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Team Obama’s Iran Strategy in Tatters

hypocritexposer

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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Team Obama’s Iran Strategy in Tatters
Iran is perhaps the most humiliating foreign policy blunder in the young presidency of Team Obama. The people who keep telling us how smart their policy choices are; the bright boys and girls who created the strategy believed that the Iranian leadership was developing atomic weapons because they were facing a hostile US. The answer to this conflict was to end America’s antagonism toward the Iranian regime, promise non-interference, and then – voila – a miracle happens and Iran forsakes nuclear weapons. Obama takes a victory lap, and the oceans decline.

That’s a bit simplified perhaps, but let’s connects the dots. Obama’s Cairo speech was a repudiation of the Bush doctrine. Henceforth we would treat with Islam as if it were a nation, not a religion. No more “if you are not with us you are against us.” No more war on terror. No more concerns about terrorist support by Iran. No more support for pro-democracy programs in the State Department. No pre-conditions for talks with the government in Iran. Team Obama put pressure on Israel to give in to Palestinian demands and attempted to undermine the political base of a conservative Israeli government.

The Great Satan was busily being transformed to the Great Dhimmi, but then fate intervened; fate in the form of an election so brazenly corrupt that it brought crowds into the streets. The crowds grew larger and it stopped being about a fake election, and became a challenge to the entire regime.

And Team Obama – and the United States - is now faced with the possibility that the mullahs will be overthrown. And if they are replaced, will the new government want to deal with an American administration that sided against them and with their oppressors?

Team Obama never saw the Iranian people as partners in liberty. They had the same view of them as Chicago pols have of that city’s black underclass: a mass of voters who can be bought off with minimal public assistance, decrepit public housing, and the generous use of graft to keep the “leaders” loyal. The Obama administration does not understand the anger and rage that can develop in a people who yearn for more than handouts and race baiting speeches like those delivered by the likes of Reverend Wright.

Team Obama may have scored a “two-fer:” the contempt of both the American and the Iranian people.
 
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