Obama'sTreason is the New Patriotism
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
When Republicans complained that Obama refused to
talk about Islamic terrorism, he accused them of
playing into the hands of ISIS by demanding that he
identify the enemy we’re fighting.
When
they spoke out against his Iranian nuclear sellout,
he accused them of “wanting to make common cause
with the hardliners in Iran”. Those hardliners would
presumably toe a harder line than Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who responded to Obama’s
outreach in his first term by saying, “The Islamic
peoples all over the world chant ‘Death to
America!’” and who stated last year that “This
battle will only end when the society can get rid of
the oppressors’ front with America at the head of
it.”
(The Supreme Leader of a country which stones
teenage rape victims and rapes teenage girls so that
they don’t die as virgins, also claimed that “The
European races are barbaric.”)
If the moderate Supreme Leader that Obama is dealing
with wants Death to America, what could the real
hardliners want for America that’s even worse than
death? A third term of Obama?
Meanwhile Joe Biden, Obama’s number two, accused
Republicans of undermining Obama. This would be the
same Biden who threatened to impeach President Bush
if he bombed Iran’s nuclear program and who blasted
Bush and the idea of an Axis of Evil at a fundraiser
in the home of a pro-Iran figure.
Biden undermined President Bush’s efforts to rein in
Iran’s terrorism by voting against listing the
Revolutionary Guard, which was supplying weapons to
help the Taliban kill American soldiers, as a
terrorist group (a position he shared with Kerry,
Hagel and Obama) and berating Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice for not negotiating with Iran and
Assad.
The toadying of “Tehran Joe” to Iran had already
reached its absolute lowest point when Biden
responded to the terrorist attacks of September 11
by suggesting, “Seems to me this would be a good
time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200
million to Iran.”
The administration that Biden is part of has instead
been releasing $490 million a month to Iran.
Biden, along with Kerry and Hagel, became notorious
as the Tehran Trio during the Bush years for their
advocacy for Iran and Assad, and their appearances
at pro-Iranian lobbying groups and fundraisers
despite criticism from Iranian democracy advocates.
Biden, Kerry and Hagel, Obama’s VP, the Secretary of
State and the former Secretary of Defense, all
appeared at American-Iranian Council events, a group
whose founder stated that he is “the Iranian lobby
in the United States.”
Treason doesn’t get more treasonous than that.
Obama and Biden, along with their political allies,
are trying to spin their shameless pandering to a
terrorist state as patriotic and opposition to it as
treasonous. The New York Daily News denounced
senators opposed to an Obama deal giving Iran the
ability to develop and deploy nuclear weapons as
“Traitors”. The administration’s social media
allies’ hashtag dubbed Republicans opposed to Iran’s
nuclear weapons as #47Traitors.
Traitors oppose terrorists getting nuclear weapons.
Patriots like Joe Biden not only support it, but
they blast a president trying to stop it while
collecting $30,000 at a pro-Iranian fundraiser.
“Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?” Sir
John Harrington cynically observed. “Why, if it
prosper, none dare call it treason.” But the
Elizabethan courtier left out that when traitors
rule, patriotism becomes treason. Obama commits
treason and taunts his critics as traitors.
Republicans who want to see American leadership rise
to the challenge of ISIS and Iran are accused of
collaborating with ISIS and Iran by an
administration that willfully lied and
misrepresented the growth of ISIS for as long as it
could and that is now doing the same thing for
Iran’s nuclear threat.
Obama lied and claimed that ISIS was no threat even
when it was taking over entire cities. Only overt
genocide by ISIS forced him into his current
stumbling action against it. Now the same sports fan
who dubbed ISIS a “Jayvee” team not worth bothering
with accuses Republicans of playing into its hands.
Sensible people consider letting a terrorist
group win to be “playing into its hands”. Left-wing
apologists for terror however claim that fighting
terrorists “plays into their hands”. In the same
inverted worldview in which patriotism becomes
treason and treason becomes patriotism, what
terrorists want most is for you to bomb them to
oblivion while what they fear most is that you’ll
just stand there and let them kill you.
Now Obama suggests that critics of his Iran nuclear
sellout are playing into the hands of some imaginary
hardliners who want America to bomb its nuclear
program. These imaginary hardliners, like the
imaginary terrorists, want to sabotage their own
efforts to achieve their goals. And only Obama
stands between them and the failure of their
terroristic and nuclear ambitions. That’s why he’s a
patriot.
And if you can follow all that, you qualify for a
gig as the State Department’s new spokesperson.
Ignoring terrorists is patriotic. Fighting them is
unpatriotic. Dealing with their actual beliefs is
unpatriotic. Pretending that they have no beliefs,
no matter how impossible it makes it to predict
their actions and fight them, is patriotic. Stopping
Iran from getting nuclear weapons is unpatriotic.
The patriotic thing to do is to cut a deal that will
let Iran go the way of North Korea.
Through the intercession of Jimmy Carter, Bill
Clinton struck a non-binding agreement with North
Korea on its nuclear weapons program. Like Obama’s
Iran deal, the Senate never got to ratify it.
Secretary of State Madeline Albright stated that
"the framework agreement is one of the best things
that the administration has done because it stopped
a nuclear weapons program in North Korea." It
didn’t.
During his original campaign, Obama said, “We cannot
allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon.” That should
sound familiar. Bill Clinton said during his first
term in office, “North Korea cannot be allowed to
develop a nuclear bomb.” North Korea could and did.
Bill Clinton knew all along that it could and would.
The rhetoric from back then also sounds familiar.
Congressman Obey warned that Republicans dropping
millions in fuel oil for North Korea was
“mindbogglingly reckless.” The Honolulu
Star-Bulletin urged “Stop GOP Meddling in Foreign
Affairs.” Gore ranted that Republicans were
“determined to wreck a presidency in order to
recapture it” and accused them of “isolationism and
defeatism”.
The Republicans were right. North Korea got the bomb
and a lot of freebies from American taxpayers. The
men and women responsible for supporting that
disastrously treasonous policy slimed them for it.
Now we’re in a repeat with many of the same
politicians and pundits arguing that the only way to
stop Iran from getting the bomb is by not doing
anything to stop it from getting the bomb.
The first rule of treason is to call the other guy a
traitor. Having aligned with everyone from Castro to
the Supreme Leader of Iran, Obama has to make it
seem as if it’s the Republicans who are the
traitors.
An
administration of political hacks who spent the Bush
years undermining the White House in every way
possible short of officially defecting to the enemy
now claim that dissent from their policy is treason.
And they top that by reversing the motives of Iran
and ISIS so that instead of wanting to destroy
America, they really want to be criticized by
Republicans and prevented from getting nuclear
weapons.
This gibberish shouldn’t be able to fool any
thinking person, but the idea that Kim Jong-Il
wanted food, not nuclear weapons, when his entire
policy had been the exact opposite, shouldn’t have
gotten by anyone with an elementary knowledge of
history and at least a single living brain cell.
But it did.
No one wants to be a member of a party of traitors
or of a government of traitors. Clinton and Obama
didn’t accidentally stumble into their policies.
They were guided by a deep rotten belief that the
United States was always wrong and that the enemy,
no matter how evil, had a legitimate grievance.
They can’t admit to this treasonous idea, even
though they repeat it constantly in various forms,
so their only defense is to claim that their treason
is patriotism and that anyone who disagrees is a
traitor.