I had something else planned for today, but then this happened over the weekend. Apparently, those multiple promises to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb, because it was what an overwhelming majority of Americans wanted during the previous two Presidential Elections, came with an expiration date. (Then again, how is that in any way different from any promise uttered by Dear Leader?) So, if you thought Barack Obama was in any way a friend to Israel, or to the United States for that matter, bend over and kiss your touchas goodbye, because both have been sold down the river, and refused the requisite paddle.
You may be asking just exactly what kind of deal our clearly superior elites have struck on our behalf, armed with their immutable charm and vast intellect. Good question indeed. It seems that for the good faith shown on our behalf by freeing up all of the frozen terrorist connected assets used to bomb pizza shops, disco techs, and school buses the world over, which were financed by those lovable Mullahs and Ayatollahs, we have demanded that they actually accelerate their Uranium Enrichment program and centrifuge testing. Don’t worry your pretty little heads over this my friends, because John Kerry, or Inspector Clouseau as you probably know him, has promised to diligently check up on the Iranians to make sure their working at a reasonable pace towards, “wiping both the little Satan and the great Satan off of the map.” (Just to add a little perspective on this one, if you are a U.S. citizen, you are a member in good standing of the great Satan club.)
So what kind of gravitas does arrogant charm buy these days? As it turns out, not one thing more than it did when wielded by Neville Chamberlain, the original umbrella man himself. John Kerry, that highly evolved next generation to the step up in the world stature because Hillary is so much nicer than Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, failed to even get the concession that the now legitimized thugs running Iran today would publicly admit that Jews and Americans had the right to COEXIST on the same planet that they one day plan to rule via their Sharia compliant Caliphate. As the talking blood thirsty plant said in that classic, “Little Shop Of Horrors,” “you sure do drive a haaaaaaaaaard bargain.”
From the John Bolton Piece linked to above:
This interim agreement is 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. Allowing Iran to continue enriching, and despite modest (indeed, utterly inadequate) measures to prevent it from increasing its enriched-uranium stockpiles and its overall nuclear infrastructure, lays the predicate for Iran fully enjoying its “right” to enrichment in any “final” agreement. Indeed, the interim agreement itself acknowledges that a “comprehensive solution” will “involve a mutually defined enrichment program.” This is not, as the Obama administration leaked before the deal became public, a “compromise” on Iran’s claimed “right” to enrichment. This is abject surrender by the United States.
In exchange for superficial concessions, Iran achieved three critical breakthroughs. First, it bought time to continue all aspects of its nuclear-weapons program the agreement does not cover (centrifuge manufacturing and testing; weaponization research and fabrication; and its entire ballistic missile program). Indeed, given that the interim agreement contemplates periodic renewals, Iran may have gained all of the time it needs to achieve weaponization not of simply a handful of nuclear weapons, but of dozens or more.
For those who mindlessly repeat the phrase, “those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” should one day consider the lesson attempted in that all too true statement. As we have spent every day since November of 2008 repeating the history of the 1930’s, maybe we should take some step to avoid repeating the decade that followed. For those of you who have studied history at all, you might recognize that Hitler could easily have been stopped, if only the world had shown the slightest bit of political resolve prior to Winston Churchill being elected as Britain’s leader. (It’s at this point that I’d like to remind everyone that Barack Hussein Chamberlain had the Churchill Bust removed from the White House and returned to Britain.) Growing up, that was the deep thinker’s question du jour, “if you could go back in time and stop Hitler, would you do it?”
Here we are today, with the very same dolts holding up worthless pieces of paper, making the same worthless claims about peace in our time. All we need is just a little political resolve, before it’s too late.
Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Tags: Appeasement, Neville Chamberlain
