Six Excerpts Tell the Story,
Of Iran in Diplomatic GLORY,
Dialoging saying not to Worry,
Trust us and you won’t be Sorry,
For peaceful power we now Scurry,
So let us not get in a great big Hurry,
Till AFTER the Israelis Islam DOTH Bury,
AND UN SECURITY COUNCIL Makes Merry,
As Obama makes speech to a Tooth FAIRY,
Who of what Obama’s saying is very LEERY!
October 3, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Proverbs 26:23-28 – Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. [24] He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; [25] When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
[26] Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.
[27] Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. [28] A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Obama’s answer to each new problem is to immediately rush to the networks to give us one of his eloquent campaign speeches that leaves his followers deeply impressed by his oratorical skills, and the rest of us wondering how we are to understand any details of what he kept saying he was making perfectly clear. I am amazed that America elected a pure novice to the office of President. Obama keeps making speech after speech with no specific details, and his talking heads keep putting out legislation wrapped in loop holes that prohibit something in one section, but then allow it to be implemented in another section under certain conditions. The two houses have turned into a Mad Hatter’s ‘tea party fearing’ conglomerate of mad confusion. America is burning while Obama is fiddling a tune to which most people won’t dance.
Begin Six Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
Global Commentary and Think-Tank Analysis (Best of U.S., UK, and Israel):
Excerpts Concerning Iran
Excerpt 1 from Wall Street Journal
Geneva Talks Rehabilitate Iran’s Beleaguered Regime – Editorial
Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency won’t find anything incriminating at the Qom facility. Having lied about it for years, the Iranians now have plenty of time to clean the place out. A freeze on enrichment used to be the U.S. precondition for talks with Iran. Now the U.S. and Europeans say that in exchange merely for a promise to send low-enriched uranium outside Iran for enrichment, they’ll freeze any additional sanctions. Iran has timed its olive branch well. The Europeans are more frustrated with past Iranian stalling than is Washington and have started to hanker for tougher measures. Those demands will now be muted.
Expect Iran to follow the North Korean model, stringing the West along, lying and wheedling, striking deals only to renege and start over. In the end, North Korea tested a nuclear device. On long evidence, the regime has no intention of stopping a nuclear program that would give it new power in the region, and new leverage against America. This supposed fresh start in Geneva only gives Ahmadinejad and Iran’s mullahs new legitimacy. (Wall Street Journal)
Excerpt 2 from Times-UK
Iran Has Bought Itself Time – But It Has Lots to Prove – Ca therine Philp
The most striking observation of diplomats negotiating with
the Iranians was the gulf between the belligerent rhetoric pouring out of Tehran in recent days and the intense but more nuanced conversations inside the Geneva villa. Those involved said that last week’s public unveiling of the underground plant at Qom was the game-changer – not just for Iran, but also for Russia, which made it clear that it was unimpressed by being lied to.
Tehran has much to prove. While foreign reprocessing of its low-enriched ur anium stockpiles would slow
any sprint towards a nuclear bomb, the centrifuges keep spinning. And without a tougher inspections regime, Tehran’s claims that the Qom plant was its only hidden site are hard to prove. The heat is off Iran for now – but it will not stay that way forever.
(Times-UK)
Will Talks with West Recoup Iranian Regime’s Legitimacy? – Gerald F. Seib
Iran, it appears, was more cooperative than many expected in its talks about its nuclear program. The classic fear about such negotiations is that they become an end in themselves – that the goal of talking becomes continued talking. That’s a particularly acute concern now, because of worries that Iran may string out the process precisely so it can keep enriching uranium. There’s also a risk that the embattled Iranian regime may hope to use protracted negotiations because Its leaders see talking with world powers as helping them “recoup the enormous legitimacy they’ve ceded domestically” because of the summer’s disputed presidential election, says Karim Sadjadpour, an analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (Wall Street Journal)
Excerpt 3 from Fox News
The Clock Is Ticking on Iran – Charles Krauthammer
The Obama administration offered the outstretched hand, and it implied there was a deadline in mid-September for Iran to show its seriousness.
What we got in mid-September was a five-page piece of gibberish on which the Iranians said they want to talk about saving the planet, et cetera, and not a word about the nuclear issue. They have declared the nuclear issue closed. Then last week, Obama announces the discovery of this facility in Qom, a secret enrichment site, which is obviously illegal and obviously overwhelming evidence of their desire to achieve a nuclear weapon.
What we’re getting is the Iranians stalling. And the reason this is not harmless, even though it is sort of a farcical dance, is because with every week that passes, and now over eight months, Iran is approaching the day in which it goes nuclear.
And time is short. Everyone knows the clock is ticking.
(FOX News)
Excerpt 4 from Miami Herald
A Nuclear Iran: The World Was Warned – Uri Dromi
In 1993, when I was the spokesman of
the Israeli government, my boss, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, made a dramatic turn in his perception about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Contrary to his previous declarations that the PLO was not a credible partner for peace, Rabin unexpectedly gave his blessing to the Oslo process. I was curious to find out what made him change his mind.
He was not a man of elaborate explanations. Sometimes you just had to guess from his body language what made him tick. It was in the middle of an interview when a European journalist mentioned Iran in passing, that Rabin banged the table and said: “Exactly!” The rest came out during a later interview: We have to mend fences with our closer neighbors (the Palestinians and Jordanians), Rabin said, so that we can brace ourselves to tackle the bigger challenge rising over the horizon: Iran. (Miami Herald)
Excerpt 5 from Washington Post
Beware of Iranians Bearing Talks – Ray Takeyh
The Western world knows Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the rabble-rouser, the Holocaust denier and the election-rigger. This week, they’ll come to know another version of Ahmadinejad – a leader propelled by weakness at home, who will say he is willing to talk but may offer only tantalizing, unconvincing proposals.
At this week’s talks, Iran’s representatives are likely to subtly hint of cooperation to come – but only if the talks continue. However, such gestures do not mean Iran is prepared to offer meaningful concessions and impose any restraints on its nuclear ambitions.
With Iran, the U.S. should insist on discussing several issues: the nuclear program, of course, but also Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism, its interference in the affairs of its neighbors and its human rights record. It is hard to see how Ahmadinejad could use such talks to relegitimize his tainted rule. Ahmadinejad should not be afforded the luxury of international forums and dialogue with the great powers without being held accountable for his country’s flawed electoral processes and its entanglements in terrorism, as well as its nuclear violations. The writer, who until last month served as a senior adviser to the Obama administration on Iran, is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. (Washington Post)
Excerpt 6 from Boston Globe
Talk to Iran, But Keep a Plan B – Editorial
Iran’s apparent pursuit of nuclear weapons is the gravest security challenge facing the Obama administration. President Obama is running out of time to persuade Iran’s leaders to accept safeguards such as outside inspections of nuclear sites and tight controls on enrichment that can keep the country’s nuclear program from being used to build weapons. Obama’s offer to negotiate with Iran is the right first step, but he also needs a backup plan if Iran refuses to budge. A nuclear-armed Iran would make the Middle East far more volatile.
Apart from the risk that Iran might use or transfer nuclear weapons, some of its neighbors would likely seek their own nuclear weapons – multiplying the chance that a device will fall into the wrong hands. Obama must be prepared to impose more stringent sanctions if Iran’s leaders continue to refuse to curb their nuclear ambitions. (Boston Globe)
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