Historians will look back and wonder how the U.S. not only allowed Iran to repeatedly assault its citizens, soldiers, and allies—but rewarded it for doing so.
Excellent piece. Obama sowed the seeds. The feel good peaceniks who love Barry O. will never admit he is ether a fool or hates the West. Despite Obama's horrific decisions Trump left Biden with as stable an international order as we've seen in my lifetime. He left Biden with a Middle East in better shape than we've ever seen. If Biden did NOTHING it would have been okay. The Obamanistas, Bidenistas, Clintonistas are all to blame. I'm no Trumper, but MAGA works. Our allies were safe and our enemies were on the run.
The dominant perception of Obama continues to be one of a well-intentioned, albeit naive, statesman who had the best of intentions, some of which didn't pan out. I look forward to the day when Obama will be recognized for the subversive demonic creature that he really is.
Once you begin to see that everything Obama did has served to weaken and destabilize America, both internally as well as internationally, everything falls into place. You have to admire his brazen courage to do things he did, from inviting the Muslim Brotherhood to his Cairo speech all the way to throwing billions at the Ayatollahs as part of a "reset of our ME policy"—and he got away with it all. Mr. Smooth, the debonair well-spoken black man, the Iago who charmed the pants off the liberal intelligentsia, and nearly brought down Western civilization single-handedly.
Yes! Very well said. Chamberlain was duped, but he wasn't the only one. In many respects he was a good leader. He even expressed regret for his decisions. Our current class (I use the term loosely) of politicians present no such humility.
Why? He is Muslim. Don’t know if his Nigerian father was Muslim but we know his Indonesian stepfather was Muslim. And in his autobiography, he said he rejected his grandmother’s culture for his fathers. Did he not bow to Muslim dignatories?
Too far. Let’s stick with policy and facts. This type of “he is a Muslim” is the reason our congress does not work together on important issues. The Obamas are Christians. President Obama followed a foreign policy with which you disagree. Our world is in trouble and can only be steered to preservation of our country by civilized discussion of policy.
No doubt that’s why Obama attended Very Christian Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for 2 decades. Gotta watch out for them Church of Christ folks—downright radical!
Obama attended both Catholic and Muslim schools in Indonesia before living with his grandparents in Hawaii, where he attended a secular, private high school.
Sounds like maybe his parents wanted the best schools available wherever he lived—downright subversive concept!
My father was a Mormon, and I’m a Presbyterian; my brother and his Jewish wife are unchurched. The religion of the father means diddly-squat.
And yet he chose to follow another culture. What’s your point? Don’t think denominational choice is the same. I will give you the point that he may not practice any faith.
My apologies, I thought my point was clear. Obama’s father religion is not predictive of Obama’s religion or faith tradition.
But at no point in his life did Obama, or anyone who knew him growing up, in college, in his adult life see any evidence or indication he was or is his father’s religion (Muslim)—which is what you wrote. His was a cross-cultural upbringing—Indonesia and America; Catholic school, Muslim school, secular school, first Black president of The Harvard Law Review, etc
I think we in the West do not grasp what the call to prayer is saying, which in effect is: “Allah is great” the same thing we hear Muslim militants chant all over the world as they fire off their weapons and slaughter the innocent. Especially after Oct. 7, I would conclude that this so called beautiful sound is the call of evil.
The “call to prayer” unnerves me. For our daughter’s college graduation gift we took her to Istanbul. We got in late, had a late dinner and exhaustingly fell into bed only to shoot out of bed at dawn by the ghastly shrieking coming from the Blue Mosque minaret. My husband, who had traveled extensively throughout the Middle East still laughs at our freight. And absolutely no comparison to church bells….spent over a year in Italy and miss the sound of hourly church bells
Loved Amsterdam's Westerkerk bells. One "tune" in particular was chillingly beautiful, but try as I might I never found a recording of it on the internet. And I was there pre-cellphone videos.
Fair enough. I voted for him in the generals in '16 and '20 and I will in '24. I did not vote for him in the '16 primaries and I was going to vote for DeSantis in '24. I chose Trump in this year's primary because the other choices did not include DeSantis. In NY Christie, Haley, and Ramaswamy were the other options and I do not like any of them at all. I'll let everyone else decide, then, if I am or am not a Trumper.
