The War With Iran Continues

...whether we acknowledge it or not:

Hezbollah is Iran. It is Iran’s wholly owned proxy warrior. It is fighting Israel. It is an enemy of the United States, because its master, Iran, is an enemy of the United States. This is our war. The same war we finally engaged five years ago. That, it is worth remembering, was the war on terror — World War IV, as Norman Podhoretz aptly dubbed it. Democracy promotion is a worthy long-term aim, but the immediate imperative of this war is to defeat America-hating jihadists.

As far as Iran is concerned, we have disserved that imperative from the beginning of our response to the 9/11 attacks. One is tempted to say, “from the beginning of the war on terror,” but that would be wrong. There is a big difference between the beginning of the war on terror and the point in time when the United States finally conceded it was at war with Islamic extremists and responded accordingly. Iran has been at war with the United States from the beginning. And it has principally fought the war through its proxy warrior. Hezbollah.

Here's yet another example where the failure to defend our sovereign rights as a nation has only escalated the enemy's aggression. When Jimmy Carter, coward that he was, failed to back the Shah of Iran against Khomeini's thugs, then allowed Americans to be held hostage in our own embassy (which by international law is considered American soil just as surely as Yankee Stadium is) for over a year, it sent a message the world over that America was weak. We're still dealing with the consequences of that message nearly 30 years later.

And soon the mullahs will have both nuclear weapons and the ability to deliver them through long-range missiles.

Remember that as you listen to Madeleine Albright and the rest of the modern-day Quislings urging diplomacy and appeasement.