Obama, der Iran und Israel

Jonathan Tobin berichet für contentions über die „Strategie“ der Obama-Regierung im Umgang mit dem iranischen Atomwaffenprogramm, die einer Duldung der iranischen Bombe gleichkommt:

Barack Obama’s friends at the New York Times give us an insight into the president’s strategy for rallying the world behind his Iran policy. In an op-ed by David Sanger that is given the always misleading label of “news analysis” and published in the paper’s news section, we learn that Obama has a three-pronged approach to Iran: first, win international support for tough sanctions; second, win over the Chinese; and third, stop Israel from attacking Iran.

But despite the Times’s puffery, this is nothing but a three-way path to total failure. Failure, that is, if the goal is to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear device, as seems certain unless something drastic happens. [Weiterlesen…]

Jennifer Rubin stellt zudem, ebenfalls für die contentions, heraus, dass die Obama-Regierung eher daran interessiert ist, Israel von der Selbstverteidigung abzuhalten, als die iranische Bombe zu verhindern:

“This is about driving them back to negotiations,” said one senior official, “because the real goal here is to avoid war.” (emphasis added)

You see the goal is not to prevent Iran from going nuclear but rather to avoid war. So the Obami’s main obsession is now to deter Israel (which cannot tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran) from acting. (”Top officials — from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, to the national security adviser, Gen. James L. Jones — have visited Israel to argue that they should give sanctions time.”) But of course, we know that the chances of sanctions working are virtually nonexistent. So we are merely giving the mullahs, not sanctions, just more time.

Es verdichten sich demnach die Anzeichen darauf, dass die Obama-Regierung die iranische Bombe nicht nur nicht mit allen Mitteln – also gegebenenfalls der Anwendung militärischer Gewalt – verhindern wird, sondern ganz im Gegenteil auch noch jenes Land, das als einziges gewillt ist, den Wahnsinn zu stoppen, daran hindern wird.