Friday, September 25, 2009

Obama and Iran



The New York Times: Reports that President Obama has become more hawkish about Iran, the NYT writes the following, " Mr. Obama appears to have made a leap toward viewing tough new sanctions against Iran as an inevitability. " It will be interesting to see how the Liberal New York Times plays this story, the extreme Liberal NYT would like nothing better than for President Obama to go to Iran and accept a nuclear Iran, the NYT sees no difference between Iran and Israel when it comes to nuclear weapons. Of the statements this afternoon UK time, of the three leaders it can be argued that President Obama looked more tepid, the President stated the following, " It is time for Iran to act immediately to restore the confidence of the international community by fulfilling its international obligations. We remain committed to serious, meaningful engagement with Iran to address the nuclear issue through the P5-plus-1 negotiations. " As with Afghanistan one gets the impression that Obama has a problem being tough, like LBJ he wants to be loved, than can be problem, at the end of the day the President of the United States carries the Big Stick, POTUS should be feared, Reagan was feared, Reagan ended the Cold War, one gets the impression that when it comes to the hard slog of running a Government Obama does not have the temperament, he lacks both LBJ and Reagan's skill with Congress and his fear of getting another Vietnam in Afghanistan is showing to his Allies than in a corner you cant count on Obama, just ask Poland and the Czech Republic. The liberal elite will start to argue that since Israel has the bomb the West should allow Iran to have the bomb, you heard it here first folks. The Anti War movement will added a defence of Iran to their calls for the USA to get out of Afghanistan, they will argue that the US presence in Iraq and Afghanistan is one of the reasons that the Iran wants to go nuclear. Thus we shall see if Obama can stand up to his left, if in Israel gets the planes fuelled, it seems Israel will have to protect Western security if Obama fails the test.

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