb a Jewish community center in the Argentine capital, killing 85. So you can understand why Latin American governments are deeply concerned about Iran’s burgeoning regional presence in general and its alliance with Chávez in particular. Memories of the Buenos Aires atrocities are still relatively fresh.
Third: The Iranian push into Latin America has already damaged regional stability and exacerbated geopolitical tensions. For example, it has augmented the enormous Venezuelan military buildup, which is being financed mainly by Russia and is threatening to unleash a regional arms race. Last spring, the German newspaper Die Welt reported that the Iranians were constructing rocket bases in Venezuela. Earlier this month, according to the U.S. News & World Report blog DOTMIL, the head of U.S. Southern Command, Gen. Douglas Fraser, told reporters that Tehran is also hoping to build military drones for Caracas — specifically, “fairly limited-capacity” unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). “I would put it in the Scan Eagle class of UAV,” said General Fraser. It was just a few years ago that Chávez was sending thousands of troops to the Colombian border and talking of a possible war. Imagine how much more aggressive his regime might be with sophisticated Iranian weaponry.
Speaking of aggression, many commentators still assume that Iran would be wary of conducting terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. But is that really a safe assumption? As Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate committee in late January, the Saudi assassination plot suggests that “some Iranian officials — probably including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei — have changed their calculus and are now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States in response to real or perceived U.S. actions that threaten the regime.” We might also observe that Iran and Venezuela were recently accused of considering cyber-attacks against the United States.
On March 7, Vice President Joe Biden told CNN en Español that “Iran will not be able to pose a hemispheric threat to the United States.” Indeed, Biden offered a “guarantee” that this would not happen. We can only hope the Obama administration reinforces that guarantee, not with more words but with a robust strategy for countering Iranian activity in Latin America.
There must be some severe pressure on US media to never print Saudi Arabian activities regarding terrorism;
There are an estimated 60,000 students attending Wahhabi Schools within the United States. These schools promote Sharia law and strict fundamental Islamic practices.
Western Petro-Dollars have made Saudi Arabia wealthy beyond reason. Hundreds of billions of these petro dollars are recycled into terrorist training camps and Wahhabi schools.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation ( OIC) is a very large entity few have heard of. They promote Sharia law, fundamental Islamic practices and beliefs, and concept any negative mention of Islam is blasphemy. The OIC receives large amounts of funding from Saudi interests.
Leaked Cables from the US state Dept mention the funding of Mumbai terrorist attacks in 2008 sourced from Saudi Arabia.
The Taliban uses Saudi Petroleum industry to launder money and then redirects to Pakistan and Afghanistan to fight US forces.
The single largest funding source of Hamas is Saudi Arabia
So why is it that Western Media including PJM cannot bring itself to even mention the terrorism Saudi Arabia commits, funds, and promotes..? Iran is a Puppet on the world stage, Saudi Arabia is the puppet master.
Well, Alex,it is because our gov’t are a bunch of hypocritical cowards. The Saudis always will get a pass for funding terrorism whether it is in Afghanistan, Iraq, or anywhere else. Me? I’d just tell ‘em that if the funding does not stop, Mecca will be a radioactive wasteland for centuries.
A retired NYPD detective said to me once that he’d convene all the regional heads of the middle east and tell them this: “We’re going to put the names of all the cities in the area in a hat, and for every day that it takes to bring Bin Laden to us, dead or alive, we will make a drawing from that hat and the city we pick will disappear from the face of the earth. And then the next one. And the next…
If an American citizen is harmed in your territory for any reason we will do the same. The choice is yours. Behave and do not molest in any way a citizen of America, or suffer annhilation.”
I like the idea, since apparently no one is afraid enough of Americans to leave them be. If you can’t be loved. Be feared.
Sock Puppet, Please think about what you are saying. You really think America should murder innocent women, children, the elderly by nuking Arab cities?
Well,if a bunch of unclean midievel barbarians want to bow down to a meteorite in the Arabian desert by sticking their behinds in the air so they can honor some illiterate mass murdering pedophile who claimed to the the one and only messenger of some obscure Arabian moon ‘god’,then who are we to judge?…I mean I use a page from the koran every time I have to take a mohammed….it’s just so much softer than Charmin.
Yes, but what do you REALLY think of these Western Oriental Gentlemen and their “philosophy?”
“Even if America and Europe manage to impose the sort of “crippling” sanctions now under discussion, the Iranians will continue to have an economic lifeline in Caracas.”
Not if we imposed a naval blockade on Iran. Threats to the Persian Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz work both ways. The Iranians can threaten to mine and close them, but the United States also has the option of blockading Iran, and impose a very tight one at that. And the Iranians know it. So unless the Iranians want to totally destroy their economy and start an all-out war with the United States, I don’t think they will want to take on the US Navy. Our Navy still has a lot of firepower in the area and a little gunboat diplomacy has always worked wonders in the past. I also doubt Iran wants an all-out war with the United States, even with elections coming up. Iran may love Venezuela, but we can still blockade (or “quarantine”) them if we have to.
While your proposals sound fine on paper, there’s just one little problem: the present occupant of the White House has not shown himself to be terribly resolute in defending freedom or America.
