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Failed leadership – again

What is unfolding in Egypt & Libya is proof once again that the current president is absent with American leadership.

A man who is supposed to be president of our nation who does not believe that our nation is exceptional. An ambassador and 3 staff members killed in Libya with the embassy engulfed in flames. Embassy in Cairo overrun and vandalized. Over comments about Mohammad in a film.

Clinton’s remark yesterday that there are no red lines in reference to Iran and its nuclear program again reveals the poor leadership in our executive branch.

No time to meet with Netanyahu which has been revealed what is more important: appearance on Letterman and other campaign stops.

Watch for the spin and continued lack of leadership. Watch for the puffery and arrogance.

 

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if you were in charge

http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=284682

http://www.debka.com/article/22350/Obama-and-Netanyahu-shadowbox-on-Iran-ahead-of-final-round-Sept-28

“It’s roughly about a year right now. A little more than a year. And so … we think we will have the opportunity once we know that they’ve made that decision, take the action necessary to stop (Iran),” Panetta said on CBS’s “This Morning” program.”

 

2 cents:

If you were the leader of a country or even a group of people who has:

  1. heard repeatedly over the last eight years from another country near your location that they desire to see you wiped off the face of the earth
  2. knew that said country spent millions of dollars if not billions to arm and train terrorists to wreak havoc against your nation
  3. knew that they have a religious practice which advocates lying to get to your ultimate objective
  4. said country then begins a nuclear program which they do their best to be secretive while stating it is for civil/non-military application

 

Would you – the leader of the country put your people’s lives in the hands of someone else who can and does respond to the known 4 points with a comment that is steeped in “if” vocabulary?

 

Another way to think about it – using the same and FACTUAL points – as a career which is based on political philosophy and perception of leadership would you place your career’s future in the hands of such “wavering” precepts? As a political being wouldn’t you own your career and try to get in front of these scary realities so as to not lose points on perceived leadership abilities and strategic thinking misfires?

 

Lets look at it another way. If you were the president of the USA and your nation had just been attacked – lets say in at least four different ways – actually four terrorist attacks – would you try remedy the disagreement and loss of life with going to the UN and asking for them to open diplomatic channels with the terrorists so that we can agree to disagree but stop loss of life? It is 9/11 today and is that what the CES would have done in response to the attacks if he had been president instead of Bush? What kind of leadership would that have been perceived as?

 

Netanyahu has the reality of a 9/11 on a scale that could in one fell swoop eliminate the nation of his people. Just because Ahmadinejad is a leader of a nation does it make him less dangerous the a Bin-Laden was just a few years ago?  After all Ahmadinejad has a large armed military force plus a couple large terrorist organizations in his control.

 

Does the CES disagree with the way Bush handles the terrorist leader? If so – then why did he order the take down of him via military action without Pakistani sovereign support? Why is he using drones to kill terrorists abroad?

 

 

 

Remember CES = chief empty suit = current US president

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in the corner

Cutting through the US-Israeli debate over where to put “red lines” for Iran, Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Monday night, Sept. 3 that Iran would hit US bases in the Middle East in response to any Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities, even if the Americans were not involved in the attack…Netanyahu called a special cabinet meeting for Tuesday, Sept. 4 with the participation of the heads of Israel’s clandestine services, Military Intelligence, the Mossad, the Shin Bet and the Foreign Office Research Division, to hear their annual report.
It is likely to go on all day with updates on the situation in Syria, Egypt and Jordan – all weighty topics. But the agenda will certainly be topped with a detailed rundown on the current state of Iran’s nuclear program.
After that rundown, the prime minister and defense minister will enter the final decision-making stage on war against Iran.

Nasrallah carried a triple message from Tehran to Washington and Jerusalem:
1.  Iran believes an Israeli attack will take place before the US presidential election on Nov. 6;

2.  Tehran is drawing on a powerful deterrent: Lest anyone expected a low-key Iranian response to an attack on its nuclear facilities, the Hizballah leader put them right when he said, “the response will be very great” and “America bears responsibility.”

3. By putting Nasrallah out front as a leading Iranian spokesman, Khamenei signaled that Hizballah would take an active role in the coming conflict.
DEBKAfile: The chatter about “red lines” in the last few days has therefore had the effect of stirring the Iranians into preempting them by a single sharp stroke.

The full article here

2 cents:

Israel, specifically Netanyahu and the government has made the same mistake many other leaders in Israel’s history have made. A nation brought into existence by God’s calling out of Abram – they have looked solely at a fellow man as a protector for their people. Over the period of time since their recognition as a nation by world governments and the UN, they have again grown entangled in the devices of other governments and took their eyes off God. It ALWAYS has devastating repercussions. In the early days of the modern era of Israel, God delivered them repeatedly from their enemies. But as they have grown, become successful and more secularized they have sought leagues with other nations and allowed themselves to become pawns for other kings. In the current scenario that is unfolding, Netanyahu has placed too much trust and power into the CES’ hands. Now after many days have went passed which have allowed not only continual progress of nuclear technology to be realized in Iran, it has also allowed for strategy and resources to be determined and allocated for a swift and much heavier handed response to a military action in Iran. All because of Netanyahu placing his faith and country’s well-being in the last two administrations of the USA government. Israel is now backed into a corner and the corner man is the CES and he is not known for his ability to lead or make the right decision.

