Posted on 09/22/2009 6:49:51 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
During last year's campaign, Sen. Joe Biden famously remarked that, if his ticket won, it wouldn't be long before "the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy" on foreign affairs. Last week, President Obama, brilliantly wielding the powers of his office, managed to fail that test not just once but twice, buckling in the face of Russian pressure and taking a giant wooden nickel from Iran.
With both a collapsing economy and natural gas reserves sufficient to produce 270 years of electricity, the surplus of which it exports, Iran does not need nuclear electrical generation at a cost many times that of its gas-fired plants. It does, however, have every reason, according to its own lights, to seek nuclear weapons—to deter American intervention; to insure against a resurgent Iraq; to provide some offset to nearby nuclear powers Pakistan, Russia and Israel; to move toward hegemony in the Persian Gulf and address the embarrassment of a more militarily capable Saudi Arabia; to rid the Islamic world of Western domination; to neutralize Israel's nuclear capacity while simultaneously creating the opportunity to destroy it with one shot; and, pertinent to last week's events, by nuclear intimidation to turn Europe entirely against American interests in the Middle East.
Some security analysts may comfort themselves with the illusion that soon-to-be nuclear Iran is a rational actor, but no country gripped so intensely by a cult of martyrdom and death that to clear minefields it marched its own children across them can be deemed rational. Even the United States, twice employing nuclear weapons in World War II, seriously contemplated doing so again in Korea and then in Vietnam.
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He isn't a coward so much as he is a traitor.
Impeach the SOB...we don't mind his ethnicity, we hate his dishonesty!
I wish they’d not call it concession. Call it by its true name: appeasement.
Chamberlain later recanted his mistake...Obama can't hold a candle to Chamberlain.
Chamberlain erred...Obama is a traitor!
Let us be clear! Let’s call a spade a spade! Obama is a Liar!
Most excellent!
Maybe even the zombied RATS and their presstitutes will begin to awaken to this disaster that is Zer0!
When Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich at least he thought he had obtained something in return for his appeasement. The new American diplomacy is nothing more than a sentimental flood of unilateral concessions—not least, after some minor Putinesque sabre rattling, to Russia.
I am not a Chamberlain defender (though he was acquitted as a good but misguided man)...yet our President is an international dyslexic.
What he should defend, he gives away. Our enemies are forgiven and our allies are forgotten.
Obummer is even a worse president than Carter EVER WAS and wow is he ever proving it (on a daily basis!)
Gettin’ scarier by the day.
Appeasement weasel comes to mind.
And put sniveling in there too.
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