He is very consistent however in defending his own personal gain and the spending of money we do not have for policies that do nothing but rot away the system from within.
“For example, it has augmented the enormous Venezuelan military buildup, which is being financed mainly by Russia”
The above quote names the real problem, Russia. Iran is only a proxy. Russia has been trying for years to gain a foothold in South America. It is finally succeeding.
Forced funding by Russia. Chavez made a deal with the Russians (1st mistake) to buy 4 billion worth of weapons. Chavez tried to back out (2nd mistake).
Man oh man, the good ol US of A may be changing, but our enemies never do. Scary!!
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I don´t yet know what it´s like in Iran, i.e. whether the average person in daily life is a Muslim fanatic bent on world-wide destruction and the hope of the madhi climbing from his well to rule over the ruins; but I do know something about Bolivia and the idiot president here: that the Bolivian people have little to no idea, as a rule, about Islam, Israel, or much of anything else outside their family and community lives. What the government does on the political stages of the world is almost invisible to the average person, including me, in Bolivia. For all the frantic chest thumping going on one might think Bolivia is a terrible place filled with Shi´ite spies and terrorists and raging jihadis leading people to two minute hate rallies against America. So wrong. Bolivia is far freer than any place in America today. There are almost no Muslims here, especially in a per capita comparison to America where the nation is flooded with Muslims and Muslim jihadis. It´s America that scares me. If Bolivia is a better place for a free man than America, ask just what the hell went wrong. Bolivia. This is not supposed to be a good place. It´s so far freer than America that you likely as an average reader must think I am crazy for writing such stuff. But we have lost our home in America to a velvet fascism that most don´t know more about than does the average Bolivian about jihad. Home is the Freak Show. Good grief. Bolivia is paradise in comparison, (and it´s not ‘that’ good.) I´m never going home to the mess it is now. Bolivia is a better place, in spite of the government, seemingly not as ugly as our own at home.
Let’s see…we have more lawyers in one city than perhaps in all of Bolivia, and given the propensity of lawyers to pass useless and counterproductive laws, you get the chaos that we now have; both democrat & repub politicians are guilty. Infighting and useless bureaucracy fails to address real needs, and ignores lingering dangers like Pan-Islamofascist rule.
Be certain, though, that when a cancer defeats an immune system, it metastasizes. Right now the stronger areas of the West are under barrage of Islamist cancers, and if unchecked, there is no stopping the infection, even to South America.
Being an American, you can probably see the enormous potential that Bolivia has and really appreciate what they have and could do.
By the way, how’s the coffee down there? Do you have a blog?
Hello, Camo, thanks for your response. If the coffee here were any good I would probably write some terribly overheated response all about how over-regulated is the United States and how clear and crisp is life for the average Bolivian in comparison. But the coffee here is pretty bad, this being a land of Titanic mountains and nearly inaccessible tropical lowlands on the other side, not coffee country at all. Nor is it, as so many seem to think from afar, a ruined nation overrun by Communists and jihadis. This, of course, is solely from my below the elite view of things, a view from the bottom, as it were, of ordinary people who work and live and act like private people uninformed by ideologies. I´m a coffee drinker, and in my daily life I meet my fellow chit-chatter cafe intellectuals who are interested in the idea of their children and the possibility of finding space on the street or sidewalk after the day´s work to set up a stall to sell goods to passers-by. Life is not about hating the U.S. and the evils of yanqui imperialisme, it´s about family and making money and living a better life. For the high school student council ruling elite vision of life, one must go to the inner circle of the professional political class, to an amatuer hour parody of the Obama clique, where one might find strident over-aged kiddies bantering in pseudo-Marxist cliches. This is not a land of highly educated intellectuals, even in the inner circle of political figures. They are pretty uninformed about ideas, pickig them up like school kids, playing with them like toys, and making a mess. Happily, this is done on the world stage for the benefit of journalists and bureaucrats abroad. The locals at my low level have no idea of and little concern for the fools in high places. Would it were the same in America. In Bolivia, the poorest nation in South America, there is simply too little money to piss away on social engineering and velvet fascist programmes of ¨social justice.¨ Here people are living private lives, if not in affluence, then in peace and relative ease and security. There are no parking meters, to make a trivial but interesting example. There are no jay-walking laws. Just being, to make the point here, is easier than anywhere in an America city because one is responsible for ones own safety, as others are responsible for not killing people in road accidents. No enthusiastic police, no road rage, no miles long traffic pile ups. Chaos? You bet, and it works quite well because one is not generally willing to be a fool in need of direction and supervision in all aspects of ones private and public life.
