Posted on 07/14/2015 7:46:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“I don't want to just end the war, but I want to end the mindset that got us into war in the first place.” That was Senator Barack Obama, speaking about Iraq in a 2008 primary debate. For a candidate who had seen his own campaign surge on the strength of his opposition to the Iraq war, it was a near-perfect distillation of the change he hoped to bring to America’s foreign policy discussion, long dominated by hawkish views that were shattering against the bloody reality of Iraq’s civil war.
During the 2008 campaign, Obama started—and won—a hugely significant debate about the proper uses of U.S. power. His declaration that he would not be afraid to talk to America’s enemies brought accusations of naiveté from both his Republican adversary John McCain and Democratic primary opponent Hillary Clinton, who would go on to begin implementing that same policy toward Iran as Obama’s first Secretary of State.
Ending that mindset has proven a difficult task. The idea that military force is decisive in a way that diplomacy is not remains a very attractive one, especially for politicians looking for cheap ways to appear tough. And to be fair, Obama has moved slowly on this, often frustratingly so. There are policy areas, particularly the use of drone warfare, where he has continued the commitment to the use of force. But Obama’s Iran policy is one in which the president has followed through on that central promise of his candidacy, and with great results. In short, Obama’s Iran policy is the anti–Iraq war.
The invasion and occupation of Iraq resulted in the deaths of more than 4,000 U.S. troops and more than 100,000 Iraqis, including many times that number seriously and permanently injured....
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Until Israel bombs the crap of Iran.
Criminal psychoppaths know not shame.
I’d expect garbage like that from TNR. Still does not mean one is inured to it though.
If I were Netanyahu, the planes would already be on the tarmac.
Do we know they are not? LOL!
The writer and publication are too stupid to bother with.
Sorry Matty but your boy Obama and his butt boy, Horseface Kerry, are going to get a lot of people killed with this fiasco. You’ll be eating these words someday dirtball.
because, in the end, they are cowards
They are effin idiots. Ideology is their mother, father and significant other. Fruitless to reason with mentally ill morons.
And this agreement is anything other than naiveté? They’re admitting to active collusion.
I think Bibi is just holding out for President Cruz.
Suddenly Iran is our New Best Friend. I read today - no joke - that the Nobel committee is thinking of giving the Peace Prize to Obama and Iran.
I think this will happen...probably not long before Iran bombs the socks off of us and any of its real or imagined enemies.
The greater part of my hearing these days is characterized by uninformed spouting and accusatory content. It gets old, but I must examine myself, too.
I keep envisioning a scenario of Iran hitting us and Israel at the same time.
My concern at that point would be if he orders our military forces to intercept and/or attack Israeli forces....unthinkable?
The Middle East is a mess and now Iran can increase their conventional weapons and acquire a nuclear bomb at a faster rate. As has been stated this day will go down in infamy.
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