Idiot Obama Says Iran Not a Threat
Posted on May 19, 2008
Why are they not a threat? From the best I can decipher from this appeasement talk..cuz they are smaller than we are and don’t spend as much money on defense. Obama also manages to, once again, rewrite history by suggesting that the Berlin Wall fell because we engaged Mikhail Gorbachev. Quite silly stuff.
Update: Video thanks to Hot Air.
McCain responds and puts this inexperienced idiot in his place.
Before I begin my prepared remarks, I want to respond briefly to a comment Senator Obama made yesterday about the threat posed to the United States by the Government of Iran. Senator Obama claimed that the threat Iran poses to our security is “tiny” compared to the threat once posed by the former Soviet Union. Obviously, Iran isn’t a superpower and doesn’t possess the military power the Soviet Union had. But that does not mean that the threat posed by Iran is insignificant. On the contrary, right now Iran provides some of the deadliest explosive devices used in Iraq to kill our soldiers. They are the chief sponsor of Shia extremists in Iraq, and terrorist organizations in the Middle East. And their President, who has called Israel a “stinking corpse,” has repeatedly made clear his government’s commitment to Israel’s destruction. Most worrying, Iran is intent on acquiring nuclear weapons. The biggest national security challenge the United States currently faces is keeping nuclear material out of the hands of terrorists. Should Iran acquire nuclear weapons, that danger would become very dire, indeed. They might not be a superpower, but the threat the Government of Iran poses is anything but ‘tiny”.
Senator Obama has declared, and repeatedly reaffirmed his intention to meet the President of Iran without any preconditions, likening it to meetings between former American Presidents and the leaders of the Soviet Union. Such a statement betrays the depth of Senator Obama’s inexperience and reckless judgment. Those are very serious deficiencies for an American president to possess. An ill conceived meeting between the President of the United States and the President of Iran, and the massive world media coverage it would attract, would increase the prestige of an implacable foe of the United States, and reinforce his confidence that Iran’s dedication to acquiring nuclear weapons, supporting terrorists and destroying the State of Israel had succeeded in winning concessions from the most powerful nation on earth. And he is unlikely to abandon the dangerous ambitions that will have given him a prominent role on the world stage.
This is not to suggest that the United States should not communicate with Iran our concerns about their behavior. Those communications have already occurred at an appropriate level, which the Iranians recently suspended. But a summit meeting with the President of the United States, which is what Senator Obama proposes, is the most prestigious card we have to play in international diplomacy. It is not a card to be played lightly. Summit meetings must be much more than personal get-acquainted sessions. They must be designed to advance American interests. An unconditional summit meeting with the next American president would confer both international legitimacy on the Iranian president and could strengthen him domestically when he is unpopular among the Iranian people. It is likely such a meeting would not only fail to persuade him to abandon Iran’s nuclear ambitions; its support of terrorists and commitment to Israel’s extinction, it could very well convince him that those policies are succeeding in strengthening his hold on power, and embolden him to continue his very dangerous behavior. The next President ought to understand such basic realities of international relations.
Ed Morrissey does a great job analysing all this too.
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One thing I have not heard anyone say yet today or yesterday is that the Soviet union had a government that could be reasoned with. They did their business for logical reason like money and power. Iran and entities like it do not play by the same rules as normal people. People like this fly planes into buildings and blow up women and children and believe they will be rewarded in Heaven for it. The reason you cannot persuade them is that they are not the way they are because they want something from you, or from the world. They are that way because they are (edited)and deluded beyond repair and negotiating with them on their terms is useless for that very reason.
Just playing devils advocate here. But is Iran really a “security” threat to American soil? And when I say American soil, I mean from the Canada border, to our Third World neighber to the south.
Even if they did get a nuclear weapon, there’s no way in hell they could launch it towards us here. So, again, how is Iran a threat to me, in my home, here in America?
One little thing I would like to point out, is some U.S. explosive experts went to check on the those “weapons being made in Iran”, and they found that they weren’t. I’m just saying, is all.