Bolivia is not paradise. The sidewalks are a serious danger to the unobservant pedestrian, and therefore anyone walking must pay close attention, especially at night on the unlit streets. That´s how it is. No regulators are closing down everything entirely as they would were they here and in charge. This place is often a real ruin when compared to the loveliness of an America suburb. But here and in Peru there is freedom to just breathe, if shallowly in this thin air, and be alive to search for a decent cup of coffee in a place that won´t leave one with food poisoning. It´s not perfect in Bolivia, but it is not at all the picture one sees in looking at the buffoons in places of political power here. Really, how typical were the cheerleaders at highschool of the average? The football captain of the fellows? The student council of the group of all? The idiot clique in Bolivia make the headlines, but everyone else makes the country. It´s not particularly ´nice´here, but it is so free in comparison to America that I can´t see myself going home again, not a deeply meaningful point since I have hardly been home in the past 40 years. But so long as America is run by the Freak Show and the student council bureaucracy of professional prissy teenagers as is now the case I won´t even return for funerals.
I would make clear here that I am not an expat fed up with home and finding a new life in Bolivia. I am simply one old traveller moving from here to there and around. I´ve lived all over the world, and I can see the difference between this and that. For freedom and the life I like, Bolivia, of all places, is preferable to America. I find it not only incredible but shameful that our own home is so defiled.
I write about this occasionally at my blog, but the Internet connection here is shakey at best. To find out some of what it´s like to travel the world and live it as I do and have done you might refer to my lastest book, _An Occasional Walker_, available at amazon.com. My next book, _Andean Walker: Making the Mariscal_, should be available later this year. Otherwise I am sort of around at my blog, No Dhimmitude.
Best regards,
Dag Walker
La Paz, Bolivia.
Great posts Dag, and good to hear from you. How much islam is there in Bolivia? We have the world’s smallest mosque, in Nunavut, in an igloo, can you believe?
David.
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Our borders are DELIBERATELY left unguarded. It has been proven that many Muslim terrorists (and weapons of mass destruction?) have easily crossed our borders. Hezbollah, who are throughout the Americas, have set up operations close to our border. Via the U.S. government gunwalker program, a large numbers of weapons were passed to violent Mexican drug cartels. The drug cartels who work with Muslim terrorists.
The Mullahs in the Americas are ignored by our U.S. government. It must never be forgotten that Iran has not only vowed repeatedly to “Wipe Israel off the map”, Iran has also vowed to “DESTROY America”. We desperately need a U.S. administration that wants to protect America and our allies!
With multiple enemies, Muslim nations and Muslim terrorist organizations and communist countries working together and plotting to destroy America, America has NEVER been so vulnerable as she is today with a government that shows zero interest in protecting America. The future looks very scary for America.
This cant be true. Obama has stated numerous times that the borders are safe and nothing is getting through. It is so safe that he wants to pull guards away from the border with Mexico, and has actually sued Arizona for their meddling.
So Joe Biden guaranteed that Iran can’t hurt us. Oboy, do I ever feel safe now!
I was gonna say, if Joe Biden said it, you can take it to the bank.
HUMANITY must take swift physical action against these vomitous vermin…
REMOVE THEM FROM YOUR COUNTRY…
DO NOT BE FOOLED…
THESE ARE YOUR HAPPY, LOVING, PEACEFUL moozlims…
They infiltrate with deception…
They infiltrate to get close for the KILL…
It’s in their BOOK (koran)…
moehamed was a pedophile rapist
islam is the edict of the DEVIL…allah is SATAN…
And they want to inflict it on the WORLD.
KILL ‘EM ALL.
There are four ways to be a jihadist – sword, pen, speech and money. Jihad is incumbent on ALL moozlims; therefore, it is the sixth pillar of islam.
Why is Islam a real and growing problem?
1)It is not a religeon, it is a way of life and domination locked in the 18th century, with a history of exploiting others.
2) Because they say they are and have been proving it for centuries.
3) The centers of Islam have lived, as socilaist, off of oil rich despot controlled oil for many years and the oil is running out.
4)Saudis have been preparing for several years by buying up US investments, building communities, mosques,etc. and represent the greatest threat since they are the hub of Wahabism, the most radical form of Isslam and the wealthiest, supporting world wide terrorism while claiming to be our allies. Need I remind you of the source of the 9/11 terrorist? We let them get by with it because they support our military industrial complex. They have their clutches in every aspect of liberal America, Obama/Soros America to include our institutions of so-called higher learning, like Harvard where they prepared one Barrak Obama!
5)We have the worlds largest remaining known oil reserves and we are not using it. They want it , or control of it, before they have to start buying it from us! So does the Obama/Soros Cabal!
6)We have been their sworn enemies for centuries and they are sworn to subvert and control us, all non-Muslims. And they are permitted under their suedo religion to commit any atrocity or deception necessary toward that end to include peaceful infiltration or terrorism to gain glory. They make the perfect sleeper agents because their so-called religeon blesses any “sin” necessary to gain their goals.
6) Barack Obama is a Muslim and has installed muslims in high places in the government and is allies with the Muslim Brotherhood, who despite all protestations are devout Musslims intent on enslaving us , installing Sharia law, and ruling not just us but the world! It is there written religeous duty! A Muslim can not be under or submissive to a non-muslim, unless as part and parcel to the act of JIHAD! thus those working in the US Government are laying the groundwork for what is to come! It is in the Quran and is their law!
If you doubt any point I make, especially as to Islamic intent and methodology , I defy you to read the Quran and Sharia Law, and then one of several excellent books by ex-Muslims and loyal American!