A Historic Catastrophe

[Sandokan]

A Historic Catastrophe

A Historic Catastrophe - Thomas Sowell - Page 1

By Thomas Sowell
July 21, 2015

Distinguished scientist Freeman Dyson has called the 1433 decision of the emperor of China to discontinue his country’s exploration of the outside world the “worst political blunder in the history of civilization.”

The United States seems at this moment about to break the record for the worst political blunder of all time, with its Obama administration deal that will make a nuclear Iran virtually inevitable.

Already the years-long negotiations, with their numerous “deadlines” that have been extended again and again, have reduced the chances that Israel can destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities, which have been multiplied and placed in scattered underground sites during the years when all this was going on.

Israel is the only country even likely to try to destroy those facilities, since Iran has explicitly and repeatedly declared its intention to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.

How did we get to this point — and what, if anything, can we do now? Tragically, these are questions that few Americans seem to be asking. We are too preoccupied with our electronic devices, the antics of celebrities and politics as usual.

During the years when we confronted a nuclear-armed Soviet Union, we at least realized that we had to “think the unthinkable,” as intellectual giant Herman Kahn put it. Today it seems almost as if we don’t want to think about it at all.

Our politicians have kicked the can down the road — and it is the biggest, most annihilating explosive can of all, that will be left for our children and grandchildren to try to cope with.

Back in the days of our nuclear standoff with the Soviet Union, some of the more weak-kneed intelligentsia posed the choice as whether we wanted to be “red or dead.” Fortunately, there were others, especially President Ronald Reagan, who saw it differently. He persevered in a course that critics said would lead to nuclear war. But instead it led to the peaceful conclusion of the Cold War.

President Barack Obama has been following opposite policies, and they are likely to lead to opposite results. The choices left after Iran gets nuclear bombs — and intercontinental missiles that can deliver them far beyond Israel — may be worse than being red or dead.

Bad as life was under the communists, it can be worse under nuclear-armed fanatics, who have already demonstrated their willingness to die — and their utter barbarism toward those who fall under their power.

Americans today who say that the only alternative to the Obama administration’s pretense of controlling Iran’s continued movement toward nuclear bombs is war ignore the fact that Israel bombed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear facilities, and Iraq did not declare war. To do so would have risked annihilation.

Early on, that same situation would have faced Iran. But Obama’s years-long negotiations with Iran allowed the Iranian leaders time to multiply, disperse and fortify their nuclear facilities.

The Obama administration’s leaking of Israel’s secret agreement with Azerbaijan to allow Israeli warplanes to refuel there, during attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities, was a painfully clear sabotage of any Israeli attempt to destroy those Iranian facilities.
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Abraham Lincoln, in a speech on January 27, 1838, warned that people who disrespected American laws and courts could destroy the United States. He said: “From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia…could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

Very true, the U.S. can only be destroyed from within, and we are allowing him to do so. He is on the way to accomplish it.

 

[joG]

[FONT=&]Abraham Lincoln, in a speech on January 27, 1838, warned that people who disrespected American laws and courts could destroy the United States. He said: “From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia…could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years.
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[FONT=&]At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

[/FONT][FONT=&]Very true, the U.S. can only be destroyed from within, and we are allowing him to do so. He is on the way to accomplish it.[/FONT]

It is true that, if you are interested in modern history, game theory and international affairs the implications of the deal with Iran could make fret.

 

[TheDemSocialist]

[FONT=&]Abraham Lincoln, in a speech on January 27, 1838, warned that people who disrespected American laws and courts could destroy the United States. He said: “From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia…could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years.
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[FONT=&]At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

[/FONT][FONT=&]Very true, the U.S. can only be destroyed from within, and we are allowing him to do so. He is on the way to accomplish it.[/FONT]

:scared::scared::scared::scared:

 

[Sandokan]

Dr. Sowell closing remark, “If he is that savvy at home, why is he so apparently incompetent abroad? Answering that question may indeed require us to “think the unthinkable,” that we have elected a man for whom America’s best interests are not his top priority.”

Sowell is right on target. Seems that President Obama has an agenda that is not in the best interests of The U.S. The evidence has grown rapidly since his reelection. He has encouraged racial tension, hamstring the police operations, weakens the military with budget cuts, prevents states from guarding their borders, trying to eliminate gun rights, etc.

 

[Riveroaks]

It was just a stirring political speech in 1838.

The US was not yet the continental superpower that it would become by 1866.

The war between the abolitionists and the South was just then stirring as new territories were being added as states.

Lincoln's worst nightmare happened 22 years later during Buchanan's presidency, and then Lincoln at the ultimate cost of his own life had to then clean it up.

 

[blaxshep]

Dr. Sowell closing remark, “If he is that savvy at home, why is he so apparently incompetent abroad? Answering that question may indeed require us to “think the unthinkable,” that we have elected a man for whom America’s best interests are not his top priority.”

Sowell is right on target. Seems that President Obama has an agenda that is not in the best interests of The U.S. The evidence has grown rapidly since his reelection. He has encouraged racial tension, hamstring the police operations, weakens the military with budget cuts, prevents states from guarding their borders, trying to eliminate gun rights, etc.

Worst President Ever.

 

[Sandokan]

Worst President Ever.

With the sanctions hurting Iran economy, the agreement should have been hold until the demands by the countries involved in the talks have been met. It would have been better to walk away from the negotiating table. No agreement is better than the agreement reached.

The U.S. had the opportunity to help change the Iranian regime in 2009 when a popular uprising protesting Iran's fraudulent national election took placed. The Obama administration instead of supporting the popular demand, sided with the regime saying “The United States has gone out of its way not to interfere with election process in Iran.” Most of the actions Obama has taken only has served to empower the Iranian regime.

On 2011 the Obama Administration joined other countries in a military intervention in Libya that backfire, opening the door to anarchy and the emergence of an Islamic terrorist state. On 2013 it sided with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt that allied itself with the jihadi terrorists, declaring it has democratic aspirations. From all of these, can be intuit that “we have elected a man for whom America’s best interests are not his top priority.”

 

[Sandokan]

Obama said that the diplomatic agreement would avoid the use of force. The agreement remove the embargo of conventional arms and ballistic missile after five years. Obama in a news conference when asked about arms shipments to Iran, answered that “we can always intercept Iranian arms shipments.” Then he will use force to interdict the shipment which constitute a formal act of war. This is his alternative after the U.S. signed the agreement.

 

[NonoBadDog]

Obama said that the diplomatic agreement would avoid the use of force. The agreement remove the embargo of conventional arms and ballistic missile after five years. Obama in a news conference when asked about arms shipments to Iran, answered that “we can always intercept Iranian arms shipments.” Then he will use force to interdict the shipment which constitute a formal act of war. This is his alternative after the U.S. signed the agreement.

Obama's intent was not to come up with a good agreement. His intentions were to come up with an agreement, period. His motivations are not what we would hope.

 

[Sandokan]

Obama's intent was not to come up with a good agreement. His intentions were to come up with an agreement, period. His motivations are not what we would hope.

The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech that “Even after this deal our policy towards the arrogant US will not change.” During his speech Iranians shouted “Death to America, Death to Israel.” This don’t look promising, unlike the Soviet Union that was not suicidal, the Iranian mullahs are evil and suicidal. The Ayatollahs are refreshingly open about their determination to defeat the Arabs and achieve religious and national hegemony.