At least with Trump you know exactly what you’re getting, he not shy to let us know what his intentions are, and America will be a hell of a lot better off.
In my defense, I was trying to be civil. I would proudly Don the Kipa (I'm catholic), wave the Israeli flag (I'm not an Israeli), and I would not go anywhere near John Bolton. Years ago I thought he was good. We all make mistakes.
Bolton is definitely a weird egg. Many people that I respect dislike him and don't trust him. Nevertheless, to his credit, he was the first person I encountered (at a conference on Lawfare in Jerusalem) who opened my eyes to the treacherous agenda of the globalists. He explained how they were creating an "upper tier" of international organizations beyond the reach of democratically elected governments and nation states (e.g., WEF, WHO, etc.). And that was about 7 or 8 years ago. Just for the record...
One who reaches Bolton's status must have something going for him, and he's better than virtually anyone on the other side. That he's so anti-Trump is disappointing. This could be said of many "conservatives."
This administration’s inability to identify immorality and evil, and to promote policies and actions to deter its perpetrators has been a heartbreaking shortcoming that has contributed to much devastation. I agree with Mr. Oren that in a nominative attempt to avoid escalation, the US has let things get more out of hand. Signaling weakness should not be an American foreign policy strategy.
I would only ask readers to not think “this administration”. It’s “the Democrat Party, Biden included”. Every single Democrat has been in lock step with what Biden (as a proxy for Obama himself) has demanded.
When the Democrats nominate someone else out of their convention, they’ll all sing in unison “that was Joe, don’t worry we changed him out”. Don’t fall for it. They voted with the guy, this all is as much each one of theirs as it is Joe / Joe’ administration.
Every single one of them, plus the convince of Covid manufactured by them as well to shift the 2020 election straight into the Devil!s hands. Be careful come 2024 we have got to get them out of power!
This article has a link to a Politico story outlining how the Obama administration empowered Iran’s terror campaign and nuclear program. Everyone owes it to themselves to read it and your jaw will drop at the foolishness and recklessness of that administration. I really never knew how much danger and violence the Obama foreign policy enabled, not only against our allies, but against our soldiers and even the civilian US mainland.
Some quotes:
On facilitating Assad’s chemical warfare attacks on his own citizens:
“Project Cassandra members say administration officials also blocked or undermined their efforts to go after other top Hezbollah operatives including one nicknamed the ‘Ghost’. One of the most mysterious alleged associates of Safieddine, secretly indicted by the U.S., linked to multi-ton U.S.-bound cocaine loads and weapons shipments to Middle East, allowing them to remain active despite being under sealed U.S. indictment for years. People familiar with his case say the Ghost has been one of the world’s biggest cocaine traffickers, including to the U.S., as well as a major supplier of conventional and chemical weapons for use by Syrian President Bashar Assad against his people.”
On trafficking drugs to America:
“The derailment of Project Cassandra also has undermined U.S. efforts to determine how much cocaine from the various Hezbollah-affiliated networks is coming into the United States, especially from Venezuela, where dozens of top civilian and military officials have been under investigation for more than a decade. Recently, the Trump administration designated the country’s vice president, a close ally of Hezbollah and of Lebanese-Syrian descent, as a global narcotics kingpin.”
On facilitating the murder of American soldiers:
“Meanwhile, in Iraq, the U.S. military was probing the role of Iran in outfitting Shiite militias with high-tech improvised explosive devices known as Explosively Formed Penetrators, or EFPs, that had already killed hundreds of U.S. soldiers.”
Michigan is a presidential election battleground State. Biden’s handlers don’t care about what is strategically advantageous for the U.S., much less Israel. They care about maintaining political power above all else.
