This is one crisis we cannot afford to waste.  If the United States does not stand firmly resolute with the Iranian people, as we did with the Lebanese in 2005 and with the Iraqi’s during past years, then who will?  If we become too concerned in walking on a diplomatic tight rope with an enemy, then what leadership do we provide?  Moments ripe for revolution come to so few throughout the corse of human history.  Iran has been blessed with such a moment and we must bear with it’s people.  Let us speak and so do as men and women that are to be judged by the liberty we have inherited.

During his campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama stated that Iran does not pose a serious threat to the United States the way the Soviet Union did because it’s tiny in comparison. He also said that we should use our position of strength to listen to Iran and find potential common interests.

This approach is frighteningly naive because it assumes a fanatical religious theocracy that hasn’t quite left the seventh century, holds dear the values of a modern Western democracy, i.e. life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Farewell Israel breaks away from the Western world view to explain the history, ideology, and culture of the Islamic world that has brought us to the conflict we experience today. Once that is understood, it becomes much easier to see why a listen, find common interests, “why can’t we just all get along”, approach will not work. There is simply nothing they (Islamofascists, Muslim terrorists, Iranian Mullahs, Palestinians, etc.) want that the U.S. Israel, or the rest of the Western world can afford to give.

Farewell Israel does a splendid job explaining the above, however at the very end it draws some conclusions that seem a bit lacking. The final conclusion of Farewell Israel is that President Bush played right into the hands of Al-Qaeda, who wanted to ignite a global conflict with the West, by invading Afghanistan and Iraq.

(Before you anti-Bush Obama supporters out there get too excited… Obama would not fare much better because he would invade Afghanistan to chase Bin-Laden remember?)

I would not necessarily dispute that Al-Qaeda wanted the U.S. to provoke the Islamic world, however the documentary does not discuss why a non-reaction, proving once more that the U.S. is a paper tiger, as Bin-Laden once claimed, would be any better.

If you watch the documentary, please come back and express your thoughts in the comments section.

For more on Obama’s view of Iran, please read Obama Thinks Iran is Not a Serious Threat on SocialismDoesntWork.com.