 Iranian
President Ahmadinejad, that great beacon of hope and
forgiveness has pardoned the British hostages as a gift to
the British people. What a humanitarian; what a prince of
peace. I hope now that these 15 hostages are going to be
released we can finally start addressing the fact that the
entire world will be held hostage if these guys get a
nuclear weapon. We'll all be dreaming for the days when it
was just 15 kids smoking cigarettes and being paraded in
front of the cameras.
The Real Story is that it's time for the United States to
drop the hammer on Iran. That means supporting the
dissidents wherever and whenever we can, but it also means
tightening the screws financially...right now.
Before we all got distracted with this hostage crisis, which
is exactly what Iran hoped for, it was obvious that the U.S.
and U.N. sanctions were starting to have a huge effect. In
fact, the price of oil had dropped so low in recent months
that some people were beginning to wonder if Iran's whole
economy might just collapse.
But Iran sensed that, and they fought back...they took those
hostages; got some great PR; showed off their leader's
compassion to the Arab world, proved Britain was weak, and,
mark my words, they emboldened the doves in Congress by
crediting Nancy Pelosi and her little trip to Syria, all in
one fell swoop. Oh, and as a little side benefit, they
drove the price of oil back up and, at least temporarily,
saved themselves.
Well now it's time to double-down. Sure, I'd love if we
lived in some sort of parallel universe where the U.N.
actually did their job, but we all know we can't wait for
them---the Middle East will be a glass parking lot before
they get serious.
We need to act now by making sure that not one dollar of
American investment--public or private--is getting to Iran.
But unfortunately, that's not yet the case. Some of the
largest investment funds in this country, including massive
pension funds, are still allowed to invest in companies that
do business there.
Fortunately, some states, including Missouri and New Jersey,
are trying to stop the idiocy and in California, Assemblyman
Joel Anderson has authored a bill that would require two
enormous pension funds to divest about $24 billion dollars
in investments they've made in companies with ties to Iran.
If this bill passes, and it's already made it through a
critical first step, it'll send a strong message that we
will not tolerate anyone assisting or profiting off a
country that is actively plotting all of our deaths.
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