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Kerry to Iran: Oh, of course those new visa restrictions wouldn’t apply to you, my friends!

It seems like only yesterday that the Washington Post was calling the Obama administration weak in their dealings with Iran. (Oh, wait… it actually was yesterday.)

 

But the empire had a chance to strike back when Iran complained about new visa waiver restrictions included in recently passed legislation. Those rules included cutting off visa waivers for people who had recently been in dangerous countries… including Iran.

 

Thankfully, their recent provocations gave Kerry the ideal opportunity to face them down and let them know in no uncertain terms that we weren’t going to be putting up with their nonsense or making exceptions to the rules just for them.

Naw… I’m just kidding. He folded like a cheap suit.

 

 

Kerry goes on to assure the Iranians that the White House has, “a number of potential tools available to us.” These include multiple entry business visas good for ten years and, of course, the back door built into the reform legislation which gives the Secretary of State the right to simply wave the visa requirements on his own authority if he finds that such a move is in the “law enforcement or national security interests of the United States.”

 

 

I think we’re seeing the next set of consequences from the Iran nuclear deal which so many conservatives warned of but which were shrugged off by the Obama administration as partisan rhetoric. Once the deal was in place, the White House would be so desperate to keep it intact that they would go to great lengths to avoid having to admit that it was a completely failed negotiation. As it turns out, it now looks like we’ll begin conceding on virtually every point of contention. Iran knows that they can pull out of this at any time they like and, frankly, they probably had no intention of honoring it in the first place.

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Obama's Fire Sale Foreign Policy: A farewell binge of international agreements.
by Claudia Rosett

 

President Obama's final stretch in office -- filled, as he promised, with "interesting stuff" -- has become an extravaganza of "historic" foreign-policy deals, most of them distinguished for making common cause with despotic regimes that are less than friendly toward the United States:

 

-- The embrace of Cuba.

-- The Iran nuclear deal.

-- The Paris climate agreement.

 

-- And, enshrined just this past Friday as United Nations Security Council Resolution 2254, a grand plan in which, under the United Nations umbrella, the U.S., Russia, Iran and sundry others will all come together to produce peace and democracy by June, 2017, in Syria.

 

On Friday. Obama congratulated himself for such feats, telling reporters at his end-of-year press conference: "we have shown what is possible when America leads."

 

{snip}

 

But what did it take to produce this festival of unanimity? How does an American president arrive at all these deals, in grand concert with the regimes of Cuba, Iran, China, Russia, or, in the climate case, virtually every polity on the planet?

 

The answer is simple. You trade away U.S. interests at bargain-sale prices. You hold a fire sale on real U.S. global leadership. You squander U.S. credibility and security, offering concessions at such deep discounts that even Vladimir Putin and Ayatollah Khamenei cannot resist. You dismantle the principles and strategies that have long protected America and its allies, and you toss whatever remains into a global bargain bin. Deals for all!

 

In these deals you either impose no serious conditions, or you demand no real compliance with those you impose. You sweeten the pot with diplomatic concessions and with money -- in some cases, lots of money. You gloss over dangerous realities. You ignore transgressions. You promise truckloads of pie-in-the-sky -- leaving it to your successor to cope with the grim or even catastrophic realities that are compounding with no remedy in sight.

 

In sum, on the way out of the White House, you hold a fire sale, cashing in whatever remains of U.S. credibility and might for a farewell binge of international agreements. And as hostile regimes queue to get a piece of this action, you publicly celebrate the accomplishment of bringing the world together "as one."

 

 

More at the link: https://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/obamas-fire-sale-foreign-policy

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Obama's Fire Sale Foreign Policy: A farewell binge of international agreements.

by Claudia Rosett

 

President Obama's final stretch in office -- filled, as he promised, with "interesting stuff" -- has become an extravaganza of "historic" foreign-policy deals, most of them distinguished for making common cause with despotic regimes that are less than friendly toward the United States:

 

-- The embrace of Cuba.

-- The Iran nuclear deal.

-- The Paris climate agreement.

 

-- And, enshrined just this past Friday as United Nations Security Council Resolution 2254, a grand plan in which, under the United Nations umbrella, the U.S., Russia, Iran and sundry others will all come together to produce peace and democracy by June, 2017, in Syria.

 

On Friday. Obama congratulated himself for such feats, telling reporters at his end-of-year press conference: "we have shown what is possible when America leads."

 

{snip}

 

But what did it take to produce this festival of unanimity? How does an American president arrive at all these deals, in grand concert with the regimes of Cuba, Iran, China, Russia, or, in the climate case, virtually every polity on the planet?

 

The answer is simple. You trade away U.S. interests at bargain-sale prices. You hold a fire sale on real U.S. global leadership. You squander U.S. credibility and security, offering concessions at such deep discounts that even Vladimir Putin and Ayatollah Khamenei cannot resist. You dismantle the principles and strategies that have long protected America and its allies, and you toss whatever remains into a global bargain bin. Deals for all!

 

In these deals you either impose no serious conditions, or you demand no real compliance with those you impose. You sweeten the pot with diplomatic concessions and with money -- in some cases, lots of money. You gloss over dangerous realities. You ignore transgressions. You promise truckloads of pie-in-the-sky -- leaving it to your successor to cope with the grim or even catastrophic realities that are compounding with no remedy in sight.

 

In sum, on the way out of the White House, you hold a fire sale, cashing in whatever remains of U.S. credibility and might for a farewell binge of international agreements. And as hostile regimes queue to get a piece of this action, you publicly celebrate the accomplishment of bringing the world together "as one."

 

 

More at the link: https://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/obamas-fire-sale-foreign-policy

Obama has come out and said to all of our adversaries that for the sake of an agreement he will bend over for them, and it would be nice if they used KY, but he'll understand if they don't.

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