The many
flaws and omissions of the preliminary deal between the United States and the terrorist-sponsoring
Islamist regime of Iran
to curb the Iranian nuclear weapons program that leave the results of the deal
far short of what President Barack Obama promised have been pointed out by numerous
critics. In addition, there was
immediately afterwards a disagreement between Iran
and the U.S.
on the basic framework of the deal. In
earlier posts, I have questioned even the premise of negotiating in good faith
with such a regime with an open policy of promoting Islamism by unscrupulous
means, including deception, and a poor human rights record.
The U.S. is, however, robustly supporting the
Saudi-led Arab coalition fighting pro-Iranian rebels in Yemen .
President
Barack Obama has removed Iran
from the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism, despite its
continued harboring of terrorists. In
addition, Cuba aids Venezuela ,
which, in turn, aids terrorists. In
fact, Cuba
did nothing to deserve being removed from the state sponsor of terrorism list,
just as it did little to merit American relaxation of certain economic
sanctions and diplomatic recognition in terms of improvement of human rights.
I have
called for Venezuela to be added to the State Department’s state sponsor of
terrorism list (Designate Venezuela a State Sponsor of Terrorism, from February
of 2012, http://williamcinfici.blogspot.com/2012/02/designate-venezuela-state-sponsor-of.html)
and North Korea to be placed back onto it (A Consideration of Recent Alleged
Instances of “Terrorism” and Related Observations, from January of this year, http://williamcinfici.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-consideration-of-recent-alleged.html). The de-listing of Cuba now leaves only Muslim
states on the list: Iran, Syria and Sudan, which is out of step with Obama’s
policy of going out of his way not to have the War on Terrorism be seen in the
slightest way whatsoever as a war on Islam or at least on Muslims.
The direct
negotiations by the Obama Administration with the Islamist Iranian and
Communist Cuban dictatorships which sponsor terrorism legitimatize those
regimes, as American negotiations with them are propaganda victories over the
freedom-loving dissidents they oppress and are discouragements of their fellow
countrymen to resist tyranny as the message sent by the President of the United
States is that even the leader of the free world respects the dictators’ right
to rule over their people. Direct
negotiations also further reward the tyrants’ bad behavior by being interpreted
as forcing the U.S. to the
negotiation table, as if brutal dictatorships are on equal terms of legitimacy
with free states . In the case of Cuba ,
it was the kidnapping of an American aid worker, and in the case of Iran , it has
been its development of a nuclear weapon program that forced the Obama
Administration to direct negotiations. In
addition to the propaganda gifts to these dictatorships, Obama has rewarded
them with decreases in economic sanctions.
Moreover, direct negotiations with brutal despots are inherently
ineffective, as tyrants do not usually negotiate in good faith.
Alas, the beacon of liberty, of which America has
always been seen, has been dimmed by Obama.
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