I just happened to begin reading The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larsen's book about Churchill during WWII, this weekend and one of my first thoughts after hearing the news about Iran's attack and the American president's warning to Israel that our government wouldn't support a retaliation, is thank effing hell we had a few leaders with enough spine, moral clarity, and devotion to the spirit of Western Civilization--no matter how imperfect--to keep going after Germany felled France or my recent trip to Paris would have required a German dictionary. I'm finding more and more parallels between the cowards and spinmakers of WWII and the "thought leaders" and mealy-mouthed politicians du jour. You can't appease evil. (A word which, by the way, I can find few true real life applications for; it is not used lightly here.) You can only destroy it or chase it relentlessly--keep on the run, without rest or safe harbor, so it has no time to organize. No matter how "complicated" the story behind Israel and the Middle East is, a simple and powerfully clarifying fact remains: Khamenei's regime, with Russia's help, would wipe the US and its "infidel" friends off the map if given an clean shot. It's been practicing for years already, almost entirely unchecked. If that fact doesn't sober you up enough to know whose side you're on, it's likely nothing will. To use Sam Harris' words, there is a "bright line between good and evil" in this moment in history and history rarely offers us such a gift.
The only thing missing is the fact that Joe Biden eliminate oil sanctions on Iran over the past three years, which put billions into its foreign currency reserve account.
Obama / Biden
This is why 10/7 happened and the main stream press is silent.
Thank you Bari for including Ambassador Oren’s article today.
The story mentions quietly relieving sanctions that benefitted Iran.
Our canadian Liberal party govt has the same mental disease, they couldn’t reduce or eliminate sanctions on Iran fast enough after being elected in 2015
It's not a mental disease or a lapse in judgment. It's evidence of an evil agenda. For some reason, people are reluctant to see what's obviously treacherous behavior.
It’s the military industrial complex that owns the politicians. They make lots of money during times of conflict. Yes, conspiracy theory black helicopter guy….
Churchill used to say, America will do the right thing in the end after it has exhausted every other avenue. I keep hoping that the latest fiasco will be last but alas.
Great article! Another important anti-Israel action of Joe Biden was to kill the East Med gas pipeline in 2022 which would have brought Israel natural gas into Europe via Greece and Cypress. It was meant to counteract Russian supply of Natural gas to Europe, and make Europe less susceptible to Russian Energy blackmail. It was a pet project of the Trump administration. Biden killed it in 2022, Russia knew it could invade Ukraine with impunity because its energy blackmail hand was strengthened. An impressive blunder by the Biden administration and never mentioned by the mainstream media.
Not a blunder by the Biden Administration . A cold blooded act of TREASON. They deserve the prescribed penalty for TREASON. You know what that penalty is.
The Obamas capitulation to Iran, essentially being their bitch, was not an achievement. Trump, completely elided in this essay of course, had a real achievement, containing the Iranians and bankrupting them and then offing their chief evil demon solemani.
Biden, like the Obama, completely gave away the farm once again and is even a bigger Iranian bitch. We need to be rid of this meddlesome idiot.
As admiral Painter said, “This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.“
It’s classic appeasement. Anyone who knows their history knows how it turned out for Neville Chamberlain who tried the same with Adolph Hitler. And it’s classic for our policies to shift based on political assessment in the US, instead of based on the situation on the ground. We got into a foolish war in Iraq, not a real threat, and then left Iran alone because there was so much fatigue from Middle East conflicts. At the end of the day the enemy looks for and acts upon weakness, whether it’s a playground bully or a Islamic republic.
The Democratic Party is the Jew killing party. If you voted for Biden, you have Jewish blood on your hands as well as American and innocent Muslim blood., because all that Biden is doing was foreseeable. Schumer and Nadler are responsible as well, for enriching and empowering Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Hoothies, Syrian and Iraqi terrorists, and undermining the Israeli government, it's war effort and peace initiatives with the Arab states. Don't get me started on how the Democrats are screwing us domestically. It's not a coincidence that the anti-Jew party is the anti-American party.
On July 14, 2015, as President Obama was advocating for the JCPOA, David Sanger wrote: "Mr. Obama is essentially betting that once sanctions have been lifted, Iran’s leaders will have no choice but to use much of the new money to better the lives of their long-suffering citizens. He has told his aides that he expects relatively little to be spent to finance terrorism."
Yup, if the underlying premise was for Iran to become more moderate and that, with the benefit of hindsight, is a failed premise, why would the Biden Administration continue to pursue a path to give Iran nuclear capabilities ? Especially when Iran has more oil than most ?
and yet not $1 of the money has been spent. It is frozen in an account in Doha. But, the oil waiver allowing South Korea and seven other countries to purchase oil from Iran that Trump approved helped divert money to Iran which could be spent on anything they wanted. Damn those pesky facts.
