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Post by Daniel on Apr 30, 2015 19:26:30 GMT -5
Iran keeps testing Obama -- and he keeps failing
Marissa Semkiw
April 30, 2015
On the Iranian nuke deal, Iran is pushing the limits by perversely offering less. Why? Because it can!
Earlier this week, Iran hijacked a Marshall Islands cargo ship traveling through international waters – a country that the U.S. has full legal responsibility for the defense of.
That’s quite provocative is it not? An act of war, perhaps? And Obama did what? Nothing.
Not even, as far as I can tell, make a statement.
Yesterday in New York, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s Foreign Minister, said that when Iran strikes a deal with the West, Obama will be forced to stop enforcing sanctions immediately, and will have to lift ALL congressional sanctions within weeks.
more
www.therebel.media/iran_keeps_testing_obama_and_he_keeps_failing
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Post by sevenofnine on Apr 30, 2015 20:25:40 GMT -5
This remind me of ALOT
Anybody seen Animal house I think Obama is this US version of Dean Wormer who put Alpha house under double secret probabion
Yeah I watching Animal House on my HD TV Channel on demand
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Post by Daniel on May 4, 2015 8:52:39 GMT -5
Column One: The Marshall Islands’ Cautionary Tale
By Caroline Glick May 4, 2015
On Tuesday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps forcibly commandeered the Maersk Tigris as navigated its way through the Straits of Hormuz. Iran controls the strategic waterway through which 40 percent of seaborne oil and a quarter of seaborne gas transits to global markets.
The Maersk Tigris is flagged to the Marshall Islands. The South Pacific archipelago gained its independence from the US in 1986 after signing a treaty conceding its right to self-defense in exchange for US protection. According to the treaty, the US has “full authority and responsibility for security and defense of the Marshall Islands.”
Given the US’s formal, binding obligation to the Marshall Islands, the Iranian seizure of the ship was in effect an act of war against America.
In comments to Bloomberg hours after the ship was seized, Junior Aini, chargé d’affairs at the Marshall Islands Embassy in Washington, indicated that his government’s only recourse is to rely on the US to free its ship.
Immediately after the incident began, the US Navy deployed a destroyer to the area. But that didn’t seem to make much of an impression on the Iranians. More significant than the naval movement was the fact that the Obama administration failed to condemn their unlawful action.
If the administration continues to stand by in the face of Iran’s aggression, the strategic implications will radiate far beyond the US’s bilateral ties with the Marshall Islands. If the US allows Iran to get away with unlawfully seizing a Marshall Islands flagged ship it is treaty bound to protect, it will reinforce the growing assessment of its Middle Eastern allies that its security guarantees are worthless.
As the Israel Project’s Omri Ceren put it in an email briefing to journalists, “the US would be using security assurances not to shield allies from Iran but to shield Iran from allies.”
continue reading
www.breakingisraelnews.com/38505/column-one-the-marshall-islands-cautionary-tale-opinion/
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Post by Daniel on May 4, 2015 9:19:05 GMT -5
Like the Iranians, the Saudis Think Obama Is Weak
by Tom Rogan May 4, 2015
There’s a great line in the latest James Bond trailer. Warning Bond of his ignorance of danger, Mr. White remarks: “You’re a kite dancing in a hurricane.”
It’s a perfect analogy for President Obama’s policy in the Middle East: a kite dancing in the spiraling hurricane of sectarian politics. Unfortunately, President Obama isn’t James Bond. And today, with America’s kite lost in the wind, Saudi Arabia’s leaders are reverting to sectarian paranoia.
If we decipher the causes of the U.S.–Saudi breakdown, two specific events stand out. First, the American withdrawal from Iraq in December 2011. That decision led to Iran’s seizure of Iraqi political dialogue and to Iraq’s sectarian fragmentation, delivering it into the hands of ISIS. Second, President Obama’s repeated WMD “red line” impotence in Syria. Repeated, because Assad has repeatedly murdered Syrian civilians with chlorine gas since his Ghouta massacre of August 2013.
These two events encouraged the Saudis to believe that President Obama is unreliable and uninterested in their concerns. Their view has been reinforced by subsequent events. The president’s malleability toward Iran, for example, has been especially problematic. Witnessing Iran’s growing empire of Khomeinism and President Obama’s apparent acquiescence to that endeavor — take Obama’s silence to this week’s capture of a vessel that was under U.S. protection — the Saudis are panicking. The central problem is that while both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are aware of Iran’s aggressive ambitions, each nation has a different conception of America’s deterrent power against Iran. Where President Obama sees American regional strength via the (semi) formidable U.S. military presence in the Gulf, the Saudis see America’s regional weakness via Iran’s political domination in Beirut, Baghdad, Damascus, and now Sana’a, Yemen.
Read more at: www.nationalreview.com/article/417832/iranians-saudis-think-obama-weak-tom-rogan
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