Obama’s White Whale

rouhani-ayatollah-khomeiniPresident Obama is not one to be rebuffed.

As he showed when the Castro brothers rejected repeated entreaties to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba, Obama can display exceptional determination, even imagination, in finding a path to surrender.

When the Castros wouldn’t accept his entreaties, Obama turned to the Vatican to offer the candy.

The Castros have no intention of loosening their grip on Cuban society, or of opening the Internet to free speech, as Obama has claimed. But they will take U.S. taxpayer subsidies from the Ex-Im Bank to finance purchases from fellow-Communist China. How’s that for a good deal!

And so, Iran. Obama has now written to Supreme Terrorist – sorry, Supreme Leader – Ayatollah Khamenei four times since taking office in 2009. And each time, Khamenei has responded with insults and rejection.

The most recent offer was in October 2014, when Obama reportedly offered a whole plate-full of goodies – extensive relief from U.S. economic and financial sanctions, and perhaps much more – in exchange for the Ayatollah accepting Obama’s capitulation on the nuclear agreement.

But that wasn’t good enough for Khamenei, who immediately denounced the United States as a “nuclear criminal” – and on Twitter, no less!

Now we are told that Iran is “cooperating” with the United States in the fight against ISIS, most recently by bombing ISIS targets inside Iraq.

But Iranian sources in Europe with access to current regime intelligence told me last week that Iran has provided 30 percent of the weapons ISIS has been using in its offensives in Syria and Iraq, mainly from Chinese sources.

Surprise? Not really. Despite what some “experts” in Islam will tell you about how Shiite Iran is irrevocably opposed to Koran-citing, Sunna-invoking, Sharia-inflicting ISIS, the two have a common cause: the triumph of Islam throughout the world.

Iran’s Islamic regime is also Koran-citing, Sunna-invoking, and Sharia-inflicting. They stone to death female rape-victims for “adultery” and make child-brides of young girls, imitating the example of the Prophet of Islam. They just disagree with ISIS – as they do with Turkish president Erdogan, and the al-Saud family – about who should be leading the Islamic caliphate.

Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin disagreed about whose army should march first into Berlin. Roosevelt caved. Stalin won. A fifty-year Cold War ensued.

Shiite Iran has a long and well-documented history of supporting Sunni terrorist groups. They helped al-Qaeda recruit, train, and elude U.S. surveillance before the 9/11 plot, and they have sheltered senior al-Qaeda operatives ever since.

They continue to publicly support Sunni jihadi groups including the Taliban in Afghanistan, and Hamas in Gaza.

In 2011, the U.S. Treasury Department exposed Iran for sheltering al Qaeda’s top financiers. Earlier this year, Treasury identified yet another top al Qaeda financial operative, Abdul Mohsen Abdullah Ibrahim al-Sharikh, whom Iran nurtured and protected until he moved to Syria and joined the al-Qaida affiliated Nusra front, “later becoming one of its top strategists.”

So don’t be surprised to see that the Islamic Republic of Iran has provided weapons to the Islamic State (of Iraq and Syria). After all, on most days ISIS uses those weapons to slaughter America’s “allies,” the weak-kneed, slightly less Islamified opposition to Iran’s ally, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

It’s an old trick of totalitarians everywhere. Light a fire on your enemy’s doorstep, then offer to help him put it out. The Soviets used it repeatedly.

Now the Pentagon wants to provide yet more goodies to Iran. Under the misguided leadership of outgoing SecDef Chuck Hagel, DoD has asked the U.S. Treasury Department to remove sanctions so U.S. companies can help Iran with multi-billion dollar development projects in Afghanistan.

Let me spell that out. The Pentagon has identified “worthy” projects in Afghanistan and turned them over to the Iranians, and is now “inviting” U.S. companies to provide financial and technical assistance so the Iranians can make it rich.

There is more than just stupidity at work here.

Listen to “progressive” Maryland Democrat Chris Van Hollen, speaking to Foxnews after “bringing back” U.S. hostage Alan Gross from Cuba. (Remember, Alan Gross was jailed five years ago for helping Havana Jews get access to the Internet.)

