Iranian weapons cache found in Afghanistan

On August 29, Afghan and nato forces discovered an Iranian weapons cache in the Herat province, which included powerful roadside bombs similar to the explosives used to kill U.S. troops in Iraq. “Additional intelligence suggests that Iranians have been providing support directly to the Taliban,” Fox News reported last week.

Other coalition countries allege the Iranian influence is even deeper and that Iranian intelligence is funneling money to Afghan President Hamid Karzai.”There have been a lot of reports of the Iranian government one way or another having an influence on Karzai, including a lot of reports that they have provided him with a lot of money,” said Fred Kagan, a member of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s recent Afghan review and a scholar from the American Enterprise Institute.”They have succeeded at having a government in Kabul that is rather friendly to them. Karzai was one of the first leaders to acknowledge Ahmadinejad’s victory in Iran’s contested presidential elections and to congratulate him for it,” Kagan said.

Despite this discovery, as Michael Ledeen notes here, the Pentagon and the Obama administration are still reluctant to say anything negative about the Islamic regime in Tehran. “This of course has been the real issue all along,” Ledeen writes, “the issue nobody wants to talk about: They’re killing us. They’ve been doing it for more than 30 years. And still we only want to talk.”

Ledeen concludes, “This is the mental gyration that makes us accomplices to evil.”