The first thing that has to be understood about this Iranian nuclear "deal" that Barack Obama triumphantly announced yesterday is that it is no "deal" at all, but merely an "agreement" to "negotiate" for three more months without either side walking away from the "table" first. If you don't believe me, ask yourself whether a skeleton (analogous to the announced "framework") can walk and run around without any musculature and flesh surrounding it outside a Halloween cartoon. The "fine print" is where this tediously insane "process" always breaks down before the cycle starts again anew like, very appropriately, an episode of The Walking Dead. Or one of Dr. Henry Morgan's popcorn-like resurrections. Take your pick.
Except, of course, that this time it may not, which is former CIA Director and Air Force General Michael Hayden's real point:
Retired Air Force General Michael Hayden was among many slamming the Obama administration's framework for a nuclear deal with Iran on Thursday, telling Newsmax that it turns Tehran into an "industrial-strength nuclear state" that could have its own weapon within a year.
"It took us eighteen months to get to the outline of a framework and now we're going to get to the fine print in what, three months?" asked Hayden, who led both the CIA and the National Security Agency. "That shows you how difficult this is.
"We have just agreed that Iran will be an industrial-strength nuclear state and that it will never be any more than one year away from having a nuclear weapon," he said.
Or, as I believe, they've had nuclear weapons as long as seven years ago (I worked out the math in a post at my old blog, which is no longer accessible as you can see if you follow the link) and they've been building, and continue to build, an arsenal bigger than even our own.
The United States and....world powers reached a framework with Iran on Thursday that seeks to curb Tehran's nuclear program for at least a decade.
To....what? Buy more time for another decade of "negotiations"? By that time the mullahs might develop their own death star.....
The plan comes after eight days of marathon talks in Switzerland and is incumbent on a final deal being reached by June 30th.
Which, given the history of the past dozen years, it won't be, but given the nature of Barack Obama, it probably will.
All sanctions against Iran would remain in place pending a final deal.
Which have done nothing to obstruct Iran's construction of nuclear weapons or the ICBMs to deliver them.
They would only be suspended by the U.S., the United Nations, and the European Union after the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Iran's compliance.
Which is unconfirmable because the mullahs won't permit true verification, which means the U.S., the U.N., and the E.U. will just trust them anyway. After which we all will die in hellish, irradiated flames.
If you don't believe me, get a "load" of the Cleveland steamer The One and his henchman laid on us following this empty "announcement":
In a Rose Garden speech at the White House, President Barack Obama hailed the outline as "a good deal, a deal that meets our core objectives."
i.e. To ensure that the Islamic Empire keeps (or attains) its nuclear arsenal.
He compared it to nuclear arms-control agreements struck by Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan with the Soviet Union that "made our world safer" during the Cold War.
Nixon's detente policy made our world dramatically more dangerous, not less. As would have President Reagan's had he not already pushed the USSR past the tipping point toward its eventual collapse.
"Today, the United States, together with our allies and partners, has reached a 'historic' understanding with Iran....
There's that word again.
....which, if fully implemented, will prevent it from obtaining....nuclear weapon[s]," Obama declared.
i.e. It guarantees it.
"The issues at stake here are bigger than politics," he said.
i.e. "I won".
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"These are matters of war and peace, and they should be evaluated based on the facts."
i.e. The mullahs will have, and use, their nukes. Which means that Obama shares that objective.
In Switzerland, Secretary of State John Kerry touted the outline as "a solid foundation for the good deal we are seeking."
i.e. The "deal" that will give his boss the piece of paper he longs so excruciatingly to wave around like a nut while debarking from Air Force One like a minstralized Charlie Chaplin.
Meanwhile, back in this quantum dimension, former Bush43 Ambassador to the U.N. (and, God willing, Scott Walker's future Secretary of State) John Bolton vainly talked sense from the wilderness a week ago by advocating what I've argued for, well, a dozen years as the only way to verifiably disarm the mullahs:
There is only one way to block the Iranians from building a nuclear bomb, according to former ambassador John Bolton: Bomb them first.
"The inescapable conclusion is that Iran will not negotiate away its nuclear program," Bolton wrote in an opinion piece for the New York Times [last] Thursday. "Nor will sanctions block its building a broad and deep weapons infrastructure."
The "inconvenient truth," Bolton insists, is that "only military action like Israel's 1981 attack on Saddam Hussein's Osirak reactor in Iraq or its 2007 destruction of a Syrian reactor, designed and built by North Korea, can accomplish what is required. Time is terribly short, but a strike can still succeed."
Such an attack would not need to destroy Iran's entire nuclear infrastructure, but instead, Bolton said, would break key links in the nuclear fuel cycle and set back Iran's program by at least three to five years.
It would (or would have been) easier and less incendiary for the United States to do this, of course. Indeed, it would have been ideal to invade Iran and topple the mullahgarchy altogether back in 2003 when we had the forces deployed next door in Iraq to do so (precisely what the mullahs feared at the time). Now the Bolton-prescribed bombing attack falls to Israel, which makes it more potentially incendiary....although with the Middle East dissolving into chaos per the Obama Doctrine already, perhaps that's only a matter of degree, as it appears that the rest of the region, Israel and the Arabs alike, has come to an alignment perception against Persian Iran as the common enemy of both.
Well, Iran and Obamerikastan. Can't have one, it seems, without the other.
UPDATE: Submission accomplished:
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