Cuba’s human rights abuses and its lack of freedom “have resulted from 54 years of failed U.S. policies,” Van Hollen said without even blushing.

For Obama and his acolytes, America is the problem. We have “caused” the world’s problems with our sanctimonious nonsense about God-given freedoms. Any self-respecting Socialist would naturally react to men and women who fear God and love life by banning God and substituting a government that robs citizens of their freedom.

And so, Obama’s mission as president is to make America as small as possible so we can’t continue to spread freedom and the values underpinning it around the world. We are going to stop causing harm by vacating the premises and allowing real bad guys to take over.

Former Brookings Institution scholar Michael Doran calls Obama’s obsession with making bad deals with rogue states his “white whale.”

“The president is dreaming of an historical accommodation with Iran. The pursuit of that accommodation is the great white whale of Obama’s Middle East strategy, and capturing it is all that matters; everything else is insignificant by comparison,” Doran wrote earlier this year. “The goal looms so large as to influence every other facet of American policy.”

The ship of state is taking on water in Iraq? Let’s make a deal with Iran and hand it over to them. Afghanistan can’t stay afloat? Not to worry, Obama’s Iranian allies will come to the rescue.

There is only one thing Iran’s leaders can do to prevent Obama from rushing to conclude a deal with them that will allow them to develop a militarily-useful nuclear arsenal, impose their hegemony over the Persian Gulf, swallow up Lebanon and install their genocidal legions on the borders of Israel: they can just say no.

So far, that’s just what Khamenei has been doing. He has swallowed all the goodies Obama has offered without even saying thank-you. And Obama’s response has been to offer more.

Don’t think for an instant that cooler heads will prevail. They won’t. This president is determined to take America down, and he is pursuing that goal with all the single-minded intensity that Captain Ahab displayed in his chase for the white whale.

Will someone please wrench the harpoon out of his hands?

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  • Daniel

    “Call me Ishmael…..”
    No……please don’t…. considering what he unleashed on the world.
    Obama would not support the pro-democracy movement in Iran a few years back when the people of Iran voted to reduce the power of the ayatollahs in their national election.
    Obama backed the ayatollahs and their subversion of the democratic process as they slaughtered protesters in the streets.
    Israel no longer notifies the Obama regime when it plans any covert military action against Iran. The Obama regime has “leaked” specific info to Iran about Israeli missile and aircraft locations before pre-emptive strikes could be made. Israel does not trust the Obama regime to not do this again(and rightfully so).
    And what was that secret letter that Obama sent to Iran making an offer to have a separate dialogue apart from the normal diplomatic process that involves other branches of the US government?
    Melville’s Captain Ahab was surely a deranged lunatic. But King Ahab of the Bible was even more destructive.
    Too bad the GOP doesn’t have the prophet Elijah to speak truth to Obama’s power.

  • Dan Knight

    “Obama can display exceptional determination, even imagination, in finding a path to surrender.”

    LOL … yes, exactly Kenneth: Great line!

    • carpe diem 36

      Yes, because he is a eunuch, a scarecrow and nothing more.

      • Dan Knight

        LOL … isn’t that an insult to eunuchs and scarecrows! *wink*

        Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah!

        • carpe diem 36

          Thanks. my opinion exactly. Actually, he is an insult to anything alive.

  • Hard Little Machine

    If he limited himself to surrendering to Iran that would be enough. But Obama will get around to recognizing ISIS as a ‘legitimate state’ as well. After all their rise to power and their day to day operations aren’t all that different from the Iranian Revolution. Iran killed thousands in its rise to power, it installed sharia and wrapped women in burqas, It executed non-Persians, Jews, gays and pretty much anyone else. And it declared jihad on the planet. Just like ISIS. All Iran had going for it was internationally recognized borders. And those don’t matter to the west anymore. So by the end of Obama’s term, ISIS WILL be recognized by Obama, the EU and the UN.

  • PI by Nature

    Cuba and Iran are very different animals. The USA is not actively at war with Cuba…the biggest issue is that they are harboring Joanne Chesimard. Iran, however, poses a threat to the USA by its very existence. I don’t see what is happening with Cuba happening with Iran.

