By Alan
Caruba
The
President’s lack of attention and indifference to years of intelligence reports
and analysis is leading to a potential horror in which Iran fulfills its quest
to make its own nuclear weapons. It already has the missile capacity to deliver
them throughout the Middle East and to Europe.
On October
6th Secretary of State John Kerry received a letter signed by 354
members of the House of Representatives that said in part “We are concerned
that an agreement that accepts Iran’s lack of transparency on this key issue
(inspections) would set the dangerous precedent that certain facilities and
aspects of Iran’s nuclear program can be declared off limits by Tehran…”
Obama,
however, is so intent on securing a deal with Iran—any kind of deal—that he has
virtually ensured it will become the next nuclear power at the worst time in
the worst place. This is the same President who thought he could reverse that
hostility of the region to the U.S., blaming it on his predecessor’s military
interventions. He thought he could also ignore the most powerful element of the
region, the hostilities between Sunnis and Shiites that have been around for
1400 years.
Throughout
history there have been world leaders who have warned of a coming horror only
to be ignored. Almost alone Winston Churchill warned of the Nazi regime’s
intentions and now Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, issued a
comparable warning about Iran on September 29 at the United Nations. He spoke
to a General Assembly gathering that many diplomats from Mid-Eastern nations
shunned.
“Don’t be
fooled by Iran’s manipulative charm offensive,” said Netanyahu. “It’s designed
for one purpose and for one purpose only: to lift the sanctions and remove the
obstacles to Iran’s path to the bomb…once Iran produces atomic bombs, all the
charm and smiles will suddenly disappear. They’ll just vanish. It’s then that
the ayatollahs will show their true face and unleash their aggressive
fanaticism on the entire world.”
That is a
definition of horror. Even throughout the long Cold War from 1945 until the
collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, few believed that the Russians would use
their nuclear weapons, nor the U.S. That cannot be said for Iran.
Netanyahu
quoted from a book written by Iran’s foreign minister Muhammad Javad Zarif who
wrote “We have a fundamental problem with the West, and especially with
America. This is because we are heirs to a global mission, which is tied to our
raison d’etra…a global mission which is tied to our very reason of being.” That
mission is to impose Islam, the Shiite version, on the world. The use of terror
to achieve this is natural to the world’s leading sponsor of terror.
In November
2013, former Ambassador John Bolton, writing in The Weekly Standard, described
the negotiations and the agreement as ‘badly skewed from America’s perspective.
Iran retains its full capacity to enrich uranium, thus abandoning a decade of
Western insistence and Security Council resolutions that Iran stop all
uranium-enrichment activities.” Noting
Israel’s likely military option if all else failed, Bolton said “Jerusalem
fully understands that Israel was the real target of the Geneva negotiations.”
A September
29 Wall Street Journal editorial, “Iran Makes the Rules”, noted the Iranian
President, Hasan Rouhani, “gave no ground on nuclear negotiations, whose latest
deadline is late November” and that it is “harder to explain is why the
Administration is now seeking ever more creative ways to give the mullahs what
they want.”
The
editorial concluded saying “All this is happening while America’s attention has
been consumed by the rise of the Islamic State and Vladimir Putin’s
depredations in Europe. But permitting iran to get to the edge of nuclear
capability would be the worst setback to U.S. and world security so far in the
Obama era, which is saying something.”
What is
obvious to many observers of Obama is that he is immune to evidence and the
advice based on it because he is convinced of his superior intellect and
judgment. He has neither. The situation is so bad regarding his very late
response to the Islamic State that his generals are openly saying that an air
campaign is not going to hold them back and, indeed, as this is being written,
they are knocking on the gates of Baghdad in Iraq and Kobani in Syria’s north.
Israel has
targeted Iranian nuclear facilities in the past by way of sending the regime a
message. In May, the Iranian media reported an explosion at a facility in the
northern city of Qazvin, not far from Tehran.
It is
unlikely that most people in the West grasp the insanity of Iran’s Islamic view
of the world. Most certainly Obama gives no indication of that. In his recent
speech to the UN General Assembly he said the conflict in the Middle East is “a
fight no one is winning.” He should read the newspapers or look at the TV news.
To grasp
what drives the Iranian leadership, a quote from the Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 revolution, is worth considering. “If one
permits an infidel to continue in his role as the corrupter of the earth, the
infidels moral suffering will be all the worse. If one kills the infidel and
this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to
him.”
So,
nuclear missiles that destroy New York, Washington, D.C., and anywhere else
where millions of infidels are found are a good thing if you’re an Iranian
leader.
Obama
simply does not get this or refuses to do so. His failure puts us closer to a nuclear
cataclysm with every passing day.
© Alan
Caruba, 2014
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