From Syria to Iran: Calamity Obama
Il Giornale, February 8th, 2013
The great chaos of the American sky will reverberate on the world. The harsh rejection expressed by Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei to new Vice-President Joe Biden’s proposal to resume direct negotiations sounds like a gibe “Some naïve people like the idea of negotiating with America … But negotiations will not solve anything, and if some people want American rule to be established again in Iran, the nation will rise up to face them”. If we turn our attention elsewhere, we will surely notice great excitement in the Middle East to the news that Obama will visit Israel in March, important for sure, considered he has never paid Israel a visit; his visit however is unlikely to lead to the resumption of negotiations or of any peace process. There is something in the arab world that Obama seems never take into consideration: hate. Yesterday Abu Mazen publicly thanked Ahmadinejad for his support to Palestinians: Iran threatens Israel, Palestinian President thanks him. Obama, if he ever wants to bring something good to the Miccle East, will have one day to face the huge issue of incitement, beside the usual issue of territories, which is not easy to tackle. But il looks like he is already acknowledged not to set off with peace proposals, as he will only address, the well informed say, Iran and Syria issues. Not a great deal, considered that during all of his years at the White House, always asks repeated the mantra that the two parts must go back to negotiations; but nowaday, he will not have the leverage to convince parties. Obama centered his foreign policy on conciliation starting off his first mandate with a visit to Cairo, which then turned into a historic paradox. His entire strategy collided with a contiunuous unbattled escalation of violence, Syria being at its peak. Now, the unusual opening bestowed to Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi by German Minister Guido Westerwelle, as well as his other European counterparts (including Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata), who met in Munich last Saturday, is a reflection of the signs coming from the US. Decisions that leader pronounce with scarce convinction, oftentimes double-edged, bearing the sense of guilt emerging from 65 thousand Syrian citizens killed during Obama’s and Europe inaction. “How do I weigh tens of thousands who’ve been killed in Syria versus the tens of thousands who are currently being killed in Congo?” said the US President in an interview with The New Republic magazine answering the journalist who had asked him why he had not intervened. In order to protect US interests, the Wall Street Journal reminded him, it is imperative to undertake action against the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah ax. This is the difference.The daily paper also accuses him for having abandoned innocent victims, hence the heaviest issues for a President who hoists the flag of ethics.
But it is time for moral confusion. THink about all the drones business. THink about the White House under investigation by the FBI because, to last Sunday’s news the President closest proxies allegedly revealed that Obama had personally ordered the Stuxnet cyberattacks on Iran nuclear program.
Middle East acute crisis became under this president a mysterious mutifacet being, which licitly lends itself to multiple opinions. Hilary Clinton and General Petraeus, before, she got hit by a stroke and he got hit by an affair, had established to provide Syrian rebels with weapons and trainers. Leon Panetta apparently agreed, whereas the White House later put a halt to it. Now, while exiting Panetta declares that Iran is destabilizing the Middle East by providing shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles (discovered in Yemen last January) and is finalizing the plan of joint anti-Iran drills with the Emirates, Joe Biden, the new Vice-President, sends signs to Iran, only to get Khamenei’s rejection afterwards.
Obama will follow anyway the path he illustrated during his inauguration address; thanks to him “a decade of war is now ending”. The trouble is that the war is still on, actually there are many wars going on, and the US, notwithstanding Obama's benevolence, are less and less welcome across the islamic world. The official Palestinian Authority newspaper writes that the US planned the Islamist atrocities (the sort of the ones in Syria) to ease the West ubrys of domination.
The Syrian crisis is turning into a tangled, thorny skein. The transfer of chemical weapons from Assad to unlikely players; Israel’s bombing on Syria, with the Jewish State for the first taking a role in the earthquake in the area; masses of refuges moving; attacks to US embassies, from Bengasi to Istanbul; Turkey is by now hysterical, with Davotoglu and Erdogan claiming their crazy cospiration theories like "Israel bombed the Sirian territory in accordance with the Assad itself"; the US watching on tv France attacking victoriously the qaedist terrorists of Mali … All of this signals the prevailance in America of the easy science of politically correctness, while the world lingers on newly emerged issues demanding determination, diplomacy, and signals of force.
Obama came to the decision to venture not only in the political (Moubarak style, nothing to regret) but also in the moral appeasement with the Islamic world. NOble attempt..But the US is now delivering deadly F-16 to Egyptian President Morsi, despite the objections of the Senate and the simmering Egyptian situation. With these sparkling F-16 for the Brothers and with Obama’s “no more war” line, new wars are looming