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Sowell: A Historic Catastrophe (Obama & Iran)
Creators Syndicate ^ | July 21, 2015 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 07/20/2015 2:20:42 PM PDT by jazusamo

Distinguished scientist Freeman Dyson has called the 1433 decision of the emperor of China to discontinue his country's exploration of the outside world the "worst political blunder in the history of civilization."

The United States seems at this moment about to break the record for the worst political blunder of all time, with its Obama administration deal that will make a nuclear Iran virtually inevitable.

Already the years-long negotiations, with their numerous "deadlines" that have been extended again and again, have reduced the chances that Israel can destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities, which have been multiplied and placed in scattered underground sites during the years when all this was going on.

Israel is the only country even likely to try to destroy those facilities, since Iran has explicitly and repeatedly declared its intention to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.

How did we get to this point — and what, if anything, can we do now? Tragically, these are questions that few Americans seem to be asking. We are too preoccupied with our electronic devices, the antics of celebrities and politics as usual.

During the years when we confronted a nuclear-armed Soviet Union, we at least realized that we had to "think the unthinkable," as intellectual giant Herman Kahn put it. Today it seems almost as if we don't want to think about it at all.

Our politicians have kicked the can down the road — and it is the biggest, most annihilating explosive can of all, that will be left for our children and grandchildren to try to cope with.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; israel; lebanon; nucleararms; obama; sowell; thomassowell; traitor; waronterror
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1 posted on 07/20/2015 2:20:42 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

The re-election of Obama was a historic catastrophe.


2 posted on 07/20/2015 2:21:27 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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3 posted on 07/20/2015 2:22:05 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: jazusamo

The GOP empowered/empowers Obama who now
has destroyed the US Constitution,
the Law, the Pentagon, and US security.

McConnell and Boehner are traitors to America
and will go down in history with Obama for
the evil they all are.


4 posted on 07/20/2015 2:23:57 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Diogenesis

Absolutey.


5 posted on 07/20/2015 2:28:56 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: jazusamo

Thomas Sowell is brilliant. And this whole regime has been an unmitigated catastrophe from day 1.

The one thing all nuclear powers have had in common is that all them wanted a bomb, but none of them ever really wanted to use it.

Until today.


6 posted on 07/20/2015 2:29:41 PM PDT by henkster (Where'd my tagline go?)
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To: jazusamo

Be nice (( if )) it was a blunder... it’s isn’t..
Sowell and many others consider Obama and his handlers morons..

The progressives have been angling for this since WWII...
Where multi-millions perished.. and billions were made miserable..

This time they surely must be angling to rid their mother-earth of ( BILLIONS ) of it’s inhabitants..
And, indeed, make ALL but progressives miserable..
and; even few of them.. the “useful idiots” as Lenin put it....

Sowell is afraid to say “the TRUTH “...
Surely he knows this.. or thinks it.. maybe not..

Optimists REFUSE to see “the EVIL” as what it is...
I suppose optimists are needed every now and again...

Just NOT NOW... some pessimists had better get busy.. is all I have to say..
Marlon Brando’s “HORROR” has not even begun yet.. i.e. Apocalypse Now


7 posted on 07/20/2015 2:36:37 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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8 posted on 07/20/2015 2:41:27 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: hosepipe

Sowell doesn’t consider 0bama a moron, he covers that at the end of the article.


9 posted on 07/20/2015 2:41:47 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: jazusamo

I realize that congress is blackmailed into submission, but don’t they realize that they are going to die too if they don’t stop this evil POS?


10 posted on 07/20/2015 2:42:46 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: jazusamo

Others DO.................


11 posted on 07/20/2015 2:43:16 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: All

12 posted on 07/20/2015 2:43:32 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

America in Crisis
https://www.dropbox.com/s/iu92zs5gg2bwuy3/FIRE.avi?dl=0


13 posted on 07/20/2015 2:45:14 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Steely Tom
"The re-election of Obama was a historic catastrophe."

A classic example of 'Just when you think it can't get any worse...'

14 posted on 07/20/2015 2:48:05 PM PDT by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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15 posted on 07/20/2015 3:03:06 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I love the graphic, my FRiend. It’s dead on the mark for both of them, a lion and a piss ant.


16 posted on 07/20/2015 3:05:24 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: jazusamo

Gawd, BiBi was HAWT! :)

I’m always super-duper nice to the Old Guys that shop in my store wearing their Veteran hats, or a jacket with patches, etc. I have a LOT of men that stop in while they’re here on a visit to our most EXCELLENT VA Hospital.

You KNOW they were ‘Top Gun’ Hotties back in the day and we OWE them a debt of gratitude for what they went through for America!

BiBi would be no exception. 0bama should be flushed.


17 posted on 07/20/2015 3:12:20 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Well said about our Veterans and BiBi. 0bama hasn’t got a clue and never will when it comes to real Patriots.


18 posted on 07/20/2015 3:19:21 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: jazusamo

There is no credible opposition!! People’s voice (TEA party) was suppressed.

Anybody with two brain cells can see war (or WAR) is coming.


19 posted on 07/20/2015 3:32:53 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: jazusamo

I think that if Iran is even close to nuclear capability, Israel will, by force, eliminate their nuclear capability....they have done it before and will do it again.


20 posted on 07/20/2015 4:45:24 PM PDT by terycarl (, COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
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