It is an unfortunate and even fateful assessment, but the evidence sadly shows that the US administration under Pres. Obama has no policy for coping with the threat of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.

The US has perhaps been a party in employing certain tactics designed to curb Iran’s nuclear weapon aims. Along with other Western countries the US has imposed economic sanctions on Iran. The US has also participated with other countries in negotiating with Iranian officials in an effort to halt the country’s efforts to produce nuclear weapons.

From the US administration’s perspective more time is needed to let the sanctions and the negotiations work on Iran.

Meanwhile Israeli prime minister Netanyahu proposed that Obama establish red lines for Iran’s nuclear production. If the Iranians cross any red line in their production of nuclear weapons it would trigger a US military response. This is a logical and effective oversight tactic that would keep a finger on the pulse of Iran’s nuclear efforts. But Obama thumbed his nose at Netanyahu and so did members of his cabinet like Defense Secretary Panetta, who called Netanyahu’s proposal “little red lines”. Netanyahu was also criticized and even mocked in the US media for his practical Iran proposal. The general reaction was that Netanyahu was trying to embarrass Obama for the sake of campaigning for Romney. But this is preposterous. The fuss in the US administration against Netanyahu’s red lines proposal simply conceals the absence of any US policy at all regarding the Iran threat.

Obama himself is personally and psychologically incapable of coping with the threat of a nuclear armed Iran. He canceled a meeting in the US with Netanyahu because he is even incapable of talking about it.

It was also recently reported in the Israeli press that the US warned Israel that if Israel attacks Iran, it will mean the termination and cancellation of its peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, and the likelihood that Egypt and Jordan will sever all diplomatic ties with Israel.

But this warning also is a cover up for the US administration’s own trepidations and absence of preparation about attacking Iran. Presumably if US forces attacked Iran the whole Arab Muslim world would rise up in protest and many Arab countries would feel compelled to sever diplomatic relations with the US. But what is the alternative?

“Look, we are facing a regime that threatens the annihilation of the Jewish state. It calls for genocide; it comes out with the worst anti-Semitic statements in half a century; it threatens to dominate the entire world. The world. Not merely the Middle East, North Africa or Europe, but the world. It’s building nuclear weapons to that effect, okay.” Prime Minister Netanyahu, Rosh Hashana Interview.

Just the other day Iranian Pres. Ahmedinejad in New York boasted that the Israeli threat will be eliminated, and claimed that the nation of Israel has no history.

It is only logical for the world to impose economic sanctions on Iran and engage the country’s representatives in negotiations in an effort to stop the country’s nuclear weapon aims, and its eventual production of nuclear weapons.

But even a cursory examination of the history of sanctions by the world’s governments against Iranian interests shows the program is a hodgepodge. It is not a blanket concerted effort to strangle Iran’s economy and bring it to its knees in an effort to stop its nuclear weapons development.

And the fact is that while the international economic sanctions have had a negative effect on the Iranian economy, they have definitely not deterred Iran from its nuclear weapons aims in the slightest.

And what about negotiations?

The group of countries which has been negotiating with Iran since 2006 is known as the P5+1. These comprise the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (i.e. China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States )

Since around 2004, the UN and the international community have proposed proposals to the Iranians to convince them to curb their nuclear project and avoid taking it into the area of nuclear weapon development. Practically every year the international community has made a proposal to Iran, for example to stop its enriching uranium beyond 20 percent. Enrichment beyond 20 percent is a sign that the uranium is aimed for nuclear weapons not nuclear power.

But these negotiations have been completely frivolous. One proposal after another is raised and discussed and the Iranians go home laughing up their sleeves.

Incredibly, these are the negotiations and this is the frivolous diplomacy in which the Obama administration believes, and which they maintain will do the trick to halt Iran’s nuclear threat.

