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Obama's Iran Blunder
American Spectator ^ | June 17, 2009 | Peter Ferrara

Posted on 06/17/2009 6:11:18 AM PDT by reaganaut1

On its current course, the Middle East is headed for nuclear war. The only question is whether someone will act to take history off that course. That won't be the left wing extremist/narcissist we now have in the White House, who is lost in his own dream world.

Like Adolf Hitler, the theocrats who run Iran have told us exactly what they plan to do. They plan to build nuclear weapons, and use them to "wipe Israel off the map." They have said this plan is rooted in their fundamental religious beliefs and doctrines regarding the return of their God to Earth. They have said they will not abandon this plan for anything, not trade concessions, financial aid from the West, or security guarantees. Their conduct is consistent with carrying out this plan.

Is it remotely rational to laugh off this threat as mere talk? Can Israeli leaders responsible for the security of their people do that? Is that a reasonable national defense policy for an American President responsible for the defense of the American people, who campaigned on maintaining our security commitment to Israel in return for a strong majority of Jewish votes?

Of course not. But so what? That is the policy of our own intellectual elite, the Democrat party controlled national media, and maybe ultimately of our President as well.

The Tottering Iranian Regime

Last weekend's election fiasco in Iran revealed how weak the mullah fascist dictatorship really is. The record turnout with the incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad universally recognized as highly unpopular, plus widespread rioting since then, shows the people are fed up with theocratic dictatorship, despite the Potemkin, sham vote tally. The regime's fear of the people is further confirmed by the crackdown on private Internet and cell phone communications, and on opposition rallies.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoiran; blunders; ferrara; second100days; tas

1 posted on 06/17/2009 6:11:18 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

Hope you all have a very large book into which we can put the Obamaloon’s list O’stupid things.


2 posted on 06/17/2009 6:15:19 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: reaganaut1

Barack is one big blunder.


3 posted on 06/17/2009 6:16:02 AM PDT by Piquaboy (Military veteran of 22 years in Navy, Air Force, and Army.)
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To: Piquaboy

Did zer0 ever call Nutjob and congratulate him on his big “win”? Seems that Nutjob won his election the same way zer0 won his.


4 posted on 06/17/2009 6:18:04 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (ON 1-19-09 GAS WAS, ON AVERAGE IN MEMPHIS, $1.43 A GALLON.)
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To: reaganaut1
Mousavi actually started Iran's nuclear program when he served as Prime Minister under the mullahs from 1981 to 1989. As President, he would just continue the mullahs' theocracy, and the nuclear threat to Israel. It would have been a good trick by the mullahs to let him win, which would have deceived most of the West as a fundamental turning point for Iran.

The Iranian people rallied to him only because he was the only game in town. The motivating factor at work is really disgust with Ahmadinejad and his trashing of the economy, his repressive theocratic policies, and his overly aggressive foreign policy talk, which has only stirred up worldwide opposition.

Really? Or. Maybe they want a less-dinner jacket wearing face on their theocracy?

This may be true, but it seems more like baseless wishful thinking.

5 posted on 06/17/2009 6:18:56 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: reaganaut1

Arma-dinnerjacket will instantly gain support throughout Iran and the Islamic Middle East by striking Israel hard. It is the card he has wanted to play anyway - he now has a new motivation. Nero fiddles.


6 posted on 06/17/2009 6:19:13 AM PDT by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: reaganaut1

Obama is a walking blunder.


7 posted on 06/17/2009 6:23:40 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Piquaboy

His regime is “Malice in Blunderland”..


8 posted on 06/17/2009 6:24:52 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: reaganaut1

They plan to build nuclear weapons, and use them to “wipe Israel off the map.”

I personally do not believe Obama gives a flip about Israel. he seems to choke on the once sentence rah-rah Israel statemements he makes in speeches about the middle east. His alliance is to the Arab nations.


9 posted on 06/17/2009 6:30:20 AM PDT by AlphaOneAlpha
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To: reaganaut1

Barack Mugabe Chamberlain.


10 posted on 06/17/2009 6:32:49 AM PDT by Inwoodian
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0bama has repeatedly professed a willingness to meet with Iranian oligarchs unconditionally for negotiations.
But to what end, exactly? What concessions does 0bama want out of Tehran?

We know 0bama has recently declared Iran has a right to a nuclear bomb. And we have also seen there is no US position on Israel 0bama is not willing to give up.

So what would 0bama be negotiating for?
Will he get Ahmadinejad to cease telegraphing his intent to destroy Israel in exchange for letting them get the bomb and then declare talks successful?

There has been a lot of discussion about the wisdom of direct talks with Iran and what that can achieve, but very little discussion on what 0bama actually wants to achieve. Perhaps it is time we start asking this basic question.


11 posted on 06/17/2009 6:39:17 AM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: sheik yerbouty

Good One!


12 posted on 06/17/2009 7:20:54 AM PDT by Piquaboy (Military veteran of 22 years in Navy, Air Force, and Army.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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While it's true that Moussavi wouldn't be any better than Ahmadinejad, change in Iran will only come from the street. We should have encouraged public protest, and condemned in strong terms the killing of protesters. Including in the Security Council. If our Ambassador can't do it, appoint a Useless Nations Czar.

The French are hardly known for their idealistic foreign policy and moral fortitude.

These elections are an atrocity. If [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad had made such progress since the last elections, if he won two-thirds of the vote, why such violence?" The statement named the regime as the cause of the outrage in Iran and, without meddling or picking favorites, stood up for Iranian democracy.
Nicolas Sarkozy.

Then again many global roles are reversing in the era of Obama.

The American President didn't have anything to say the first two days after polls closed in Iran on Friday...he said yesterday

I have deep concerns about the election...when I see violence directed at peaceful protestors, when I see peaceful dissent being suppressed, wherever that takes place, it is of concern to me and it's of concern to the American people.

Spoken like a good lawyer. Mr. Obama didn't call the vote fraudulent, though he did allow that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election [how that plays out] is ultimately for the Iranian people to decide....Now it's not productive, given the history of the U.S.-Iranian relations, to be seen as meddling--the U.S. President meddling in Iranian elections.


13 posted on 06/17/2009 7:56:51 AM PDT by SJackson (G-d da*n America, Jeremiah Wright---Don't tell me words don't matter!, Barack Hussein Obama)
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14 posted on 06/17/2009 9:05:59 AM PDT by traumer
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To: Piquaboy
Barack is one big blunder.

NO, more correctly I would say that it is 52% of the American people who ARE!!!

15 posted on 06/17/2009 1:50:52 PM PDT by danamco
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To: traumer

It is silent, because it does not know what to say!!!


16 posted on 06/17/2009 1:53:27 PM PDT by danamco
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
the Middle East is headed for nuclear war. The only question is whether someone will act to take history off that course. That won't be the left wing extremist/narcissist we now have in the White House, who is lost in his own dream world. Like Adolf Hitler, the theocrats who run Iran have told us exactly what they plan to do. They plan to build nuclear weapons, and use them to "wipe Israel off the map." They have said this plan is rooted in their fundamental religious beliefs and doctrines regarding the return of their God to Earth. They have said they will not abandon this plan for anything, not trade concessions, financial aid from the West, or security guarantees. Their conduct is consistent with carrying out this plan.

17 posted on 06/17/2009 6:05:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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