Posted by
Bert Chapman on Friday, December 18, 2009 7:40:21 PM
News reports today indicate that Iranian troops have entered Iraq and planted Iranian flags at the Fakkah oil field. The Iranians are undoubtedly emboldened by the vacillating appeasement being shown by the Obama Administration toward them. Recent examples of Iranian assertiveness include seizing British citizens whose boat got to close to Iran and three American hikers who were stupid enough to go hiking in Iraq's Kurdistan region near the Iranian border and subsequently have been seized and are being held by the Iranians. Perhaps the Iranians did this to celebrate the recent 30th anniversary of the hostage crisis which doomed the hapless and incompetent administration of Jimmy Carter.
Barack Obama seems well on his way to being our generation's version of Jimmy Carter. Instead of forcefully denouncing and addressing Iran's invasion of sovereign Iraq territory, the site of so much American blood, treasure, and sacrifice, the "Messiah" is in snowy Copenhagen trying to reach a superficial agreement to fight climate change which will not achieve its goals but create new and costly burdens on domestic and international economies and American consumers and consumers from other countries. So far there has been no sign of protest from the Obama Administration which is hellbent on getting a empty climate change agreement at a fatally flawed international conference and getting equally bad health care legislation through a U.S. Senate. This legislative chamber is being imprisoned by an approaching snowstorm in Washington, DC and by Obama's Senate KGB apparatchik and Nazi Gauleiter Harry Reid who is putting the Senate through what seems like 24/7 sessions lasting several days in an efforts to get supposedly recalcitrant Republicans to submit to the purportedly sublime and omniscient health care wisdom of the "President."
The Iranians are probably laughing their heads off at the incompetence of Obama, Hillary Clinton, and other members of the administration's foreign policy and national security team. Keep your ears tilted for Vice President Joe Biden to proclaim his belief that it's still possible to "reset" relations with Iran and that some "grand bargain" can be struck with Tehran's mullahs to get them to return the hostages, leave Iraq, and stop their nuclear weapons program. Oil prices are starting to rise again at a time of the year when they should be falling. I fear we are headed for some rough times with Iran and there is no evidence that anyone in the upper echelons of this pathetically naive and delusionally utopian administration knows how to deal with the mullahs. Eloquent words won't cut it with Tehran neither will increased economic sanctions no matter how widespread their imposition and enforcement by the international community. Only brute force and the willingness to use such force against Tehran without mercy or regret will work against the Iranian regime.