“America can’t do a damn thing against us”
||| FROM FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE |||
“America can’t do a damn thing against us,” Ayatollah Khomeini bragged while holding our hostages.
The Carter administration had undermined the Shah’s government in favor of the Islamists who seized power and then prevented the embassy’s Marine guards from defending the facility and the people inside against the Muslim ‘student’ groups who claimed to be coming in peace.
The “peaceful” student activists took over our embassy and held our people hostage.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei taunted President Trump with the same slogan in June after being asked to give up Iran’s nuclear weapons program. “Our response to the US nonsense is clear: they cannot do a damn thing in this matter,” he echoed his regime’s founder.’
Carter’s failure to defend Americans had turned Khomeini’s taunt into a confident slogan.
America couldn’t stop its diplomats and soldiers from being taken hostage and paraded through the streets. In subsequent decades, future administrations couldn’t stop other Americans from being taken hostage again, tortured and executed. By the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iranian IEDs alone had accounted for as many as 1,000 American victims.
Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s IRGC terror mastermind, had thought that America couldn’t do a damn thing. In January 2020, President Trump taught him otherwise with a Reaper drone.
It was the first time in a long time that America had done a “damn thing” about Iran.
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Oh my god I can’t believe you’re publishing this blatant war mongering islamophobic propaganda. Please either let us know this is the Orcasonian’s editorial view (in which case I can unsubscribe and never read again) or check your sources much more carefully.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrontPage_Magazine
Seriously?
Who is Front Page Magazine?
“FrontPage Magazine, also known as FrontPageMag.com, is an American right-wing, anti-Islam political website edited by David Horowitz and published by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The site has also been described by scholars and writers as far-right and Islamophobic.”
Wikipedia- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrontPage_Magazine
Who is David Horowitz?
“Despite Horowitz being a founding intellectual member of the New Left in the 1960s, and an advocate for civil rights and equality, he has since the late 1980s become a driving force of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and anti-black movements.”
Southern Poverty Law Center– https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/david-horowitz/
Islamophobia is a word people use to shut other people up. All ideas, including Islam, can be critiqued. It is not the same as critiquing PEOPLE for who they are. Are you saying we’re not allowed to criticize IDEAS, especially when they are very bad ideas? (Like women aren’t fully human? Like gay people should be killed?) Are you saying The Orcasonian shouldn’t be allowed to publish an article with an accurate accounting of historical facts? You might disagree with the conclusions of the author, but this is still a free country with a first amendment. And in no way does publishing articles mean the editor agrees with the authors she publishes. I note that in no Islamic countries do people have these freedoms.
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall
“Islamophobic” is a word used to describe a mindset that discriminates against Arab people and people of the Islamic faith. Front Page magazine and David Horowitz are prime examples. I have a problem with anyone who is prejudiced against any group of people, (including women and gays as you stated).
Are you islamophobic? You seem to be defending it.
Islamophobic | iˌsläməˈfōbik |
adjective
having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force: Islamophobic attitudes.
I’m defending The Orcasonian’s right to publish whatever it wants.
Islam is a set of ideas that any individual can decide to agree with or criticize*. It is not “phobic” to criticize ideas.
(*It’s worth noting however, that in many Muslim majority countries, people are not free to criticize Islam.)
Sorry, this is absolutely not an accurate accounting of historical events. Starting with the important and central context that the US supported the Shah whose brutal regime was hated by the Iranian people. The US saw the Shah as an important bulwark against the Soviet Union, and was therefore willing to arm his regime and look the other way over widespread human rights abuses. This leads right into the Iranian revolution.
It is also probably worth noting that if Trump hadn’t torn up the Iranian nuclear deal, we might not be in this situation.
What I find most troubling about this post is not even the warped perspectives. It’s the timing. Here we are on the brink of actual military intervention and watching Israel and Iran trade missiles – this view that “they hate us and they’re trying to kill us” is both wrong and very very dangerous in this moment.
This is obviously a huge and complex topic. That said, I will leave it at this: I disagree with most of what you just said, and we’ll just have to agree to disagree.
It’s not that complicated. “Today the CIA announced; “We have found weapons of mass destruction. They are in Iran.” Sound familiar?
Again, it’s not that complicated- oil was first discovered in the Middle East during the first part of the 20th century, (in Iran ironically). Not long after, colonialist western power’s “interests” in the Middle East became well defined by their interventionist policies. And so far, unless you live in the Middle East or are one of the many soldiers who has had to go a fight a rich man’s war for resources, this foreign policy plan has worked out well.
History of Western Civilization 11- The Discovery of Oil in the Middle East: “The history of the discovery and production of oil in the Middle East exemplifies the “resource curse”: countries with an abundance of natural resources, specifically non-renewable resources like oil, tend to have less economic growth, less democracy, and worse development outcomes than countries with fewer natural resources.”
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/chapter/the-discovery-of-oil-in-the-middle-east/
“They let my battle buddies die for oil, then handed our killers billion-dollar contracts. The road to fascism is paved w/ drone strikes, prison labor & bipartisan lies.”
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1212776757198833
The attacks on Iran are a “Wag the Dog” effort by Trump to distract from his domestic failures.
What does it mean to Wag the Dog?
Wag the dog is a political term for the act of creating a diversion from a damaging issue usually through military force. It stems from the generic use of the term to mean a small and seemingly unimportant entity (the tail) controls a bigger, more important one (the dog).