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Adm James Lyons Center for Security Policy Defeat Jihad Summit4
Feb 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_S-q8zElN4
Frank Introduces Admiral Lyons.
Lyons: “Thank you Frank, sorry I missed the earlier presentation due to my 3 hour and 20 minute commute this morning. But, you know, as a number of you have heard me say before, we’ve had many opportunities to change the course of history, and it hasn’t mattered whether it’s been a Republican or a Democratic administration. We failed every one of them.
Starting with Carter, with the takeover of our embassy, we could have cut off Khomeini and his Islamic fundamentalism at the knees. We were going to take Carg Island and he rejected it. We could have walked in. The next time was the Marine barracks bombing and you all probably wonder why we never responded. I won’t go into the long details, but the guy that sabotaged the strike, I’m glad you are sitting down, was the Secretary of Defense. Not once, but twice. Reagen approved the..-the French wanted to do a combined strike and Reagen approved it, Weinberger wouldn’t issue the order. I have personally talked to George Schultz and Bud McFarland, they told me they pleaded with him and he wouldn’t do it. You have to wonder who the hell got to him or what got to him. I’ve never been able to get an answer on that.
In the Gulf Tanker War in ’87, we were going to bring down the Khomeini regime. You know the guy that sabotaged… I briefed Weinberger at my HQ at Pearl Harbor that summer. This was going to be in August of ’87 and the one who undercut us the most was our own Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Kraugh at the time.
You know if you go forward and you look at; we shot down, by accident, that Iranian civilian airliner a few months later, and what did Khomeini do? He said I’m drinking from the chalice of poison and he said I have to make a truce with Saddam Hussein because the Americans have shown they are coming in on Iraq’s side. Well, think of what the hell we could have done, had we executed the strike we wanted to do in August of ’87. You know we all say we have to identify the threat, Well, I think the one who identified it the best was Erodegan from Turkey, when he said Islam is Islam. There are no modifiers. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate objective. He couldn’t have said it any plainer and until you recognize that Islam is a political movement masquerading as a religion, you are never going to come to grips with it. And as far as a strategy, let me just conclude one thing. As I just had in my latest op-ed, the Obama administration has a strategy it’s very simple. Any thinking American should be able to grasp it. It’s Anti-American, Anti-western, its pro-Islamic. Its pro-Iranian, and its pro-Muslim Brotherhood. And with that, I’ll yield to Mike.