OBAMA’S POLICY CHANGES NOW DISASTROUS!
AMERICA HAS A NOVICE IN THE WHITE HOUSE!
HE HAS NOT THE FOGGIEST SENSE OF REALITY!
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PUBLIC AFFAIRS EXCERPTS TO SEE HOW GREAT
OBAMA NEW POLICY OF APPEASEMENT WORKS!
April 7, 2010
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Begin Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
April 6, 2010
Excerpt 1 – Reuters
Ahmadinejad Rejects Renewed U.S. Call for Engagement
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday rejected a renewed call from the U.S. to engage diplomatically to overcome the nuclear standoff. Ahmadinejad said a message by President Obama to mark the Iranian new year last month contained “three or four beautiful words” but nothing new of substance.
“They say that ‘we have extended our hands to the people of Iran but the government of Iran and the people of Iran pushed it back.’ What hand did you extend toward us?” Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech. “What changed? Your sanctions were lifted? The adverse propaganda was stopped? The pressure was alleviated? Did you change your attitude in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine?” (Reuters)
Excerpt 2 – AP
Obama: Iran Aims to Acquire Nukes
President Barack Obama says the U.S. will continue to “ratchet up the pressure” on Iran to reveal its nuclear intentions to the rest of the world. In an interview broadcast Friday on CBS’s “The Early Show,” Obama said “all the evidence” indicates that Tehran is trying to get a nuclear weapons capacity. With such a capability, Obama said that Iran could “destabilize” life in the Mideast and trigger an arms race
in the region. (AP)
Excerpt 3 – UK Financial Times
Hopes of Swift Sanctions Against Iran Suffer Setback in UN
Harvey Morris
The UN Security Council Monday failed to include Iran’s nuclear program on its agenda for April, underlining the likely slow road to sanctions.
President Obama, buoyed by what Washington officials perceived as a shift in China’s attitude towards imposing fresh sanctions on Iran, said a week ago that he wanted to see a fourth round of UN measures in place within weeks.
Financial Times-UK)
Excerpt 4 – VOA News
Obama Reported Pressing to Slow Congressional Push for Iran Sanctions
Dan Robinson
The Obama administration is reported to be pressing key members of the U.S. Congress to allow more time before taking final action on legislation that would impose tough, unilateral sanctions on Iran.
Bruce MacDonald with the U.S. Institute of Peace says a delay would help by not tying the administration’s hands when it comes to negotiating with Tehran. (VOA News)
Excerpt 5 – Boston Globe
Move Quickly on Iran Sanctions
Editorial
The Obama administration has been pushing hard for tougher UN Security Council sanctions on Iran, while Congress has been hammering out its own list of unilateral U.S. sanctions. Yet hawks and doves alike commonly presume that sanctions aren’t enough to compel Iran to forgo its pursuit of nuclear weapons. In the face of Iran’s defiance of the international community, sanctions feel like a squirt gun rather than a rifle.
There have been recent signs, however, that the Iranian regime may be much more vulnerable to
the deprivations that go along with economic isolation than its leaders pretend.
The Obama administration and the UN should press ahead on sanctions as a prod for a negotiated deal that removes the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.
(Boston Globe)
Excerpt 6 – The Australian
U.S. Allows Iran Its Nuclear Vision
Greg Sheridan
(The Australian)
President Obama has decided to abandon any serious effort to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. He is determined instead to live with a nuclear Iran, by containment and, if possible, negotiation. Obama and his cabinet secretaries still make speeches saying they will try to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. But if you look at the statements closely you see a steady weakening of resolve, a steady removal of any threat of any consequence for Iran.
The troubling realization that the Americans have given up, or are in the process of giving up, the fight to prevent Iran going nuclear is backed by the best informed security sources in Washington, London, Jerusalem and Canberra.
The most senior U.S. officials would agree that a nuclear-armed Iran represented an existential threat to Israel.
Iran’s rulers not only deny the Holocaust, but have made militant anti-Americanism, confrontation with Israel and even anti-Semitism, defining ideologies of the Iranian state. Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has threatened to wipe Israel off the map.
By isolating Israel, by irresponsibly unleashing a global wave of anti-Israel sentiment, especially in nations which normally support Israel, Obama has made the possibility of Israel considering unilateral action against Iran much more unlikely and has made the potential cost to Israel of action against Iran much greater.
There is no chance Obama will produce a comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian peace deal in his first term in office, which is how he would like to be remembered by history.
There is every chance history will remember him as the American president on whose watch Iran became a nuclear-weapons state.
The writer is foreign editor of The Australian.
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