"Back to Pre-9/11. But It's Worse"

In this mailing: - Guy Millière: "Back to Pre-9/11. But It's Worse" - Amir Taheri: Prowler Preaching Neighborliness [] ["Back to Pre-9/11. But It's Worse"]( by Guy Millière • October 3, 2021 at 5:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - The election of President Joe Biden under extremely questionable conditions was hugely welcomed by many in America and Europe.... The leaders of countries that are the enemies of the United States seemed even more delighted. Iran's then President Hassan Rouhani said on November 5, 2020: "The next US administration will surrender to the Iranian nation". Communist China's President Xi Jinping said nothing but instantly stepped up military provocations against Taiwan and Australia, India, the Philippines and Japan. - From the first days of its existence, the Biden administration spoke of terrorism, but seemingly to refer only to "white supremacy" and "domestic terrorism" -- evidently meaning Republicans and other Americans who had voted for Trump. Concessions to Islamic terrorism quickly followed. On February 12, the Houthi militia was removed from the Department of State list of terrorist organizations and started to receive US humanitarian aid. A few weeks later, their attacks on Saudi Arabia resumed. On February 18, the UN sanctions on Iran reinstated by Trump were rescinded, and economic sanctions partially lifted. Iran could now deliver missiles to Hamas, which used them in May to launch a massive attack on Israel. - The Afghan disaster was put in place. The Biden administration, unlike the Trump administration, had shown the Taliban and al-Qaeda that they had nothing to fear. The American media and the rest of the Western world hardly commented on the deceitful, catastrophic and deadly way the United States surrendered Afghanistan. - An editorial of the French newspaper Le Monde spoke with joy of the "long list of humiliations suffered by the United States". Several European leaders said they feared a return of Islamic terrorism to Europe, and started to react as most European leaders have reacted for decades: by trying to appease those who threaten their countries. - Meanwhile, the only person under investigation for the completely avoidable strategic failure of America's surrender to the Taliban in Afghanistan is decorated US Marine officer, Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller. He is currently in pre-trial detention at the Marine Corps brig at Camp Lejeune, for violating a "gag order" to bar him from asking senior leaders for accountability. - "What do you call a party whose leaders require all of America's soldiers to undergo indoctrination in an ideology that calls for the 'dismantling' of America and tells them that their oath to defend the Constitution is an oath to defend a document that codifies 'white supremacy'?... You call it treason." — David Horowitz, author and former Black Panther, Front Page Magazine, September 14, 2021. The election of President Joe Biden under extremely questionable conditions was hugely welcomed by many in America and Europe.... The leaders of countries that are the enemies of the United States seemed even more delighted. Iran's then President Hassan Rouhani said on November 5, 2020: "The next US administration will surrender to the Iranian nation". (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) September 11, 2001 was the first time the United States had been attacked on its mainland since 1812. Nearly 3,000 people were killed. Americans reacted with determination and dignity. American flags were soon everywhere. The idea that the attacks should not go unpunished seemed unanimous. It was promptly proven that the attack came from al-Qaeda; on October 7, the US military started to crush the rear bases of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and the Taliban who housed them. [Continue Reading Article]( [] [Prowler Preaching Neighborliness]( by Amir Taheri • October 3, 2021 at 4:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - Raisi has not managed to impose some discipline on the few hundred mullahs and brigadier-generals who form the core of the ramshackle regime. Thus the mullah from back of the beyond and the brigadier-general who has never seen a battle except on television, continue to make foreign policy comments mostly to threaten the very neighbors that the Dr. Ayatollah hopes to seduce. - Tehran's disregard for Iraqi sovereignty came in other forms as well. The official media threatened Baghdad and Erbil with "consequences" unless those who had organized a private seminar on normalization with Israel were "dealt with". The fact that the seminar in question was in conformity with Iraq's constitution and law, guaranteeing freedom of opinion and expression, was conveniently ignored. - However, the biggest show of "good neighborliness" promised by Raisi came inside the (former Soviet) Republic of Azerbaijan and along its borders with Iran and Armenia. - What Tehran media described as "a multi-faceted task force" consisting of helicopter gunships, tanks, armored vehicles and elite Special Units under the personal command of IRGC's Chief of Land Forces Gen. Pakpur was assembled on full alert within sight of Azerbaijani troops and their Russian "advisers". Iran's new President Dr. Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi (center) has not managed to impose some discipline on the few hundred mullahs and brigadier-generals who form the core of the ramshackle regime. Thus the mullah from back of the beyond and the brigadier-general who has never seen a battle except on television, continue to make foreign policy comments mostly to threaten the very neighbors that the Dr. Ayatollah hopes to seduce. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images) In his first statements on foreign policy, Islamic Republic's new President Dr. Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi made two claims: First that he would be the ultimate arbiter of Tehran's foreign relations and, second, that his top priority is to "establish close ties with neighbors and promote peace and stability in West Asia. (The ruling mullahs now use the term West Asia, which was circulated by the Soviet Union, instead of the Middle East, which they regard as a term coined by "Infidel powers.") Just week into his tenure, however, it is hard to find evidence to support Raisi's claim. True, the new Islamic Foreign Minister Amir Abdullahyan is no Muhammad-Javad Zarif with his flamboyant style, personal ambitions and powerful American friends, and thus in no position to think of upstaging his boss. [Continue Reading Article]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [RSS]( [Donate]( Copyright © Gatestone Institute, All rights reserved. You are subscribed to this list as {EMAIL} You can change how you receive these emails: [Update your subscription preferences]( or [Unsubscribe from this list]( [Gatestone Institute]( 14 East 60 St., Suite 705, New York, NY 10022