Monday, March 30, 2015

Obama and the Ayatollah of Iran Plan to Re-shape the Middle East Balance of Power

We are rapidly approaching a decisive moment in President Obama's plan to re-arrange the current Middle East balance of power. It is clear that Barack Obama and Ayatollah Khamenei are going to agree to a preliminary nuclear deal in Lausanne later this week. How do we know? Because the Ayatollah's messengers have told us there will be a deal. That is already the first big shift in the Middle East power base. We shouldn't be fooled by the noise coming from the White House and Secretary Kerry's staff that Iran must now agree to the Obama P5+1 terms -- that is Obama's equivalent of ground cover while the main force advances. And, make no mistake, the force advancing is Obama marching in lock-step with the Iranian Ayatollah and his mullahs. Somehow, Barack Obama has manoeuvered America's allies and the UN into believing they can unilaterally rewrite the UN Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Normally, the Obama-led P5+1 could not agree to anything relating to Iran's nuclear program. Iran and all the members of the P5+1 group are signatories to the NPT. Iran should not be developing nuclear weapons and it should be making available unannounced access to inspectors. Obama and his P5+1 team seem to be rewriting the NPT with no mention of getting the okay of other NPT signatories -- including the US Congress because the NPT is an international treaty that tge Constitution says must be agreed to by the Senate -- or the okay of the UN. ~~~~~ Obama has aligned himself with the state often cited as the greatest disseminator of terrorism in the world today. Last week, the chant “Death to America” exploded in a Teheran crowd awaiting the appearance of Khamenei - Barack Obama’s diplomatic partner in Iran. The chant began in 1979 when radical shiite Islamists seized power and held American hostages for 444 days, until Ronald Reagan freed them. Last week, Khamenei appeared and shouted back to the crowd : “Of course yes, death to America,...because America is the original source of this pressure” to end Iran’s nuclear arms program. This came from the mouth of the other head of state in the negotiations that President Obama has tried so hard to keep going. Obama and Kerry have hitched the security of the US and the very existence of our allies in the Middle East - especially Israel - to the belief that we can trust Iran to stick to a deal and not produce nuclear weapons, even though it would give them a significant advantage in the region to do so. The White House response to Khamenei’s "Death to America" was to say it was “intended for a domestic political audience," dismissing the idea that it was significant in terms of the deal Obama and Kerry are pursuing. The White House took a distinctly less charitable approach to the domestic political comments of Benjamin Netanyahu, when he was fighting for re-election in Israel. Netanyahu told voters there that he could no longer support a two-state solution under the current conditions of Palestinian leadership and warned Israelis that outside activists had attempted to boost voting of Israeli Arabs in an attempt to defeat Likud, urging Israel’s Jews to turn out more heavily for him. The White House did not have an “intended for a domestic political audience” comment. Of course not. Obama said he "takes the prime minister at his word....Given his statements prior to the election, it’s going to be hard to find a path where people seriously believe, when it comes to negotiations, that those are possible.” This is another major indication of Obama's plan to shift the Middle East balance of power -- away from America's staunchest ally, the democratic Israel, and away from Saudi Arabia -- toward the treacherous terrorist mullahs and Ayatollah of Iran. ~~~~~ Obama is often accused of creating incoherence in American Middle East foreign policy. But, there is a reasonable argument that President Obama knows exactly what he is doing. In Syria, Obama remains committed to removing the Iran-supported al-Assad regime, the Alawite branch of shiite Islam, but he is supporting the fight against al-Assad’s enemies, who are sunni and supported by Saudi Arabia, America's long term Middle East ally. In effect, Obama is aligned with shiite Iran. Just a few days ago, Secretary of State Kerry acknowledged : “In the end, we have to negotiate with Assad." That is the same al-Assad who is Iran's protégé, denounced for years by Washington. ~~~~~ In Iraq, Obama is providing air support to shiite militias in their fight against ISIS and training the Iraqi army -- but given its evident uselessness, Obama is dependent on Iran’s leadership of the militias. The US military says this is very worrisome for the longer term because Iran could quickly and publicly take over Iraq. ~~~~~ In Yemen, where the US-backed government recently fell to the Iran-backed Houthi militias, Obama quickly ordered the evacuation of all US military personnel, including special operations units, leaving the US military and the Saudis "blind" to Iranian and Houthi actions in Yemen. Obama now supports the Saudi-led Arab air campaign against the shiite Houthis, but from afar, providing surveiilance and other long range support. ~~~~~ Dear readers, an Obama settlement with Iran and the undoing of the ties with Israel were destined to occur. Barack Obama has from the beginning supported the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt, favored the 1967 pre-war borders for the Palestine Authority, poured money into Hamas programs in Gaza, and withdrawn all US troops from Iraq in 2011 against his own military's advice. Obama's personal animosity toward Benjamin Netanyahu has made it easier for him to attack Israel -- one hesitates to say that Barack Obama is anti-semitic, but that case would be easy to make. The rift now is unprecedented in the history of the relationship and Obama’s policy people show no sign they are equipped to refashion ties constructively. So, we are destined to watch American President Barack Obama forge ties with terrorist jihadist Iran, throwing Israel and Saudi Arabia to the shiite wolves. Only the US Congress stands in his way -- backed by 85% of the American people. It is time to act. Write and email your Senators and Majoriry Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker John Boehner. Rally. Organize a march to Washington. Because it is America's good name that is being tarnished and stained by Obama's despicable actions. Make it clear to him and to the world that America does not agree.

