Thsi is a pretty good article in the New York Post:
Ever since John Boehner announced Benjamin Netanyahu would be addressing Congress, Obama officials have been screaming how the GOP House leader and the Israeli prime minister have spit in their faces — and vowing behind the scenes to make them pay.
Then again, maybe they’re vilifying the messenger to distract from the message.
Because Netanyahu’s main focus will be on Iran and the dangers of the nuclear deal President Obama is pursuing with Tehran.
Iran is the chief exporter of global terrorism.
It arms and finances Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. Its responsibility for the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center is also at the heart of the assassination of an Argentine prosecutor investigating Iran’s role.
Netanyahu is likely to note that a deal that keeps Iran on the edge of nuclear capability will ignite an arms race among America’s longtime Arab allies: oil-rich Sunni gulf states such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which fear Tehran just as much as does Netanyahu.
Pretty heavy stuff. People keep forgetting, because it is convenient to forget, that Iran has been the chief exporter of terrorism for going on 35 years now. They didn’t back al Qaeda, it is true, but the rise of another terrorist power doesn’t =mean the first has gone away. Obama wants Iran to get atomic weapons. That is the end game of his “negotiations” with Iran. That should terrify everybody. Last week it looked like a Democrat was going to finally put country over party, but someone talked to him, and Bob Menendez backed down. The Republicans should be screaming, and they are in their way. Inviting Netanyahu to speak when the White House so clearly doesn’t want him to is an important first step.
In this, he would echo one of the president’s own former military commanders, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis who says the options will be “very bleak” if Iran comes away from any US deal with its nuclear program intact.
Apart from the president’s desperation to produce some policy triumph in the Middle East, he is no doubt thinking Iran will be an ally in the fight against the Sunni terrorists such as ISIS.
Talk about rose-colored glasses: Sen. John McCain rightly calls the idea that a deal with Iran means we’ll all be working together “delusional.”
In recent weeks alone, Iranian-backed forces have taken the capital of Yemen; Iranian-backed Hezbollah has killed two Israei soldiers; Iran’s influence in Iraq grows while America’s declines; while in Iran itself the nation is about to put a Washington Post reporter on trial.
So forget Netanyahu the messenger. Far more critical is the timely message about Iran he will deliver.
I hate to copy the whole article like that, but it is a short article, and it is packed with information. Obama is going to leave Iran’s nuclear program intact. We already know that. The centrifuges will keep spinning no matter what pretty words Obama gets on paper. That is, and the General says, a very bleak position to leave us in. At best Obama is going to come away with some kind of Munich accord with Iran on nuclear weapons. That is what he is shooting for. Peace in our time. Iran is on the move. We have a rising enemy in the Islamic State, and the Islamic State is Sunni and thus a rival against Iran’s Islamic Republic for power in the Caliphate, but we cannot count on them being more interested in fighting each other than in fighting us. Unlike the Obama Administration, I’d say both powers can walk and chew gum at the same time. As long as they know America is going to remain passive, they can both work their schemes against us even as they prepare to square off on the battlefield to decide whether the rising Caliphate will be ran by Sunnis or Shi’ites. And either one of those is of the gravest concern for the United States. We are watching the rise of our next great enemy, and Obama is bound and determined to make certain that at least one of them is armed with nuclear weapons. It is time to be afraid now.
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