Iran: April 2010 Archives
Well think about it, peeps. Doesn't Frank Gaffney's statement of the obvious suggest that we have Red Barry and the Geico Caveman cast in the diametric opposite roles for which each is suited?
And, brother, is the L'il President zealously committed to denuclearizing Obamerika. Almost as if he wants to see Israel "wiped off the map" worse than DinnerJacket does, but doesn't want the blood of millions of Jews on his own hands (or lose the votes of millions of more at home), so he's quietly letting the Iranians prepare to do it for him.
Call it....malevolent neglect:
Several officials said the highly classified analysis, written in January to President Obama’s national security adviser, General James L. Jones, touched off an intense effort inside the Pentagon, the White House and the intelligence agencies to develop new options for Mr. Obama. They include a revised set of military alternatives, still under development, to be considered should diplomacy and sanctions fail to force Iran to change course…
Pressed on the administration’s ambiguous phrases until now about how close the United States was willing to allow Iran’s program to proceed, a senior administration official described last week in somewhat clearer terms that there was a line Iran would not be permitted to cross.
The official said that the United States would ensure that Iran would not “acquire a nuclear capability,” a step Tehran could get to well before it developed a sophisticated weapon. “That includes the ability to have a breakout,” he said, using the term nuclear specialists apply to a country that suddenly renounces the nonproliferation treaty and uses its technology to build a small arsenal…
Mr. Gates’s memo appears to reflect concerns in the upper echelons of the Pentagon and the military that the White House did not have a well-prepared series of alternatives in place in case all the diplomatic steps finally failed.
As always, there are two ways to look at things like this: (1) Obama is a narcissist of such stupendous idiocy that he really believed he could pass himself off as the Twelfth Imam to the mullahgarchy, thus removing the need to get their hands on nuclear weapons, and naturally never conceived of the possibility that they would see him as the charlatanesque fool he really is. Or (2) he wants Tehran to go nuclear in order to serve as a counter-deterrent to any reprise of the post-9/11 military action President Bush took and "contain" what he sees as the source of any and all conflict in the Middle East: Israel. And if the mullahs succeeded in finishing the "great work" Ahmadinejad's nicknamesake started, well, Uncle Jerry always did say they had it coming.
Of course, if the Israelis refuse to sit back and let themselves be annihilated, as had been their pattern before all this "peace process" nonsense, Barry O is going to end up in the middle of it all anyway. That's what happens when you make it your avowed intention to reduce American influence in the world by pussifying your country in the eyes of its enemies and bitch-slapping its former friends.
And just think: the Iranians could officially have nukes any day now. Any day.
Any day....
On the bright side, this'll give him the perfect cover for declaring martial law and canceling the November elections. Assuming he can be pulled off the links to do it.
I'm never quite sure what we on the Right see in Joe Lieberman. He's pretty much an orthodox leftist as to domestic policy. Yeah, being an actual old-style patriotic liberal in the Scoop Jackson mold sets him apart as being not quite as radical as his fully Obamunist fellow-travelers, but was that any reason to get excited about Liebs addressing McCain's convention in 2008? Or to breathlessly anticipate the party switch he never made back when it would have actually mattered? C'mon, this is a man whose own party stabbed him in the back in '06, and he STILL caucuses with the Dems. Yes, as he has always publicly declared he would - a nice bit of consistency and integrity - so why hang on his every word if you're a Pachyderm? A question equally as perplexing as why Liebs wallows in the equivalent of battered wife syndrome.
Regardless, here he is holding forth on Iran, Sarah Palin, and his 2012 "independence." None of which will endear him to the Obamunists with whom he insists on hanging around, but maybe that's his niche: being a perpetual tease - who was the deciding Senate vote for ObamaCare. Still think he's the bee's knees?
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