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Rip Van Clinton Posted 03/03/2011 08:18 PM ET War On Terror: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is complaining that Iran is subverting the upheavals in the Middle East. So what else has been new for the last 30 years? And what have we been doing about it? To hear Clinton talk, you would think that the Islamofascists who control Iran were like those gamblers Claude Rains told Humphrey Bogart he was "Shocked! Shocked!" to discover in "Casablanca." She told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday that the Iranians are "doing everything they can to influence the outcomes" in nations now in or near states of instability. This includes using Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group that it funds, to communicate with Palestinians, who then pass the messages on to those of like mind in Egypt. Tehran is also in communication with dissidents in the Persian Gulf island monarchy of Bahrain, Clinton said, as well as being "very much involved" with opponents of the government of the Republic of Yemen. "They have a very active diplomatic foreign policy outreach," according to the secretary of state, in a remark that might or might not have been meant as a witty understatement. Iran's "foreign policy outreach" has since the Khomeini revolution of more than three decades ago ranged from training Pakistan's Taliban to sending hundreds of Revolutionary Guard Corps into neighboring Iraq to kill U.S. troops. Why should it be the help Tehran gives the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt or the Islamist elements in Yemen that make us wake up and take notice? Last week Clinton called on the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to investigate rights abuses in Iran. That will sure send a chill down the spines of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollah Khamenei. According to the former first lady, "every member of this council should ask him or herself a simple question: Why do people have the right to live free from fear in Tripoli, but not Tehran?" But Clinton - and indeed President Obama - could have, and should have, been asking themselves that question two years ago when they started the new jobs the American people bestowed upon them. People have the right to live free everywhere. But the U.S. can't help everyone everywhere gain their freedom - we have to pick and choose. Shouldn't we make it our priority, though, to help the people living under a regime that may soon threaten us with nuclear weapons? That would be the right kind of influence. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