5 comments:

  1. Is this agreement only about the Middle East?

    No right now it's also about the existence of Israel.

    Tomorrow it will be about shipping lanes, price of oil/gasoline.

    The next day it will be Southern Europe, etc.

    It's about our Constitution, Seperation of Powers, Rule of Law, Freedom, Rights.

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    1. French sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859): "The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money."

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  2. Obama and his diplomatic clowns just can't seem to accept that, in dealing with Iran's nuke program, no deal is better than a bad deal -- even if they've said so themselves. A bad deal with Iran is a bad deal for the entire Middle East and the world.

    Yet Obama is more concerned with partisan politics, telling Senate Democrats they need to stick with him on this terrible deal. His pitch to them is that if the Iran nuclear talks fail, then the GOP wins. How's that for foreign policy? He's more concerned about his perceived enemies from the other party than he is about a real enemy that wants to wipe the United States and Israel off the map.

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  3. De Oppressir LiberMarch 31, 2015 at 9:30 AM

    Why is Barack Obama so anxious to have an international agreement that will have no legal standing under the Constitution just two years from now, since it will be just a presidential agreement, rather than a treaty requiring the 'advice and consent' of the Senate? There are at least two reasons. One reason is that such an agreement will serve to cover his failure to do anything that has any serious chance of stopping Iran from going nuclear. Such an agreement will protect Obama politically, despite however much it exposes the American people to unprecedented dangers. The other reason is that, by going to the United Nations for its blessing on his agreement with Iran, he can better cover his complicity in the nuclear arming of America’s most dangerous enemy. In Obama’s vision, as a citizen of the world, there may be no reason why Iran should not have nuclear weapons when other nations have them.

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  4. It appears that both congressional chambers and both parties have had enough. Three recent events demonstrate the legislative branch's distrust of the executive when it comes to a deal with Iran.



    First, it was 47 Republican senators and their open letter to Iran, making clear that any non-binding deal could be negated at a moment's notice by a future president.



    Then, earlier this week, 367 members of the House, from both sides of the aisle, signed a letter to Barack Obama reminding His Eminence that Congress enacted sanctions on Iran and any relief of those sanctions as part of a deal would require new legislation.



    Finally, on Thursday, the Senate unanimously endorsed an amendment to its budget that would make it easier to restore sanctions if Iran is caught cheating again. We repeat, a unanimous, 100-0, un-spinnable, no wiggle-room vote of the entire Senate.



    It seems that if Obama gets a treaty to wave above his head on a victory lap - the Obama/Jerry victory part may be 'Absent Without Leave' for the Cimmander-n-Chief and his diplomatic lacky.

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