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‘Peace for Our Time’

Posted on | November 24, 2013 | 68 Comments

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail)

The Washington Post:

GENEVA — Iran and six major powers agreed early Sunday on an historic deal that freezes key parts of Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for temporary relief on some economic sanctions, diplomats confirmed.

We need not know anything about the details of this “historic deal” to know that it is absolutely worthless. The Islamic Republic of Iran has no respect for law, and cannot be expected to honor any promise it makes, except for its long-avowed purpose to annihilate Israel, to destroy “the Great Satan” and otherwise to carry out its violent worldwide revolutionary jihad against the West.

All the Iranian dictatorship seeks to accomplish by negotiation with the West is to anesthetize its enemies, to render opposition impotent by means of treaties that will postpone the inevitable confrontation until Iran has become stronger and we have become weaker.

Any “deal” with Iran is necessarily a bad deal, and the double guarantee of a bad deal is that it was approved by the Obama administration, which is “historic” only as a monument to incompetence with few parallels in human experience.

“The practical way of looking at things . . . may serve well enough in ordinary, normal times. But our times are not ‘normal’ in the good old Victorian sense, and never will be again. . . . These men, even Halifax, were essentially middle-class, not aristocrats. They did not have the hereditary sense of the security of the state, unlike Churchill, Eden, the Cecils. Nor did they have the toughness of the 18th-century aristocracy. They came at the end of the ascendancy of the Victorian middle-class, deeply affected as that was by high-mindedness and humbug. They all talked, in one form or another, the language of disingenuousness and cant: it was second nature to them — so different from Churchill. . . . It meant that they failed to see what was true, until too late, when it was simply a question of survival.”
— A.L. Rowse, Appeasement: A Study in Political Decline, 1933-39

Memeorandum has reaction from around the blogosphere, including Weasel Zippers, Blazing Cat Fur, Daniel Pipes at National Review, American Spectator and Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch.

UPDATE: All that is necessary to understand what is wrong with this agreement is to quote what Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif told Iran’s government-controlled media: “All plots hatched by the Zionist regime to stop the nuclear agreement have failed.”

Ah, “the Zionist regime”!

 


Category: Iran

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68 Responses to “‘Peace for Our Time’”

  1. MerlePearl
    November 24th, 2013 @ 3:41 pm

    RT @rsmccain: ‘Peace for Our Time’ http://t.co/5xWgwqqake

  2. Ian MacLeod
    November 24th, 2013 @ 3:49 pm

    Annihilation is NOT submission, nor is the choice of death surrender.

  3. Shutterbugfun
    November 24th, 2013 @ 3:55 pm

    RT @MPeper: “All plots hatched by the Zionist regime to stop the nuclear agreement have failed.” -Iranian Foreign Minister http://t.co/UaAU…

  4. mflynny
    November 24th, 2013 @ 3:55 pm

    RT @MPeper: “All plots hatched by the Zionist regime to stop the nuclear agreement have failed.” -Iranian Foreign Minister http://t.co/UaAU…

  5. rsmccain
    November 24th, 2013 @ 4:04 pm

    RT @CFLancop: ‘Peace for Our Time’ http://t.co/yR18UzuNhe by @rsmccain Hard not to agree with his assessment. Both Obama and Iran can’t be …

  6. Adjoran
    November 24th, 2013 @ 4:17 pm

    Say, I thought we were all supposed to defer to UN Resolutions and such?

    So how does Obama and his gang of slacker hangers-on manage to overturn UN Security Council sanctions with the stroke of a pen?

  7. concern00
    November 24th, 2013 @ 4:51 pm

    End times anyone?

  8. jaxlaw
    November 24th, 2013 @ 5:09 pm

    RT @CFLancop: ‘Peace for Our Time’ http://t.co/yR18UzuNhe by @rsmccain Hard not to agree with his assessment. Both Obama and Iran can’t be …

  9. Bob Belvedere
    November 24th, 2013 @ 6:14 pm

    As I wrote in my rather Brilliant post on this deal, this Modern Munich, paraphrasing Winston:

    The Obama Administration should know the truth. They should know that there has been gross neglect and deficiency in our defences; they should know that we have sustained a defeat without a war, the consequences of which will travel far with us along our road; they should know that we have passed an awful milestone in our history, when the whole equilibrium of the World has been deranged, and that the terrible words have for the time being been pronounced against the West:

    “Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting.”

    And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup….

    http://thecampofthesaints.org/2013/11/24/obamas-munich/

  10. Quartermaster
    November 24th, 2013 @ 7:21 pm

    Bad thing is the NORKs have been in bed with the Iranians on this stuff. WE may have just handed them nukes now, and that will force the ROKs and the Japs to acquire nukes. This is going to go down hill very fast.

    I’m not worried about Israel, however. Israel will be under God’s protection and he will defend Israel. See Ezekial Chapters 38 & 39.

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  12. Shutterbugfun
    November 24th, 2013 @ 9:36 pm

    RT @CFLancop: ‘Peace for Our Time’ http://t.co/yR18UzuNhe by @rsmccain Hard not to agree with his assessment. Both Obama and Iran can’t be …

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