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Mr. President has a
Little Stick
by Bob Beauprez
U.S. officials have confirmed that Iran has recovered an American top
secret RQ-170 drone. The drone reportedly went down near Kashmar
in northeastern Iran about 120 miles from the Afghanistan border after
U.S. remote pilots “lost control” of the unmanned state-of-the-art
vehicle.
Contrary to early Iranian claims that they had shot down the drone,
televised images show the vehicle to be essentially intact, which means
the Iranians – and their Russian and Chinese “friends” – now have one
of our most technologically advanced reconnaissance aircraft. A
U.S. military official said this is a “huge loss and makes the
top-secret helicopter tail lost during the Usama bin Laden raid in
Pakistan ‘look like a pittance,’” according to Fox News.
In a televised ceremony displaying the captured drone, Gen. Amir Ali
Hajizadeh, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards aerospace program,
said the drone was ambushed using “technical interference in order not
to damage the aircraft,” according to a Wall Street Journal
report. A banner underneath the drone carried the taunting
phrase, “America can’t do a damn thing;” a favorite quote of Islamic
revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
Jennifer Griffin of Fox News exposes evidence that Barack Obama
wimped-out when faced with a decision to either protect American
intelligence and national security or upset the Iranians.
“With early knowledge that the aircraft had likely remained intact, the
senior U.S. official also told Fox News that President Obama was
presented with three separate options for retrieving or destroying the
drone. The president ultimately decided not to proceed with any of the
plans because it could have been seen as an act of war, the official
told Fox News.”
“Among the options the U.S. considered were sending in a special-ops
team to retrieve the drone; sending in a team to blow up the aircraft;
and launching an airstrike to destroy it.”
Somebody tell the President that the Iranians already are at war with
the U.S. regardless of this incident. This is a regime sworn to
destroy America, “the infidel Satanic regime.”
Iran is led by murderous nuke-obsessed mullahs and a Holocaust denying
mad man who delivers Hitleresque rants inciting crowds with “death to
America” and “death to Israel.” As Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs.com
accurately says, “Iran sees everything as an act of war.”
Blowing up a downed drone would have changed nothing.
This week in Osawatomie, Kansas the President likened himself to Teddy
Roosevelt. Whatever similarities there might be, we doubt Teddy
“Walk-softly-but-carry-a-big-stick” Roosevelt would have been overly
concerned about displeasing the mullahs in Tehran. Nor for that
matter would have FDR, the other President Roosevelt that Obama so
likes to emulate – or, Truman, Kennedy, Reagan, Bush 41, Bush 43, or
even Bill Clinton.
The question of protecting America’s national security or ruffling the
feathers of a self-declared adversary is no question at all – except
for Barack Obama.
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