Not true that not $1 has been spent. The Congress blocked the $6 billion released by the Administration. It could not block the sanctions waiver issued by the State Department that gave Iran access to $10 billion coming from the revenue from Iran’s electricity shipments to Iraq.
Every one of your inane comments makes you appear to be a shill for Iran. Are you being paid to propagandize or is advocating for terrorists and global campaigns of violence just a hobby for you?
Shill for Iran? I'm stating FACTS. I thought the right was about facts and the left about feelings. The Horseshoe Theory is on full on display here with your "Trump good" approach. Do you want to address the oil waiver granted by your god that allowed Iran to profit when they should have been prohibited from selling to any country?
Maybe instead of just calling anyone who opposed the JCPOA racist (let's call them, The Right), those who supported it should have recognized that it empowered Israel's greatest enemy. Why, I wonder? Maybe the same reason the leaders of the Women's March were virulent antisemites, that darlings of the Left like Al Sharpton is an antisemite (Freddy was unavailable for comment), that colleges are bastions of antisemitism, the list goes on.
Iran was rewarded for its aggression much earlier, in 1979, when it attacked our embassy, held Americans hostage, and effectively declared war on the US. This was never properly addressed, the Islamic Totalitarians throughout the world have been emboldened, and the world has paid a very heavy price.
Too much mixed messaging from the Americans. That’s the problem. When it comes to Iran and the existential threat to Israel, Israel is just going to do what it has to do to defend itself. FTW.
Excellent piece. Obama sowed the seeds. The feel good peaceniks who love Barry O. will never admit he is ether a fool or hates the West. Despite Obama's horrific decisions Trump left Biden with as stable an international order as we've seen in my lifetime. He left Biden with a Middle East in better shape than we've ever seen. If Biden did NOTHING it would have been okay. The Obamanistas, Bidenistas, Clintonistas are all to blame. I'm no Trumper, but MAGA works. Our allies were safe and our enemies were on the run.
The dominant perception of Obama continues to be one of a well-intentioned, albeit naive, statesman who had the best of intentions, some of which didn't pan out. I look forward to the day when Obama will be recognized for the subversive demonic creature that he really is.
Once you begin to see that everything Obama did has served to weaken and destabilize America, both internally as well as internationally, everything falls into place. You have to admire his brazen courage to do things he did, from inviting the Muslim Brotherhood to his Cairo speech all the way to throwing billions at the Ayatollahs as part of a "reset of our ME policy"—and he got away with it all. Mr. Smooth, the debonair well-spoken black man, the Iago who charmed the pants off the liberal intelligentsia, and nearly brought down Western civilization single-handedly.
Great post - Obama still bringing us down to this very day, maybe not single handily, now he has Brandon and Kamala adding him.
Yes Sam, I totally agree. Intentional harm to America & the West, weakening us at home & abroad, destroying long-trusted institutions and norms.
Yes. This is the feature, not the bug. I believe that wholeheartedly.
Joe Biden is the Neville Chamberlain of our time, ably assisted by Barack Obama.
...ably *directed* by Barack Obama.
There, I fixed it for you.
Exactly what I was thinking!
Very unfair to Neville Chamberlain. More like Rodney Dangerfield: no respect!!
Yes! Very well said. Chamberlain was duped, but he wasn't the only one. In many respects he was a good leader. He even expressed regret for his decisions. Our current class (I use the term loosely) of politicians present no such humility.
The difference is that Rodney deserved respect.
I wish! I'd take Chamberlain over nearly every Democrat in my lifetime. I'm 57, so I speak with some experience.
I think of the dynamic duo as Renfield, the fly eater, ably directed by Count Dracula...
Obama famously declared that the evening call to prayer was one of the most beautiful sounds on Earth.
Why? His immediate outreach and coddling of Iran upon assuming office is of a piece.
Why? He is Muslim. Don’t know if his Nigerian father was Muslim but we know his Indonesian stepfather was Muslim. And in his autobiography, he said he rejected his grandmother’s culture for his fathers. Did he not bow to Muslim dignatories?
