Thursday, April 16, 2009
US Rules Out Military Action Against Iran
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates made it clear this week that the Obama administration has ruled out attacking Iran over its nuclear program and is strongly opposed to an Israeli attack. Click here for the story, which confirms China Confidential reporting and analysis: the United States is abandoning Israel.
The U.S. envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, who met with Israeli leaders today, denies this, naturally. Mitchell told the press that Washington remains committed to both protecting Israel's security and creating a Palestinian state alongside the Jewish State.
As Israelis say, words on ice. The commitment can melt away.
In fact, the melting is underway. China Confidential can confirm that Mitchell warned Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and President Shimon Peres against attacking Iran--as China Confidential yesterday predicted. Mitchell's warning was so strong that Peres was compelled to publicly speak out against the military option. Click here to read his comments.
The Obama administration is abandoning Israel in the hope of not only appeasing but actually striking a so-called grand bargain with nuclear-arming, Islamist Iran. Important administration members, including Gates, believe Iran can control Afghanistan and counter Pakistan if that country collapses.
In contrast with recent U.S. administrations, the Obama administration does not see Israel as a strategic ally. At best, Israel is viewed as a troublesome friend in need; at worst, a liability. Obama's close adviser, National Security Council member Samantha Power (who called Hillary Clinton a "monster" during the 2008 Presidential campaign) is in the Israel-is-a-liability camp. Echoing a left-wing, European viewpoint, she regards Israel's establishment as a mistake.
POSTSCRIPT: An enterprising reporter should ask Israeli Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Barak for his reaction to Gates' remarks. Last November 7, Barak, when he was Defense Minister in the previous Israeli government, publicly urged the U.S. not to rule out the military option regarding Iran.
“We don’t rule out any option. We recommend others don’t rule out any option either,” Barak told journalists after talks with the visiting US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.
“We are convinced that Iran continues to try to obtain a nuclear weapon and continues to cheat everybody by holding negotiations on the control of such weapons,” Barak said.
UPDATE: Obama's Pakistan policy is under fire from the left and from Pakistan itself. Clickhere for the story.Wednesday, April 15, 2009
China Deepening Investments in Latin America
While the Obama administration proceeds with plans to kill coal, cripple oil and gas, and crush industry and small businesses--in the name of saving the planet--the country's biggest banker, China, is aggressively moving to lock up oil and other natural resources in Latin America. The deals are also designed to pave the way for eventual replacement of the dollar as the global currency. Click here to read all about China's bold exploitation of the economic crisis in America's backyard.
POSTSCRIPT: The environmental adviser to the White House is an admitted radical left activist. Click here for the story.US Envoy to Warn Israel Against Attacking Iran
The White House claims that U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell, who is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Thursday, is being sent to Jerusalem to revive the stalemated Israeli-Palestinian peace process. That is Obama administration code for pressuring Israel to make dangerous concessions to its implacable foe; the administration's Hamas sympathizers want Israel to move toward accepting and negotiating with the Iranian-backed, Palestinian Islamist terrorist organization in tandem with the administration's engagement (code for appeasement) of nuclear-arming Iran.
Even worse, Mitchell is being sent to Israel to warn its democratically elected leaders against attacking the clerical fascist country. Not only is the Obama administration appeasing the monstrous mullahocracy; the administration is eager to strike a "grand bargain" with Iran in the hope of pacifying Afghanistan and, also, should it collapse, nuclear-armed Pakistan.
Israel, as China Confidential reported yesterday, is the odd man out. Islamist-leaning Turkey (the military, traditional guardian of the country's secular system, has been undercut by the United States) and Islamist Iran are in. It's back to the future, to the 1950s and '60s, for the Obama administration, when Turkey and Iran were the pillars of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
That Turkey was in those days staunchly secular, thanks to its strong military, and Iran was ruled by a pro-U.S., modernizing monarch, the Shah, is conveniently ignored by the Obama administration, ideological heirs to the catastrophic Carter administration, which, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, believes it is possible to manipulate, manage, and influence rising, radical Islam.
Jimmy Carter betrayed the Shah in a craven attempt to curry favor with Iran's ayatollahs and mullahs. Obama is betraying Israe
Thursday, 16 April 2009
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