Ollie North: Atomic Ayatollahs

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Atomic Ayatollahs
By convicted felon Oliver North | April 23, 2010

If there was ever any doubt, it must now be clear to everyone, the Obama administration has no idea how to stop the Iranian regime from acquiring nuclear weapons. Earlier this month, as he warmed up for what the White House billed as "an unprecedented Nuclear Security Summit," Mr. Obama trotted out a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia and announced new, self-imposed restrictions on building, testing and using U.S. nuclear weapons in his Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). He also made the meaningless claim that "outliers like Iran or North Korea" would be increasingly isolated "so long as they are operating outside of accepted international norms."

Thankfully, START requires ratification by the U.S. Senate. The O-Team's NPR will be debated in congressional committees -- because even unilateral disarmament has to be funded. But the absence of any foreign policy on Iran's headlong pursuit of a nuclear arsenal is the sole prerogative of the Executive Branch. Threats to "isolate" the theocrats in Tehran or the despots in Pyongyang are hollow -- and everyone knows it.

Last week, someone at the Pentagon was worried enough about the lack of coherent policy or planning that they leaked to the New York Times what one officer dubbed, "The CYA, 'What If?' Memo." The document to which he refers is a classified memorandum Defense Secretary Bob Gates sent in January to the White House "National Security Team" urging them to consider how we are going to deal with a nuclear-armed Iran.

This memo -- and the talk it has spawned -- make very good news for the Ayatollahs. They now know that short of armed intervention -- the Obama administration cannot deter Iran from building all the nuclear weapons it wants.

The mullahs were never worried about the United Nations' toothless nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. Iranian lies to IAEA inspectors fill volumes. Nor were they concerned about "severe" United Nations Security Council economic or diplomatic sanctions. Unlike Mr. Obama, the Ayatollahs on the Supreme Council don't care if anyone likes them -- they want to be feared. And now, there are increasing reasons to do so.

[mediaman007]

1. From a guy who made deals with them!

Ollie, return to your hole!

[MisterP]

2. ha! like his listeners know what he did 1982-87

they think he's a hero railroaded by the Moscow-controlled media and "traitorous" Representatives who're the "Red Slave Empire's" "useful idiots," or something. remember, FOXers are the same people who denied that El Mozote happened and think all those nuns and priests were asking for it.