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| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Belmont Club: Uh-oh |
| 2015-03-19 |
| Wretchard opines on Obama's lousy luck gambling. It is now hard to see how Obama can offer Iran any credible deal after these setbacks. Can he offer them a stable agreement with Congress in rebellion? Can he give them Palestine after forcing Netanyahu to play the national security card? No and no. At the same time it appears he must let Tehran keep all the earnest payments he optimistically advanced in the hope of that grand bargain. He can hardly hope to ask for Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria back now that he can't go forward with the rest of the Big Time deal. Obama's like the unfortunate guy who put a payment down on a full house full of appliances in anticipation of a job he was going to get next week. He's spent the whole week blowing his savings reserving the best goods. Now the job's been canceled and those lay-by payments made toward the merchandise in the window are as gone as the job. It's a tragic outcome, for it makes impossible the one hope which Obama was counting on the save his foreign policy from disaster. The hoped-for bargain with Iran, like the long-awaited Palestinian peace process, filled the same gambler's niche as "Steiner" in the Downfall movie. Obama was going to recoup everything at the last turn of the card, just you wait and see. In the movie it was evident once "Steiner" could not march to the relief of Berlin, that the capital was doomed. Where the analogy falls apart is that today's onlookers live inside the reality that Obama has condemned instead of being a dispassionate audience in a theater 60 years later. In my opinion it's all failure theater. The Iranian deal was never meant to be anything more than a repeat of Carter's North Korean 'deal' where they'd wait until someone not-left-enough would be in office to do their breakout. Obama wanted everything to come to a head/crisis on someone else's watch, so he could assign blame and nag while the world burned. |
| Posted by:Thing From Snowy Mountain |
| #2 1. Cuba - check 2. Iran - put a pin in it 3. North Korea, Venezuela, Mozambique? |
| Posted by: Chomoger Squank5009 2015-03-19 11:17 |
| #1 "Obama wanted everything to come to a head/crisis on someone else's watch, so he could assign blame and nag while the world burned." And all of his policies happen after he leaves office. He really did a number on US. |
| Posted by: newc 2015-03-19 00:58 |