 Iran is enduring economic sanctions designed to slow the country's nuclear weapons program,
| ... which has thus far been a resounding failure, but do go on... |
but President Obama's team thought the regime might abandon dictator Bashar Assad over his use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war.
| This is mind-numbingly, double-face palm stupid. |
Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, hoped that a team of UN investigators -- many of whom, presumably, have a longstanding relationship with Iranian leaders -- could write a report that would convince Iran to abandon its ally at the behest of the United States.
| Ms. Powers has never spent a day in the real world in her entire life. She's a child of privilege, an adult of leisure, an academic, a government "elite" who's never once had to face the consequences of the many bad decisions she's made and bad advice she's given out. |
"We worked with the UN to create a group of inspectors and then worked for more than six months to get them access to the country on the logic that perhaps the presence of an investigative team in the country might deter future attacks," Power said at the Center for American Progress as she made the case for intervening in Syria.
"Or, if not, at a minimum, we thought perhaps a shared evidentiary base could convince Russia or Iran -- itself a victim of Saddam Hussein's monstrous chemical weapons attacks in 1987-1988 -- to cast loose a regime that was gassing it's people," she said.
| Samantha: let me clue you in. Syria and Iran are allies. That means they're sticking together. That means Iran won't throw Syria over unless it's in their best interests to do so, and you haven't made that case. |
Rather than "cast loose" Assad after the latest chemical weapons attack, as the Obama team hoped, "Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei has warned the Obama administration against any proposed military strike on Syria," as the International Business Times reports.
| Neither Russia nor Iran will cast loose Syria. They can't and keep any credibility. As it turns out, credibility is something Ms. Powers has never experienced. |
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