National Review:
Instead of sternly rebuking Iran for seizing U.S. sailors tonight, the Obama Administration is “acting as the lawyers for Iran,” Charles Krauthammer charged.
“I think the story here is not that the Iranians are bad actors, that’s a 30-year-old story,” Krauthammer said on Tuesday’s Special Report. “The story is that the United States, in responding to bad actions, is doing nothing. It’s appeasement of the highest order.”
“The whole point of the Iranian nuclear deal was to constrain the action of the Iranians,” he said. ”In fact, what we have seen since the day of the signing the deal is that it has self-deterred the United States from answering any provocation.”
Krauthammer cited a number of recent acts of Iranian belligerence against the United States:
The illegal, missile launch in October, we did nothing. The one in November we haven’t yet acknowledged. Then we said on the eve before New Year’s Eve, we were going to impose sanctions. The administration canceled the announcement, has not announced any other sanctions. The sentencing of The Washington Post reporter, no response. The detention of two other Iranian Americans, no response. And now this?
“And the administration accepts the Iranians saying it’s the middle of the night?” Krauthammer continued. “The Revolutionary Guards don’t close shop at 5:00 P.M. Iranian time.”
“We’re acting as the lawyers for Iran on all of these,” he said. ”No action, only excuses and we’re within a couple of weeks going to give them $150 billion with which to make mischief and to capture more Americans at sea.”
We may get our people back soon.
But…..
Iran just got a chance to take a long look at out latest technology in terms of these small boats our Navy uses.
Iran is into small boats, too.
Expect the Iranian small boats to soon feature all sorts of technological improvements.
What we’ve also seen is the removal from Iran of over 20,000 pounds of enriched uranium, which was the bulk of their entire stockpile. Their next step will be to disable their heavy-water reactor at Arak, which is capable of producing fuel for a plutonium bomb.
North Korea is far more worrisome. They’ve already got a fission weapon and they’re attempting to build a fusion weapon, one of which could take out most of Japan or South Korea. They’ve demonstrated a long-range delivery system. Compared with the government of Iran, their leader takes crazy to whole new level.
Sociological analysis of any country is a composite of comparative design. Unfortunately, the us uses pre-existing, outdates. politicalized data, social behavior patterns that often do not fit the state, none-state actors. Multivariate and regression analysis are seldom applied in this incident. iran is a non-state actor and should be treated as such. ideologies are not policies. Ideologies are always replaced for old value structure.
Two books you need to read. Chalmer Johnson’s Revolutionary Change, 2ed., and Klandermans et al, Methods of Social Movement Research.
Obama simply wants the Iran deal too badly. That in conjunction with his obvious unconcern for what happens to the nation after he is gone, as long as “history” shows he did a good job, adds up to dire danger.
Thus, Iran violates the “deal” by testing ICBM’s and we just shrug it off. And, Greg, in light of all else, I’m SURE Iran and Russia are sticking to the absolute letter of the law. Who could doubt?
@Nanny –
Riverine boats do not have any special or classified technology onboard. At most in technology are their basic navigational instruments.