Posted on 10/25/2007 5:28:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
Axis Of Evil: Nearly three decades after Iran should have been dealt with harshly, the U.S. has toughened sanctions against the Islamist regime. We hope this is a beginning, and not the end, of a more forceful policy.
President Bush has taken a lot of flak for his Axis of Evil comment, but Iran is doing everything to show it deserves to be included in that group. If anything, it has become even more belligerent since Bush came up with the term in 2002.
The government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues to push a nuclear program despite international opposition and several missed U.N. shutdown deadlines. It still wants to push Israel, one of the few elected governments in the Middle East, into the sea; it is responsible for arming terrorists who have killed U.S. and other allied troops in Iraq; and it is developing ballistic missiles.
Iran's post-Shah crime spree also includes arming Hezbollah, a terrorist group in Lebanon that killed 241 U.S. service members in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing.
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