We burn while Iran fiddles: http://www.meforum.org/article/1873. I have blogged in the past about the growing threat that Iran poses to the United States, and that threat is only getting more serious as the days pass. Iran has forged close ties with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, and as the article to which I have linked points out, it is now making deep inroads into Africa.
One has to wonder; we never let the Soviet Union make these kind of moves without SOME type of response, yet the Bush 43 Administration seems strangely somnambulant about this. For the life of me, I can't figure out why, given Iran's apocalyptic rhetoric about the United States.
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Perhaps part of it has to do with who the U.S. listens to for direction on "Islamic extremism" and fighting the war on terror. It appears to me this administration listens to voices of those most sympathetic to the Islam coming out of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Gulf States, and since the leaders of these states are more threatened by takfiri radicals who want to overthrow them, I suspect part of the U.S. focus on this fringe is due to the influence of these nations and the "experts" in the U.S. who have been educated by the Saudi-funded Islamic studies programs here.
On the other hand, Iranian influence, direct or through proxies such as Hizbullah, in Africa and Latin America only helps those the Arab countries, since though Iran may be a threat to them to be dealt with eventually, they are also a tool to be used to expand the ummah for now.
In sum, the U.S. seems unbalanced in its understanding of the Islamic threat since it sees it through the filter of "Islam experts" who just aren't honest about who the real Islamic threats are and mostly obsess over those threats to the U.S. that conveniently also threaten their patrons.
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