WarSclerotic

Obama resigned to Iranian nukes.

By Stan Goodenough
April 06, 2010

US President Barack Obama acknowledged Monday that the Islamic Republic of Iran – which has repeatedly voiced its intention to see Israel wiped off the map – is on course to obtain nuclear weapons after all.

Speaking to the New York Times, Obama said he was convinced “the current course they [the Iranian leadership] are on would provide them with nuclear weapons capabilities.”

As a consequence of Obama’s appeasement approach to Tehran, America can do nothing to prevent it.

The American’s admission comes after a year during which his administration barely stopped short of public threats to prevent Israel from self-defensively destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Most recently, behind-closed-door coercive tactics were employed during successive visits by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Joint Chiefs off Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen and Vice President Joe Biden in order to keep pressure on Israel not to attack.

For his part Obama inherited – and fully embraced – the attitude adopted by the Bush administration in 2004.

According to Assistant Editor to The Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick: “From 2004, the Bush administration sought to appease Iran into giving up its nuclear program – first indirectly through the negotiations that France, Britain and Germany conducted with Tehran. Then in 2006, the administration began direct negotiations with the mullahs. Bush personally rejected repeated Israeli requests to purchase refueling aircraft and bunker buster bombs necessary for attacking Iran’s hardened nuclear facilities. And he refused to back Israeli plans to attack Iran’s nuclear installations. So too, Bush stopped calling for regime change in Iran.

“After the November 2007 publication of the falsified National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear program,” Glick wrote, “Bush discarded the possibility of a US military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities altogether.” (“Exploiting the Crisis,” by Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post, April 2, 2010)

As far back as January 2006, then Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared that, “under no circumstances, and at no point, can Israel allow anyone with these kinds of malicious designs against us [to] have control of weapons of destruction that can threaten our existence.”

In November of the same year, then opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu sounded a clarion call that went largely dismissed by the rest of the world:

“It’s 1938 and Iran is Germany. And Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs,” Netanyahu starkly warned the United Jewish Communities General Assembly. “Believe [Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] and stop him,” he continued. “This is what we must do. Everything else pales before this.”

A frequent question posed Jerusalem Newswire by visiting groups is what the Israelis are going to do about the Iranian threat. Notwithstanding international efforts to wear down Israel’s resolve on this issue, the government in Jerusalem remains resolved to not permit Tehran to acquire nuclear weapons.

The Israel Defense Forces are believed to be in constant training for an attack on Iran. It is understood that the result of Obama’s resigned attitude towards the burgeoning threat in the east will leave Israel with no choice but to act on its own.

Scant decades after the Holocaust saw two-thirds of European Jewry washed away, Israel’s leaders are not about to sit back and allow the threat of another act of anti-Jewish genocide to be perpetrated against their people.

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