Is the Vice President Rooting for the Return of the "Reformists"?
Bin Laden released a video today in which he admitted that mistakes were made by Al-Qaeda in Iraq. It seems that Al-Qaeda and the Iranian regime operatives in Iraq have been dealt effective blows after the US military surge.
But, this is not the time for us to rest on our laureates. This is a window of opportunity to go in for ‘complete kill’ of the forces behind the insurgency in Iraq, mainly Iran and to some degree its lackey Syria.
This struggle against Islamic Fascism will not be over, until such time as we face the instigator and financer of all Islamic terror, our enemy: the Iranian regime, once and for all with resolve and serious action.
But, judging by the hollow rhetoric (with no action backing it) that is coming out of US administration, it is very doubtful that we are planning to face Iran in a serious or meaningful way anytime soon. Case in point, Vice President Cheney’s comments on Sunday that “We are prepared to impose serious consequences” if Iran “stays on its current path”. This statement was made, apparently, in a reaction to the firing of Iran’s Ali Larijani (a ‘Reformist’ with British ties) who headed the nuclear negotiations with EU’s Solana. Larijani was replaced by a hardliner who is a close associate of Ahmadinejad. The Vice President’s conditional statement for penalties “if Iran stays on its current path” is interesting in that it could be construed as US administration still hopeful that the European mullahs like Khatami and Rafsanjani could take over power in an internal coup against Ahmadinejad and company.
The fact is that our lack of any decisive, serious action with resolve to confront the regime as a whole could be interpreted as the hope for compromise with another “form” of the same regime in Iran. Despite the innuendo and rhetoric, Washington seems to be going towards appeasement of the European faction within the regime in Iran (the “Reformists”.) And any coming military strike by us would be limited and will be targeted on the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) power centers to weaken the hardliners' position vis a vis the "Reformists" within the regime in Tehran. It is then hoped that the clergy "Reformists" with European ties could take power out of the hands of a weakened Ahmadinejad and company.
So much for regime change.
But, this is not the time for us to rest on our laureates. This is a window of opportunity to go in for ‘complete kill’ of the forces behind the insurgency in Iraq, mainly Iran and to some degree its lackey Syria.
This struggle against Islamic Fascism will not be over, until such time as we face the instigator and financer of all Islamic terror, our enemy: the Iranian regime, once and for all with resolve and serious action.
But, judging by the hollow rhetoric (with no action backing it) that is coming out of US administration, it is very doubtful that we are planning to face Iran in a serious or meaningful way anytime soon. Case in point, Vice President Cheney’s comments on Sunday that “We are prepared to impose serious consequences” if Iran “stays on its current path”. This statement was made, apparently, in a reaction to the firing of Iran’s Ali Larijani (a ‘Reformist’ with British ties) who headed the nuclear negotiations with EU’s Solana. Larijani was replaced by a hardliner who is a close associate of Ahmadinejad. The Vice President’s conditional statement for penalties “if Iran stays on its current path” is interesting in that it could be construed as US administration still hopeful that the European mullahs like Khatami and Rafsanjani could take over power in an internal coup against Ahmadinejad and company.
The fact is that our lack of any decisive, serious action with resolve to confront the regime as a whole could be interpreted as the hope for compromise with another “form” of the same regime in Iran. Despite the innuendo and rhetoric, Washington seems to be going towards appeasement of the European faction within the regime in Iran (the “Reformists”.) And any coming military strike by us would be limited and will be targeted on the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) power centers to weaken the hardliners' position vis a vis the "Reformists" within the regime in Tehran. It is then hoped that the clergy "Reformists" with European ties could take power out of the hands of a weakened Ahmadinejad and company.
So much for regime change.
posted by Jeanne De Rakhsh at 1:51 PM
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