    • JayWye

      When Comrade Obama surrenders Guantanamo Naval Base to Cuba,Cuba will soon lease it to Russia. Castro will demand Guantanamo back for starting “negotiations” with Comrade Obama,and Comrade Obama will comply.

  • kiwi41

    Clinton was impeached for creative interpretation of ” getting blown “.

    This traitorous ni qq er POS is aiding and pandering to the US’s #1 sworn
    ra gh ead enemy, aiding ISIL, flooding the country with ( more ) cockroaches, etc and still it is allowed to continue to wreak its havoc.

    WHAT IS STOPPING IMPEACHMENT ?

    • Daniel

      The Republicans are perfumed she-males and borderline homosexuals who are only in office to raid the treasury and enrich themselves enough to bail out to another country when the US collapses and the barbarian hordes over-run it.

      • JayWye

        Odd how it’s the DemocRATs who are getting rich under Comrade Obama’s reign. all those sweetheart deals. they are also the pro-homosexual Party.

        • Daniel

          The DEMS are moral reprobates, Communists and corrupt perverts not even worth mentioning. They are the enemy.
          I criticize the REPS because they are supposed to be an OPPOSITION to DEM corruption.
          And they’re not.

          • JayWye

            yes,the treachery of the Repubs is bothering the HECK out of me,too.

  • SoCalMike

    And the GOP is totally debarked without a single candidate to speak truth to this abomination.

  • Robert_Fl

    Isn’t that where president Jarrett was born?

    • dwayne roberson

      Our Rasputin.

  • JayWye

    There’s a reason why,post-college,Comrade Hussein traveled to Pakistan,of all places. it’s not because he was a Christian. There’s a reason why Comrade Hussein was aided in getting into college by Saudi money and influence.
    Comrade Obama IS the muslim Manchurian Candidate.

    “The Obama Doctrine can be described in just nine words: Embolden our enemies, undermine our friends, diminish our country.” Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

  • Underzog

    To wrench the harpoon from Obama, one must impeach him and all the Republicans are terrified of that. They think Obama is Bill Clinton when he is not. Also, Obama’s wholesale violations of the Constitution; e.g., separation of powers; sanctity of contracts; etc., are more serious than former Pres, Clinton lying under oath about his sexual diallances with Monica Lewinsky. Will we lose votes? Maybe, but sometimes one has to take a bullet for the Constitution as Don Feder wrote.

  • vonrock

    Festering boils for Barack

  • steve b

    HE’S ALREADY EMBRACING IRAN. OTHERWISE WE WOULD HAVE NUKED THOSE IDIOTS SEVERAL YEARS AGO. OBAMA WILL PROBABLY SEND THEM OUR NUCLEAR SECRETS BEFORE HE IS DONE BECAUSE IT’S NOT FAIR THAT WE HAVE THOSE SECRETS AND THEY DON’T!!!

  • GHjo

    Is it not possible to –remove–an US president if clear evidence is found,that he,
    is conspiring with hostile forces in order to –destroy– his own country?
    Such evidence is already available for Obama and his admimistration,–so why
    is he, and his administration not –removed–before more irreparable damage is done?

  • Ragai Mitry

    For a while, pundits have been screaming that Obama is incompetent, an amateur, etc. Those voices are silly. There is not a smidgen of doubt that Obama is getting what he wants. He is not dumb. He is evil.

  • andrewwhitehead

    Does anyone find it odd that in a communist country the people are cheering on our progressive president for surrendering to communist diktat while Americans are protesting the surrender to communism?

    President Obama, always “doing not stupid stuff” and doing one thing very well: disappointing the American people and our allies.

  • mark

    I am really amazed, that the usa’s traitor in chief has not been assassinated years ago

  • JD

    And, where is our Republican leadership in all this? Oh yeah! They are busy passing make nice legislation before the new congress can be seated that ensures both amnesty of illegal aliens and the funding of ovomitcare until at least October 2015.

    They could care less about the strategic foreign policy blunders of this president. There isn’t a leader among them. It is really sad.

    Where is a Reagan when we need him?

  • http://twitter.com/WinstonCDN WinstonCDN

    DemonRats are the real imperialists.