Yesterday Michael Ledeen posted an article at PJ Media about a recent export agreement reached with Iran.<\/p>\n
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Boeing and General Electric were given export licenses by the Treasury Department and everyone involved has been chanting \u201cwe take aircraft security very seriously,\u201d in order to cloak this latest gift to the Khamenei-Rouhani regime in humanitarian hues.<\/strong><\/p>\n Frankly I\u2019d rather they took national security very seriously.\u00a0 Iran uses its commercial aircraft for military purposes (one of the reasons that eery flight between Tehran and Caracas is so worrisome), and the mullahs have been limited by the degradation of the national fleet.\u00a0 The Boeing planes and GE engines date to the 1970s, and very few of them are in service.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Iranians are quite able to get around what is left of the sanctions on their country and are finding ways to get around the oil embargo–they are bartering with Russia and Turkey. The Russians are probably providing military equipment and the Turks are swapping for gold. And so it is, indeed the war has been on for some time, and it\u2019s a bit hotter than Cold War 1.0 was for most of the twentieth century.\u00a0 Kiev burned, and may burn again soon.\u00a0 Caracas is burning, as are many of Venezuela\u2019s cities and towns.\u00a0 Crimea has been annexed, and Syria is still aflame, as is Iraq, and also Yemen.\u00a0 Estonia and Finland are seriously frightened, as well they should be.\u00a0 If we pull back from the crisis du jour, we can see it\u2019s a global conflict.\u00a0 Iran and Russia are fighting in Syria, sometimes with and sometimes against the jihadi marauders.\u00a0 Cuba is fighting in Venezuela, a country the Castros largely command, and Hezbollah is in there, too.\u00a0 And for those of you who follow Africa, know that the Iranians are up to their necks in Nigeria, buying influence and supporting the mass murderers in Boko Haram.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is not a time to be helping those that want to destroy us in any way. But, as the Ukrainian revolutionaries have found, and as the aftermath of our victory in Iraq has demonstrated, the battle against evil is not going to end on this earth, and if you fail to challenge the heart of the current darkness, you may well find things worse than they were before.\u00a0 Our enemies are bursting with confidence.\u00a0 They think they\u2019ve got us.\u00a0 Bret Stephens: \u201cMr. Putin knows Mr. Obama. He knows that the U.S. president has the digestive fortitude of a tourist in Tijuana.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n As Mr Obama runs for the Pepto Bismol, he\u2019s arming our enemies for the next round.\u00a0 So it\u2019s gonna get worse.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday Michael Ledeen posted an article at PJ Media about a recent export agreement reached with Iran. The article reports: Boeing and General Electric were given export licenses by the Treasury Department and everyone involved has been chanting \u201cwe take … Continue reading
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