The Iranian President is Visiting Latin America
January 6, 2012
Our country needs to start taking interest in the countries nearby us. I am not talking Monroe Doctrine, but we need to express our interests. Just merely ignoring the threat that Iran poses by meeting Chavez and Ortega will do nothing but give him more power and make us look more weak. There will be someone at the inauguration for Ortega from the US embassy. Although that person is not the ambassador, no one should be there standing only feet away from the Iranian President. We should pull out of Nicaragua all together. They are clearly not our friend if they invited that despot from Iran.
I am still trying to make up my mind if we should go to war with Iran. I don’t think it has come to that yet. But they have tried everything to provoke us. They are like little kids poking at your side. At what point to you slap that kid in the hand and tell him to quit? If the kid has a fit, you send him to his room. But taking away his things sometimes doesn’t change him. It only makes him show more persistence to get his way. This is what Iran is doing. We already know that they don’t have support in the international community. We already know that they have very little defense if we should decide to invade. We don’t want to look like bullies. But we don’t want them to get a chance to do something to their neighbors. If they want nuclear power, thats great. I have no problem with it. But the fact that their facilities are hidden and they don’t cooperate gives too much suspicion.
I really hope that our government can find a way to resolve this problem. I fear that Iran is doing nothing but making it worse for their people. They know they can’t finish a war if they start one. So what do we do? Ignore them? Keep sanctioning them?
