China Confidential
Foreign News and Analysis Since April 2005
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Obama Risks War With Nuclear-Armed North Korea While Pursuing Phony Peace with Nuclearizing Iran
Early Warning.
In light of its seemingly tough stance on nuclear-armed North Korea and secret dealings with nuclear-arming Iran (scroll down for the stories), the embattled Obama administration may be willing to take extraordinary risks and move in unexpected ways in order to bolster the President's popularity and reelection prospects for 2012. Obama'sopponents and critics may have underestimated his political skills.
He improved relations with Iran, stood up to North Korea, got us out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and saved America from full-blown depression ... this reporter can see it now. It will all end catastrophically, of course, because Islamist Iran is pursuing an imperialist foreign policy--the regime actually boasts that it intends to overthrow the current world order--and by definition cannot be appeased. But the disasters could be delayed long enough to assure an Obama second term.
Israel's leaders should pay careful attention. The Big Middle East Fix may be in. Not for nothing has Obama cozied up to Turkey's crypto-Islamist regime; not for nothing has Jordan's King Abdullah announced his intention to visit Iran, and, more important, to avoid further criticism of its horrific policies. There could be more to the Jordanian king's kowtowing to Tehran's turbaned tyranny than meets the eye. Jordan is an American client; and its monarch may be following orders.
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