Obama and Biden’s Misguided Middle East Policies: Fueling Attacks on Israel

Thread via John Hayward

Remember, Barack Obama and his staff of dumbass teenagers thought it would be a brilliant masterstroke to reverse decades of Middle East policy and align the U.S. toward Iran instead of the Sunni Gulf states. They congratulated themselves for thinking outside the box.

Obama and his people are still in charge behind the scenes, and they’ve never wavered on that policy. They thought Iran was a more stable partner for peace, a country they could do business with, less erratic than the Gulf powers, with a real shot at becoming regional hegemon.

Remember when John Kerry, now the “climate envoy” for Joe Biden, was working for the Ayatollah a few years ago? The Obama circus is filled with people who think realigning toward Iran was brilliant. They spent years cultivating contacts with the regime in Tehran.

That’s one reason it was so easy for Iran to slip agents of influence into the Biden administration. Those people were 100% sympatico with the Obama machine’s pro-Iran tilt. They were welcomed with open arms into the Biden team:

Republicans in both the House and Senate on Tuesday called for an investigation of the Iran Experts Initiative (IEI), an alleged Tehran-backed influence operation believed to have placed several of its protégés in the Biden administration, including officials close to Iran envoy Robert Malley.

The calls were prompted by a report at Semafor on Tuesday that claimed to describe how the Iranian Foreign Ministry created the IEI in the spring of 2014, with an eye towards improving “Tehran’s image and positions on global security issues — particularly its nuclear program.”

People are wondering what Hamas hoped to accomplish in the long run with such a wantonly savage attack, and why their buddies in Tehran would sign off on it, and probably help execute it. Didn’t they realize Israel will level Gaza in retaliation?

Yes, of course they knew – but they’re counting on their influence with the Obama group, which is still running Washington, to yell for peace and cease-fire every step of the way. Obama’s drones will make sure the political price for Israel increases with every step they take.

Sure, a lot of Hamas guys will get clobbered in the first few days, but we’ve seen that before. By the end of the week, Iran’s friends in Obama’s inner circle will be pushing hard for de-escalation. That idiot Tony Blinken jumped the gun and did it already.

The Obamabots will absolutely work to prevent Israel from hitting Iran or widening the war beyond Gaza in any way. The likely result will be another grueling but inconclusive operation that weakens Hamas for a couple of years – but demoralizes the Israelis.

The demands for Israel to make concessions and revive that “two-state solution” will become deafening – and Obama’s people will add an undercurrent of, “the next Hamas atrocity will be YOUR fault for not giving the Palestinians a state.”

Meanwhile, a tough Israeli response will jeopardize the budding peace deals between Israel and several Middle Eastern states, which works to Iran’s advantage. This savage Hamas atrocity was a bit of a gamble, but it was not taken blindly. The next steps have been gamed out.