Why the Left Wants Iran to Get the Bomb

FrontPage Magazine ^ | April 10, 2015 | Daniel Greenfield

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Why the Left Wants Iran to Get the Bomb

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On April 10, 2015 @ 12:55 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | No Comments

Before Global Warming posters hung on the dingy walls of American classrooms, the atomic bomb was the original Great Bogeyman of the left. Nothing quite so demonstrated the madness of our war machine as our willingness to deploy weapons of mass destruction to stop Communism in its tracks.

The self-righteous antics over nuclear weapons in literature, art, film, at protests and in papers are far too numerous to document. But you can still spot the occasional clunker with “One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day” or “You can’t hug a child with nuclear arms” peeling off one lopsided bumper.

Just don’t expect its owner to oppose Iran’s nuclear program over its day-ruining hug-denying nature.

What made nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants bad was not that they killed children, mutated fish or doomed mankind. There was nothing wrong with Plutonium or Uranium. In Iranian or Soviet hands they are perfectly good substances. It’s when Uncle Sam gets his hands on them that they go bad.

Soviet nuclear weapons were never the problem. Now anti-nuclear activists are defending Iran’s nuclear program because they were never really opposed to nuclear weapons; they were opposed to America.

The anti-nuclear crowd isn’t against nuclear power plants or even nuclear missiles; otherwise it would be on the front lines campaigning against Obama’s nuclear sellout to Iran, instead of supporting it.

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which claims to be against everything from nuclear power to depleted uranium, cheered the Iran deal. Ploughshares campaigns against WMDs while linking up with ^[1] Iran’s lobby. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is on the same page. The organization’s motto, “70 Years Speaking Knowledge to Power”, communicates that it isn’t against nukes. It is against “Power”.

The United States is defined as possessing that intangible quality of “Power”. Not Iran, which is a victim of American “Power”.  In his New York Times interview with Thomas Friedman, Obama said that he had told his team to be sensitive to the “defensive Iran that feels vulnerable”. That’s the Iranian inner child that, according to Obama, was scarred by the United States in the past. Nukes are just its radioactive security blanket against American imperialism. Our power is the problem. Not their nukes.

There is a long history of such reasoning dating back to spy-scientists like Ted Hall and Alan Nunn May passing along nuclear secrets to the USSR to prevent a US nuclear monopoly. And the May case was very nearly covered up because it would have interfered with a plan to demilitarize the bomb and bring the USSR into the club. As would so often be the case, the distinction between traitors and Democrats was that the former acted unilaterally while the latter put the stamp of considered policy on their treason.

Having created an atomic crisis by helping the USSR get the bomb, the left would then spend the bulk of the Cold War denouncing the “madmen” in the Pentagon for a mass destructive stalemate that the left had sought. It was not the Pentagon which wanted to see the world balanced on the brink of destruction. It was the left which had broken the “American monopoly” that had wanted it to happen.

And once it did, the left turned a crisis that it caused into its own pet cause by promoting unilateral disarmament. Having destroyed the American monopoly, it sought to leave America utterly helpless.

There has never been a credible plan for a world without nuclear weapons. The only plan that has ever existed is a plan for a world without American nuclear weapons. Nuclear proliferation was one of the means of realizing that goal. A nuclear crisis brings disarmament talk to the forefront.

The best possible way to promote the agenda of American disarmament is by helping Iran get the bomb.

After his original inauguration, Obama talked of a “world without nuclear weapons”. But what he really meant was a world without American weapons.

“As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act,” Obama said in that same speech. “We cannot succeed in this endeavor alone, but we can lead it, we can start it.”

The only American Exceptionalism that Obama has ever believed in is an exceptional American guilt. As the first country to have used a nuclear weapon, against an empire that was engaged in genocide and cannibalism, America has to give up its weapons first. American nuclear weapons are tainted in ways that no other weapons are. Our nukes are bad nukes. Everyone else’s nukes are good nukes.

The credibility of the other side doesn’t matter. As a dog returns to its vomit, Obama and the left eagerly tried to wrap up disarmament in a deal with Moscow despite a long history of nuclear treaty fraud. When Putin decided to take advantage of Obama’s flexibility by invading Ukraine, there was always Iran. And there has even been talk of renewing negotiations with North Korea. And why shouldn’t there be?

The Iran deal is just a replay of the terrible ideas that the Clintons used to let Kim Jong-Il go nuclear.

Disarmament is never the objective. Instead the negotiations invariably allow the other side to increase its arsenal and capabilities. That is what they are designed to do.

The left does not believe that nuclear weapons are evil. It did not believe that Soviet nuclear weapons were evil. It does not believe that Iran’s nuclear program is evil. It believes that American power is evil.

Iranian nuclear weapons are good because they weaken America. Like Soviet nuclear weapons, they undermine American power. They force the United States to “negotiate” and submit to international law. The more nuclear weapons spread, the more the “hawks” will have to realize that they have no option but to disarm the United States and put their faith in some international order to achieve peace.

That has always been the endgame.

The Council on Foreign Relations’ Foreign Affairs magazine had already run a piece promising that an Iranian nuclear bomb would bring stability to the region. As usual the word does not mean what you think it might. Stability is yet another euphemism for weakening the American coalition to create a new balance of power through Iranian power.

The same arguments now being deployed in favor of the Iran deal will later be redeployed to argue that Iran’s nuclear weapons will actually create stability. And as a bonus, Iran will be able to drive up the price of oil which means more Green Energy subsidies. For the left, that’s a win-win scenario.

