Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Obama Islam and the Middle East

As Iran gets closer and closer to a nuclear weapon Barrack Hussien Obama is busy getting himself entangled in another dead end attempt at peace in the Middle East.
What is he thinking? He has decided as many others before him that defusing middle east tensions will defuse radical Islam and weaken Iran somehow. In theory that might be possible in practical terms unattainable. So many presidents have attempted to broker peace in the Middle East and have failed. Obama has no chance.
The latest fray Is over building in Jerusalem in land captured after the six-day war almost 42 years ago. Those areas in Jerusalem will never ever be ceded to anyone. Everyone really knows that making this latest row a symptom of the chronic problem here. Israel is not and may never be accepted as a country in the Middle East.
The big question remains whether President Obama is capable of ordering the US military to strike Iran if all other attempts to convince Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions fail. Many fear the answer is no for the following reasons.
1. His name is Hussien and his father was Muslim, it will be very hard for him to attack a Moslem country even Iran
2. He promised the American people in his campaign that he would engage Iran and unlike his predecessor find a peaceful solution to the Iranian crisis. He would look very dumb attacking Iran after that.
3. As the world economy still teeters from the worst financial crisis since the great depression Obama will not want to paralyze the world economy by attacking or even blockading Irans oil shipments.
4. He has won a peace prize which was based on his attempt to reduce tensions with the Muslim world. Killing many Iranians would not reduce tensions in the Muslim world.
5. He really doesn’t like Israel and is not really concerned that Israel is the prime target of Iranian nuclear aggression.

Israel will need to face the Iranians alone, it won’t be pretty.

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