h/t Forcibly Deranged.
American Thinker: By Clarice Feldman
If you remember The Wizard of Oz you will recall that Toto, Dorothy’s dog, pulled back the curtain, revealing that the wizard was just a little guy working a panel of sound and light gimmicks to fool people into thinking he was more omnipotent than he really was. In the same way, the President’s killing of Qassem Soleimani and the aftermath reveals the four-decades-long treatment of Iranian terrorism and Israel by the foreign-policy establishment — our presidents from Jimmy Carter up to now and Congress — was based on myths.
The brilliant Caroline Glick makes the case.
For the past 40-odd years, two narratives have guided American Middle East policy. Both were invented by the Carter administration. One relates to Iran. One relates to Israel.
Both narratives reject reality as the basis for foreign policy decision-making in favor of delusion. Over the past two months, President Donald Trump has rejected and disavowed them both. His opponents are apoplectic.
She begins by reviewing the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979 when 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days.
If President Jimmy Carter acknowledged that the “students” weren’t students, but soldiers of Iran’s dictator Ayatollah Khomeini, the US would be compelled to fight back. And Carter and his advisers didn’t want to do that.
So rather than admit the truth, Carter accepted the absurd fiction spun by the regime that Khomeini was an innocent bystander who, try as he might, couldn’t get a bunch of “students” in central Tehran to free the hostages.
Hoping that Iran would be satisfied, they left Khomeini alone.
Khomeini and his “Death to America” shouting followers got the message. They understood that Washington had given them a green light to attack Americans in moderate and, as Smith put it, “plausibly deniable” doses. it. For the next 40 years, Iran maintained its aggression against America. And from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama, every president since Carter accepted and kept faith with Carter’s decision not to hold the Iranian regime responsible for the acts of aggression and war it carried out against America through proxies.
Trump’s decision to kill Soleimani along with Muhandis destroyed the Carter administration’s Iran narrative.
By killing Soleimani, Trump made clear that the blank check for aggression the previous six presidents gave Tehran is now canceled. From now on, the regime will be held responsible for its actions. From now on US policy towards Iran will be based on reality and not on escapism.
The second false narrative that has formed the basis of US Middle East policy since Carter is that Israel and the so-called “occupation” are responsible for the absence of peace in the Middle East. [snip]
Just as Reagan turned a blind eye to Iran’s responsibility for the terror attacks its proxies carried out against the United States — including the bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut in April 1983, and the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut in November 1983 — so he substantively accepted Carter’s anti-Israel narrative which blamed Israel for the absence of Middle East peace.
The Bush administrations and the Clinton administration followed along with the delusional Carter policies that blamed Israel for the troubles in the region,
Obama, of course, went full circle. [snip] . MORE
I knew we had a corruption problem. I had NO IDEA about the depths of the horrifying levels of depravity until Trump pulled on that curtain.
God bless our great president. Where would we be had Hillary won?
@Fritz the Cat — Had Hillary won? I absolutely shudder to think about it. That’s why I pray to God, thanking him, every single day!! I don’t think it’s exaggerating to say that she would quickly turn the entire country into California. The Clintons would have siphoned off the lion’s share, redistributed the sofa change and America’s middle class would be lost to history.
IF TOTO IS TRUMP, WHO ARE THE OTHERS??
Benito, Pelosi’s the easy one.
Barry did have sons,,,
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Boys, it’s all about stealing money from us. That’s all it’s ever been about, even on ‘our side’ – just look at the corruption and pay days of boehner, mccain and romney.
Trump is the real deal, and has busted the whole scam wide open.
Pelosi should be scourged and crucified.
Biden= Scarecrow
Burnie=Tinman
Palsi= Wicked Witch
Persia Pete/Schiff/Nadler= Flying Monkeys
I heard a saying a long time ago – money doesn’t change a person, it unmasks them.
Trump, by virtue of being a billionaire, has the same affect and is able to expose/unmask those around him just be being himself.
People who we thought were our allies have revealed themselves for the first time, just because of Trump being Trump, to be absolute traitors within our midst.
The analogy of Trump being Toto is absolutely spot on, he pulled back the curtain and all the cowards and charlatans pretending to be more than they are now can be seen by all for the frauds and kooks they have always been.
But you wouldn’t know it if you watch your local news. It’s all Trump bad, bad, bad.
@Bobcat Biden is the brainless Scarecrow, Schiff is the mechanical Tin Man, Nadler is the bloated Mayor of Munchkin-land, Bill DeBlasio is the clueless Cowardly Lion, the Squad is the Lullaby League, Botox Nancy is Miss Gultch, Pete Buttigieg is the leader of the Flying Monkeys, Bernie is the Wizard of Oz and the Wicked Witch of the West is Hil-LIAR-y
Both articles are good. But they made me realize something I hadn’t thought about before. This really does go all the way back to Carter, doesn’t it?
Which I should have already known because my father who was a die-hard Reagan supporter still ranted continuously about Reagan’s foreign policy…