Posted on 05/08/2018 10:48:39 PM PDT by Kaslin
Team Obama lives in a world of fiction.
As President Trump announced to the world that he would finally put a stake through the heart of the Iran deal -- the signal foreign policy "achievement" of the Obama administration -- Obama's former staffers lamented, rending their sackcloth and smearing their ashes. "I will never forget the dark cloud that hung over the White House in the years Iran was advancing nuclear program & Obama was briefed on all the risks of using military force," former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power tweeted. "Trump has demolished America's credibility & paved the way for Iran to re-start its nuclear program. Trump has done the unthinkable: isolated the US & rallied the world around Iran."
Then there was amateur-fiction-writer-turned-professional-fiction-writer Ben Rhodes, a former Obama national security aide, who tweeted, "One tragicomic element of Trump's presidency is that the more he tries to tear down Obama's legacy, the bigger he makes Obama look." Meanwhile, former Secretary of State John Kerry, who had been traveling the world in an attempt to conduct his own personal foreign policy on behalf of the mullahs, stated, "Today's announcement weakens our security, breaks America's word, isolates us from our European allies, puts Israel at greater risk, empowers Iran's hardliners, and reduces our global leverage to address Tehran's misbehavior."
Obama himself stated, "Walking away from the JCPOA turns our back on America's closest allies."
In hearing all of these honeyed voices speak, one might think that Iran has been acting responsibly for the last three years, that it hasn't been pursuing a campaign of horrific terrorism in Yemen and Syria, that it hasn't been sponsoring the takeover of Lebanon by the terrorist group Hezbollah, that it hasn't been funding the Palestinian terror group Hamas, that it hasn't been developing long-range ballistic missiles while leading chants saying "Death to America." One might think that Obama left the Middle East a bright a beautiful place, not a hellhole filled with human carnage bought with dollars spent by Iran but funneled through the United States.
None of that is true, of course. Obama left the Middle East a smoking wreckage heap -- a situation so grim that even Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan have been forced to ally with Israel to allay fears of an Iranian regional takeover. Obama and his staff lied repeatedly to the American people about the Iran deal -- and they continue to lie. When Kerry says that the deal will "empower Iran's hardliners," he is repeating an outright fabrication: The hardliners are in charge of the government, and the deal strengthened them. When Power speaks as though Obama alleviated the possibility of Iran's nuclear program, she's lying, too: The deal explicitly paved the way for an Iranian nuclear program free and clear of consequences from the international order. When Obama speaks as though our Middle East allies were pleased by the deal, he's lying: They all opposed it, and they're all celebrating its end.
Barack Obama had a peculiar vision of the Middle East remade: Iran ascendant, the power of Israel checked, the Saudis chastened. He achieved that vision at the cost of tens of thousands of lives across the region. President Trump is undoing that legacy. Good riddance.
Trump has restored America's credibility and paved the way to renegotiate a deal that will make America great again.
Anything else is wishful thinking by former members of the failed Obama administration, who were working to degrade America to a third world country.
If Israel wants to reprise its past “hits” like the 1956 and 1967 wars in the 21st Century with Iran, I see that as their right as a sovereign nation.
But keep the USA out of it.
If President Trump is green lighting Israel’s military actions, OK.
But no more American blood should spill.
Remind me who was Obama again.
In the mid-nineteen nineties Saudi Arabia began a program of locating and hardening intermediate ballistic missile sites; it also began negotiating with Pakistan with regard to the purchase or production of nuclear weapons. Then, Saudi Arabia had two enemies, Israel and Iran, and it did not trust the USA. It soon found that such a policy was counter-productive, and efforts had to be made to mend fences with the USA following 9/11.
The Saudis are unlikely to repeat that expensive fiasco (which was a possibility until Trump came along) because Iran is no longer free to create its own nuclear weapons, something that the Trump declaration has menaced.
With the Trump umbrella, the KSA faces off with but one enemy given its rapprochement with Israel. In effect, Saudi Arabia does not now need to pursue nuclear weapons because it is protected by the nuclear umbrellas provided by the USA and Israel.
What you left was not a "legacy." It is actually a debris trail.
Ciao bella, @sshole.
“President Trump did the sword dance when he was in Saudi Arabia”
The Saudi Sword Dance (Ardah) traditionally means that you you are going to war together. The planning to take down the Iranian regime has been going on since before that sword dance signaled allied commitment.
Getting rid of the JCPOA was necessary, to put the plan into action.
Sell any stock in the Iranian regime - hard times are ahead for the mullahs. No more free ride, no more running their mouths with impunity.
“all of this leads onto Saudi Arabia probably developing (buying outright) a nuke program”
The Saudis funded half of the Pakistani program - they will likely deliver warheads in short order, if required.
Dear arrogant POS is much better.
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