The spy-scientists claimed to be concerned with the “safety of mankind” rather than such petty trifles as the security and freedom of the United States and its allies. Today men and women who think like them run the United States. And they are not concerned with the United States, but with “mankind”.

Obama intends to cut a nuclear deal with Iran on any terms and even on no terms at all. He intends to do it for the same old reasons. It’s not just about Israel, though as with regime change in Egypt, undermining the Jewish State is a nice bonus because it further weakens America.

A stronger Iran means a weaker America. And the left believes that a weaker America means a better world.

[Old Sarge]

Ah, Belly Gril, the legend.

Someone do a “Where Are They Now?” deal...

[Lazamataz]

See, this is why OTrauma can never be permitted to be UN SecGen (which is his plan).

The left always despises and tries to destroy their own home.

Imagine if ‘their own home’ is the entire world?

[afsnco]

I have to agree that the USA is rapidly becoming the focus of evil in the world. The left is angry that the USA ain’t more evil than it already is.

[MrB]

I’m having a really hard time wrapping my head around

weaker America = greater good.

I just can’t get my brain to twist in that way.

[Lazamataz]

Lets be honest: The left hated our nuclear weapons because they were used to keep Communism and Fascism at bay.

And they rooted for Communism and Fascism.

[jsanders2001]

> Why is he our president again?

Groomed to be a Manchurian Candidate from birth by Communists. Big money, guidance, and training put him where he is today.prediction: He will retire extremely wealthy, move to another country after leaving office and divorce Michelle and live as a homosexual. Of course she will file the divorce papers blaming it on alienation of affections stating he is in love with Ping and the greens more than her. To avert suspicion as to the real reasons, of course.

[MrB]

Is that one of those “gay test” pictures?
If you notice the sign, you’re suspect.

[MrB]

And they rooted for communism and fascism...because?

Because those were “State as God” atheist societies.

[Lazamataz]

I have to agree that the USA is rapidly becoming the focus of evil in the world.

We stood for equality, free markets, free individuals, and Christian optimism in the Reagan era.

We stand for superior rights for certain classes, communism, the police state, and Islamic servitude in the Obama era.

Small wonder the world hates us now, and we now actually earned the title "Great Satan".

[meatloaf]

It will probably be NYC.

It will be delivered by ship (no container involved) unknown to the crew with one or two exceptions. The recent downing of the airliner amply demonstrates the potential of a trusted individual who turns out otherwise.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

This article does a great job of explaining what is happening with the Iranian negotiations as well as explaining the history of the left’s attempts at “disarmament” over the last 70 years. The difference with this administration is how overt they have been. Can’t everyone, even liberals, see that Obama and his ilk are working to undermine America?

[Starboard]

They pathologically hate America because they believe its evil.

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Agree. The Left is like immature children who resent America’s success in the world and its culture that has allowed so many to achieve success through hard work, discipline, respect for freedom, and a strong belief in religion and personal values. The Left hates this system and it despises the success of others. It all comes down to jealousy.

This explains why they want to control the government. It is their tool to destroy the achievers, the concept of American Exceptionalism, and this country’s heretofore culture of success that it sees as unfair and evil. Like immature, jealous children the Left hates winners.

[dennisw]

Satan and the bush league anti-Christs love nuclear proliferation especially to madmen Muslims like Iran.

0Zero= mini me anti-Christ. The devil sits on his shoulder whispering into his ear

[Starboard]

Can’t everyone, even liberals, see that Obama and his ilk are working to undermine America?

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That does not bother the Left at all. In fact, they agree with him. Anything that diminishes this country and reduces its influence in the world is OK with them.

The typical liberal bears a deep seated resentment of this country, its culture, and its values.

[afsnco]

Exactly. And notice that for most of our history, our laws were conformed to God’s commands. What He punished, we punished. That wasn’t some sort of coincidence, but done intentionally in the hope of earning God’s blessings. And blessed we were, when we were striving for obedience, going from a tiny nation to a rich and prosperous superpower.

But in the past few decades, the USA has been striving for disobedience to the greatest extent possible. As a result, we’ve gone from being rich and prosperous to $18+ trillion in debt. And almost all of that debt was acquired during the time we’ve been disobediently flouting God’s commands. So this wrath that’s falling on us is no coincidence either.

The world didn’t used to hate us, not while we were being obedient. But it sure does now, and deservedly so. We’re a cultural hegemony, and we export our depravity, refusing to give foreign aid to countries that don’t bow to the homosexual “god” the Obamanation worships. We richly deserve oblivion.

[Old Sarge]

The (Leftist) mind is a terrible thing...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Totally agree. NYC #1 followed by Boston, LA, SF, Seattle. It’s impossible to not see this coming and NOBODY is laying it out clearly in public. I’m surprised the NORKs or PAKs haven’t sold a weapon yet — maybe they are still too unreliable or too large.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Excellent article, outlines many of the features of leftist guilt and just plain old self-hate. I ask, “If they want to commit suicide, why don’t they just go do it, and not try to take the rest of us with them?”

[Rich21IE]

Cool beans.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Iran needs a bomb for 2 reasons.

1) It sets them up as the defacto leaders in the Muslim world since the Saudis are powerless to stop Iran.
2) It neutralizes Israel’s ability for preemption which also enables a ground war with Israel.

What Iran is hoping for and is probably Israel’s greatest fear is that Iran gets to take one of those puppies off the leash and then the US and UN step in and tell Israel not to retaliate.

The people who really should be scared are the Palestinians who will be annhilated is a nuke explodes in Israel.