Smile Iran, You're On Candid Camera!

Wow, wow, and WOW. This post over at Powerline is not to be missed. Israeli commandos boarded and commandeered a cargo ship bound for Syria that was carrying weapons meant for Hezbollah. The video shows some initial footage of what the commandos found and more extensive footage of the seized weaponry unloaded at an Israeli port. This is the kind of superior chess that the Israelis are capable of playing that I alluded to way back, and it is a powerful message to the Iranians from the Israelis as to who has whose number. The Powerline guys make the right assessment of Obama's most recent statement on Iran in light of Iran getting caught sending illict weapons to a terrorist group. Meanwhile, the WSJ makes a similar assessment of these same words from President Obama in the context of a renewed push by the Iranian democracy movement protesting their regime.

On their own these are each quite an indictment, but taken together they represent a stunning illumination of the bankruptcy of Obama's foreign policy toward Iran. The Powerline guys show that in the context of the "great game", the hardscabble world of real politik and international strategic maneuvering, Obama is a rank amateur, a piker who doesn't even see how the game is played. The WSJ covers the moral dimensions of our approach to Iran, showing Obama to be a moral midget unwilling to take anything but the most laughable stand in favor of the values of democracy, self-determination and human liberty.

As I said...batting .0000.

UPDATE: Even the WaPo is saying that it is "amateur hour."