Obama’s Nixon doctrine: anointing Iran (Krauthammer)

WaPo ^ | Krauthammer

[RoosterRedux]

In December, President Obama said that he wished to see Iran ultimately become a “very successful regional power.” His wish — a nightmare for the Western-oriented Arab states — is becoming a reality. Consider:

● Gulf of Aden: Iran sends a flotilla of warships and weapons-carrying freighters to reinforce the rebels in Yemen — a noncontiguous, non-Persian, nonthreatening (to Iran) Arabian state — asserting its new status as regional bully and arbiter. The Obama administration sends an aircraft carrier group, apparently to prevent this gross breach of the U.N. weapons embargo on Yemen. Instead, the administration announces that it has no intention of doing anything. Meanwhile, it exerts pressure on Saudi Arabia to halt its air war over Yemen and agree to negotiate a political settlement involving Iran.

● Russia: After a five-year suspension, Russia announces the sale of advanced surface-to-air missiles to Iran, which will render its nuclear facilities nearly invulnerable to attack. Obama’s reaction? Criticism, threats, sanctions? No. A pat on the back for Vladimir Putin: “I’m, frankly, surprised that [the embargo] held this long.”

●Iran: Last week, Obama preemptively caved on the long-standing U.S. condition that there be no immediate sanctions relief in any Iranian nuclear deal. He casually dismissed this red line, declaring that what is really important is whether sanctions can be reimposed if Iran cheats. And it doesn’t stop there. The Wall Street Journal reports that Obama is offering Tehran a $30 billion to $50 billion signing bonus (drawn from frozen Iranian assets) — around 10 percent of Iranian GDP.

[Gaffer]

Krauthammer confuses Nixon’s expectations of allies tending to their own defense with Obama’s total lack of any doctrine at all except when it comes to Israel.

In the case of Israel, he is not satisfied with throwing them to the wind in a vendetta filled with derision, threats and coercion that leaves them to their own defenses. Instead, he threatens to shoot down their planes if they make a move on Iran.

To compare Obama’s Islamist Foreign Policy with any sort of declare formal doctrine is horse sh!t, frankly. And Krauthammer ought to know better. I guess Kraut feels like he’s writing for the Washington Post the output ought to smell like manure. NOT a conservative by any definition.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

I hope everybody has made thier peace with God and has bent over to kiss thier collective hineys goodbye because this course will lead to World War 3, sooner rather than later.
Freegards
LEX

[Don Corleone]

Obama is a black Benedict Arnold. No doubt about it.

[stars & stripes forever]

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.

But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to the baseness that lies deep in the heart of all men.

He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

[Eric in the Ozarks]

He’s not one of us.

[Georgia Girl 2]

You are right. Obama is the Manchurian Candidate. He has been put in place to destroy the USA. There is a reason Ted Cruz said the next 20 mos will be like Lord of the Flies.