Abandoning Strategic Sanity -Caroline Glick
[E]ven as Iran’s top leaders said they were expanding their illicit uranium enrichment activities, Obama wouldn’t admit that [his engagement policy] has failed.
The most he would do was acknowledge that the regime’s leaders “have made their choice so far, although the door is still open.” As for sanctions, well, Obama said it will take “several weeks” to put those together.
The distressing truth is that Obama’s aim has never been to prevent Teheran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
As one senior administration official told The New York Times, the purpose of the sanctions talk is to get the Iranians to agree to negotiate. As he put it, “This is about driving them back to negotiations, because the real goal here is to avoid war.”
Got that?
As far as Obama is concerned, Iran with nuclear weapons isn’t the main concern. Israel using force to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is the main concern.
Obama’s failure to prevent Iran from moving forward with its nuclear program, and his stubborn refusal to support an Israeli move to deny Iran the ability to threaten Israel and global security, place Israel and core US national security interests in unprecedented jeopardy.
[Jerusalem Post]
[Note: Ms. Glick's piece paints controversial conservative Sarah Palin as a sincere friend of Israel. Such partisan material is beyond the interest of this blog. However, Ms. Glick's critique of President Obama is unique and thus blog-worthy]
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[E]ven as Iran’s top leaders said they were expanding their illicit uranium enrichment activities, Obama wouldn’t admit that [his engagement policy] has failed.
The most he would do was acknowledge that the regime’s leaders “have made their choice so far, although the door is still open.” As for sanctions, well, Obama said it will take “several weeks” to put those together.
The distressing truth is that Obama’s aim has never been to prevent Teheran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
As one senior administration official told The New York Times, the purpose of the sanctions talk is to get the Iranians to agree to negotiate. As he put it, “This is about driving them back to negotiations, because the real goal here is to avoid war.”
Got that?
As far as Obama is concerned, Iran with nuclear weapons isn’t the main concern. Israel using force to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is the main concern.
Obama’s failure to prevent Iran from moving forward with its nuclear program, and his stubborn refusal to support an Israeli move to deny Iran the ability to threaten Israel and global security, place Israel and core US national security interests in unprecedented jeopardy.
[Jerusalem Post]
[Note: Ms. Glick's piece paints controversial conservative Sarah Palin as a sincere friend of Israel. Such partisan material is beyond the interest of this blog. However, Ms. Glick's critique of President Obama is unique and thus blog-worthy]
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2 comments:
Jumping from one aspect, that Obama is having a hard time conceding things are not working out with Iran how he would like, and saying he is abandoning Israel and considers a nuclear armed Iran not a threat so much as Israel militarily engaging Iran is, is too much of a stretch. Recent world events are full of examples where the military option has not clearly achieved anything: Iraq, and Afghanistan. This does not mean the world will stand idle with a nuclear Iran--which is not just a threat to Israel, but to many other Arab nations. The world is in no rush to embrace the hasty acts of the W. Bush administration that threw away all the good will created by the MidEast operations of George H. Bush, and the global consensus of the Clinton Administration. Glick is no stranger to unfounded accusations. I agree time is short for Israel to stand by and wait for the world to act appropriately, but it has not run out yet.
Ms. Glick's piece is clearly partisan, but I found her reading of the tea leaves exceedingly interesting. She believes that Obama has resigned himself to a nuclear Iran, and will allow it to go radioactive on his watch. Worse, she suggests that his policy objective is to curb Israel.
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