American Flag Blog

American anti-war protesters are comparing our current situation in
Iraq to our involvement in Viet Nam more than three decades ago. A lot
of of these protesters also identify themselves as former Viet Nam War
protesters who have easily slid back into the role this time around.
All comparisons of Viet Nam with Iraq aside, there is a crucial
difference between then and now.

When Jane Fonda sat atop a North Vietnamese tank in Hanoi, there was
no chance that the North Vietnamese, or even the Chinese for that
matter, could launch an attack on U.S. soil. In the meantime, the world
has gotten a whole lot smaller. In Iran, Sean Penn tries his hand as a
foreign correspondent.  He sat in a restaurant listening to Mehdi
Rafsanjani, son of the former Iranian President lie to him while
Iranians burned American flags in the streets. For example, Rafsanjani
told him, “There are four or five dissidents only who are currently in
prison.”

That is not surprising since they don’t waste jail space on lawbreakers. Here’s an excerpt from iranchamber.com:

Under
Islamic law –that is, the Shari’a– Iran’s punishment for prostitution
has been severe. On 3 July 1980, two women accused of prostitution were
buried up to their necks and then stoned to death. In a similar case in
1997, three women were stoned to death in public after a court found
them guilty of adultery and prostitution under Iran’s Islamic law.

In
response to questions about Iran and nuclear weapons, Rafsanjani dodged
the issue with a question, “Why does the U.S. administration continue
to pressure and pry into our business?"

So what it boils down to is that ambitious dictators and
totalitarian regimes have the resources and capabilities to wage war
around the world like never before. By all accounts, Iran and North
Korea will soon have the capability to launch missles with nuclear
warheads. China already has that capability and having just
participated in joint military exercises with Russia, it would be
reasonable to imagine that they might be able to expect some help from
Russia in that respect.

And 9/11 proved that our enemies don’t require sophisticated weapons
to inflict significant losses here on American soil. Americans who burn
American flags with the thought that they’re contributing something
useful to the mix should think again. If your mantra is "Stop the war,"
whether you want it or not, the war will eventually come to you.

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