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Wednesday, December 20, 2017
VideoBite: Obama Protected Terror Group
Obama sank to unimaginable lows to protect his Iran Deal
I think that this was more bad judgement than bad luck. Mr Obama was desperate for even a small foreign policy success - he didn't get it in Ramallah because John Kerry got swamped in the sea of mendacity that is the PA and made no progress. The Iran deal might have had some traction but they all failed to really understand that the Iranians cheated, lied and deceived from the beginning and thought nothing of it. All he tried to do was play by his own set of rules which just didn't work. It took the Israelis and Stuxnet to make progress. Cheating? We'll show you how to cheat, Tehran. And get away with it.
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I think that this was more bad judgement than bad luck. Mr Obama was desperate for even a small foreign policy success - he didn't get it in Ramallah because John Kerry got swamped in the sea of mendacity that is the PA and made no progress. The Iran deal might have had some traction but they all failed to really understand that the Iranians cheated, lied and deceived from the beginning and thought nothing of it. All he tried to do was play by his own set of rules which just didn't work. It took the Israelis and Stuxnet to make progress. Cheating? We'll show you how to cheat, Tehran. And get away with it.
Excellent point about the Stuxnet virus! Thank you. Bruce :)
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