September 15, 2014 | Quote

We Called It: Obama Trying to Cozy Up to Iran

“Imploring Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to cooperate and compromise,” also has terrible implications for our nuclear talks with Iran, says Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “The administration has repeatedly done this during the nuclear negotiations with Iran, which has only severely eroded US negotiating leverage, ” he explains. “Now it appears to be taking the same approach in trying to get Khamenei to put aside his vicious anti-Americanism to join the forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran against the Islamic State, which the supreme leader has played a large role in helping to create through his support for Iraqi and Syrian sectarian bloodshed.”

As seen by the Supreme Leader’s venom,  compromising will likely wind up “eliciting further contempt from the supreme leader for American weakness while infuriating the very Sunni allies whose cooperation will be needed to defeat the Islamic State.”

The president and his national security team are hopelessly befuddled, grasping at every straw to prevent the collapse of the Middle East and what remains of U.S. foreign policy. Dubowitz asks, “Will the Obama administration ever learn that the Islamic State and the Islamic Republic are two sides of the same jihadist coin?” The answer of course is never. Both houses of Congress should denounce the move and take steps to bar the enlistment of the Iranian thugocracy in any the president’s harebrained foreign policy schemes. If Hillary Clinton really wanted to distance herself from the president she’d start by decrying this move.

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Iran Syria