Iran

One needn’t examine today’s headlines about Iran too closely to trip over a good bit of irony cascading from those nifty little fonts marching across your monitor or leaping off the front page of your paper.

Iran, our nemesis….

Iran, the nuclear threat….

Iran, the sponsor of terror worldwide…

Iran, the best example of the power of the will of the people??

Wait a minute, here! Something is terribly wrong! How on earth can Iran be simultaneously our nemesis and our inspiration?

The answer is quite simple: there is a huge difference between the Iranian people and the terroristic theocracy that rules the country and threatens the peace of the world. It is quite obvious that the mullahs and their surrogates do not represent the views and will of the Iranian people.

As interesting, inspiring, tragic and, at times, exhilarating as the events in Iran today might be, they remain, ultimately, remote and aloof from our everyday lives . . .

Or are they?

Is the youth-led Iranian Revolution a harbinger of possibilities yet to be realized here in America? As fluid as the situation in both countries might currently be, one fact is indisputable: pushed to the edge, the “Silent Majority” can and will indeed be heard. “Yes We Can” takes on an entirely new meaning when viewed through the prism of events in Iran.

Frustration and anguish are universal human emotions. In Iran, the very awareness of freedom has been sufficient to create an unquenchable thirst for more. Glutted with a 200+ year history of freedom-taken-for-granted, Americans are only just now experiencing an inexplicable tingle of fear that much more is at stake than was evident in the fall of 2008. “Change” for the sake of change, after six months of the Obama administration, holds less allure than was imaginable in November, 2008.

Let’s face it: neither George W. Bush nor John McCain could hold a candle to Barack Obama in oration. We so long for the beauty of the spoken word…Though poetry may have left our lives, we somehow or another recognize its place in the order of things. Words, well-placed, are that which inspire. They not only provide hope, but, more importantly, offer evidence that mankind is not banal, not petty, not vindictive, not lost . . . Words allow us the luxury of soaring, as we all feel we were once intended to soar. The problem, of course, is that words are only words.

Words are both consistently and persistently, just words. Albeit trite, I feel compelled to remind, that actions speak so much louder than words. The current Administration’s words have been lofty . . . and they have indeed inspired. However, the “pudding’ derived therefrom lacks proof.. So far, all that we’ve actually witnessed is an epidemic of insane government deficit spending, an absolute reticence to assert American influence, and, finally, an embarrassing proclivity to apologize to the world for who we are and that for which we stand.

Where is the proclamation of solidarity with the Iranian Freedom Fighters? Where is the condemnation of the same sort of theocratic fanaticism that brought down the Twin Towers and created 3,000 grieving families? Barack – - – We don’t hear you!

“Death to America”??? You bunch of power-hungry bastards! Death to YOU!!! Your own people condemn you! Your days are surely numbered!

Remember Neda Soltani! The purest of souls and one for whom we shall forever mourn . . .

Check out FoxNews Report and video here:

Neda Soltan, Young Woman Hailed as Martyr in Iran, Becomes Face of Protests

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