Obama's Double Diabolical Move: Appease the Mullahs, Demonize Israel

Check out Bret Stephens fundamental analysis of Obama's disastrous deal with Iran here, it's well worth your time for its spot-on historical and geo-political calculus.

But what caught my eye was a tidbit from Caroline Glick that had been worrying me, but that has not been getting much attention.

Clearly, Obama did not spend the last year trying to build domestic American support for a deal that enables the regime that calls daily for the annihilation of America to become a nuclear power. With Iran building military bases all over Central and South America, Obama never bothered trying to make the case to the American people that they would be more secure with this regime in possession of the capacity to kill millions of Americans with one bomb.

Obama never stood before the Congress to explain how a deal that gives America’s Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval to Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program advances US national security. He never explained how allowing Iran to continue to enrich uranium decreases the likelihood of war.

Obama did this all on his own.  There is no fundamental demand for this deal emanating from the American people.  And he didn't even attempt to tell us what he was doing, not directly nor through our elected representatives.  Not wonder that there is bipartisan opposition building in Congress.  We have a foreign policy conducted within the mind of one man.

Of course, it wouldn't be Obama without casting those that disagree as demons, which Glick spells out.

So what did Obama need the last year for? If he wasn’t concerned with getting a less dangerous deal, and he didn’t care what the American people though about his facilitation of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, what prevented him from okaying the agreement last year? To ascertain the answer, it is worth considering Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s comments Sunday morning. Beyond noting the nuclear deal’s danger to Israel’s security, Lapid said, “I am worried not only over the deal but that we have lost the world’s attention.”

And indeed, Israel has lost the world’s attention. Its appropriately deep concerns over Iran’s nuclear behavior were belittled, ignored and derided, first and foremost by the Obama administration. Worse than belittling Israel’s concerns, which are completely shared by the Sunni Arab world, Obama and Kerry have castigated as warmongers those Americans who agree with Israel’s concerns and have attacked them as traitors who seek to push America into an unnecessary war.

This is an age-old leftist trope - if you are not satisfied with a phony peace, you are out for war.  They had to prepare the ground with this sort of rhetoric to be in a position to jam this agreement on the world, which doesn't appear to be swallowing it too well.