More Un-nerving Obama Antics

In accordance with what has become an Obama Administration tradition, the President announced late last Friday that American forces would be withdrawn from Iraq before the end of the year.  “The troops will be home for the holidays” cooed the president, using the dead time at the end of the news week to drop this major bombshell under the guise of keeping a campaign promise.  Supposedly, the U.S. support for the emerging government of Iraq will be limited to 4,000 to 5,000 “contractors” with a tiny force of American troops remaining to protect the U.S. Embassy.

The first thought that popped into my mind was, how would you like to be one of the “contractors” or a member of the unit tasked with safeguarding our Embassy personnel and property?  Damn!  Talk about a “pucker factor”.  Every American who remains in that country will become a highly visible, designated target for a variety of eager killers to work over.  A massacre is hardly out of the question.

Equally important is the horrifying message that was immediately sent to and received by the terrorist-oriented government of Iran – that the U.S. has once again caved in, turned tail, capitulated, reneged on its promises to assist an ally.  Once again, open season on Americans both military and civilian has been provided to our enemies by the craven actions of those of our leaders who are willing to run any risk to lower America’s international profile and/or maintain their political power.

There are those who will celebrate the end of our commitment in Iraq, forgetting that the battles there strongly resemble the scenarios of Vietnam, where world powers used that unfortunate country as a theater to act out the major conflict between the forces of Communism and the defenders of freedom.  “Bring the troops home”, they say.  “We have done the best that we could”, they insist.

All the while ignoring the fact that we have been at war for more than a decade with the forces of international terrorism backed by totalitarian regimes whose long-term goal is quite simple: worldwide dominance.

These dedicated enemies of western civilization include but are not limited to: Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah and various flavors of Al Qaeda, all of whom have shown an affection for terrorist support that has resulted in tens of thousands of non-combatant deaths.

The 800-lb gorilla in this volatile mix is Iran, whose most recent contribution is a plot involving an attempt to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador by blowing up a Washington, D.S. restaurant.  Investigation has shown that this plot was engineered by Gholam Shakuri – an official in the Iranian Quds Force, the military arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps – and involved Shakuri’s cousin Mansoor Arbabsiar who emigrated to the U.S. from Iran in the early 1980′s and gained citizenship through marriage to an American woman.

Iran has long provided logistical, financial and personnel support for groups in Iraq who have killed many American military people and their past terrorist operations have included training inside Iran for IED preparation and deployment for their Iraqi cohorts, military supplies through the Qud pipeline, and also deep involvement in the smuggling of arms shipments intended for Gaza but intercepted by the Israelis in 2002 and 2009 – not to mention their ongoing blatant attempts to construct nuclear weapons over both the impotent protests of the United Nations and the clueless Obama Administration.

So, is it rational to ignore the inevitable attempts that Iran will exert to insinuate itself into the framework of a recently weakened Iraqi government?

Hardly, but this is just one more milestone in the approaching dissolution of American hegemony that is being engineered by America’s incompetent leadership.