Posted on 02/10/2021 6:16:05 AM PST by Kaslin
Based on words and deeds, the emergent Iran policy of President Joe Biden's administration is either structurally incoherent, another blatant example of mixed messaging by intellectual mediocrities or, worse yet, both.
Whether alone or both, the structurally incoherent condition is dangerous. Whatever the case, the administration must quickly decide if it wants to advance sensible policies that will secure Middle East peace or, in lieu of that obvious wisdom, choose to promote murderous geopolitical fantasy theories hawked by left-wing academia and authoritarian leftist media.
Administration officials have praised the Trump administration's Abraham Accords: the Nobel Peace Prize-worthy agreement normalizing diplomatic relations between Israel and key Arab states. However, foolish faculty club "yes, buts" qualify the Bidenist praise.
Hard fact: Biden administration actions and statements favoring revival of the so-called Iran nuclear deal encourage the Middle East's most malign regime, Iran's ayatollah dictatorship. "Criminal" is a better description than "malign," for transnational crime (narcotics smuggling, human trafficking) dovetails with Iranian terrorist attacks and proxy war operations.
The Iranian dictatorship ritually threatens Death to America and Death to Israel. Its agents conduct or finance violent meddling operations in at least 30 different countries.
Another hard fact: The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the ostentatious cover name former President Obama's administration pasted on its Iran nuclear deal, never halted Iran's nuclear weapons development program. Israeli intelligence has leaked enough info to support this statement. The JCPOA did give the dictatorship billions of dollars, which it used to finance terror attacks and proxy wars.
Diplomatically critical fact: The Trump administration's decision to withdraw from the Obama administration's destructive JCPOA was the predicate action that made the Abraham Accords possible.
On Jan. 5, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Bloomberg News that terminating the JCPOA set the stage for the Abraham Accords, saying: "The policy we took with respect to Iran -- putting pressure on Iran, not taking Iran as our primary security partner in the Middle East, but in fact flipping the script and acknowledging that the Gulf states had the rightful capacity and Israel had the rightful capacity to defend themselves from Iran, and putting real pressure on Iran. Those things all enabled the good work."
In late January, during a United States Institute of Peace-sponsored panel discussion, former Trump national security adviser Robert O'Brien echoed Pompeo. The Trump administration "built political capital with Bahrain, with Morocco with the UAE by letting them know that we would stand with them, by getting out of" the Iran nuclear deal, "which was a serious threat to the region."
Biden administration national security adviser Jake Sullivan participated in the panel. He told the audience the Biden administration intends "to build a global effort, including partners and allies in the region and in Europe and elsewhere, to take on the other significant threats Iran poses." However, Sullivan also said he wants to "get back to diplomacy" and "put Iran's nuclear program in a box."
What an "oh, but."
The Abraham Accords are unfinished business -- a complex work in progress that has achieved much but requires resolve to succeed. Its spine is isolating Iran's dictatorship and spurning security deals, especially nuclear weapons deals, with a corrupt and criminal regime that cannot be trusted.
Oh, but. The Biden administration and its faculty-club leftists can't admit Obama's Iran deal was an amalgam of self-infatuated fantasy and idiocy.
What should the Biden administration do about Iran?
Model the Trump administration's policy.
Oh, but! The Bidenists can't do that because OrangeManBad! Plus, the Abraham Accords exposed Obama's Iran policy as blind and vapid.
The Abraham Accords, however, are too valuable to lose.
In 2017, the Trump administration reimposed economic sanctions with the goals of stopping Iran's nuclear weapons program and penalizing the regime's malign behavior. Trump held the regime responsible for its proxy's violent actions.
Alas, Biden just took Iran's Yemen proxies, the Houthis, off the U.S. terrorist list.
I don’t think they know just yet if they will undermine that work. They are probably figuring out a way to use Hunter as a figurehead to make money off of it, first. If that fails or runs out, they will undo the Abraham Accords as part of their ongoing effort to erase President Trump.
Joe: We gotta make some money from the middle east. Get a war going or something... those contractors are getting on my case. We need our military vehicles being blown up to get the demand up and the generals happy that they are involved and woke.
Press: But American will be dying in those vehicles?
Joe: Yeah alright, so they will be dying... they’re patriots. What do you expect? But we need to be cranking out those vehicles to make money... otherwise, why am I here?
Press: Joe we voted for you and believe your schtick... so, okay, let’s get the war on. But we need good woke Generals.
Joe: Yeah, the generals have to be woke. Get them to bed early and the early bird gets the worm...
Press: No, woke as in WOKE!
Joe: Well why didn’t you say so, man.
That’s probably one of the dumbest questions to come out of this whole debacle.
Of course they will.
The world will soon start to see uprising in any and every country that is signed onto the accords. Pretty soon the world will see Netanyahu involved in some other controversy. One by one these countries, that have stabilized up the administration of President Trump, will soon destabilize, radical and violent uprisings will start, funded from the outside and soon the Muslim Brotherhood will be back on the world stage.
Definitely not a matter of, IF, but merely a matter of, WHEN.
And of course, when all you describe happens, they will blame Trump. Then ABC “News” will publish a poll saying 67% of voters agree it is Trump’s fault.
Austin Bay isn’t paying attention. SloJo already has, from his actions in the UAE, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, and all of North Africa.
No doubt. Just like over 50% of people polled, agree that President Trump should be convicted and impeached. Sure. If they polled people from Austin, Atlanta, SanFran, Philly, Baltimore, NYC(those who are actually left), Dallas, Phoenix, Denver, Seattle, Portland.
I’ve been praying the Biden administration wouldn’t make a mess of the progress made in the ME. But it looks like that is exactly what they plan to do. Also I’ve read about some pro-Palistinian antisemitic people put in the State Department.
This is just Obama version 2, all the same people that cannot see they are wrong about the ME.
You must have been a fly on the wall.
I didn’t know he’s stopping arms sales to Saudi Arabia too.
Thanks!
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News says controversial weapons, which means, jets, arms for the jets support equipment and parts, heliports and support, and satellite intel. The Houtis has full military support including satellite intel from the Iranians. Saudis see the Houtis as an Iranian proxy war against Arabs, and Biden wants to give the Iranians a clear advantage in the name of diplomacy.
Sure, why not?
And our military ship was pulled out of the area.
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