Kerry: Our Goal is Not Eliminating Iranian Nuclear Capability

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On April 15, 2014 @ 7:30 pm In The Point | No Comments

Sometimes a choice of words can be extremely revealing. That was the case with Kerry’s contentious testimony in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Under pressure, Kerry tends to slip and say revealing things. That was how the infamous, “for it and against it” clip was born.

Kerry dismissed breakout as “just having one bomb’s worth, conceivably, of material, but without any necessary capacity to put it in anything, to deliver it, to have any mechanism to do so, and otherwise.”
He then admitted that “our goal” is not eliminating nuclear capability as much as “proving that this is a peaceful program.”

The first part of that is a preview of the next stage of Obama Inc’s Iran argument. One bomb doesn’t matter. Wait until they have thirty.

The second part however is even more revealing.

“I talked with our team on the ground in Vienna yesterday,” Kerry said. “They are having serious, expert, in-depth, detailed conversations about what it takes to achieve our goal. I mean, of proving that this is a peaceful program.”

Proving the peacefulness of Iran’s program should be its responsibility. It’s not supposed to be our goal to prove that, but to find ways of confirming it.

But Kerry spoke truly. He is out to prove that it’s peaceful. Whom is he out to prove it to? To Americans.

Just as in Vietnam and Nicaragua, Kerry has once again adopted the viewpoint of the enemy and is using it to make the enemy’s argument to Americans.

Kerry dismissed breakout as “just having one bomb’s worth, conceivably, of material, but without any necessary capacity to put it in anything, to deliver it, to have any mechanism to do so, and otherwise.”

That's absurd and he knows it. Iran test fired ballistic missiles from a barge in the Caspian Sea in the 1990s. They put a satellite in low earth orbit in 2009. If you believe the reports about Operation Merlin, they already have the blueprints for a compact warhead. All they're missing is the fissile material.

“I think the United States should have offered the opportunity to provide the nuclear fuel, test them [the Iranians], see whether or not they were actually looking for it for peaceful purposes. If they weren’t willing to work a deal, then we could have put sanctions together. The president did nothing.”

John Kerry - during a Sept. 30, 2004 foreign policy debate with former President George W. Bush

Gee “our” goals change a lot.

Reminds me of Lone Ranger asking “What do we do now Tonto?” and Tonto responds, “What do you mean ‘we’, white man”?

Kerry recently said it was also not “our” (USA’s) goal to have Arabs/Muslim nations recognize Israel as a “Jewish state” as UN guaranteed some 60+ years ago.

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