Too far. Let’s stick with policy and facts. This type of “he is a Muslim” is the reason our congress does not work together on important issues. The Obamas are Christians. President Obama followed a foreign policy with which you disagree. Our world is in trouble and can only be steered to preservation of our country by civilized discussion of policy.
No doubt that’s why Obama attended Very Christian Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for 2 decades. Gotta watch out for them Church of Christ folks—downright radical!
Obama attended both Catholic and Muslim schools in Indonesia before living with his grandparents in Hawaii, where he attended a secular, private high school.
Sounds like maybe his parents wanted the best schools available wherever he lived—downright subversive concept!
My father was a Mormon, and I’m a Presbyterian; my brother and his Jewish wife are unchurched. The religion of the father means diddly-squat.
And yet he chose to follow another culture. What’s your point? Don’t think denominational choice is the same. I will give you the point that he may not practice any faith.
My apologies, I thought my point was clear. Obama’s father religion is not predictive of Obama’s religion or faith tradition.
But at no point in his life did Obama, or anyone who knew him growing up, in college, in his adult life see any evidence or indication he was or is his father’s religion (Muslim)—which is what you wrote. His was a cross-cultural upbringing—Indonesia and America; Catholic school, Muslim school, secular school, first Black president of The Harvard Law Review, etc
Understand. I was not clear…not attending Mosque is a religious choice. I was referring to cultural choices
To be fair, the sounds of the muezzin in Jerusalem can be beautiful.
On the other hand, I know of someone who, startled by the nocturnal noise, fell out of his bunk bed at one of the church hospices and broke his arm.
And on rare occasions when the wind carries the sound in Brooklyn, I'm not a fan. I prefer church bells.
The Sound of the Satanic Verse. Evil in the air.
I think we in the West do not grasp what the call to prayer is saying, which in effect is: “Allah is great” the same thing we hear Muslim militants chant all over the world as they fire off their weapons and slaughter the innocent. Especially after Oct. 7, I would conclude that this so called beautiful sound is the call of evil.
The “call to prayer” unnerves me. For our daughter’s college graduation gift we took her to Istanbul. We got in late, had a late dinner and exhaustingly fell into bed only to shoot out of bed at dawn by the ghastly shrieking coming from the Blue Mosque minaret. My husband, who had traveled extensively throughout the Middle East still laughs at our freight. And absolutely no comparison to church bells….spent over a year in Italy and miss the sound of hourly church bells
I agree. Its terrifying.
Loved Amsterdam's Westerkerk bells. One "tune" in particular was chillingly beautiful, but try as I might I never found a recording of it on the internet. And I was there pre-cellphone videos.
Trump 24!
Be a Trumper William, in your own words his policies worked.
Fair enough. I voted for him in the generals in '16 and '20 and I will in '24. I did not vote for him in the '16 primaries and I was going to vote for DeSantis in '24. I chose Trump in this year's primary because the other choices did not include DeSantis. In NY Christie, Haley, and Ramaswamy were the other options and I do not like any of them at all. I'll let everyone else decide, then, if I am or am not a Trumper.
At least with Trump you know exactly what you’re getting, he not shy to let us know what his intentions are, and America will be a hell of a lot better off.
Brad 204 days to go it’s just about here hold on “the Boss is coming”
Indeed!
Yah I’ve decided “TRUMPER”
Is it the Dems love for “never ending” wars? Do they come with a laundromat?
They certainly do Barry.
Was he just a 'feel good peacenik' or an enemy of the state?
I stand corrected.
Well said. Perfectly and succinctly stated. I could not agree more.
Thank you.
Feel good peaceniks? You and this guy should get a room. Invite Bolton.
Don't forget your yamulkas.
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In my defense, I was trying to be civil. I would proudly Don the Kipa (I'm catholic), wave the Israeli flag (I'm not an Israeli), and I would not go anywhere near John Bolton. Years ago I thought he was good. We all make mistakes.
