The Democrats keep our Iranian enemies closer than our Israeli friends. They do this because they believe that the clerical terrorists in Tehran are, despite decades of statements to the contrary, our friends. It is a chicken-and-egg question whether the Democrats’ corollary belief, that Israel is a problem that needs cutting down to size, was a primary cause of their insane gamble on Iran or a collateral effect. Either way, they broke all their eggs without making an omelet. America’s regional credibility is a shell of its former self. It’s no yolk.
The State Department egged them on, but there will be no consequences for that. When you consider the cack-handed bumbling of America’s diplomats, it’s hard not to wonder if the State Department would do better if its senior personnel were elected like sheriffs, school board members, and dogcatchers. The Democrats would like to render themselves immune to the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the court of public opinion, but they are still obliged to go through the hoops of the old bread-and-circus every four years, at least for now. The exigencies of this electoral vulgarity explain why Quasi-President Kamala Harris, lobbed the softest of softballs by Bill Whitaker on CBS’s 60 Minutes on Oct. 9, suddenly noticed that Iran “has American blood on their hands” and named Iran as America’s “greatest adversary.”
Almost-President Harris’s claim contradicts the Defense Department’s long-standing assessment that China is America’s biggest challenge. She denies the economic and military evidence that Iran, for all the lunacy of its leaders, is a second-tier military power. China is the world’s biggest exporter. Iran’s klepto-economy is sustained by the export of raw materials — oil, gas, pistachios — and the occasional infusion of cash from the Democrats. The only finished goods leaving Iran are rockets, bombs, and assassins with their sights on Mar-a-Lago. Call it the Suicide Belt & Road Initiative.
Semi-President Harris’s softbrained cynicism also contradicts the Democrats’ decadelong embrace of Iran. This is why the ex-Biden administration cannot go the mental or military distance on Iran, election season or not. The near-president dismissed as “hypotheticals” the American response should it be proven that Iran is assembling its proven arsenal of ballistic missiles, detonators, and enriched uranium into a nuclear weapon. If Iran’s record and statements are anything to go by, its threat is much less hypothetical than Harris’s qualifications for that bauble of oligarchy, the Democratic nomination.
The pseudo-president also declines to describe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leading Israel through a multi-front war of survival, as a “close ally” of the United States. He isn’t a friend of the Democrats, so that makes him an enemy of “our democracy.” If he wasn’t so busy staving off the mass murder of his citizens, Netanyahu would now be on a victory tour, saying “I told you so” about Iran, rather like former and likely future President Donald Trump is now doing. Instead, the administration puts Netanyahu on the naughty step and slow-walks the resupply of Israel’s overstretched military in defiance of Congress.
I hear that the Israelis aren’t telling the administration about their military plans because people in this administration tip off Iran. I know it’s quaint to ask why Whitaker doesn’t dig into that, but perhaps Trump can, should he win in November, open the files on how the Democrats’ credulous embrace of the Iranian regime facilitated Iranian penetration of the American government. Espionage is a crime, even when it’s done by friends of the Democrats.
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Meanwhile, the administration pressures Israel with threats and silences. Non-President Joe Biden’s phone call with Netanyahu on Oct. 9 was their first in about seven weeks. The Wall Street Journal reports that after Israel whacked Hassan Nasrallah, the psycho who ran Hezbollah, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant notified Lloyd Austin, our ponderous secretary of defense. “Excuse me, what did you say?” Austin replied as if talking to an errant child. Later that day, he asked Gallant if Israel was prepared to defend itself without American support, given the lack of updates. Nice country you’ve got there. Shame if we hang you out to dry while you try to defend yourself against terrorists with “American blood on their hands.”
According to France 24, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has conveyed to Tehran an American affirmation that it “will not participate in an attack on the Iranian nuclear sites.” Again, it’s clear who the Democrats call their friends, and who their enemies. If they had spent half the time working on regime change in Tehran as they have working on regime change in Jerusalem, the U.S. would not be over a barrel now — a barrel of oil. The Democrats’ foreign policy, the whited sepulcher of Beltway wonkery, has crumbled to a single desperate principle that lacks any principle at all: Never mind the national interest, just keep the price of gas from rising until after Nov. 5.