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RUSH: Allentown, Pennsylvania. This is Mac. Welcome, sir. It\u2019s great to have you with us. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to talk to you. Listen, I\u2019d like to talk about the agreement that they\u2019re pursuing, the Obama administration\u2019s pursuing with Iran. And, you know, what makes it particularly devastating, the stated objective is to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear device, which has been a stated objective for a long time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but, see, actually it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the presumption —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The presumption is, but the objective is that Iran will get a nuclear weapon in 10 to 13 years.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I disagree with that. In the intelligence community, particularly Israel, the presumption has been that they had a testable device for a while, limited. What they\u2019re really pursuing, in my opinion, is a sustainable weapons program. That would be the reason to never test it, because the repercussions from the international community. If you look at the evidence, the amount of centrifuges they\u2019re running, the independent work on long-range missile technology, the only way to accomplish this is to remove the sanctions and to prevent the international community from bearing down on this. If they test now, it will bring a backlash, it will prevent them from obtaining —<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I agree with all that. I think you misunderstood. It is not Obama\u2019s intention to deny them nuclear weapons or power. He only states that. That\u2019s been our traditional stance is that they shouldn\u2019t. But the Obama deal, the deal on the table, Obama\u2019s even conceded that their breakout time for a nuclear weapon could be almost down to zero after 13 years, meaning they\u2019re 13 years away from getting it. They\u2019re much closer than that, as you point out.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I agree with you, and I believe it\u2019s maybe six years, and I think if that happens, we\u2019re gonna move to extortion diplomacy, and I believe once they have the capability to build a sustainable weapons program, because that\u2019s what\u2019s needed, then we\u2019re in much worse trouble than we are now, and I actually have —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean as opposed to one nuke?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And Netanyahu referred to this in roundabout ways. And, you know, the sanctions have worked preventing them from pursuing their real goal up to this point, but if the sanctions come off, they\u2019re gonna make all the fuel they need, they\u2019re gonna keep pursuing the long-range missile technology —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The sanctions have come off and we are not demanding they reduce their centrifuges. They get to keep them and even build on them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s exactly right, and that\u2019s why keeping what they produce is such an important factor. They\u2019re never gonna let it outside their borders or store it in Russia or anywhere else —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No way. No way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So I think we\u2019re heading towards a very dangerous time, and from having friends on the ground in Egypt, they really perceive as all America thinks the way Obama does.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, they\u2019re not right about that, but I tell you, it may be time to review Obama\u2019s foreign policy. Let me do this after a break. I think this will be a cold dash of reality for you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Daniel Pipes<\/a>. I found this at on a post today by John Hinderaker at Power Line<\/a>. Daniel Pipes, who is a Middle East expert think tank specialist has really put together a great paragraph that describes the wreckage that is the Obama foreign policy. “Count the mistakes: Helping overthrow Muammar Qaddafi in Libya, leading to anarchy and civil war,” and ultimately Benghazi.<\/p>\n

“Pressuring Husni Mubarak of Egypt to resign, then backing the Muslim Brotherhood,” and then the Arab Spring. What a total disaster that was! This in turn is “leading now-president Sisi to turn toward Moscow,” because we\u2019ve alienated him. He\u2019s not our guy. The Muslim Brotherhood was our guy, and when the Muslim Brotherhood made a mess of things, the Egyptians threw \u2019em out. El-Sisi is a good guy, but he\u2019s not one of ours. <\/p>\n

Obama doesn\u2019t particularly care for him, so he has had to turn to Moscow. “Alienating Washington\u00c2\u2019s most stalwart ally in the region, the Government of Israel. Dismissing ISIS as ‘junior varsity\u2019 just before it seized major cities. Hailing Yemen as a counterterrorism success just before its government was overthrown. Alarming the Saudi authorities to the point that they put together a military alliance against Iran.<\/p>\n

“Coddling Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, encouraging his dictatorial tendencies. Leaving Iraq and Afghanistan prematurely, dooming the vast American investment in those two countries.” We\u2019ve just basically wiped out every accomplishment that was made there, all because Obama didn\u2019t agree with us going in the first place. Now, what this leads to, is a question that has been on the tip of everybody\u2019s tongue since practically the first day of this admin…<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s been on my tongue since two weeks prior to the inauguration. You\u2019ll never forget when I said, “I hope he fails,” and everything you see now is why I said that. But here\u2019s the question that everybody has: Is it on purpose, or is it incompetence? Is the Obama foreign policy disaster — the sum total of his foreign policy is a disaster, all these elements of it — on purpose or is it incompetence? <\/p>\n

It\u2019s another way of asking: Is Obama succeeding? Is this what he wants in the Middle East. or does he want something else that isn\u2019t working? Does he really believe that everything he\u2019s done foreign policy-wise would renew love and respect for the United States and bring peace and tranquility to the region, or does he want this chaos? Does he want Israel to be in everybody\u2019s crosshairs?<\/line><\/p>\n

Does he want the United States to have a reduced role and thus much less influence in the region? Does he want this chaos? So is he failing or is he succeeding? That depends on what the objective is, and this is what people still are uncertain of. Daniel Pipes continues: “Is this a random series of errors by an incompetent leadership or does some grand, if misconceived, idea stand behind the pattern?<\/p>\n

