https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/02/12/obamas-phony-accomplishments-leave-us-worse-off/
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On the international front, the president and his secretary of state will leave a more dangerous, unstable and less free world. Their delusion is that strong American action can be replaced by paper deals with despots. We therefore have a Swiss-cheese agreement with Iran, which continues to test ballistic missiles, repress its people, threaten its neighbors and export terror. It has revived Iran’s economy and put it on track to possess an industrial-size nuclear weapons program in 10 years (even if it does not cheat).
With regard to Syria, a new report suggests the actual death toll from the bloody civil war is not 250,000 as most experts have suggested, but 470,000. The Syrian Centre for Policy Research reports:
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Like the paper deal to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons — which did not accomplish the task and instead led to Russian reentry into the Middle East — the president is mesmerized by diplomatic “achievements,” indifferent to whether they will be enforced and what we are forced to concede to get them (e.g. Iran’s right to enrich, Assad’s right to remain in power). Like his domestic executive orders, these are unlikely to survive beyond his presidency.
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And here is the tragedy of Syria. The West demonstrated no leadership from the start, and so five years in it is Russia that is dictating the terms both of war and peace and doing so for no moral or humanitarian reason but for the lowest forms of statecraft. It is the people of Syria who most deserve our pity. And it is the whole international community who most deserves their remaining contempt.
It would be refreshing if the media grilled administration officials on just these points, rather than regurgitating talking points that celebrate the deal as some sort of accomplishment.
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(Entire article is at the link. Zim.)
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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