Bolton is definitely a weird egg. Many people that I respect dislike him and don't trust him. Nevertheless, to his credit, he was the first person I encountered (at a conference on Lawfare in Jerusalem) who opened my eyes to the treacherous agenda of the globalists. He explained how they were creating an "upper tier" of international organizations beyond the reach of democratically elected governments and nation states (e.g., WEF, WHO, etc.). And that was about 7 or 8 years ago. Just for the record...
A broken clock...
One who reaches Bolton's status must have something going for him, and he's better than virtually anyone on the other side. That he's so anti-Trump is disappointing. This could be said of many "conservatives."
Fair enough
This administration’s inability to identify immorality and evil, and to promote policies and actions to deter its perpetrators has been a heartbreaking shortcoming that has contributed to much devastation. I agree with Mr. Oren that in a nominative attempt to avoid escalation, the US has let things get more out of hand. Signaling weakness should not be an American foreign policy strategy.
I would only ask readers to not think “this administration”. It’s “the Democrat Party, Biden included”. Every single Democrat has been in lock step with what Biden (as a proxy for Obama himself) has demanded.
When the Democrats nominate someone else out of their convention, they’ll all sing in unison “that was Joe, don’t worry we changed him out”. Don’t fall for it. They voted with the guy, this all is as much each one of theirs as it is Joe / Joe’ administration.
Actually, I read today that Senator Fetterman is breaking with Biden on Israel and Iran. Not much but maybe a start. Not holding my breath.
He's quite a surprise, isn't he? The Lord works in mysterious ways... :)
Indeed.
Senator Fetterman’s rhetoric is refreshing to hear. The real test is how he votes.
Every single one of them, plus the convince of Covid manufactured by them as well to shift the 2020 election straight into the Devil!s hands. Be careful come 2024 we have got to get them out of power!
This administration is immoral and in power by chicanery. This is Obama's third administration and completely illegitimate.
Weakness from the USA is why the world is spinning apart.
Weakness from the USA “leadership, / ruling class. The working class people are strong.
and they will pay the price. BarryO and the rest of the swamp wont. the flyover states always are the front line
Eloquently stated. FP should hire you.
This article has a link to a Politico story outlining how the Obama administration empowered Iran’s terror campaign and nuclear program. Everyone owes it to themselves to read it and your jaw will drop at the foolishness and recklessness of that administration. I really never knew how much danger and violence the Obama foreign policy enabled, not only against our allies, but against our soldiers and even the civilian US mainland.
Some quotes:
On facilitating Assad’s chemical warfare attacks on his own citizens:
“Project Cassandra members say administration officials also blocked or undermined their efforts to go after other top Hezbollah operatives including one nicknamed the ‘Ghost’. One of the most mysterious alleged associates of Safieddine, secretly indicted by the U.S., linked to multi-ton U.S.-bound cocaine loads and weapons shipments to Middle East, allowing them to remain active despite being under sealed U.S. indictment for years. People familiar with his case say the Ghost has been one of the world’s biggest cocaine traffickers, including to the U.S., as well as a major supplier of conventional and chemical weapons for use by Syrian President Bashar Assad against his people.”
On trafficking drugs to America:
“The derailment of Project Cassandra also has undermined U.S. efforts to determine how much cocaine from the various Hezbollah-affiliated networks is coming into the United States, especially from Venezuela, where dozens of top civilian and military officials have been under investigation for more than a decade. Recently, the Trump administration designated the country’s vice president, a close ally of Hezbollah and of Lebanese-Syrian descent, as a global narcotics kingpin.”
On facilitating the murder of American soldiers:
“Meanwhile, in Iraq, the U.S. military was probing the role of Iran in outfitting Shiite militias with high-tech improvised explosive devices known as Explosively Formed Penetrators, or EFPs, that had already killed hundreds of U.S. soldiers.”
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/
I've heard that when people are kind to the cruel they're also usually cruel to the kind...and it seems to be playing out that way.
Agreed. To the contrary their weakness has provoked untold death and instability.
Are you clearly defining Iran as the source of " immorality and evil, and to promote policies and actions to deter its perpetrators "?
Michigan is a presidential election battleground State. Biden’s handlers don’t care about what is strategically advantageous for the U.S., much less Israel. They care about maintaining political power above all else.
