Enemies ally at our gates

Enemies ally at our gates

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Posted: January 19, 2007
2:04 p.m. Eastern



Last week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad paid a visit to his new best friend, Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela. On Saturday, he congratulated Chavez on his December re-election and said the Venezuelan people were wise to choose "A person as important on the world stage, a person so wise as Hugo Chavez."

On Monday, they issued a joint statement formally pledging billions of euros to finance ? as Chavez put it ? "Death to U.S. Imperialism." At the news conference, Chavez turned to Ahmadinejad, pledging, "This fund, my brother, will become a mechanism for liberation. ... It will permit us to underpin investments ... above all in those countries whose governments are making efforts to liberate themselves from the imperialist yoke."

The visit to Venezuela was Ahmadinejad's second in less than four months. Iran's fanatically religious leader is building anti-U.S. alliances in the region with Chavez's enthusiastic support.

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While in the neighborhood, the Iranian president visited newly elected leftist governments in Nicaragua and Ecuador that are also seeking to reduce Washington's influence in the region.

Nicaragua recently returned Sandinista dictator Daniel Ortega to power. Ousting Ortega from power in the 1980s cost President Ronald Reagan dearly. The Iran-Contra scandal ? by which he was able to purchase arms that were used to defeat Ortega ? tarnished this great president's legacy. After his visit with Ortega, Ahmadinejad attended the inauguration of Ecuador's new leftist president, Rafael Correa.

Bolivian President Evo Morales, another critic of U.S. policy, met with Ahmadinejad on Monday in Ecuador. What does Iran have in common with the South American leftist governments ringing our southern borders? Not much ? apart from hatred of the United States. Ahmadinejad is seeking to build a new oil cartel aimed at bringing down the U.S. economy by undermining the value of the dollar.

This is a strategy that has been in the works for some time by Chavez and the southern enemies at our gates. Chavez has pledged Venezuelan blood in the event of war between the United States and Iran. Operatives loyal to the goal of destroying America are flooding through the holes in the U.S. southern border. They are joined by Iranian and other Middle Eastern agents.

Anyone familiar with Muslim beliefs should be asking this question: "Why is a devout Muslim like Ahmadinejad forming alliances with 'infidels' ? or non-believers in Islam?" An often-quoted principle of Islam is, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" ? especially when necessary for an important objective.

All of these South American "revolutionaries" are either "Catholics of convenience" or "Marxist atheists." So clearly, this is a temporary alliance of convenience.

But the common goal of all is the destruction of the United States of America. I can't help but note the similarity of our present predicament with the last days of the mighty Babylonian Empire.

The enemies were at the gates, but Babylon's rulers overconfidently pursued their riotous living. They were oblivious to their carefully planned destruction until their vaunted defenses were penetrated by the Medes and the Persians.

When their brilliant and meticulously planned strategy to divert the Euphrates River ? which flowed under the great bronze gates of the city's impregnable walls ? was finally realized, they overthrew Babylon in one night.

They stormed into the city via the dried-up riverbed and Babylon the Great fell.

Our enemies have made alliances with all who hate us. They are now at our gates.

Their subtle strategy of destroying our economy is almost complete. And the pity is most Americans are oblivious to our imminent peril. But then, as a wise man once wrote, "History teaches us that man learns nothing from history." And history marches on.

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