Posted on 09/18/2018 6:45:59 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
In March, State Department veteran and former adviser to Barack Obama, Frederic Hof, bid farewell to public life with a stunning admission. Amid a confession regarding his failure to prevent the expansion of the Syrian civil war into a regional crisis, Hof laid the blame for that all-consuming conflict (as well as a notable uptick in Russian aggression) at the feet of Barack Obamas nuclear deal with Iran.
The administration sacrificed Syrian civilians and American credibility for the mistaken notion that Iran required appeasement in Syria as the price for a nuclear agreement, Hof wrote. Today, with 500,000 dead, millions displaced, and the norm prohibiting chemical-weapons use shattered, we can confirm that the price of appeasement is as high as ever.
Indeed, the Iran nuclear deal was supposed to have a variety of positive knock-on effects entirely unrelated to the development of nuclear weapons, but they never materialized. As New York Times reporters David Sanger and David Kirkpatrick observe, Obama regarded Iran as potentially a more natural ally of the United States than Americas Sunni allies in Cairo, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh. Iran is urbane, young, educated, and chafing under its theological government. The opening up of the Iranian economy in a post-deal world, so the thinking went, would facilitateeven necessitatedomestic liberalization. Purely out of self-interest, the Mullahs would soon agree to pare back their support for destabilizing activities in the region and cooperate with the West to defeat the Islamic State.
All these ambitious objectives went unrealized in the years that passed since the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Actions (JCPOA) adoption.
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Maybe someone should ask the pos his opinion about this under oath and without a TelePrompTer.
this story is just made up.
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what Iranians want is ...
for the 12th Imam to come back
food
Maybe someone should investigate how an ineligible British subject/Kenyan/Indonesian with forged documents usurped the office of President.
“Hof laid the blame for that all-consuming conflict (the expansion of the Syrian civil war into a regional crisis) (as well as a notable uptick in Russian aggression) at the feet of Barack Obamas nuclear deal with Iran.”
The biggest refugee crisis since WWII. Major cities (like Mosul) devastated. Nobel Peace Prize check cleared the bank...
How much did the Iranians kickback to 0bama and ValJar?
Considering it is the Sunni, not the Shia, who have flown airplanes into buildings, bombed marathons and subways, shot up nightclubs, concerts and recruiting stations, Obama might be right for a change.
New York Times reporters David Sanger and David Kirkpatrick observe, Obama regarded Iran as potentially a more natural ally of the United States than Americas Sunni allies in Cairo, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh. Iran is urbane, young, educated, and chafing under its theological government. The opening up of the Iranian economy in a post-deal world, so the thinking went, would facilitateeven necessitatedomestic liberalization. Purely out of self-interest, the Mullahs would soon agree to pare back their support for destabilizing activities in the region and cooperate with the West to defeat the Islamic State. All these ambitious objectives went unrealized in the years that passed since the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Actions (JCPOA) adoption.
Yeah, it's almost as if the 'urbane, young, educated' Iranians living under the Islamic occupation regime realized they could expect no help in overthrowing the dictatorship and gave up hope. And that's exactly what Obama, Biden, Kerry, and the rest of the criminal cadre intended to happen. Thanks CondoleezzaProtege.
ValJar and her stooge had no interest in anything other than helping the mullahs achieve their objective of being the regional powerhouse. The so-called nuclear deal was never intended to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. Quite the opposite, it was intended to legitimize the process.
“Iran is urbane, young, educated”
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