bolton is a warmongering neocon zionist that should be ignored.
On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 10:42:44 AM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > Barack Obama and the Fatal Myth of Appeasement > <http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/03/12/barack-obama-and-the-fatal-myth-of-appeasement/> > > > MARCH 12, 2015 12:13 AM 12 COMMENTS > <http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/03/12/barack-obama-and-the-fatal-myth-of-appeasement/#comments> > *Author:* > > *John Bolton <http://www.algemeiner.com/author/john-bolton/>* > > > <http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/02/10/obama-omits-antisemitism-in-description-of-paris-kosher-supermarket-attack/obama-28/> > > President Barack Obama. Photo: White House. > > Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s powerful speech to Congress > about Iran’s nuclear weapons program now is behind us. America obviously > benefited by hearing directly from him about the brutal nuclear reality > Tehran’s ayatollahs have created and the risks posed by the ongoing > negotiations between Iran and the U.N. Security Council’s five permanent > members (plus Germany). > > Netanyahu was entirely justified in trying to influence debate about what > he rightly sees as an existential threat to his country. The deal now > pending is grievously flawed and, with near certainty, Iran will not comply > with it in any case. Secretary of State John Kerry has been wrong to say > that negative comments are unfair because no one yet knows the deal’s final > terms. In fact, the administration routinely has leaked provisions thought > to benefit President Obama; one can only wonder at the unleaked provisions > they think might be problematic. > > We should now put behind us the needless controversy preceding Netanyahu’s > address, which was little more than Barack Obama’s offended sense of amour > propre , a decidedly un-presidential response. The central focus should > always have been the mortal threat to the United States, Israel and other > friends and allies posed by the prospect of nuclear weapons in the hands of > Iran. > > Its religious fanatics have been the world’s central bankers for > international terrorism since the Islamic Revolution — their term to > describe the events of 1979, not mine — seized power in Iran. Their > militarized power base in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards has armed and > trained terrorists on an equal-opportunity basis: Shia Hezbollah in > Lebanon, anti-American militias in Iraq, Sunni Hamas in the Gaza Strip and > Iran’s sworn enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan. > > The ayatollahs seized America’s Tehran embassy in 1979 and took our > diplomats hostage — terrorist acts prohibited under long-standing treaty > commitments and international custom. This hostage crisis was the first > exposure most Americans had to the mindset that still grips Iran. It tells > us everything we need to know about how likely the mullahs are to keep > their word today. > > Of course, it didn’t stop there. Iran has been killing Americans since > Revolutionary Guards officers assisted in planning and carrying out the > 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon. They have fabricated > explosively formed projectiles, designed especially to penetrate armored > vehicles, to use against American forces in Iraq. > > Their assistance to the Taliban — what the Pentagon called “calibrated > lethal aid” in a 2014 report — also is aimed primarily at killing > Americans, either in terrorist attacks or more conventional combat. To > Iran’s ayatollahs, we have always been “the Great Satan.” > > So when the leader of Israel, which the ayatollahs are pleased to call > “the Little Satan,” speaks to Congress, we should listen, focusing on > substance rather than protocol. We urgently need to debate the deal’s > merits before Iran graciously accepts Obama’s too-numerous-to-list > concessions. Instead, in one of history’s cruel ironies, John Kerry > couldn’t meet with Netanyahu in Washington because he was in Geneva, > desperately trying to reach agreement with Iran’s negotiators. There is no > better way to demonstrate the Obama administration’s true priorities. > > Iran has, for more than 30 years, been pursuing a consistent, dogged > strategy intended to achieve its objective of deliverable nuclear weapons. > In seeking such an enormous military capability, Iran is prepared to make > temporary, easily reversible concessions along the way — always keeping in > mind the limited, time-bound nature of these arrangements. It has done so > repeatedly in the past, and it is doing so again in the current > negotiations. To the ayatollahs, deals are tactical maneuvers, not efforts > to resolve disputes. > > Particularly difficult for Americans to understand is that, when the deal > is signed, the negotiating will not be over. In fact, to Iran, agreements > are just hitching posts along the trail toward deliverable nuclear weapons, > temporary resting places before Iran begins its inexorable search for > further weaknesses, leverage points and terms of the deal it will violate. > > By contrast, Obama is not pursuing a strategy but a myth called > appeasement. Appeasers hope that buying off potential adversaries with > concessions and demonstrations of goodwill would dissuade them from > committing aggression. When dealing with insignificant threats in secondary > regions at minimal costs, concessions of this sort might make sense. Or as > an act of desperation, when no other alternatives are available, such > concessions might also work. > > But for mortal threats to security of our country and its allies — even > their very existence — against an implacable opponent, where the costs of > weakness are enormous, appeasement is a fatal mistake. Obama hopes that by > making concessions on economic sanctions and perhaps even diplomatic > recognition, he can somehow make the ayatollahs forget their own strategic > objectives. This is delusional, as we shall regrettably see soon after the > agreement is announced. > > *John Bolton, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, was > the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations and, previously, > the undersecretary of State for arms control and international security. > **This > article was originally published by The Pittsburgh Tribune Review.* > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "beowulf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmNzE0ZzFxBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0MjYyNTk1MTI-> > > > > [image: Yahoo! 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