The Obama spinners would tell you how canny and clever their man was–concealing that Iranian secret nuclear site and now using it to, well, set a new deadline, I guess. But he’s darn tough, that Obama. Marty Peretz calls foul, reminding us that Obama concealed the Iranian plans from the public and our allies:
Which, of course, means that the whole public discussion was conducted under the shadow of half-truth and misleading assurances. We had little reason to expect the truth from the Bushies. But we were promised a real change by the successors. In the end the truth came out because Iran sent an enigmatic little missive to the International Atomic Energy Agency admitting it had been constructing another nuclear facility.
Were the put-downs by U.S. intelligence of Israel’s urgency about Iran’s atomic accomplishments not distortions? I believe so. The only top security person who was honest in public was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mike Mullen. I believe that Israel was “canny” but didn’t make public all that it knew simply out of deference, first, to President Bush, latterly to President Obama. . . .
So what is going to happen with Washington’s highly vaunted engagement with Tehran? How much kicking around will the president take?
Not very much from the mainstream media and the Left blogosphere. Funny how, in good faith, George W. Bush acted on the best available U.S. intelligence estimates concerning Iraq (estimates shared by every other Western power and his Democratic critics) in defense of American security, while Obama plainly concealed the risk to American security posed by Iran, presumably so he could continue doing nothing for as long as possible about the Iranian nuclear threat.
Something is very, very wrong. But you’d never know it from the Obama sycophants for whom no justification for Obama’s egregious irresponsibility and timidity is too far-fetched.
No comments:
Post a Comment