By: John Keitel
Barack Obama was interviewed by George Stephanopoulus on This Week on ABC. The background was a hay barn to look like he understands middle America.
One question stood out above the others. George asked if he (Obama) ever thought about joining the armed forces to protect and serve our country. Obama replied, “You know I actually did, uh, you know I had to sign up for selective service when I graduated High School, and I was brought up in Hawaii, and I had, uh, friends whose parents were in the military, there were a lot of army bases, military bases there. uh, And I actually always thought, uh, uh, of the military some enobling uh, and and uh, uh, you know, honorable option, uh, but keep in mind it was 1979, uh, the vietnam war had come to an end, uh, we weren’t engaged uh, in an active, uh, uh, military conflict at that point, uh, so I didn’t think it was option I ever decided to pursue.”
Lets look at what was happening in 1979.
The Iranian Hostage Situation, 1979-1981:
According to Stanford, (Obama surely cannot dispute Stanford) “On November 4, 1979, a mob of around 500 Iranian students calling themselves the ‘Muslim Students Following the Line of the Imam’ seized the main U.S. embassy building taking 52 American citizens captive for 444 days. The students justified taking the hostages as retaliation for the admission of the Shah into the U.S., and demanded the Shah be returned to Iran for a trial. The new Iranian regime believed the Shah was in the U.S. so that the U.S. could carry out another coup d’etat in Iran; the U.S. claimed he had come there only to seek medical attention (the Shah was suffering from cancer, which led to his death in 1980). Iranian students demanded that the U.S. government apologize for its interference in the internal affairs of Iran and for the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. They also demanded that Iran’s assets in the U.S. be released. The money had been frozen by the U.S. government in response to the hostage taking. The U.S. government refused to accept the demands.”
President Cater, Democrat signed a presidential finding authorizing funding for anticommunist guerrillas in Afghanistan. As a part of the CIA program Operation Cyclone, the massive arming of Afghanistan’s mujahideen was started.
And that little thing called the Cold War was still ongoing and was not over until President Ronald Regan tore down the Berlin Wall.
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