Obama to Use ‘Targeted’ Dithering While Iran Builds Nuclear Bombs
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Jennifer Rubin reacts to the good news/bad news from the WaPo today that the Obama administration is getting ready to impose sanctions on Iran. Of course that’s the good news part; the bad news is that “they are doing so in a half-hearted fashion without giving up the pipe dream of re-engaging a barbaric regime murdering its own people. In other words, they don’t want to topple the regime nor inflict much damage, “just target those bad “elements” they think are the “really bad guys”:
It is unclear how, exactly, we are going to target only the Revolutionary Guard, for example. And heaven forbid we should appear to aid the protestors.(”But officials insist that sanctions would not be linked to the protests. ‘It is only coincidental that at the same time we reached the deadline, the Iranian government has a bloody crackdown,’ said a third U.S. official. ‘It has only served to highlight the nature of the regime.’”) What is important is that we avoid being too harsh, too effective, or inflict too much damage because then the regime wouldn’t want to come back to the bargaining table:
Administration officials have not given up hope that the deal can be revived — they are encouraging Turkish efforts to bridge the gap — but they say the apparent turmoil it generated within the Iranian leadership is a useful side benefit of engagement. The effort to engage “has had an unsettling effect on people in the regime,” one official said. “It has made it more difficult to demonize the United States and say it has been the root of all evil.”(Notice the defensive fixation that we must justify our own actions to the Iranian people, who are risking life and limb against a regime they know all to well is evil.) And in defending the engagement strategy, unnamed officials claim they’ve been making progress with China. Well, not exactly progress. The Chinese just “understand the argument but don’t have the sense of urgency that other countries have.” All that bowing and scraping for nothing, it seems.
As Jennifer points out, if this seems ludicrous and full of the same “otherwordly thinking” that originally spurred the engagement gambit and “frittered away a year while the mullahs proceeded with their nuclear program,” you’re absolutely right. Whatever “mumbo-jumbo they are talking about,” it is most definitely not “crippling sanctions.”.The mullahs will rejoice over the fact that there are no serious consequences for their behavior and will simply proceed full speed ahead with their nuclear plans. So much for Obama’s “smart policy.”
As to what end are we facing now that we are stuck with an liberal-progressive administration stuck on unicorns, rainbows, and daisies, keep the daises in mind because that’s what will be growing on top of our graves.
Back in December 2006, Dr Andrew Campbell wrote an excellent article that took a look at Tehrans artful use of taqiyya (religiously-sanctioned deception, or “holy lying”Â) and kitman (secrecy) in its negotiations with the West over nuclear weaponry. He concluded his piece by quoting former CIA operations officer and Iran specialist, Reuel Marc Gerecht (Edward Shirley), who warned: “Unless Langley gets lucky with an Iranian “walk-in” who volunteers detailed, critical information about Tehran’s weapons program, the CIA will probably only know the mullahs have the Bomb after they detonate it.”
Given that every President since the disastrous days of Jimmy Carter has allowed himself to fall victim to Iran’s lies and deceit - giving Iran time to develop nuclear weapons, and now, Barack Obama not only has failed to learn from history that Iran has lied and deceived in its nuclear negotiations with the West - for the sole purpose of developing nuclear weapons, and is sufficiently naive and narcissistic enough to actually believe that he, as the world’s messiah, will convince Iran to accept his “outreached hand” and give up its development of nuclear weapons - Reuel Marc Gerecht’s prediction is all the more likely.
In other words, the U.S. and Israel are fast-becoming not only all the more likely to be the victims of a nuclear attack from Iran, we will know Iran has developed a nuclear bomb and that either Iran itself, via one of several types of missiles they’ve already developed, or via one or more of the thousands of terrorists in their large and growing terrorist network have delivered it, when we first see the flash of light just before millions of Americans pass into oblivion.
Suggested reading: Iran’s nuclear deception: taqiyya and kitman
