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Axis Of (New) Evil
Posted Monday, July 02, 2007 4:30 PM PT
War On Terror: We have a new "axis" to worry about — the "Axis of Unity" just formed by Iran and Venezuela. Time to pay attention: Iran is openly fighting us in the Mideast. Now it's getting ready to fight us here, too.
We've talked a great deal about Iran's threat. Simply put, we think Iran is at war with us, and has been since its revolution in 1979. We just haven't noticed.
Recent events only bolster our conviction. Most alarmingly, Iran's mullahs have become so emboldened by our inaction they're going from making mere threats to actively killing our soldiers in Iraq. So far, we've done little about it.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, welcomes his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez, in Tehran on Sunday.
According to U.S. Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, Iran has begun using Hezbollah in Lebanon as a surrogate to help Shiite terrorists in Iraq kill U.S. troops.
The U.S. military, Bergner says, now has hard evidence Iran was behind an attack in Karbala last January that killed five Americans. This, by the way, is an overt act of war by a hostile government.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard also has opened three training camps near Tehran where groups of upwards of 60 Iraqis are trained in the finer arts of terrorism — kidnapping, bomb making, torture, murder.
Truth is, Iran has become a major geopolitical malignancy. Its nuclear program is accelerating, according to Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Iran still remains the world's leading supporter of terrorism.
Yet after Tehran rejected out of hand the EU's recent laughable proposal for a kindergarten-style "time out" on Iran's nuclear program, the U.N. Security Council basically just threw up its hands. For now, it says, it will do nothing about Iran's noncompliance with international nuclear agreements. It's off the agenda entirely.
Unchallenged, Iran now wants not only to establish nuclear dominance over the Mideast, but to challenge the U.S. directly.
Sound unbelievable? Over the weekend, Venezuela's dictator Hugo Chavez traveled to Tehran to sign a wide-ranging trade, investment and arms deal.
Iran-supported Hezbollah guerrillas already have set up shop in South America's jungles to train terrorists and to build a base of operations from which to attack the U.S.
In January, Iran's radical leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad toured Latin America seeking support from the region's anti-American regimes.
He found it. Just this month, he entertained Nicaragua's Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega — a sure sign of mischief. Now he is making deals with Chavez.
This has been going on for some time. As far back as 2002, the U.S. State Department warned Congress that al-Qaida and Hezbollah were both active in Latin America, aiding extremists and sowing terror. We've done nothing.
As we've said, these ties give Iran direct access to our hemisphere — access it can use to disrupt U.S. energy trade or, worse, infiltrate terrorists into the U.S. through our pathetically porous borders.
That's just what Iran will do if we don't stop it either through tougher economic sanctions, covert action, military strikes on its sensitive infrastructure or some combination of the three. We no longer can wait.
Posted Monday, July 02, 2007 4:30 PM PT
War On Terror: We have a new "axis" to worry about — the "Axis of Unity" just formed by Iran and Venezuela. Time to pay attention: Iran is openly fighting us in the Mideast. Now it's getting ready to fight us here, too.
We've talked a great deal about Iran's threat. Simply put, we think Iran is at war with us, and has been since its revolution in 1979. We just haven't noticed.
Recent events only bolster our conviction. Most alarmingly, Iran's mullahs have become so emboldened by our inaction they're going from making mere threats to actively killing our soldiers in Iraq. So far, we've done little about it.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, welcomes his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez, in Tehran on Sunday.
According to U.S. Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, Iran has begun using Hezbollah in Lebanon as a surrogate to help Shiite terrorists in Iraq kill U.S. troops.
The U.S. military, Bergner says, now has hard evidence Iran was behind an attack in Karbala last January that killed five Americans. This, by the way, is an overt act of war by a hostile government.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard also has opened three training camps near Tehran where groups of upwards of 60 Iraqis are trained in the finer arts of terrorism — kidnapping, bomb making, torture, murder.
Truth is, Iran has become a major geopolitical malignancy. Its nuclear program is accelerating, according to Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Iran still remains the world's leading supporter of terrorism.
Yet after Tehran rejected out of hand the EU's recent laughable proposal for a kindergarten-style "time out" on Iran's nuclear program, the U.N. Security Council basically just threw up its hands. For now, it says, it will do nothing about Iran's noncompliance with international nuclear agreements. It's off the agenda entirely.
Unchallenged, Iran now wants not only to establish nuclear dominance over the Mideast, but to challenge the U.S. directly.
Sound unbelievable? Over the weekend, Venezuela's dictator Hugo Chavez traveled to Tehran to sign a wide-ranging trade, investment and arms deal.
Iran-supported Hezbollah guerrillas already have set up shop in South America's jungles to train terrorists and to build a base of operations from which to attack the U.S.
In January, Iran's radical leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad toured Latin America seeking support from the region's anti-American regimes.
He found it. Just this month, he entertained Nicaragua's Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega — a sure sign of mischief. Now he is making deals with Chavez.
This has been going on for some time. As far back as 2002, the U.S. State Department warned Congress that al-Qaida and Hezbollah were both active in Latin America, aiding extremists and sowing terror. We've done nothing.
As we've said, these ties give Iran direct access to our hemisphere — access it can use to disrupt U.S. energy trade or, worse, infiltrate terrorists into the U.S. through our pathetically porous borders.
That's just what Iran will do if we don't stop it either through tougher economic sanctions, covert action, military strikes on its sensitive infrastructure or some combination of the three. We no longer can wait.