The spiritual dynamic to the Middle East conflicts are being overlooked because society on a whole is secularized. How ignorant of the human race!

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Implications

Iran: (emphasis added)

Obama stood up to the blasts from a number of influential American editorial writers and strategic analysts who urged him to offer Israel a solemn commitment for a pre-emptive American offensive against Iran from the Knesset podium, as a means of holding the Netanyahu government back from military action in the fall of 2012. Another suggestion was for the president to formally notify the US congress of his plans for military action if Iran persisted in speeding the development of ifs nuclear weapon capacity.
Obama rejected both suggestions – and Iran continued to accelerate its advance towards a nuclear weapon undisturbed.
Thursday, diplomats close to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, disclosed that Iran had installed another 1,000 uranium enrichment machines in its fortified underground facility at Fordo, and was expanding its production of 20-percent refined uranium.
Experts not bound by the IAEA’s diplomatic constraints report that enrichment climbed to 30 percent some months ago and was now on the way to 60 percent. At least 3,000 centrifuges were now spinning at Fordo.

Israel recently passed information to Washington that Iran had already developed a radioactive (dirty) bomb.
Yet US official spokesmen keep on intoning that there is still room for diplomacy – even after all the parties admitted that the Six Power talks with Tehran broke down irretrievably weeks ago. And Friday, Aug. 24, seven hours of argument between the IAEA and Iranian representatives failed to dent Iran’s implacable opposition to any reduction in its nuclear drive or the slightest transparency.

Whole article here

Egypt: (emphasis added)

Al Qaeda targets Riyadh, Jeddah and Sderot. Saudi cell had chemicals

Al Qaeda Salafists target kibbutz and IDF post on second day of strikes

A Muslim Brotherhood delegation was in Sinai last week, followed by emissaries of President Mohamed Morsi, among whom were members of the violent Al Gama’a al-Islamiya (which was responsible for assassinating President Anwar al Sadat in 1981).

2 cents: The actions as well as inaction of the CES has enabled both of these boiling pots. What does this reveal about his beliefs?

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Diagnosis and prescription

Krauthammer’s article this week is about the growing Iran nuclear issue and the current SOP followed by the CES and the other nations wearily looking on.

I agree with the fourth (added) option which is the president of the USA securing authorization to use the military against Iran if a well defined list of objectives are not met by the Iranian government. However the unfortunate truth of the matter is that our government has ceased to be a working government whose purpose is the well-being of the citizens of the country to that of partisan politicking full-time in hopes of life-long careers in so-called public/civil service. I will refocus the quote and focus of the Joker to repeat that “our national government is in dire need of an enema”. 

Because of the current state of our government, it is in my opinion that any attempt to work with Congress now will produce posing and grand-standing to puff up our current president and that simply can not be allowed to happen. To make him artificially appear a better man than he is – will not do! To last minute create a public persona of strength and values is hogwash and an insult to all the people who are actually ethically moral principle based people.  That man needs to flushed out of our nation’s policy making, removed from the captain’s wheel and ejected from the cockpit (violently if need be). Once that objective is secured THEN approaching Congress in meaningful, real talks to make the legitimate, legal and permanent line in the sand which to hold Iran’s leadership to can be identified and made. Only then will Israel believe that their nation and people’s existence is protected. 

So – let’s get things moving and get the CES out of office so we can begin the necessary CHANGE that our country desperately needs.

 

CES = chief empty suit = current president of the USA

 

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US presidential election and its impact on the Middle East

Two article links that the Drudge Report currently has at the top of his web page deal with Israel’s government and their consideration of attacking Iran’s nuclear sites before the US presidential election. Article 1. Article 2. No real news is shared however the writer’s are being more transparent about what is a significant driver to the Israeli strike decision – the US presidential election.

It appears to me that the greatest thing O the CES could do to ensure that Israel does not strike before the presidential election is to allow Romney to win the election by a wide margin that is quite apparent as October arrives. So Mr. Nobel Peace prize winner (hack, cough, spit); put action to it not just puffery and words – step aside – for peace in the Middle East. Ha!

This timing question is legitimate for the Israeli government to consider. Despite all the swirl around the Iranian nuclear issue I am pretty sure one thing is certain – Israel would much rather it be a US, ally strike on Iran’s nuclear reactors not just a unilateral action on Israel’s part. Yet looking across the ocean over to our national capitol one could not be certain that an US action of such magnitude will actually timely occur. Truth be told, it should have happened at least a couple years ago. Now a strike will be a mere delay and quite possibly too little too late.

I believe Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Barak need to plan today that they will strike the nuclear sites in Iran in October and then hope that the tide of US presidential election is such in October that they will not need to. That would mean a late October or early November 1 or 2 strike.

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