But the Obama administration’s belief in negotiations with Iran is simply a cover up for the total absence of any logical or practical policy on its part. Plus Obama speaks out of two sides of his mouth. On one hand he says The US will “do what it must” to prevent Tehran from gaining nuclear weapons.” Then in practically the same breath he says “a nuclear-armed Iran is not a challenge that can be contained”. This is an outrageous and offensive contradiction. And such double talk on the part of the president can only mean there is in fact no policy at all behind what he is saying. The president does not know what he is saying.

When one acknowledges the abysmal failure of sanctions and negotiations to put a dent in Iran’s nuclear weapon aims, the only alternative is military action. The crazed jihad Islamic Republic must be forced, through the use of force, to bend its terrorist aims and stop making efforts to produce a nuclear weapon.

At this stage of the saga, if the civilized world is determined to prevent the crazed jihad Islamic Republic from becoming a nuclear power, the civilized world has only one option.

Furthermore, the US is the only country in the picture with the military capability to strike Iran effectively. The Israelis make a lot of noise about attacking Iran, but this also is frivolous.

But while only the US has the military capability to attack Iran, at the same time the US is completely lost with respect to its policy about Iran. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff even said he will have nothing to do with an attack against Iran.

The critical outcome from the present conundrum is that the state of Israel will have its back against the wall when Iran acquires nuclear weapons. There is no question but that Israel is the only country with its neck in Iran’s nuclear noose, and Iran will waste no time in launching its nukes at the Jewish State and thanking Allah for the wonderful consequences.

Another possible scenario is a Mideast cold war. If Iran acquires nuclear weapons and wants to destroy Israel with them, it must bear in mind that Israel also has nuclear weapons, and Israel will retaliate with them in force if there is an Iranian nuclear attack. This scenario however fails to take Islamic fanatic martyrdom into account.
"We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah... I say, let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant..." -- "Khomeini, Speech in Qom, 1980.

"For these worshipers at the cult of death, even the sacrifice of the homeland is acceptable if the outcome is the demise of Israel." -- Prof. Benny Morris.

Regrettably, American Jewish leaders like Dennis Ross and Alan Dershowitz claim Israel has Obama’s back with respect to the Iranian nuclear bomb threat. But this is just a lot of hot air, and has no basis in reality. Obama is completely incapable of coping with the Iranian threat or a possible military attack against Iran. If one should happen, he won’t be giving Israel his back, he will be hiding his eyes.

One can take a page about this from Winston Churchill’s books on World War II.

After occupying Czechoslovakia, Austria and Poland, in the spring of 1940 Nazi forces occupied Norway. For the first time, France and England counterattacked. But the effort failed. However, the Allied effort to liberate Norway marked the end of what was called "The Twilight War," a period in which England and France declared war against Hitler's Germany but did not organize in a warlike manner against it.

In his six-volume history of World War II, Winston Churchill reflects in his simple but direct manner: "This phase (of Twilight War) proved most harmful to the Allies… The sedate, sincere, but routine character of the Administration did not evoke that intense effort… which was vital. The stroke of catastrophe and the spur of peril were needed to call forth the dormant might of the British nation. The tocsin was about to sound."

Churchill also has relevant reflections on the Nazi invasion of the Rhineland in 1936.

According to Churchill:

“If the French government had mobilized the French Army with its nearly hundred divisions there is no doubt that Hitler would have been compelled by his own General Staff to withdraw and a check would have been given to his pretentions which might well have proved fatal to his rule. England remained completely inert and paralyzed and thus lost irretrievably the last chance of arresting Hitler’s ambitions without a serious war,..”

Among other things, Churchill stresses that if only France had attacked Hitler in the Rhineland in the beginning, and if only England had joined in, they would have blackened Hitler’s eye, and this could have proven instrumental in preventing the horrors of World War II. The same holds true today in the case of Iran’s nuclear bomb ambitions. If a proper military effort isn’t organized to blacken the eye of the Islamic terrorist death cult Ayatollahs and stop them from producing jihad nuclear weapons an even worse war with Iran could develop later. PM Netanyahu is warning about precisely this possibility now.


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