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Faced with the worst radical Islamist threat since Suleiman, Obama responded weakly, refusing to commit to more than nominally effective airstrikes. This was his answer to barbarians who were annihilating Christian communities that had existed in the Middle East for thousands of years. He allowed ISIS to grow into a force that is now a credible threat to take over Iraq and Syria.

Obama’s eventual solution further elevated Iran. In addition to Iranian-backed Shiite militias, there very well may have been Iranian regulars on the ground in the victory over ISIS in Tikrit.
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That gives Iran a military presence in Iraq, made legitimate by U.S. support of its mission there.

This is something the administration will likely deny or at least try to downplay, but it really amounts to a technicality anyway. Whether the Shiite troops were wearing official Iranian military uniforms or not, it was Iranian assets our U.S.
pilots were supporting in a battle our own military could have won even more easily.

The real game changer is the administration’s decision to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. Obama all but admitted this while commenting on the preliminary version of his infamous deal with the mullahs. Speaking to the fifteen-year time period the agreement covers, he said,

Of course, the pseudo-interviewer Steve Inskeep of National Propaganda Radio didn’t challenge the president on this statement. That’s because NPR is just an arm of the Obama administration. It’s a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party and always has been. So Obama was allowed to tell his fairy tale about how this deal will benefit America, her allies, and world peace. But that’s not what he was really saying. A real journalist would have drawn him out.

Allow me to translate what Obama really said during that interview. He admitted that his deal would allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons and future presidents would have to deal with it. During this interview he looked like a scared child who got caught lying and admits in a secret meeting with a friend, “Yeah, they’re going to get nukes, but it’s someone else’s problem.”

A real, adversarial media would have called him on the carpet for saying something this incompetent. If we lived in a rational society with a legitimate government, this one
statement alone might have led to impeachment. But we don’t. We have a weak anti-American in the White House and a largely nonexistent opposition party that refuses to do what they were elected to do and stop him.

Just to put the icing on the cake, Obama spent the weekend after his Iran deal went from bad to worse making friendly with Cuban president Raul Castro. That’s right, while millions of Cubans suffer in a prison nation, Obama dances with another devil.
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This time, it’s a full-blown communist who continues Fidel Castro’s regime of slavery over the captive island nation.

I go back and forth on this president. Sometimes I think he’s a power-mad dictator. But when I listen to interviews like the one he gave NPR, I think he might just be a pie-in-the-sky, daffy, academic lunatic who has no connection to reality. Then again, he knew the real world well enough to become president.

Still, the man sounds like a typical academic nut. He talks about Iran as if it exists in a vacuum, as if we know nothing about the mullahs. We don’t know they’re bloodthirsty murderers who have killed our own troops, vowed to wipe Israel off the map, and sponsored terrorism and revolution all over the Middle East, including the Houthi revolt in Yemen.

Anyone who gets elected to the White House is an egomaniac by definition. When you combine that with academic obliviousness, a pretty face, and a gift for oratory like Obama’s, you have someone very dangerous in your midst. That’s why we have a separation of powers, like the requirement that treaties have the advice
and consent
of the Senate. That’s supposed to prevent wrongheaded, disastrous, and dangerous deals like this one with the throwbacks in Iran.

Nevertheless, he goes on unopposed promoting the
Progressive-Islamist takeover, knowingly or not. He has Libya in flames, Egypt on the verge of civil war, ISIS rampaging in Iraq, Iran gaining influence throughout the Middle East, and Israel in a corner with its back to a wall of Islamic hate.

As I said, when you understand what is in the best interests of the American people, you can count on this administration to do exactly the opposite. It weakens our military from within and strengthens our enemies. It’s no surprise that it also alienates our allies.

Whether he’s incompetent, crazy, or crazy like a fox, Obama has obviously allied himself with the mullahs in Iran. That he’s fighting their proxies in Yemen at the same time is either the incompetent or crazy side of his policy. But you have to wonder what he meant when he made this statement:

Obviously, he’s talking about the kind of “dissatisfaction” characteristic of the Arab Spring he and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, helped engineer. He specifically addressed these comments to “our friends in the region, our traditional Sunni states.” That means Saudi Arabia, among others. What is he saying? Is this a veiled threat to incite the same kind of revolt in Saudi Arabia or just more pie-in-the-sky, academic naïveté?

Saudi Arabia can’t take it as anything other than a threat,
whether intentional or not. It’s as if Obama were saying, “Oppose me in my dealings with Iran and you’ll end up just like Gadhafi.” Of course, he says it all with a smile, in his usual passive-aggressive manner. Just like the racial incitements during his speech at Selma, he pretends he is acting in friendship. But if you were the Saudi king, how would you take it?

Then, just when you think you have this man figured out, he comes out with this in the same interview:

Now he’s back to the idiotic idea that radical Islam can be defeated by getting the throwbacks jobs or inspiring them to “start a business,” as one of his sorority girls said at a press conference earlier in the year. He’s like a raving lunatic, threatening revolution and regicide in one breath and talking about social programs and reform for the maniacs in the next.

Maybe he’s a Marxist revolutionary suffering from a messianic complex. He clearly wants to turn the world upside down and remake it in his own image. He issued a veiled threat to our ally Saudi Arabia about a possible uprising against their oppression, but when asked why the brutal theocrats in Iran shouldn’t fear the same fate, he says his nuclear deal will encourage “science, technology, and job creation.” Then, in the breath after that, he says his deal won’t necessarily lead to regime change or stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, but that’s a future president’s problem!

