why is Iran spitting in Obama's face on his policies ---- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91150432
On May 18, 3:07 pm, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > This One They Can't Blame on George Bush > <http://www.bizzyblog.com/2010/05/18/this-one-they-cant-blame-on-georg...> > > Filed under: National Security > <http://www.bizzyblog.com/category/national-security/>, Taxes & > Government <http://www.bizzyblog.com/category/taxes-government/> --- > TBlumer @ 9:57 am > > Oh of course they'll try anyway. As noted yesterday > <http://www.bizzyblog.com/2010/05/17/thank-you-chuck-green/>, it's what > they do. > > A Wall Street Journal editorial > <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870331540457525017200004...> > this morning dissects a serious diplomatic botch. The nation's lapdog > press establishment will ignore this, or dress it is up some way, but > the real result is that our country and our allies are less safe: > > *Iran's Nuclear Coup* > Ahmadinejad and Lula expose Obama's hapless diplomacy. > > What a fiasco. That's the first word that comes to mind watching > Mahmoud Ahmadinejad raise his arms yesterday with the leaders of > Turkey and Brazil to celebrate a new atomic pact that instantly made > irrelevant 16 months of President Obama's "diplomacy." The deal is a > political coup for Tehran and possibly delivers the coup de grace to > the West's half-hearted efforts to stop Iran from acquiring a > nuclear bomb. > > Full credit for this debacle goes to the Obama Administration and > its hapless diplomatic strategy. Last October, nine months into its > engagement with Tehran, the White House concocted a plan to transfer > some of Iran's uranium stock abroad for enrichment. If the West > couldn't stop Iran's program, the thinking was that maybe this > scheme would delay it. The Iranians played coy, then refused to > accept the offer. > > But Mr. Obama doesn't take no for an answer from rogue regimes, and > so he kept the offer on the table. As the U.S. finally seemed ready > to go to the U.N. Security Council for more sanctions, the Iranians > chose yesterday to accept the deal on their own limited terms while > enlisting the Brazilians and Turks as enablers and political shields. > > ... Under the terms unveiled yesterday, Iran said it would send > 1,200 kilograms (2,646 lbs.) of low-enriched uranium to Turkey > within a month, and no more than a year later get back 120 kilograms > enriched from somewhere else abroad. This makes even less sense than > the flawed October deal. In the intervening seven months, Iran has > kicked its enrichment activities into higher gear. Its estimated > total stock has gone to 2,300 kilograms from 1,500 kilograms last > autumn, and its stated enrichment goal has gone to 20% from 3.5%. > > If the West accepts this deal, Iran would be allowed to keep > enriching uranium in contravention of previous U.N. resolutions. > Removing 1,200 kilograms will leave Iran with still enough > low-enriched stock to make a bomb, and once uranium is enriched up > to 20% it is technically easier to get to bomb-capable enrichment > levels. > > Only last week, diplomats at the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy > Agency reported that Iran has increased the number of centrifuges it > is using to enrich uranium. According to Western intelligence > estimates, Iran continues to acquire key nuclear components, such as > trigger mechanisms for bombs. Tehran says it wants to build > additional uranium enrichment plants. The CIA recently reported that > Iran tripled its stockpile of uranium last year and moved "toward > self-sufficiency in the production of nuclear missiles." Yesterday's > deal will have no impact on these illicit activities. > > The deal will, however, make it nearly impossible to disrupt Iran's > nuclear program short of military action. > > ... The U.N. is certainly a dead end. *After 16 months of his > extended hand and after downplaying support for Iran's democratic > opposition, Mr. Obama now faces an Iran much closer to a bomb and > less diplomatically isolated than when President Bush left office.* > > Israel will have to seriously consider its military options. ... > > The "downplaying support for Iran's democratic opposition" is an > especially disgraceful (see "Related" items below). This administration > will focus more energy on a state like Arizona doing something to > protect itself from federal folly than it will to support freedom > fighters with a chance of upending the civilized world's most immediate > threat. > > Now the threat is even more immediate. > > Heckuva job, Barry ... and Hillary. > > _________________________________________________ > > *Related:* > > * Oct. 6, 2009 > > <http://www.bizzyblog.com/2009/10/06/state-dept-pulls-funding-from-ira...>, > at BizzyBlog --- State Dept. Pulls Funding From Iran Human Rights > Watchdog Despite Tehran's Vulnerability > * Aug. 21 > > <http://www.bizzyblog.com/2009/08/21/that-engagement-thing-with-iran-i...>, > at BizzyBlog -- That 'Engagement' Thing With Iran Hasn't Worked > Out So Well > * July 11, 2009, from Andy McCarthy at National Review > > <http://article.nationalreview.com/399763/obama-frees-iranian-terror-m...> > --- "Obama Frees Iranian Terror Masters" > * July 5, 2009 > > <http://www.bizzyblog.com/2009/07/05/techs-repressive-dark-side-threat...>, > at BizzyBlog -- Tech's Repressive Dark Side Threatens Us All > * June 27, 2009, from Jose Maria Aznar in the Wall Street Journal > > <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124605649582063489.html#mod=djemEdito...> > --- "Silence Has Consequences for Iran; The less we protest, the > more people will die." > * On June 20, 2009, Victor Davis Hanson > <http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/this-is-the-moment/> > asked, "Does not Obama see that the world has been given a rare > chance, thanks to brave Iranians---as if the German people had > risen up in 1938 in fear of what was on the horizon?" > * On June 16, 2009, yours truly said this in a "Roundup" post > <http://www.bizzyblog.com/2009/06/16/lucid-links-061609-morning/> > --- "It has become downright embarrassing watching this > administration dither and fumble around trying to figure out how > to react straightforwardly to humanity's cry for freedom and > representative government in Iran." > > Comments [moderated] (0) <http://www.bizzyblog.com/?comments_popup=20626> > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help seehttp://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community athttp://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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