Posted on 07/15/2015 5:51:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
We awoke Tuesday morning to learn that history had indeed repeated itself. The lessons of Neville Chamberlain’s failed diplomatic effort were not studied nor learned by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry. The claims of “peace in our time” are empty if dependent upon the goodwill of despots, dictators, theocrats, and autocrats – of which the Iranian regime can be classified.
There are those who seek to compare this agreement to President Reagan’s with the Soviet Union. There is a major difference. The Soviet Union was not a theocracy run by clerics who embrace the necessity of an apocalyptic event spurring the return of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi. With the Soviet Union there was always a standing MAD theory – mutually assured destruction. That is not a viable consideration with Iran. Reagan also believed in the mantra “trust but verify.” How can we ever trust the Iranian regime, which has been at war with America since 1979 and has not changed its belligerent behavior since?
President Jimmy Carter gave us the Ayatollahs, President Obama just solidified their power. Amazingly enough, it was during the Carter administration that Americans were taken hostage, and history again repeats itself as four Americans are held today by Iran – Amir Hekmati, Saeed Abedini, Jason Rezaian, and Robert Levinson. President Obama announced the signing of an agreement with a regime that chants “Death to America.” What more disqualifying evidence does one need? Not to mention the plethora of human rights violations of which Iran is guilty.
Economic sanctions are lifted which means the world’s lead sponsor of Islamic terrorism will receive billions of dollars. And, in the case of violations, the restoration of sanctions requires a committee to “snapback” these sanctions – a committee of which Iran is a participant. The agreement only delays uranium enrichment for ten years, and Iran has seen a 20% increase of enriched uranium during these negotiations. For fifteen years, there are to be no new nuclear reactors. Therefore, in the short term, Iran will be able to heighten its support of terrorism. In the long term they will reach a threatening nuclear capability.
The agreement states that Iran must continue to live under the UN weapons embargo for another five years for conventional arms and eight years for missiles. Funny, that embargo has not stopped Iran from supplying the deadly EFP (explosive force penetrators) to Islamic jihadists responsible for the deaths and maiming of thousands of U.S. troops. As well, this embargo does not preclude Iran from supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis with weapons.
What should we have done or should we do? First, realize that Iran is our enemy, one that is holding Americans hostages and demand their release. Second, economic sanctions should be increased. The world failed to isolate and prevent the economic restoration of Germany in the 1930s and witnessed a full bore investment into one of the greatest war machines the world would come to know. We should implement a naval blockade against Iran and shrink the ability of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ naval forces from adversely influencing the sea lanes of commerce in the Persian Gulf. We should be enabling a deterioration of the stranglehold of the crazed clerics that control the Iranian people.
Some will decry fear mongering and castigate anyone opposing this agreement as seeking war. Such were the claims against Sir Winston Churchill, who warned that history has a way of punishing those who pay it no attention.
And history certainly remembers Churchill in a far more esteemed status than Chamberlain.
I’ve got 5 words for ANYONE that believes what Obama says about this deal......”You can keep your doctor”. “You’ll save $2500.00 a year”.
Anyone who believes anything that arrogant pos says is missing some marbles and has a few screws loose. But that shouldn’t surprise anyone as they have brains the size of a Pea
I’d like to know how much Obama was paid to broker this deal. I imagine a LOT. This is probably one of the most treasonous acts a president could have ever done to his own people. Iran is not a civilized country like Spain or Germany. If they get the nukes they will use them. And all this hype about them controlling their stockpiles of uranium and inspecting their facilities? Complete and utter bull$hit. Even the people drafting the agreement know that Iranians won’t abide by it. There must’ve been BIG payoff to several involved in the process to let this agreement go through. If only we could know the bank account balances pre 2008 and now and listen in on the recorded conversations between Soros and O we could see the truth.
We will see a nuke detonated on our soil now. Count on it. It will probably be after 2016 though so its not on 0’s watch. And I imagine that was part of the secret agreement.
Kerry and Obama are congratulating themselves. Yet when you reflect on this deal they accomplished almost nothing. Iran’s nuclear infrastructure has been left intact, functional and unmolested. The Pakistanis assembled nuclear weapons quickly when challenged by India with a much less sophisticated nuclear apparatus. Essentially Obama has conceded nuclear weapons to the lunatic, apocalyptic, medieval mullahs.
Those people that refuse to learn from history will be cursed to repeat it. While these politicians that repeatedly refuse to learn from history, will languish in their safe homes, being paid by the citizens they’ve sold out, it’s the people they have sold out that will suffer the consequences of their folly. WW2 caused the deaths of over 100 million people around the world. All because of the cowardice of those politicians. This next war will be multiplied that by 100%.
President William J. Clinton, October 18, 1994:
“The United States has been concerned about the possibility that North Korea was developing nuclear weapons since the 1980’s. Three administrations have tried to bring this nuclear program under international control. There is nothing more important to our security and to the world’s stability than preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. And the United States has an unshakeable commitment to protect our ally and our fellow democracy South Korea. Thirty-eight thousand American troops stationed on the Peninsula are the guarantors of that commitment.
Today, after 16 months of intense and difficult negotiations with North Korea, we have completed an agreement that will make the United States, the Korean Peninsula, and the world safer. Under the agreement, North Korea has agreed to freeze its existing nuclear program and to accept international inspection of all existing facilities.
This agreement represents the first step on the road to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula. It does not rely on trust.”
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