“To an extent, it\u2019s ineptitude, as when Mr. Obama bowed to the Saudi king, threatened Syria\u2019s government over chemical weapons before changing his mind, and now sends the US military to aid Tehran in Iraq and fight it in Yemen.” Stop and think about that. We send the US military to help Iran in Iraq — i.e., fighting ISIS — and to fight Iran in Yemen. Now, at the end of every one of these listed disasters, mistakes (or successes, depending on your perspective) there is Iran getting a nuclear weapon. <\/p>\n

I think by now, those of us who pay attention on a daily basis have become fairly confident that there is no deal. This thing that was announced last week by Obama is not a deal. The Iranians are happy because sanctions have been lifted, but there are no restrictions. There\u2019s just a series of promises that we\u2019re gonna talk further and that Obama will talk. John Kerry caved on virtually every demand that we had made!<\/p>\n

The Iranians said, “Nope, that doesn\u2019t work for us. I\u2019m sorry, Mister Secretary.” He caved on every one. Three or four different things. And the end result of this is, like our last caller said, Iran doesn\u2019t just end up with a single nuclear bomb and the ability to make more. They end up with a nuclear program — nuclear power, nuclear weaponry — which will provide a brand-new, unprecedented destabilization of the region. <\/p>\n

The question continues to be asked: Is this on purpose or is this ineptitude? Now, the ineptitude people say, “No, this is Obama\u2019s naivete. He really believes in his own speeches, and he really believes that we have no business telling countries what weapons they can\u2019t have.” I believe that, by the way. I really believe he thinks that we\u2019ve had no business being who we are since the days of our founding, for whatever reasons. We\u2019ve been through \u2019em left and right.<\/p>\n

I think he thinks this country\u2019s unjust and immoral, ill-conceived and all these things, and we\u2019ve had no right to tell people around the world what they can and can\u2019t do. “It\u2019s none of our business whether the Iranians have a nuclear weapon or not. If they\u2019ve got the ability to make one, who are we to tell \u2019em they can\u2019t? Nobody told us we couldn\u2019t!” Absent the concept of good guys and bad guys, then it might be easy to look at the world that way.<\/p>\n

So Obama says, “We don\u2019t have the right to tell them they can\u2019t get a nuclear weapon!” Instead what he says is, “It\u2019s up to us to persuade them never to use what they build for aggressive purposes,” and that\u2019s just utter denial in who we\u2019re talking about here. Obama gave an interview with Thomas “Loopy” Friedman. Let me see if I have that here. Please tell me I printed this out. Please. Ach! Please tell me I printed it. Aw, come on. Did I print it out or not? <\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna have to summarize it. Obama said to Thomas “Loopy” Friedman<\/a>… It was about our foreign policy, obviously. Obama said (summarized), “Look, we\u2019ve been trying things for 50 years, here, and we\u2019ve never tried anything different. Look, we are the all-powerful United States. We\u2019ve got all the power in the world to start trying different things.” He said, “Look at Cuba! Cuba can\u2019t do a damn thing to us. Since 1959 we\u2019ve frozen \u2019em out. Well, let\u2019s try something new. Let\u2019s open up!<\/p>\n

“Let\u2019s see if it changes things for the Cuban people and for the United States. What harm is there? If it doesn\u2019t work, then we\u2019ll go try something else. Ditto Iran. We\u2019ve been trying to tell the Iranians they can\u2019t have a nuclear weapon for all these years. We\u2019ve been calling \u2019em names and calling \u2019em state sponsors of terrorism. But we haven\u2019t tried anything different! Let\u2019s try something different. We\u2019re the power in the region. Iran\u2019s a small country! They can\u2019t do anything to anybody!”<\/p>\n

He really said this.<\/p>\n

“They have a GDP of $30 billion; we have a GDP of whatever it is. Iran\u2019s a tiny country compared to us! We\u2019ve got all the power in the region. Let\u2019s try something new. Let\u2019s try,” and he used the magic words, “change.” Young people love the word “change.” The low-information crowd loves the word “change.” Believe me, it\u2019s a magical word, particularly for leftists. Do not doubt me on this. <\/p>\n

Damn it, I wish I had this in front of me. I\u2019m gonna print it out during the break, because the whole point of it is that Obama is saying, “Look, we\u2019ve been doing things the same for 30, 40, 50 years, and it\u2019s not gotten any better. It hasn\u2019t made any difference. We\u2019re so powerful, we can\u2019t be hurt by trying something new. Let\u2019s go ahead and try a new approach. If it doesn\u2019t work, then we\u2019ll try something else.”<\/p>\n

If you read that you may say, “Hmm, that makes some sense.” But it\u2019s rooted in total naivete. There are reasons that we have been consistent from administration to administration, party to party. There\u2019s a reason we\u2019ve been consistent, and that\u2019s because of a common understanding of who the bad guys are and who the good guys are in wherever in the world you\u2019re talking about. That\u2019s the thing that escapes Obama. Probably purposefully. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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