McChrystal vs Obama

Fox News: Reports on a meeting between the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mullen and the US Commander in Afghanistan General McChrystal, the article states that Mullen will agree that McChrystal needs between thirty and forty thousand troops in Afghanistan. Thus President Obama has Afghanistan and Iran on his plate, never mind health care reform, am reading the McChrystal report at the minute and as stated in previous post can understand why Obama is having third thoughts, I would also, but the time for third thoughts was at the start of the Administration, that's the problem when you make one war the Just War and the other war the bad war, in this case Iraq. At the start of the Administration Obama sent out another twenty one thousand troops, taking the US forces up to seventy thousand troops in theatre, now that the US military is asking for thousands more the West Wing is getting wobbly, the major player for the reduction of troops is VP Biden, he is opposed by the Secretaries of State and Defence and the US military. As Obama has sold out Poland and Czech Republic already can he afford to sell out Afghanistan, if he does wobble Iran will know it has clear had to go nuclear, and then we have an Israeli strike on Iran. Thus the Afghanistan decision will ramifications beyond Afghanistan, it could decide the fate of Pakistan, Israel and Iran.

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.

Secret Second Nuclear Plant in Iran

BBC News: Reports on the reaction by the USA, France and the UK on the discovery that Iran has a second secret nuclear plant. Of the three statements UK PM Gordon Brown has the strongest reaction, PM Brown stated the following, " America, the United Kingdom, and France are at one. Iran's nuclear program is the most urgent proliferation challenge that the world faces today. As President Obama and President Sarkozy have just said, the level of deception by the Iranian government, and the scale of what we believe is the breach of international commitments, will shock and anger the whole international community, and it will harden our resolve. Confronted by the serial deception of many years, the international community has no choice today but to draw a line in the sand. On October the 1st, Iran must now engage with the international community and join the international community as a partner. If it does not do so, it will be further isolated. And I say on behalf of the United Kingdom today, we will not let this matter rest. And we are prepared to implement further and more stringent sanctions. Let the message that goes out to the world be absolutely clear: that Iran must abandon any military ambitions for its nuclear program. " It can postulated that Iran will try to draw out any discussions, the hope being that while the West talks Iran can become a nuclear power. The Government in Tehran want tough sanctions, the left wing elite media will play up the result, how the sanctions hurt the innocent people of Iran. This road has one end, Israel will hit Iran and Iran will strike US forces in Iraq, its now matter of a tedious process.