North Korea & Iran: The incompetent Mr. O

[TalkRadio]

Tuesday's bombshell Washington Post story that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has determined North Korea is capable of constructing miniaturized nuclear weapons that could be used as warheads for missiles – possibly ICBMs – left out a crucial fact: DIA actually concluded this in 2013. The Post also failed to mention that the Obama administration tried to downplay and discredit this report at the time.

During an April 11, 2013, House Armed Services Committee hearing, Congressman Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., inadvertently revealed several unclassified sentences from a DIA report that said DIA had determined with “moderate confidence” that North Korea has the capability to make a nuclear weapon small enough to be launched with a ballistic missile.

The Director of National Intelligence and Obama officials subsequently tried to dismiss Lamborn’s disclosure by claiming the DIA assessment was an outlier that did not reflect the views of the rest of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Obama officials tried to downplay the DIA assessment to prevent it from being used to force the president to employ a more assertive North Korea policy.

It was clear what Obama officials were doing in 2013. The DIA report represented inconvenient facts that threatened President Obama’s North Korea “strategic patience” policy -- a policy to do nothing about North Korea and kick this problem down the road to the next president. Obama officials tried to downplay the DIA assessment to prevent it from being used to force the president to employ a more assertive North Korea policy.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017...ew-about-north-koreas-miniaturized-nukes.html

 

[TalkRadio]

Former Secretary of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Tuesday evening that his old boss, then-President Barack Obama, should have done more to support the Iran protests of 2009.

In 2009, Obama infamously refused to back the “Green Revolution,” telling reporters that “we respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran.” Many former Obama advisers continue to believe that the U.S. should not support protests against the Iranian regime, telling Donald Trump this week to “be quiet” rather than backing the demonstrators.

Obama’s Secretary of Defense at the time, Robert Gates, has also said that the Obama administration should have sided with the protesters in 2009.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/02/leon-panetta-obama-helped-iran-protests-2009/

 

[TalkRadio]

Yet Obama’s presidency is in other respects a tragedy — and especially when it comes to foreign policy.

It is a tragedy because Obama had the opportunity to refashion America’s role in the world, and at times he seemed to want to do just that. The crisis of 2008-2009 was the ideal moment to abandon the failed strategy of liberal hegemony that the United States had been pursuing since the end of the Cold War, but in the end Obama never broke with that familiar but failed approach. The result was a legacy of foreign-policy missteps that helped propel Donald Trump into the White House.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/18/barack-obama-was-a-foreign-policy-failure/

 

[Rightguide]

Barack Obama was all about bringing us down, undermining our military, weaponizing government bureaucracy against the private sector, politicizing the Justice system and the intelligence community in order to undermine the Constitution and consolidate power in the Deep State. We cannot say to this day that he wasn't successful.

 

[TalkRadio]

Will Netanyahu, Trump slam door on Obama's bad nuclear deal?

Nuclear Iran: As North Korea and South Korea unexpectedly talk nuclear peace, Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has just released an equally unexpected intelligence trove revealing Iran to be a nuclear cheat. Is President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran worth the paper it's written on?

This isn't a game. A nuclear weapon in the hands of Iran's fundamentalist leaders would almost surely be used — either by the Iranians themselves, or by a terrorist proxy. The very fact of an Iranian nuclear program is destabilizing of the entire Mideast, since it encourages local rivals — Saudi Arabia and Egypt come to mind — to develop their own bomb programs. Then what?

That doesn't even include the fact that Iran has repeatedly threatened Israel with annihilation. And if it gets a nuke, it just might try.

The status quo with Obama's failed nuclear deal with Iran is intolerable. It's time to renegotiate the deal, and make it real. Pretending we are stopping Iran from having a nuclear weapon and doing nothing about it is dangerous, just as it was with North Korea.

https://www.investors.com/politics/...u-trump-slam-door-on-obamas-bad-nuclear-deal/

 

[Rightguide]

https://www.investors.com/politics/...u-trump-slam-door-on-obamas-bad-nuclear-deal/

Depends on whether or not Trump or Israel takes the appropriate action to eliminate Iran's capability as it stands now.

 

[WoundedKnee]

If he extends the "agreement," he will be pounced upon.
If he cancels the "agreement," he will be pounced upon.
Every day, every hour, every moment, every second, he must be hated, loathed and ridiculed.

And yet, so many fail to realize exactly how we ended up with a rodeo clown in office. They never look into the mirror, they just pounce.

 

[phrodeau]

So what's the White House saying this week? Circle all that apply.

(North Korea/Iran) (has/had) a nuclear weapons program.