OBAMA -- SPECTACULARLY PLAYED BY THE IRANIANS OR DECEPTION BY DESIGN …
I have always believed that President Obama and his cadre of progressive socialist democrats view America as part of an evil threat to the rest of the “peace-loving” world, fomenting colonialism to support land and natural resource grabs by evil corporations. And if an anti-America sentiment was not disturbing enough, I have always believed that President Obama and his long-time spiritual mentor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, are anti-Israel, anti-Jew, and pro-Islam. Even though Islam is a virulent and malignant cancer that suppresses human rights, freedoms, and is basically intolerant of any religious viewpoint or practice that does not see the state being controlled by a theocracy. With this worldview, myself and others, do not believe that President Obama wants to impose sanctions on Iran, believing that a nuclear Iran would serve to curtail Israeli hegemony in the region.
You must be blind, stupid, and totally ignorant of history, not to believe Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he said, “If the Arabs put down their weapons, there will be peace; if Israel puts down her weapons, there will be no more Israel.” What other country continues to be assaulted daily by rockets while the terrorists demand respect and Israeli territory for a peace that cannot be assured by Islamicists who continue to fight their own religious wars with each other? What other country in the Middle East respects human rights – even to the extent of modifying their rules of engagement to protect citizens – I will not use the term innocent citizens, because they are taught from an early age that Israel is the enemy, Jews are less than human, and the highest honor in their religion is to kill Jews? That is, when they are not killing other Muslims who they regard as worse than infidels, apostates that must die because they recognize a different sect of Islam.
So I must ask myself if President Obama’s alleged deal with Iran is nothing more than a premeditated attempt to allow Iran to become a nuclear power – if it is not already one now.
I say this because I believe that the North Koreans have sold Iran the nuclear technology needed to build a functioning weapon and the last North Korean nuclear test was a “proof of concept” using an Iranian weapons design. Oh, did I mention that there is nothing in the agreement that prevents Iran’s continued development of long-range ballistic missiles – again, in conjunction with North Korea. And, one cannot help but wonder about the contributions of both Pakistan and Russia to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. This is deception by design.
Here is a must-read piece from Alan Caruba, a well-respected journalist, author, and blogger that sets a perspective on this very issue …
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 -- The Prospect of World War Three
By Alan Caruba
Let me begin by saying that the deal the U.S. struck with Iran on November 24 is so criminally stupid that mobs with torches and pitchforks should be surrounding the White House and Department of State demanding that the President and Secretary of State resign.
How many times does the United States have to make really bad deals with really bad nations? And then call it progress!
In 1994, former President Clinton announced that a deal with North Korea had agreed to “freeze the major elements of its nuclear program.” A new round of talks was scheduled—in Geneva—to dot the i’s and cross the t’s. Virtually the same language was used by President Obama in his late evening announcement of a fundamentally useless, but extremely dangerous agreement with Iran.
Worse than accepting Iran’s deception, it is as if Obama knew nothing of the North Korean deal that subsequently resulted in its development of a nuclear weapon despite some costly bribery exacted for promises it never intended to keep. The worst part of this is Obama’s deception of Congress and the American people. Efforts to grant Iran the status of a new nuclear power had been secretly going on for a year behind the back of Congress.
On hearing of the deal, Rep. Mike Rogers said “That’s the one thing the whole world was trying to stop them from doing,” referring to the permission granted to continue enriching uranium. “We made this mistake in Pakistan. We made this mistake in North Korea. History is a great judge here and great teacher. Why would you make the same mistake to a nation that will proliferate a nuclear arms race in the Middle East if they are successful at getting a nuclear weapon?”
It is important to keep in mind that not just the U.S. is a signatory to this agreement, but also the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia and China. It was facilitated by the European Union. The lessons of history were totally ignored. The sanctions imposed by the United Nations on Iran were ignored.
For years many have taken comfort in the knowledge that, in the past, Israel destroyed the nuclear reactors that were being built in Iraq and more recently in Syria. An attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities was assumed to have the support of U.S. military power in the event that Iran would retaliate either directly or through its terrorist proxies, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
It is clear now that Obama has abandoned Israel as well as Saudi Arabia which also regards Iran as its enemy. Obama has embraced America’s enemy since the Islamic revolution in 1979. He has not brought us closer to peace. He has brought the world closer to World War Three.
I am not a military strategist, but one need not be to understand Israel’s peril or the limits on its ability to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, many of which are underground or heavily defended.
Here are some comparisons:
Iran has a population of 78,868,711. Israel has a population of 7,765,700.
Of these, those fit for military service are 39,556,497 in Iran and 2,511,190 in Israel.
Comparing active military personnel, Iran has 545,000 and Israel has 187,000.
Iran has 650,000 in military reserves. Israel has 565,000.
Iran’s annual defense budget (in USD) is $10,687,000,000 and Israel’s is $15,209,000,000.
The comparison of their military capabilities is equally daunting. A sobering analysis is offered on the website of the Jewish Virtual Library.
Even if Israel were to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, it would also have to fend off massive rocket attacks from Hezbollah and Hamas.
What defies Obama’s reasoning is Iran’s long history of attacks on the West. It has specialized in taking hostages, initially in Lebanon from 1984 through 1992. It seized the American embassy in 1979 and held American diplomats for 444 days. It holds an American cleric as this is being written.
In 2011, the U.S. discovered that Iran had conceived and funded a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S. in Washington, D.C. At the time, the State Department said that the thwarted plot “underscored anew Iran’s interest in using international terrorism—including the United States—to further its foreign policy goals.”
Obama’s ability to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions and its intent to become a Middle East hegemon through diplomacy does not exist.
A race to acquire nuclear arms has begun in the region where Israel and Pakistan already have them, as does India and China. Saudi Arabia has announced its intent to secure nuclear weapons.
One can only conclude that this interim agreement is a repeat of the appeasement that occurred in Munich when European nations sought a similar agreement with the Nazi regime. The lessons of history are unforgiving.
© Alan Caruba, 2013 Warning Signs
Bottom line …
President Obama and his Administration has a pattern and practice of aiding our enemies and disadvantaging our friends and allies. One might suppose that Obama’s lack of foreign policy and the failures of the Obama Administration may be considered to be incompetence and ineptitude. But, then again, perhaps not. Here is a President who lies openly and repeatedly to the American people, with little or no fear of the consequences. Who will oppose him? The progressive socialist democrats in the Senate will insure that he will never be found guilty after an impeachment in the House of Representatives. His buddy, Attorney General Eric Holder, will manage any investigation and prevent prosecution for any crimes, be they high crimes and misdemeanors, or ordinary crimes relating to cronyism and corruption. And, the progressive mainstream media will cover it all up, place a positive spin on damning events, or simply bury the news on the back pages.
It is a sad thing, not to trust your President’s patriotism and your government’s intentions. But, it is a necessity given Obamacare, Benghazi, the IRS scandal interfering with a presidential election, and the NSA spying. Time to throw the progressive socialists out of office and return Constitutional checks and balances to our government. Eliminate the imperial presidency and plan now to elect conservatives and others in the 2014 congressional election cycle. Before we find that we must fight a nuclear war in the Middle East.
-- steve
Again, thanks to Alan Caruba for permission to reprint his wonderfully articulate posts.
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