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The Patriot Post Digest 5-14-2018
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Trump has ended this nonsense. More important, he is free to pursue that which a feckless Obama refused34 to “meddle with” in 2009, even as Iranian dissidents were being beaten and killed: regime change.
Toward that end, Trump has circulated a three-page white paper among National Security Council officials that “seeks to reshape longstanding American foreign policy toward Iran by emphasizing an explicit policy of regime change,” The Washington Free Beacon reports35.
And contrary to leftist assertions that Trump is putting America on the brink of war, the document “deemphasizes U.S. military intervention, instead focusing on a series of moves to embolden an Iranian population that has increasingly grown angry at the ruling regime for its heavy investments in military adventurism across the region.”
The mullahs are sitting on a populist powder keg. In addition to unpopular adventurism, Iran is facing an acute water shortage precipitated36 by bad water management policies and aging infrastructure. The regime’s promise to spread the nuclear deal’s wealth to its people has been broken37, leaving the nation with an 11% unemployment rate, while the Revolutionary Guard who runs Iran’s ballistic missile program and answers solely to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei controls between 15% and 30% of the economy. The government has also banned38 Telegram, an encrypted personal messaging app used by half the country that Iran’s ICT minister, Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi, insisted was “encouraging hateful conduct, use of Molotov cocktails, armed uprisings, and social unrest.”
Lake envisions39 a three-prong strategy for regime change. First, Iranians need to take charge of their own revolution, which requires Trump to refrain from picking leaders, arming particular factions or precipitating an invasion. Second, credible channels of communication that abet domestic resistance, but refrain from empowering outside groups seeking to impose their own agenda on such a movement, must be established. Third, Trump must expand his list of demands beyond nuclear parameters. Lake suggests tying the removal of sanctions to the removal of the office of Supreme Leader from the nation’s constitution.
All good, but columnist David French adds40 an essential ingredient to the mix, insisting “we must beat Iran on the battlefield, not by invading or declaring war but instead by ensuring the endurance and ultimate victory of our allies in the proxy conflicts raging across the Middle East.”
He reminds us why. “Arguably no nation in recent history has taken more deadly action against the United States without a corresponding American response,” he asserts. “No wonder the regime believed it could dictate terms to the Obama administration.”
They can’t dictate terms to Trump. “If the regime continues its nuclear aspirations, it will have bigger problems than it has ever had before,” the president asserted during his withdrawal announcement.
In response, Iranian parliamentary members burned41 a paper American flag and chanted “death to America,” while Khamenei tweeted that Trump’s “corpse will also be worm food while IRI stands strong.”
Anyone who believes such contempt for America and its leaders hasn’t been the Iranian government’s position for decades is as delusional as an Obama administration and the cabal of equally spineless European leaders who also believe evil should be appeased — especially if it accrues42 to the EU’s globalist profit-making schemes.
And that goes double for mostly Democrat congressional hypocrites who opposed43 Obama’s deal, but now oppose Trump for rescinding it. They are joined by their fellow progressive elitists “for whom there is only one right way to conduct a presidency, and that is the Harvard-Democratic-groupthink way,” columnist Michael Walsh explains44.
Leftist arrogance is nothing new. Neville Chamberlain’s Munich Agreement of 193845 and Bill Clinton’s Agreed Framework of 199446 were both sold as grand achievements in diplomacy. Both were catastrophic failures, yet both were ignored by an equally clueless Obama administration, led by an “arc of history” narcissist who was ultimately forced to admit47 the JCPOA only delayed Iran’s ability to acquire nuclear weapons.
Perhaps Harvard-Democratic-groupthink isn’t all it’s purported to be.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55931-whats-next-for-trumps-iran-strategy
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BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
Rebecca Hagelin: Mother’s Day and Boy Scouts53
Jeff Jacoby: The Palestinians’ Real ‘Nakba’54
Tony Perkins: Senate Considers August Staycation55
Todd Starnes: Don’t Mention Jesus or Bible, University Tells Graduation Speaker56
Gary Bauer: Vintage Trump57
For more of today’s columns, visit Right Opinion58.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Jeff Jacoby: “Seventy years ago [today], on May 14, 1948, the state of Israel proclaimed its independence. … For the Palestinians, May 14, 1948, is remembered as the ‘Nakba’ (Arabic for ‘catastrophe’) — the flight of 700,000 Arab refugees from Israel during the war that followed the creation of the Jewish state. The fighting was launched by the Arab League, whose armies invaded Israel within hours of its birth. … Yet in terms of the number of people affected, property lost, and history erased, the catastrophe that befell the Jews of the Arab world dwarfed what happened to the Palestinians. Jews had been living in the Arab lands since time immemorial; in countries like Egypt, Iraq, and Libya, Jewish communities flourished centuries before the advent of Islam. Jewish life was integral to Middle East society, which drew nourishment from some of the world’s most ancient cultural roots. But with the rebirth of Jewish sovereignty in Palestine, antisemitic fury erupted across the region and those roots were ripped out. … The Palestinian refugees’ worst catastrophe wasn’t displacement, a fate they have shared with much of mankind. It was being fed a lie — that the clock will be turned back, and the last 70 years undone. The grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the 1948 refugees, whether they live in Lebanon or Jordan, in America or the West Bank, are not refugees. They are at home. That is how they should think of themselves. That is how they should insist that the world think of them. No one is going back to the 1940s. Once Palestinians stop believing otherwise, the ‘nakba’ will be at an end.”
SHORT CUTS
The Gipper: “The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we’ll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.”
Alpha Jackass: “[Trump] really is an incredibly skillful and talented communicator. He really is, which Hitler was, too. I think the reason people push back against the Hitler comparison, regardless of any similarities, is Hitler ended up killing millions and millions of people, and Mr. Trump has shown a disregard for our law, he breaks the law. … But he hasn’t killed millions of people. … Look, that’s why we want to impeach him! We’d like to end it here while it’s still OK. I think that’s why people push back so hard, because that is a very big difference. We haven’t gotten to that point. God bless us, let’s hope we never get anywhere near that point.” —Tom Steyer
Dezinformatsiya: “In terms of Iran and attacking Iran or Iranian troops and units in Syria, I think, yes, absolutely. I think that [Benjamin] Netanyahu feels that he’s gotten the green light — almost a license to kill — from Trump.” —The Daily Beast’s Christopher Dickey
Non Compos Mentis: “Happy #MothersDay! Planned Parenthood is proud to celebrate mothers in the U.S. and around the world. We’re committed to fighting for a world where all mothers can live healthy lives, and raise their children in peace.” —Planned Parenthood
And last… “I asked my 4-year-old daughter [on Mother’s Day] whether she thought it would be more fun to have a job or be a mommy. She said, ‘To be a mommy, so I can cuddle my babies.’ Clearly, she has already been victimized by the patriarchy.” —Ben Shapiro
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55940-monday-short-cuts
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