Recipe For Disaster

First, let it be acknowledged that President Obama is no friend to Israel. His recent diplomatic snubs aimed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prove this, along with the administration’s persistence in throwing international temper tantrums in attempts to belittle long-established Israeli policies. To deny Israel the rights of a sovereign state, namely by condemning its attempts to construct apartments in its National capital, exemplifies a contempt for the people of Israel never before expressed by an American president. Further exacerbating the situation, all of this is happening as the Jewish people face their gravest threat since World War II.
Second, let it be acknowledged that President Obama is no enemy to Iran. His policies of appeasement and insistence in placating the Iranian government prove this, along with the administration’s apparent readiness to negotiate with a regime ideologically fixed on the destruction of our allies and ourselves. Passive threats of international sanctions have only emboldened Iran’s determination to develop weapons-grade nuclear technology. The perceived weakness of the Obama White House has given Iran the incentive to build a nuclear arsenal at an accelerated pace. With an Israeli attack unlikely without American support and Europe hesitant to act without Washington’s lead, it would appear that the Iranian government has a once in a lifetime chance to place itself on equal nuclear footing with the free world.
Third, let it be acknowledged that President Obama is no advocate of missile defense. His abandonment of an American interceptor base in Poland proves this, along with the administration’s general cuts in anti-ballistic funding. The President’s rejection of a Bush-era deal with Warsaw to lessen nuclear vulnerability in Eastern Europe, was the first of many steps taken by the administration to alienate traditional American allies.
All of this withstanding, the Obama administration’s foreign policy appears to have developed as such: 1) Distance America’s traditional allies while engaging its enemies, 2) Decrease America’s capability to defend itself while allowing for the increase of its enemies’ capability to attack. Though this would appear unconscionable to any fair-minded observer, the Obama administration seems unwilling to change its direction. The facts speak for themselves.
Iranian possession of nuclear weapons will necessitate an arms race in the Middle East. This will place America in a position of military parity with regimes based on Islamic radicalism, many of whom consider the destruction of the United States and Israel to be of paramount priority. These nations despise America and its allies, not for what they do, but for who they are and what they represent. No amount of Western concessions will change that. A nuclear armed Iran will, at the least, create a decline in American influence throughout the world. Iran’s capability for mass destruction will naturally diminish America’s capability to promote freedom. Even worse, however, is what history has taught us. When a nation obsessed with the elimination of the Jewish race is allowed to build its military arsenal with little to no resistance from the freedom-loving nations of the world, a holocaust could certainly follow. This is a chance that America simply cannot take. The Obama administration must soon change its ways or risk the possibility of a repeat of the worst kind of history. America’s current foreign policy is truly a recipe for disaster.

Jeremy Pitcoff
Smithtown Republican Committeeman