Foreign Secretary Sybil
One minute we’re assuring the Middle East that we’ll protect them from a nuclearized Iran with some sort of defensive parasol (or is it a tarp?) For Israel, we recommend a sunscreen with a really, really high SPF, like 3,000. Maybe Ahava can develop something.
The next, we’re sounding all bad-ass, like Marcellus Wallace from Pulp Fiction with a toothache, threatening to get medieval on some ayatollah’s ass.
Is it too much to ask that we have a plan?
A case of Hillary going rogue and making threats The One’s not prepared to support?
The president believes that Iran is developing a nuclear-weapons capability through its current U.N.-opposed uranium enrichment program, a senior official told me this month, and he will not accept Iran achieving the ability to make a bomb quickly from the stockpile it is accumulating.
Secretary Clinton on Meet the Press last Sunday:
“Your pursuit is futile.”
“What we want to do is to send a message to whoever is making these decisions, that if you’re pursuing nuclear weapons for the purpose of intimidating, of projecting your power, we’re not going to let that happen,” Clinton said.
“First, we’re going to do everything we can to prevent you from ever getting a nuclear weapon. But your pursuit is futile, because we will never let Iran — nuclear-armed, not nuclear-armed — it is something that we view with great concern, and that’s why we’re doing everything we can to prevent that from ever happening. … We believe, as a matter of policy, it is unacceptable for Iran to have nuclear weapons.”
And so the plan is, Madame Secretary… the plan… take your time… think of something….
The apparent solution: Stick and carrot, with the stick coming in the form of a U.S. “defense umbrella” over the entire Persian Gulf — which theoretically would involve us in a nuclear war to defend, er, Saudi Arabia — and the carrot in the form of the U.S. military releasing people like Mahmud Farhadi, one of the Quds Force’s top commanders in Iraq and therefore a man with the blood of possibly hundreds of American soldiers on his hands.
Is it possible that this administration is more dangerous overseas than it is at home? It doesn’t seem physically achievable—but then their slogan was Yes We Can (Eff-Up The Entire Freakin’ Globe).