{"id":5560,"date":"2010-06-03T19:04:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T23:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5560"},"modified":"2010-06-03T19:04:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T23:04:18","slug":"jim-woolsey-warns-of-an-iranian-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5560\/jim-woolsey-warns-of-an-iranian-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Woolsey Warns of an Iranian Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the attention focused on the aftermath of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearworld.com\/topic\/around_the_world\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Turkish flotilla incident<\/a>, former CIA Director Jim Woolsey <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/435256\/parallels-between-present-day-iran-and-nazi-germany\/r-james-woolsey?page=1 \" target=\"_blank\">enlarges the picture<\/a> to encompass Israel\u2019s most lethal foe: Iran.\u00a0 He pens a sobering essay outlining the similarities between the rise of the Nazis in Germany to the increasing power of Iran\u2019s mullahs.\u00a0 Both faced restrained opposition from the West due to domestic economic concerns, and elite opinion that a civilized culture cannot produce a totalitarian, neighbor-terrorizing regime.\u00a0 They\u2019re too smart for that.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe not.\u00a0 Or rather, perhaps elite opinion shouldn\u2019t run the risk of assuming that all governments represent the will of the people they govern.<\/p>\n<p>So, what\u2019s America to do?\u00a0 According to Woolsey, there isn\u2019t much time left.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But now, as was the case in the mid-1930s, we may have very little time left. There still may be a chance for the U.S. and at least a few of its allies to do something effective: to impose on Iran crippling economic sanctions orders of magnitude more severe than the modest ones used to date, to provide substantial and effective aid to the Iranian reformers, or otherwise to help bring about a tectonic shift in the nature of the Iranian regime. We may still have an opportunity to keep \u201cengagement\u201d from becoming the \u201cappeasement\u201d of our time, a synonym for \u201cweakness leading to war.\u201d The key determinant is whether our leaders decide to use Chamberlain or Churchill as their model of statesmanship.<\/p>\n<p>Much will hinge on their choice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully, President Obama won\u2019t need a Bay of Pigs disaster to serve as a rehearsal for his own Cuban Missile Crisis.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <em>National Review<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the attention focused on the aftermath of the Turkish flotilla incident, former CIA Director Jim Woolsey enlarges the picture to encompass Israel\u2019s most lethal foe: Iran.\u00a0 He pens a sobering essay outlining the similarities between the rise of the Nazis in Germany to the increasing power of Iran\u2019s mullahs.\u00a0 Both faced restrained opposition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,139,130,386,1348,1281],"class_list":["post-5560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-cia","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-james-woolsey","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5560"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5565,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5560\/revisions\/5565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}