Whether he’s evil or just unbalanced, this man clearly cannot be trusted by America’s allies. The options are not great
in forming alliances with any of the Muslim nations, but the United States has traditionally partnered with more stable Sunni nations like Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt. Now, Obama has clearly sided with the Shiites in Iran, over the objections of Israel and our other allies.

No one trusts the Iranians. Israel obviously doesn’t trust them, but neither do most of our European allies, whose reaction was lukewarm at best. Most important, the American people do not trust them.

While the progressive
Washington Post
gleefully reported that a poll taken just before the preliminary deal showed a majority of Americans supported a deal with Iran, it also showed something else. Nearly 60 percent of those polled didn’t believe a deal would prevent Iran getting a nuclear weapon.

Whether that was a reflection of their faith in Obama or mistrust of the Iranians is unclear, but they have little reason to trust either party to these negotiations. One burns our flag literally, while the other does so figuratively with every speech, policy, and executive action.

The American people did not have to wait long to have their suspicions of Iran’s untrustworthiness confirmed. On the same day the preliminary deal was announced, Iran was already backing away from the terms the Obama administration claimed Iran had agreed to.

The administration’s fact sheet said “Iran will be required to grant access to the IAEA to investigate suspicious sites or allegations of a covert enrichment facility, conversion facility, centrifuge production facility, or yellowcake production facility
anywhere in the country
” (emphasis added). It also claimed, “All 6,104 centrifuges will be IR-1s, Iran’s first-generation centrifuge.”
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Immediately after this release, Iran’s defense minister denied that the agreement included inspection of military sites. He then told the Iranian parliament that Iran would begin using its much faster IR-8 centrifuges the day a permanent deal takes effect.
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A few days later, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made a speech that ostensibly accused the United States of lying about what the Iranians had agreed to and said that all sanctions on Iran must be lifted immediately upon enactment of a formal agreement. Khamenei also said he neither supports nor opposes the negotiations until the details are spelled out, saying “the deceptive other side wants to restrict us in the details.”
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Do you understand what he did? For all intents and purposes, he walked away from the negotiations, just as Netanyahu warned they would. There is no way the United States can agree to lift sanctions immediately upon signing a formal agreement, before Iran has demonstrated its compliance with any of its own responsibilities. Khamenei knows this. He’s just maneuvering for even more concessions out of a deal that already conceded too much to this murderous regime.

Netanyahu told Congress this would happen six weeks before it did. He told Congress on March 3 the Iranians would negotiate just as they do in the Persian rug markets. He advised the U.S. to walk away from them first, because Iran needs the deal more than the U.S. does.

Obama said he didn’t listen to the speech but had read the transcript. Apparently, he didn’t read it very carefully, or he was just too arrogant to take some good advice, because it appears the administration was completely blindsided by this predictable and predicted move by Iran.

At least one of three things is true. Either Iran began reneging on the preliminary deal before the ink was dry, the U.S. government was lying about what terms they really secured, or the U.S. government was just incompetent in negotiations. Maybe all three things are true. It really doesn’t matter; it was a bad deal for America and its allies from the start.

Our best and closest ally in the region is Israel, the only Western democracy there. The United States has strategic alliances with Muslim nations like Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, and Egypt, but Israel is the only nation in that region that is built upon values similar to the United States’. Unsurprisingly, it is this nation the Progressive-Islamist alliance attacks the most vehemently.

Obama failed in his attempt to foment a coup d’état in Israel during the last election. He sent hundreds of left-wing agitators to the country in the months leading up to the elections in an attempt to replace Netanyahu with someone who would not oppose the Progressive-Islamist agenda. When that failed, the administration continued its propaganda attacks on the Israeli government.

In an astounding example of misinformation, the White House tweeted a diagram mocking one used by Netanyahu during his historic speech to Congress. The administration’s diagram, a cartoon created by one of Obama’s sorority girls, no doubt, attempted to show that Iran would have a faster path to a nuclear weapon without the infamous nuclear deal, just one day after it admitted the deal would not actually prevent Iran from getting a nuke.
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It’s not only antagonistic toward Israel, but it insults the intelligence of the American people.

While Obama has alienated allies we already had, his worst strategic blunder may have been in turning a potential ally into
an enemy. I’m talking about Russian president Vladimir Putin, whom the administration has constantly gone out of its way to antagonize and demonize.

Postcommunist Russia’s interests don’t always align with the United States’, but Russia would certainly be a better fit than Iran. Russia is a large, powerful, First World nation that faces the same kinds of threats from radical Islam we face, only much closer to home. From an economic and political perspective, it is in the interests of the American people to foster closer ties with Russia.

Unfortunately, Russia and her nationalist, conservative president do not fit in with the Progressive-Islamist agenda. Putin’s domestic policies are not “gay friendly” enough for the progressives. He signed a law in 2013 that made it illegal to promote propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations to minors. It subjects anyone who promotes homosexuality to minors to a fine.

The liberal media went apoplectic. If you believe what they’ve said about it, you’d think Russian police were rounding up homosexuals. The law doesn’t make homosexuality illegal. As Putin himself said, “This should not look as if we intend to persecute people of some non-traditional orientation. One does not preclude the other. I believe that such balanced approach is absolutely the right one.”
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Personally, I would oppose such a law here in the United States, but let’s put things in perspective. If you promote homosexuality to children in Russia, you may be fined. Compare that to what happens to you just for
being a homosexual
in a radical Islamist country. There, you get thrown off a rooftop and stoned to death. Where is the progressive outrage over that?