Hostile Intentions Quotes
A false flag operation is one where a country’s covert operatives attack some asset of the nation and blame it on a foreign enemy—often to consolidate political power or gain public support for a war. For example, the Nazi’s secretly burned down the German parliament and blamed it on the Russian communists.
Explaining U. S. refusal to have diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia:
One difficulty of diplomacy with many Islamic leaders is that the culture produces very aggressive rhetoric and very aggressive actions like Islamic terrorism. This quotation is often cited to demonstrate that it is the Iranians that had decided that America is it’s enemy; that America is to be humbled; and that their weapons development are targeted at America. This along with the most frequent Iranian slogan, “Death to America,” for many argues for preemptive military action or maintenance of a high state of readiness. Given statements like this from the leading soldier of the theocracy, there is little doubt that Iranian nuclear weapons would be a great danger to America. Therefore when Iran complains that America did not object to the fact that other nations have the nuclear bomb, they do not take their own rhetoric into account. No other nation with possible nuclear capability has made America its major military adversity and claims as an objective to humble the United States.
Jefferson was also the first President who had to contend with a plot to seize part of the country and ally with a foreign power. Yet when he tried to arrest some of the plotters, he found that the laws were unclear in that they had not yet implemented their plan. The President asked for legislation so he could cope with a plot against the United States as readily as a private plot against a foreign nation. Conspiracy to commit treason was not then a crime.
