Yesterday, Feb 3rd, 2009, Iran launched it’s first domestically made satellite into space. What that means is now Iran can potentially develop that into ballistic missile technology. What that means is that they can then launch missiles from Iran and hit any place on the globe, including American soil. Iran has not hid its disapproval for the U.S.A. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has also openly voiced his desire to “wipe Israel off the map.” Not to mention its support to terrorist organizations. On top of that, Iran is currently seeking to develop nuclear technology, claiming it is only for the purpose of supplying energy. Add all this up and it equals trouble. We as a world superpower have a responsibility to the other world nations to determine if we can trust Iran with such devastating potential.
I don’t see the timing of this launch as a coincidence. I believe that it would be a huge stretch to say that Iran had just barely finished its preparations of this project a mere few days before the satellite was actually launched. It seems much more reasonable that Iran has had this ability for quite some time now but has not chosen to display it. The satellite was launched on the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. The Islamic Revolution represented in part, the belief that Western culture was evil and should be eradicated from off the face of the earth. The same year as the Revolution, Iranians took over 50 Americans hostage (from the American Embassy of all places), all in the name of spreading Islam. They were held for 444 days. Then President Jimmy Carter failed to successfully rescue or achieve release of the hostages though diplomacy. The hostages were only formally released MINUTES after President Ronald Reagan was sworn into office. You better believe that those Iranians were watching US news and following the Presidential race! I wouldn’t have wanted to mess with Reagan either.
Regardless of the past, we are now in the present. Today we have President Barack Obama. He has said that he wants to use diplomacy instead of force to solve our foreign problems. He wants to withdraw our troops from Iraq and shut down Gitmo. He wants to put an end to nuclear development worldwide. Also, he does not wish to weaponize space. Pretty much the complete opposite of what our enemies want! I know what you all are thinking. Why again is this not a coincidence? And hasn’t Obama only been President for two weeks? That must mean that the Iranian Government must have been developing this technology when Bush was in office, right? Of course they were! But the technology has not been employed until the US elects a foreign policy push-over. Would this have happened if we had elected John McCain? We will never know, but it did not happen under President Bush. (I know G.W. Bush looks harmless, but if you believe that the man who controls the world’s superpower will use those powers against you, I’m guessing you’ll try not to rock the boat either.)
What can we expect President Obama to do about this possible threat? He has not really made his intentions clear. The White House press secretary described the matter as being an “acute concern to the administration.” Aides of Obama have asked for sanctions to be removed from Iran in an effort to promote better relations. That, in affect, would only be rewarding bad behavior and embolden them. Ahmedinejad has already expressed how he believes Obama’s approach shows his weakness. As early as the campaign, VP nominee Joe Biden tried to begin damage control. Remember when he told Americans that within a few months of Obama’s Administration, our enemies would test us. And when that time came, we needed, more than ever, to stand by the President, even if we disapproved of his actions. That comment happened to be right after he and Obama were given the top secret national threat information from the Intelligence Department. Coincidence again? Well, that time is here and Obama is too busy going on a press tour trying to fix his mistakes of nominating tax evaders to his Cabinet. Not very menacing.
Lastly, the biggest coincidence of all is the name of the Iranian satellite. In an open and deliberate jab, the satellite was named Omid. Ironically, Omid is the Persian word for hope, which also happened to be one of President Obama’s main campaign themes.
3 comments:
Funny you write this. I have been thinking many of these same things lately. Its even worse because my roommate is in military intel. And he MUST keep up to date with iran and other counties. I think we all know in the back of our mind that we are going to attack iran in the future. Its surprising that we haven't done it yet actually. We have always supported Israel, I attribute most of that actually to the fact that we still have some Christians in high Gov positions. Anyway Thanks for the great post I look forward to reading more.
I love that I have such a smart husband!
I really enjoyed this. I learn so much from you every day and its a good (Thanks to you) that I am not kept in the dark about world affairs. I hope you keep writing these posts because I find it very refreshing to read your opinion about politics in the United States. I love to listen to the talk radio shows, but it is nice to read someones opinion who is just a normal person that has been able to find out all this information on their own. I don't think a lot of people realise what is going on or how to find out. I hope all that makes sense.
Our kids are going to be so smart!
Very interesting. I didn't realize they'd launched a satellite into space. There are definitely too many "coincidences" to be coincidences. We'll see, and I hope the people will still have enough power to DO something when we need to.
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