I just happened to begin reading The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larsen's book about Churchill during WWII, this weekend and one of my first thoughts after hearing the news about Iran's attack and the American president's warning to Israel that our government wouldn't support a retaliation, is thank effing hell we had a few leaders with enough spine, moral clarity, and devotion to the spirit of Western Civilization--no matter how imperfect--to keep going after Germany felled France or my recent trip to Paris would have required a German dictionary. I'm finding more and more parallels between the cowards and spinmakers of WWII and the "thought leaders" and mealy-mouthed politicians du jour. You can't appease evil. (A word which, by the way, I can find few true real life applications for; it is not used lightly here.) You can only destroy it or chase it relentlessly--keep on the run, without rest or safe harbor, so it has no time to organize. No matter how "complicated" the story behind Israel and the Middle East is, a simple and powerfully clarifying fact remains: Khamenei's regime, with Russia's help, would wipe the US and its "infidel" friends off the map if given an clean shot. It's been practicing for years already, almost entirely unchecked. If that fact doesn't sober you up enough to know whose side you're on, it's likely nothing will. To use Sam Harris' words, there is a "bright line between good and evil" in this moment in history and history rarely offers us such a gift.
And now we have . . . how to chant "Death to America!" in Farsi.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/15/us-news/leftwing-activists-chant-death-to-israel-death-to-america-video/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=mail_app
In my younger days I thought The New York Post was a rag. It's still a rag, but it also reports news other outlets don't.
Posted yesterday (April 14th) on the FP. I'm a bit surprised the NYT picked it up and ran with it.
https://www.thefp.com/p/american-anti-war-activists-cheer
Missed it. Thanks.
And now the Chicago airport is blocked by protestors whose prefer that Boeing not build airplanes.
Exactly what i have been thinking.
Perfect !
The only thing missing is the fact that Joe Biden eliminate oil sanctions on Iran over the past three years, which put billions into its foreign currency reserve account.
Obama / Biden
This is why 10/7 happened and the main stream press is silent.
Thank you Bari for including Ambassador Oren’s article today.
The story mentions quietly relieving sanctions that benefitted Iran.
Our canadian Liberal party govt has the same mental disease, they couldn’t reduce or eliminate sanctions on Iran fast enough after being elected in 2015
It's not a mental disease or a lapse in judgment. It's evidence of an evil agenda. For some reason, people are reluctant to see what's obviously treacherous behavior.
Our US dollars helped fund the drones and missiles we helped Israel shoot down. That’s a head scratcher!
It’s the military industrial complex that owns the politicians. They make lots of money during times of conflict. Yes, conspiracy theory black helicopter guy….
Correct.
Churchill used to say, America will do the right thing in the end after it has exhausted every other avenue. I keep hoping that the latest fiasco will be last but alas.
Great article! Another important anti-Israel action of Joe Biden was to kill the East Med gas pipeline in 2022 which would have brought Israel natural gas into Europe via Greece and Cypress. It was meant to counteract Russian supply of Natural gas to Europe, and make Europe less susceptible to Russian Energy blackmail. It was a pet project of the Trump administration. Biden killed it in 2022, Russia knew it could invade Ukraine with impunity because its energy blackmail hand was strengthened. An impressive blunder by the Biden administration and never mentioned by the mainstream media.
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/in-gesture-to-turkey-biden-administration-drops-support-for-israel-cyprus-greece-gas-pipeline/2022/01/13/
Not a blunder by the Biden Administration . A cold blooded act of TREASON. They deserve the prescribed penalty for TREASON. You know what that penalty is.
yes like the Ayatollahs do in the public squares in Teheran
Blunder or intention. I wonder.
Biden has colossally failed at all of the important parts of the Office of President
Border Security = a disaster (and is destroying our once great cities)
Price Stability = a disaster
Foreign policy = a disaster (Iran, Russia, Ukraine, Afghanistan)
but, ya know, according to the Lamestream Media he is doing just great, so re-elect this fool so we can see what comes after colossal failure
But, but, he’s on the right side of history! Pronouns! Trans rights! DEI!
At some point, one needs to prioritize the issues and vote accordingly. I’m going with the existential ones.
100%
Israel is a victim of BLM America and the shit policies that followed by Biden. Worst President ever. Marxist BS.
