November 21, 2017
Iran Declares Victory over ISIS
Timothy Birdnow
Iran has claimed victory over the Islamic State in an echoe of the Afghani "victory" claim over the Russians after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan back in the eighties.
According to Reuters:
"ranian President Hassan Rouhani declared the end of Islamic State on Tuesday in an address broadcast live on state TV.
A senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Major General Qassem Soleimani, also declared the end of Islamic State in a message sent to the country’s supreme leader Tuesday which was published on Sepah News, the news site of the Guards."
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It has primarily been American efforts that have driven ISIS into the ground in the region, not Iran's or Syrias. Just as American aid helped the Afghanis drive the Soviets out but the Mujihadeen believed it was their efforts alone and that they precipitated the Soviet collapse (ignoring tbe billions of dollars the U.S. spent and the hideously expensive policies of Containment and MutualAssured Destruction which bankrupted the Soviet Union) so too Iran is claiming credit for wrecking ISIS. Talk about delusions of grandeur!
We've had a number of opportunities with Iran and blew it. During the Obama era there was an uprising, a color revolution that stalled because the BHO wouldn't give any support to it. He was quick to overthrow allies like Hosni Mubarak in Egypt or even Moammar Khadafi in Libya but would not bother to lift a finger to assist in overthrowing the terrorists in Tehran. Prior to that George W. Bush could have taken the war into Iran rather than doing a minimalist action in Iraq, thus allowing the Iranians to flood the borders with every thug who wanted to fight for Allah. Bush and his people had a terrible policy, thinking that they could perform a limited surgery on the patient and that somehow the "yearning to be free" of people would do the rest. They assumed American values were universalist traits. They were wrong and Iran continues to be the apocalyptic hand on the trigger of history.
ISIS was evil and deserves to be destroyed. I fear we may regret the way it happened, and what will follow in it's place.
Iran has claimed victory over the Islamic State in an echoe of the Afghani "victory" claim over the Russians after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan back in the eighties.
According to Reuters:
"ranian President Hassan Rouhani declared the end of Islamic State on Tuesday in an address broadcast live on state TV.
A senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Major General Qassem Soleimani, also declared the end of Islamic State in a message sent to the country’s supreme leader Tuesday which was published on Sepah News, the news site of the Guards."
End excerpt.
It has primarily been American efforts that have driven ISIS into the ground in the region, not Iran's or Syrias. Just as American aid helped the Afghanis drive the Soviets out but the Mujihadeen believed it was their efforts alone and that they precipitated the Soviet collapse (ignoring tbe billions of dollars the U.S. spent and the hideously expensive policies of Containment and MutualAssured Destruction which bankrupted the Soviet Union) so too Iran is claiming credit for wrecking ISIS. Talk about delusions of grandeur!
We've had a number of opportunities with Iran and blew it. During the Obama era there was an uprising, a color revolution that stalled because the BHO wouldn't give any support to it. He was quick to overthrow allies like Hosni Mubarak in Egypt or even Moammar Khadafi in Libya but would not bother to lift a finger to assist in overthrowing the terrorists in Tehran. Prior to that George W. Bush could have taken the war into Iran rather than doing a minimalist action in Iraq, thus allowing the Iranians to flood the borders with every thug who wanted to fight for Allah. Bush and his people had a terrible policy, thinking that they could perform a limited surgery on the patient and that somehow the "yearning to be free" of people would do the rest. They assumed American values were universalist traits. They were wrong and Iran continues to be the apocalyptic hand on the trigger of history.
ISIS was evil and deserves to be destroyed. I fear we may regret the way it happened, and what will follow in it's place.
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