Posted on 07/10/2015 1:23:29 PM PDT by Dave346
What can we, and the world, expect? The Obama administration has trapped America. It is now ever clearer that current negotiations will not achieve a reliable, verifiable halt to Iran’s nuclear-weapons program. Absent such terms, a non-nuclear Middle East rests on Iran’s “good faith” and on Iran’s neighbors’ faith in her — both thin reeds. No magic rescue looms. Very hard choices and dark fates may await. What if the Obama administration suddenly switched its approach on negotiations and sanctions? Sadly, it is almost certainly too late to force Iran to abandon its long-coveted goal. Three obstacles bar an effective reversal: Iran is so close it can taste nuclear-weapon status; the world is no longer willing to credit and follow President Obama’s “red lines”; and any new sanctions would take months to enact and years to bite. The end of all our retreats is this: Either we trust current and future Iranian leaders, or we or someone else someday uses force. Calls for prudence, humanity, and morality paved this road. But we now may face a fate much less humane and moral.
Some think that we can avoid painful dilemmas by relying on the efficacy and supposedly superior morality of Cold War–style nuclear deterrence. In effect, we would threaten nuclear retaliation against millions of Iranian civilians, many of whom do not support their government. Such barbarism was considered unthinkable before the Cold War. Necessity justified it then. Is this the most moral course now? If it ever came to pass, would we compliment ourselves on our restraint in not striking earlier? Or take comfort that we reasonably relied on the ayatollahs’ affection for their people?
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Slow painful learning curve... & it’s all new for Obama! How many times have we been through this?
What does Revelations say? 1/3 of the population to die?
Sounds about right to me. Iran will trigger a Nuclear war. That is what will happen. They are religious fanatics, and they will not hesitate to unleash death on the rest of us if they have the means.
Obama will become known as the biggest mass murderer in History, but not because he planned it. No, nothing he "plans" ever works out correctly. He will only accomplish such a thing by being so incredibly stupid. Like a little child, he doesn't know any better because he spent his life getting "high" instead of learning anything useful.
That complete idiot is going to get millions killed.
all the dead in his Arab Spring might say he’s already in the running for that title.
Springtime for mullah!
Fantastic article.
Even if they never got the bomb, what Obama is doing
is financing Iranian terrorism.
It’s as simple as that.
I believe that is exactly what ø is hoping for. As an islamist he is, by definition, insane.
Let’s see if they are able to go nuclear. Between the “work accidents” among Iranian nuclear scientists and likely Israeli-Saudi cooperation to, uh, hamstring - yeah, that’s the ticket - the Iranian program, they may never get there. Don’t forget Israel’s not-so-secret, but devastatingly effective super weapon, the Lord of Hosts (v. 1.0).
Million of Iranians said some years back: if we have to die to get rid of the mullahs so be it.
A nuke will go off on our soil jand Soros and the leftists will be giddy with excitement seconds before they die.
The sequel: Holocaust II. Nuclear.
Starring Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Hitler, Barack Obama as Neville Chamberlain, and no one as Winston Churchill or Dwight Eisenhower.
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