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The Audacity of Weakness
National Review ^ | 3/5/2015 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 03/05/2015 4:51:28 AM PST by Servant of the Cross

Obama’s morally confused foreign policy is making the world more dangerous by the day.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Congress on Tuesday to warn Americans of the anti-Western threats from theocratic — and likely to soon be nuclear — Iran.

Netanyahu came to the U.S. to outline the Iranian plan to remake the Middle East with a new nuclear arsenal. His warning was delivered over the objections of the Obama administration, which wants to cut a deal with Iran that allows the theocracy to continue to enrich lots of uranium.

Netanyahu received a standing ovation for stating the obvious. Iran is currently the greatest global sponsor of terrorism. Tehran now has de facto control over four Middle East nations: Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. Iran has serially ignored all past U.S. deadlines to stop nuclear enrichment. It habitually misled U.N. inspectors. It threatens to spark a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

At one point the Iranian economy was sputtering due to Western sanctions. Hundreds of thousands of reformers hit the streets of Tehran in 2009 to protest what they believed to be the fraudulent results of a presidential election. The theocracy was worried that its nuclear plans would either cause economic collapse due to the sanctions or prompt some sort of Western military response.

But all of that has changed due to the Obama administration’s zeal to conclude an agreement with Iran at any cost.

For the last six years, lots of American allies besides Israel have become scared of this strange new diffidence of the United States — as if the Obama administration feels that America’s prior prominence as leader and protector of the West was either unwarranted, too costly, or resulted in an unfair world order in need of adjustment.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: audacity; benjaminnetanyahu; bibi; iran; irantalks; israel; jewishvoters; netanyahuspeech; nucleariran; vdh; waronterror; weakness

1 posted on 03/05/2015 4:51:28 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
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2 posted on 03/05/2015 4:54:00 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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Perhaps he’s not weak at all...just pro-muslim and anti-American.


3 posted on 03/05/2015 4:54:18 AM PST by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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Obama’s morally confused foreign policy is making the world more dangerous by the day.

It's not confused at all. It's doing exactly what Obama wants it to do, strengthening Islam for worldwide domination.

4 posted on 03/05/2015 4:54:48 AM PST by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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Obama’s foreign policy makes Carter’s look robust and responsible. He’s the best thing that could have happened for the mad mullahs in Iran and their abettor on nuclear pursuit, President For Life Putin.


5 posted on 03/05/2015 5:04:29 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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6 posted on 03/05/2015 5:20:55 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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7 posted on 03/05/2015 4:14:45 PM PST by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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