Posted on 03/30/2015 7:21:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ponder the dire significance of the extraordinary story from MSNBC(!) last Friday, reporting on US incoherence in the Middle East, the exploding chaos there, and the shocking news Arab states like Egypt, the Saudis, and UAE are withholding intelligence and launching attacks without consulting the US. Why? Because they dont trust Obama not to leak information to Iran. In seeking closer ties with Iran, Obama is threatening every other strategic US relationship in the region and candidly committing alliance-cide against Americas closest ally there, Israel.
The president, as chief executive and commander in chief may be the captain of foreign policy, but the Senate, representing the American public, has a Constitutional role, which Obama is deliberately evading.
What is happening is historically unprecedented. It makes Nixon-goes-to-China look like a Junior League milk and cookies outreach. Obama is pursuing a one-man foreign policy of realigning the US in the Middle East, ending our friendship with Israel, forging ties with Iran, and facilitating, or at least benignly accepting, the expansion of Irans interests, influence, and agents throughout the region.
This profound agenda is not one he ran on. It is not disclosed to, or understood by, the American people. It is not vetted or discussed in high circles of military and security leadership. It is contrary to long and widely held understandings of US security interests. It is a covert one man revolution.
In playing his chess pieces, Obama unsuccessfully pressed Egypt to submit to the Muslim Brotherhood; stiff-armed the courageous President al-Sisi who wants to move Egypt closer to America, keep peace with Israel, and move Islam closer to modernity; launched unprovoked missiles against Libyas Qaddafi, lighting that nation on fire, delivering it to chaos and Iran-backed rebels; played patsy with Irans client Assad while Assad scorned Obamas red lines and gassed civilians; and manufactured an escalating series of confrontations and crises with Israel, most recently exposing top secret details of its previously unacknowledged nuclear program. After Yemen fell to Iran backed rebels, the White House continues to insist its approach there is a model of effective counterterrorism.
Against all the other dots in this picture, its becoming apparent the trade of five Taliban field leaders for one US deserter was not a bad deal but a head fake. Bergdahl was just cover for Obama to hand back five Jihadi leaders and move closer to his goal of closing Gitmo.
Recent reports of the surreal negotiations with Iran would make for farce if they werent terrifyingly real. Alone among the P5 + 1 world powers, the US is desperate to sweeten the pot to offer Iran whatever it takes. Obama originally set a redline of 500 high-speed centrifuges; we now shrug at 6,000. Were good with Iran continuing operations at its reinforced, underground lab. It doesnt have to reveal its ongoing research with military dimensions until after the world lifts sanctions wink. Surprise inspections will be rare to never. Last week, the Associated Press astonishingly reported a final agreement may not even be in writing. Spokesman Josh Earnest failed to deny that unfathomable idea after three direct queries.
We recently witnessed the spectacle of France trying to put the brakes on this runaway concession train, complaining its a weak, bad, unenforceable deal and the US is still conceding. Thats something the French accusing Americans of being burger eating surrender monkeys.
The presidents defenders might call his upheaval a matter of high stakes, high risk strategy to improve US standing in the Middle East by aligning it with the regions strongest power. Other commentators might call it wrongheaded, reckless, and dangerous. And others, seeing whats right in front of their face, might call it hostile to Americas interests and security, treacherous to Americas allies, and of great aid and comfort to Americas enemies.
Under a different Iranian regime, maybe a secular one, or a reformist product of the Green Revolution that Obama strangely spurned, it might make sense to support Iran as a stabilizing force. Its the Mullacracy with its radical, bloody vision that makes Obamas policy deranged. His defenders and critics alike speculate Obama is betting the regime can be enticed to make nice and join the community of nations during the limited lifespan of the agreement. But that surmise is incoherent. If Obama wanted a reformed Iran, he would have spoken up for millions of brave protesters who confronted the Mullahs and pled for his support. He stood mute as they were brutally crushed.
Its an unresolved question if, or where, there is a redline that a presidents policies abroad become Constitutionally actionable. His leads in foreign policy. But, he also took an oath to protect American peace and security. If, for an extreme hypothetical, videotape emerged showing a president handing over US nuclear codes to Vladimir Putin, presumably, he would be dealt with as a treasonous traitor, his foreign policy authority notwithstanding.
Obamas actions in the Middle East raise troubling questions about how fundamentally a president can contradict deeply rooted US understandings, policies, and alliances before he enters a danger zone. Cutting off the Senates voice adds to the gravity. To conclude any position a president holds, no matter how radical, must be the position of the US, is akin to embracing Louis XIVs declaration: "L'État, c'est moi" or Richard Nixons more recent formulation: When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.
Twenty months remain in this presidency. About a day is left till Obamas contrived deadline to reach a deal with Iran. It may be one of the only lines he means to respect. Few imagined after the 2012 election how fast events would unfold in the Middle East and how fast Obamas hand would emerge into view. It is going to be a dangerous and scary ride.
Disgraceful.
It’s said often here, but we need to hear “traitor” used in more polite conversation... at FOX, in print, and ultimately in the MSM.
It may be too much to hope for that in the short term, but even Hitlery is taking a lot of heat for her Benghazi/email activities, and her old scandals (Whitewater, commodities) are being mentioned after years of inattention.
Our government is controlled by our enemies. They wear a smiling face while simultaneously plundering our riches.
And “q”when the nukes start being detonated here we will know who is responsible. I hope every history future book paints him as the Benedict Arnold president and lists every act of treason. I also hope that it also lists the legislative acts that came afterward to prohibit a president from ever doing what he did again.
The Israelis think he is a traitor. The Arabs think he is a traitor. US Conservatives think he is a traitor. US Progressives are, well.. trying to think. Non-muslim Africans think he is a traitor. Even the Venezueleans think he is gonna invade. Chinese think he is a tool. And the Iranians think he is a fool.
Everyone is correct Re the progressives though, they are unable to think with their pea-sized brains
Bkmk
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