The Aberrant American Appeasement of Theocratic Iran Victor Davis Hanson
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The Obama–Biden pathological appeasement of Iran is shameful. Barack Obama cooked up the “Iran deal” design to ensure the development of an Iranian bomb—although not on his watch. Every aspect of that deal favored Iran, and then in quite an unconstitutional fashion he ignored the Senate and reclassified the treaty as an “accord” to avoid the need for ratification.
He brought in Robert Malley, the pro-Iranian, pro-Hamas leftwing journalist to help John Kerry slow down but also ensure an Iranian bomb. Kerry was so desperate to help Iran that even after office he met clandestinely with Iranian government officials in Paris to help undermine U.S. foreign policy under Trump and Pompeo.
When Iranian dissidents hit the streets in the 2009 Green Revolution, Obama had ignored them for days, terrified they might endanger his détente with the terrorist regime.
His apex? Sending cash on pallets by night to Tehran, apparently embarrassed by the Iranians into physically delivering dollars and euros, although careful, he thought, not to disclose that to the American people.
Remember the plan: empower Iran and its crescent of Assad’s Syria, Hezbollah, the Lebanese extremists, and Hamas. They collectively would put constant pressure on the Gulf Monarchies and help surround Israel.
The resulting “creative tension” would force Israel to grant concessions to the radical Palestinians. Under such a regime, the U.S. would then monitor the warp and woof, the Yin and Yang of the Middle East, with no clear friends and no clear enemies—but which in fact would create a de facto U.S. Iranian-American axis that would allow Nobel laureates like Obama now and then to pontificate to all.
Biden came into office with Obamites throughout his administration eager to go beyond their pro-Iranian advocacy under Obama. They were gleeful that Biden was non compos mentis and thus entirely malleable. He restored hundreds of millions of dollars to the West Bank and Gaza, resurrected Malley (who went “too far” and thus was soon to be fired and under FBI investigations) to reboot the Iran deal, almost immediately ostracized Netanyahu, interfered in Israeli politics by egging on the massive protests, lifted sanctions on Iran, prepared to send cash for hostages, and on and on.
The result? A now suddenly rich again Iran sent thousands of rockets to Hamas and tens of thousands to Hezbollah—the supposedly logical “check” on Israeli strategic options. Iran took more hostages for cash. Hamas poured its newfound millions into more tunneling, more missiles, and more drones.
And then the finale of 1,300 murdered Jews and a huge, existential war. A soon-to-be nuclear Iran exporting lethal drones to Russia and missiles and drones to Hezbollah and Hamas.
Was this the original grand dream of Obama—“creative tension”?
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