As the world focuses on the circus that is the Olympics, the Personal Pronoun in Chief’s BFF Iran has decided to send a little pre-St. Valentine’s Day billet-doux in the form of a quick jaunt of its warships through U.S. waters. I’m sure it doesn’t mean anything, though, since Herr Barry trusts them so much.
Oh, wait…….
“Iran’s military fleet is approaching the United States’ maritime borders, and this move has a message,” Haddad reportedly said, according to Fars, a semi-official Iranian news agency.
After being told repeatedly by both Republicans and Democrats in Congress that his foreign policy regarding Iran was erroneous and dangerous, our laughingstock of a “leader” is off on his perpetual campaign route while we sit and watch the world inch ever-so-closer to our role as the leader of the free world.
From Rand Paul:
“On a foreign policy issue of this magnitude, it is my strong belief that any further agreement – be it interim or final – that lifts statutory sanctions on Iran should require approval by the Congress before taking effect. Please let me know if it is your intent to seek this approval for any subsequent interim or final deal,” Paul wrote to both Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry.
“The intent of Congress was not simply to allow the President to waive all the sanctions in perpetuity at his behest,” he continued.
“Like you, I am hopeful a peaceful resolution can be reached. However, in the course of those negotiations, it is both my hope and expectation that the Congress will continue its role as an integral participant in our foreign policy toward Iran.”
So, how ’bout those sanctions now, boy-prez?
To be fair, the Iranians are planning to remain in international waters, but come close to our territorial waters, or so they’ve said.
Funny thing about ocean currents, though; they’ve been known to push vessels slightly off-course, and an Iranian destroyer staying 12.1 nm off our coast could suddenly find itself 11.8 nm off the coast . . . and thus subject to interdiction and seizure.
ROS says: I’m more interested in the fact that the ship’s commander feels comfortable stating “this is a message”. They no longer fear us, and fear is only a healthy respect.
The question is: What is the message? The Iranians are protesting the presence of our Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf, in which we are in international waters, but still close to Iran. Their message is that, if we can do it, they can, too.
That is a message that Iran is an equal sovereign state with the Unite States, and Barack Hussein Obama will probably go along with it.
Thing is, if that Iranian destroyer or helicopter carrier moves into our territorial waters, the captains of the Navy ships monitoring the situation will wind up calling the Pentagon for instructions: do we interdict? That decision will go right up to the Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, and he will have to consult the Commander-in-Chief; all of this will take time.
Now, the President could have already taken a decision, and authorized interdiction in advance if certain conditions have been met, with a particular admiral at sea, ready to authorize and act, but that would require both a decisive Commander-in-Chief, and an admiral afloat who had the courage to carry out such orders without seeking a clarification from the Pentagon.
ROS says: Exactly, and Iran should never think it’s on equal footing. Oh, how far he’s dragged us down.
Merle says: Figure the odds our chief clown will show a backbone.
Merle
ALman says: He just might do a F.D.R. and join them onboard for tea.
ROS says: He’s none to show. We all know that he’ll simply point a finger and draw a line that he’ll in the future deny drawing, put on his little pink bicycle helmet, and make loud noises about how he isn’t a warmonger like the evil Booooosh as he commits more US blood to Iraq and digs us deeper into a hole.
And Iran will continue to erase the line.
Change Iran Now says: Obama, through appeasement of Iran, is pushing the world towards catastrophe. Barack Obama and John Kerry have “secured peace in our time.”
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