Obama and his cadre are wholly responsible.
The Obamas capitulation to Iran, essentially being their bitch, was not an achievement. Trump, completely elided in this essay of course, had a real achievement, containing the Iranians and bankrupting them and then offing their chief evil demon solemani.
Biden, like the Obama, completely gave away the farm once again and is even a bigger Iranian bitch. We need to be rid of this meddlesome idiot.
As admiral Painter said, “This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.“
nice Hunt for Red October reference!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZuMe5RvxPQ
It's almost as if Trump never approved an oil waiver allowing eight countries to purchase oil from Iran in 2018.
It’s classic appeasement. Anyone who knows their history knows how it turned out for Neville Chamberlain who tried the same with Adolph Hitler. And it’s classic for our policies to shift based on political assessment in the US, instead of based on the situation on the ground. We got into a foolish war in Iraq, not a real threat, and then left Iran alone because there was so much fatigue from Middle East conflicts. At the end of the day the enemy looks for and acts upon weakness, whether it’s a playground bully or a Islamic republic.
The Democratic Party is the Jew killing party. If you voted for Biden, you have Jewish blood on your hands as well as American and innocent Muslim blood., because all that Biden is doing was foreseeable. Schumer and Nadler are responsible as well, for enriching and empowering Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Hoothies, Syrian and Iraqi terrorists, and undermining the Israeli government, it's war effort and peace initiatives with the Arab states. Don't get me started on how the Democrats are screwing us domestically. It's not a coincidence that the anti-Jew party is the anti-American party.
On July 14, 2015, as President Obama was advocating for the JCPOA, David Sanger wrote: "Mr. Obama is essentially betting that once sanctions have been lifted, Iran’s leaders will have no choice but to use much of the new money to better the lives of their long-suffering citizens. He has told his aides that he expects relatively little to be spent to finance terrorism."
I read that Obama believed that the Iranians would spend the money on unicorns and rainbows.
Not sure whether to vomit, laugh or cry.
i did all 3 at once it was rough
Yup, if the underlying premise was for Iran to become more moderate and that, with the benefit of hindsight, is a failed premise, why would the Biden Administration continue to pursue a path to give Iran nuclear capabilities ? Especially when Iran has more oil than most ?
You have to admire Obama's ability to make such statements and keep a straight face. And to do so repeatedly, year after year, without blinking.
and yet not $1 of the money has been spent. It is frozen in an account in Doha. But, the oil waiver allowing South Korea and seven other countries to purchase oil from Iran that Trump approved helped divert money to Iran which could be spent on anything they wanted. Damn those pesky facts.
Not true that not $1 has been spent. The Congress blocked the $6 billion released by the Administration. It could not block the sanctions waiver issued by the State Department that gave Iran access to $10 billion coming from the revenue from Iran’s electricity shipments to Iraq.
Every one of your inane comments makes you appear to be a shill for Iran. Are you being paid to propagandize or is advocating for terrorists and global campaigns of violence just a hobby for you?
Shill for Iran? I'm stating FACTS. I thought the right was about facts and the left about feelings. The Horseshoe Theory is on full on display here with your "Trump good" approach. Do you want to address the oil waiver granted by your god that allowed Iran to profit when they should have been prohibited from selling to any country?
Maybe instead of just calling anyone who opposed the JCPOA racist (let's call them, The Right), those who supported it should have recognized that it empowered Israel's greatest enemy. Why, I wonder? Maybe the same reason the leaders of the Women's March were virulent antisemites, that darlings of the Left like Al Sharpton is an antisemite (Freddy was unavailable for comment), that colleges are bastions of antisemitism, the list goes on.
Iran was rewarded for its aggression much earlier, in 1979, when it attacked our embassy, held Americans hostage, and effectively declared war on the US. This was never properly addressed, the Islamic Totalitarians throughout the world have been emboldened, and the world has paid a very heavy price.
So the seeds of American weakness and disregard for world stability go back to Carter, although the most egregious examples are definitely Obama.
Too much mixed messaging from the Americans. That’s the problem. When it comes to Iran and the existential threat to Israel, Israel is just going to do what it has to do to defend itself. FTW.