John McCain Responds to Obama’s Iran Foolishness
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Loud and clear, as usual:
Before I begin my prepared remarks, I want to respond briefly to a comment Senator Obama made yesterday about the threat posed to the United States by the Government of Iran. Senator Obama claimed that the threat Iran poses to our security is ‘tiny’ compared to the threat once posed by the former Soviet Union. Obviously, Iran isn’t a superpower and doesn’t possess the military power the Soviet Union had. But that does not mean that the threat posed by Iran is insignificant. On the contrary, right now Iran provides some of the deadliest explosive devices used in Iraq to kill our soldiers. They are the chief sponsor of Shia extremists in Iraq, and terrorist organizations in the Middle East. And their President, who has called Israel a ’stinking corpse,’ has repeatedly made clear his government’s commitment to Israel’s destruction. Most worrying, Iran is intent on acquiring nuclear weapons. The biggest national security challenge the United States cur rently faces is keeping nuclear material out of the hands of terrorists. Should Iran acquire nuclear weapons, that danger would become very dire, indeed. They might not be a superpower, but the threat the Government of Iran poses is anything but ‘tiny’.
Senator Obama has declared, and repeatedly reaffirmed his intention to meet the President of Iran without any preconditions, likening it to meetings between former American Presidents and the leaders of the Soviet Union. Such a statement betrays the depth of Senator Obama’s inexperience and reckless judgment. Those are very serious deficiencies for an American president to possess. An ill conceived meeting between the President of the United States and the President of Iran, and the massive world media coverage it would attract, would increase the prestige of an implacable foe of the United States, and reinforce his confidence that Iran’s dedication to acquiring nuclear weapons, supporting terrorists and destroying the State of Israel had succeeded in winning concessions from the most powerful nation on earth. And he is unlikely to abandon the dangerous ambitions that will have given him a prominent role on the world stage.
This is not to suggest that the United States should not communicate with Iran our concerns about their behavior. Those communications have already occurred at an appropriate level, which the Iranians recently suspended. But a summit meeting with the President of the United States, which is what Senator Obama proposes, is the most prestigious card we have to play in international diplomacy. It is not a card to be played lightly. Summit meetings must be much more than personal get-acquainted sessions. They must be designed to advance American interests. An unconditional summit meeting with the next American president would confer both international legitimacy on the Iranian president and could strengthen him domestically when he is unpopular among the Iranian people. It is likely such a meeting would not only fail to persuade him to abandon Iran’s nuclear ambitions; its support of terrorists and commitment to Israel’s extinction, it could very well convince him that those policies are succeeding in strengthening his hold on power, and embolden him to continue his very dangerous behavior. The next President ought to understand such basic realities of international relations.
Obama by his statement of willingness to meet with Iranian leaders without pre-conditions immediately disqualified himself in the minds of all thinking Americans from the Presidency of the United States. Never has a major Presidential candidate made such an obtuse statement – a statement so at odds with facts, logic and the way affairs between States are governed that one questions whether Obama has ever entertained a serious thought about foreign affairs. Obama, installed in the White House, would be a mere tool in the hands of whatever liberal extremists wind up in charge of foreign policy – unable to tell when he’s being conned in foreign affairs, Obama would fall into trap after trap, to the detriment of American prestige, and to the risk of the peace and liberty of the world.
The sort of policy idiocy we can expect from an Obama Administration is best illustrated by a preposterous opinion piece I read in the local paper today (unable to find a link), which figures its ok for Iran to have nukes, because the US could promise Israel to exterminate Iran if Iran ever exterminated Israel…as if the death of tens of millions is something a civilized person really contemplates; as if the Israelis will be happy, once dead, as long as they know that tens of millions of innocent Iranians are murdered, too; as if Iran’s leaders are like Russia’s leaders, possessed of a desire to lay wrapped in wealth and power, rather than a messianic desire to remake the Caliphate and usher in the end of the world…
We must have people in power who understand that some of the differences in the world aren’t the result of misunderstandings or hurt feelings – some times the differences stem from the fact that the two sides are antagonistic to each other and can’t get along while one side remains as it is. Iran’s government is cruel, inhuman and evil – it has no redeeming qualities, and there is no evidence that there are enough “moderates” in it to prevent the radicals from doing whatever they please. We can, perhaps, work out some livable arrangement between ourselves and the government of Iran – but not at the cost of an Iranian nulcear force, not at the risk of another Holocaust and not while Iran and its agents are killing Americans in Iraq. Period. End of story.
McCain understands this. Obama doesn’t. And that, really, is all we need to know for November.
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51 Responses to “John McCain Responds to Obama’s Iran Foolishness”
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“So…do you guys believe that Ahmadinejad calls the shots in Iran?” tractus
No, the Mullahs pull the strings. So why is B.Hussein so eager to talk to the puppet???