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March 02, 2009
Iran Clenches Its Fist
A group of useful Hollywood idiots are in the Islamic Republic of Iran to engage in, er, a creative exchange—whatever that means—with the terrorist state, a Holocaust denying regime, a regime that routinely executes homosexuals, a regime that calls for genocide against the Jewish state.
Okay, let's be honest, these people are self-important dupes and the Iranians are running rings around them.
But this dopey Hollywood delegation indicates everything that's wrong and, quite frankly, stupid about the Obama doctrine: engagement with a totalitarian regime whose goal is regional hegemony through terror, the oft stated threat to eliminate Israel from the face of the earth, and finally, to spread Sharia through a barbaric Caliphite.
John Bolton explains why talking with Iran is not just a waste of time, but dangerous.
As Iran prepares to fire up its Bushehr nuclear reactor — and as the International Atomic Energy Agency governing board meets this week, again confronted with further progress by Tehran's nuclear program — it is worth asking how the Obama administration is responding.
Snip.
First, diplomacy has not and will not reduce Iran's nuclear program. Ironically, European leaders are belatedly feeling hollow in the pits of their diplomatic stomachs, now that their failed diplomacy has left us with almost no alternatives to a nuclear Iran. Imagine their dismay that President Obama is now "opening" to Iran, thus eviscerating their tentative efforts to "close" the diplomatic cover under which Iran has almost achieved the worst-case outcome, deliverable nuclear weapons.
The West's collective failure to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions has persuaded Iran that it faces minimal risks in greater adventurism on other fronts as well. Mr. Obama's discovery of "carrots and sticks," after a half decade of European failure to make that mantra a successful policy, will lead Tehran's mullahs to one inescapable conclusion: They have won the nuclear race, absent imminent regime change or military action.
Second, dealing with Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria as though they are unrelated to Iran's broader threat is exactly backwards. Mr. Obama is again following Europe's mistaken view that ending the Arab-Israeli conflict will help to resolve other regional problems. But concentrating on Gaza only increases Hamas's leverage, just as negotiating with Syria only enhances its (and thereby Iran's) bargaining power.
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Posted by Robert J. Avrech at March 2, 2009 09:11 AM
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A liberal friend of mine, reading my blog and my statement that Obama is ruining my country, made the caustic remark on her own blog that he couldn't possibly irreparably damage national security in his 30 days in office.
Oh yes he can. And oh, yes he did.
Some days I can hardly stand to read the news.
Posted by: DrCarol at March 2, 2009 02:08 PM
President Obama is growing every govt. dept except one, Defense, where he will be cutting the budget.
Before the election, Seraphic Secret warned That Obama, the most leftist Senator in the U.S., would undermine our economy and our National Defense. Obama and his leftist enablers are rapidly turning America into a colony of Europe.
America voted for, ahem, change, and now they have it.
The radical Islamic world is licking its chops.
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at March 2, 2009 02:46 PM
The next 2 years will show a critcal "fork in the road" of this country's future. I thik too of all the dupes falling for The One.
Oprah has been fooled by at least 2 of her recommended book authors who lied to her - and now 1 politician.
All we can do is recognize it for what it is and hope the rest of the country catches on in the next year.
Don't know about all of you but I look at my stock portfolio statement - last year I would have been considered "well off" now anticipating my "golden retirement years" with the question "Do you want fries with that?"
I have noticed how Obama uses this country's problems cynically - he is going to help the economy by pushing govt health care.
Posted by: Bill Brandt at March 2, 2009 02:51 PM
Robert
You may be amused by this little anecdote I shared with my readers recently following a truly bizarre incident I experienced while in Iran.
http://gubu-world.blogspot.com/2009/02/god-bless-israel.html
Posted by: Ted at March 2, 2009 05:03 PM
Bill:
Obama is our homegrown Hugo Chavez.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at March 2, 2009 05:54 PM
Ted:
Pretty amazing anecdote. We can only hope that this poor man has not been arrested and tortured to death as a Zionist spy.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at March 2, 2009 05:57 PM
When Iran threatens europe perhaps some action may happen...if they bomb London,out of the million dead, one or two may even be English and then perhaps Iran can be consigned to history pretty much the same way as the Persian empire.
Posted by: thud at March 2, 2009 07:12 PM
Ted you may think I am off my rocker but sometimes when I experience these things I think they could be angels. I have had a few strange experiences in my life that make me think...
Only you could see it? We won't know here.
As Robert said that would normally in Iran be a short-lived exercise.
Posted by: Bill Brandt at March 3, 2009 12:29 AM
Robert,
I couldn't agree with you more in regard to BHO, but I'd really like to see you do a Friday Footwear piece on the Iranian fashion scene -- just look at the diversity and colorful expressions of those Islamic marchers! ;-)
Shalom,
Joe
Posted by: ProphetJoe at March 3, 2009 06:17 AM
Bill Brandt
I don't think you're off your rocker Bill. I was and remain so astounded by what I saw I am willing to entertain any suggestion about who this man was.
Posted by: Ted at March 3, 2009 08:15 AM