<![CDATA[It's been almost fifty years of Iranian malevolence, open acts of aggression, financed proxy violence, intentional global economic instability, and the muttered threats of terrorism used as blackmail to manipulate weak and supine world leaders into acquiescence with demands. Some out of fear, some out of raging internal conflicts between woke Western white guilt complexes, feeling duty-bound to respect other cultures, no matter their guts' inclination telling them how sick the culture was. Or arrogant, progressive leaders, willing to bow to that same culture to make amends and prove that we felt they were our moral equals.]]>