“Not Be Prudent”: Obama Orders Joint Chiefs Chairman To Publicly Argue Against Attack On Iran, Defend Iran As “Rational Actor” – First Stop: Anti-U.S. Operative Fareed Zakaria’s CNN Show
Feb 18, 2012 15 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Dempsey is a Leftist who was carefully hand-picked by anti-Israel Obama for the job. From WAPO: “His outlook, however, reflects the viewpoint of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who has complained that the Pentagon tends to focus on preparing for the next war, a condition he termed “nexwaritis.” Obama chose him over a Marine, General Cartwright.
You’ll also note that Obama clearly personally chose his friend and much-favored anti-US operative Fareed Zakaria for General Choad to deliver this message to. Fareed is the author of the anti-US book “The Post-American World”, an Obama favorite, which you can see him here toting:
And lastly, this choad general is delivering the single most volatile, dangerous, and important political message in the world today, and it’s impossible that he doesn’t know that. This means, quite simply, that he’s absolutely doing it under orders from the very top, Obama. None of this, from the book, to Obama’s history with it, to his attempts to facilitate Iran getting The Bomb, to the choice of this general as Joint Chiefs Chairman, to this general outrageously appearing on Zakaria’s show to deliver this outrageous and destructive-to-the-U.S. message, is any coincidence.
An Israeli attack on Iran would be “destabilizing,” the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Army General Martin Dempsey, said Saturday.
“It’s not prudent at this point to decide to attack Iran,” Dempsey said in an interview with CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” scheduled to be broadcast Sunday. The US government is confident the Israelis “understand out concerns,” he said, according to an e-mailed transcript.
Amid US concerns that Israel may initiate military action against Iran’s nuclear sites, the White House National Security Adviser Tom Donilon begins a two-day visit to Israel today to discuss Iran and other issues, such as the turmoil in Syria. Iran has been under United Nations investigation since 2003 over suspected nuclear weapons work.
“A strike at this time would be destabilizing and wouldn’t achieve their long-term objectives,” Dempsey said of the Israelis. “I wouldn’t suggest, sitting here today, that we’ve persuaded them that our view is the correct view and that they are acting in an ill-advised fashion.”
Dempsey said the economic sanctions imposed on Iran and international pressure are beginning to have an effect, without elaborating. The European Union agreed on Jan. 23 to ban any oil imports from Iran, and the US denied access to its financial system for any foreign bank that conducts business with the Central Bank of Iran.
‘Iran is a rational actor’
“We are of the opinion that Iran is a rational actor,” Dempsey said. “We also know, or we believe we know, that the Iranian regime has not decided” to make a nuclear weapon, he said. Iran says its enrichment of uranium is for making power while Israel says it’s aimed at making weapons.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Saturday called for “tight, ratcheted up” sanctions against Iran to force the country to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
“I think there is consensus in most capitals of the world that Iran should not be allowed to turn into a nuclear military power,” Barak said at a press conference today in Tokyo at the end of a four-day visit.
