In year or so, Iran will detonate a nuclear device in one of Iran’s northern deserts, and will proclaim to the world that the era of Muslim weakness and docility is over and that the United States and it’s allies better beware. Israel and the Arab states will bitterly complain that they have been betrayed and abandoned by the United States and the international community. Russia and China will quickly proclaim their deep and abiding friendship for Iran, and offer to supply the mullahs with the missile and other nuclear technology to make the Iranian nuclear threat concrete. Barack Obama will give a two hour speech declaring that his diplomatic approach was the correct one, and was largely successful, and shows just how international cooperation can be very effective in obtaining worthwhile goals.
Israel will prepare for attacks from Hizballa, Hamas, and the PA, while the Persian Gulf Arab states will find themselves under constant attack by terrorist gangs trained and armed in Iran and smuggled across their borders.
Barack Obama will then give a three hour speech declaring his eternal friendship and support for Israel and the Arabs but explain that it is not in America’s interest to threaten to use nuclear weapons to retaliate should Iran actually use a nuclear tipped missile to incinerate Tel Aviv. He will then spend a half an hour praising himself for this restraint and tell an innocuous story about his childhood and how he was raised among Moslems and he knows how moderate they are.
A few weeks later a major war breaks out in the Middle East, Iran fires missiles at Tel Aviv, closes the Straits of Hormuz, and sinks a half a dozen American warships in the Persian Gulf, and cuts off all oil supplies from the area.
President Obama gives another three hour speech and calls for restraint, and explains how he understands the frustrations of the Iranians and does not hold them responsible for their actions. President Obama then tells a twenty minute story about how he and his grandmother went shopping and bought some clothes that didn’t fit him and took them back and had to argue with the storkeeper, and how this is the correct model for settling disputes, not guns and bullets, but understanding and hope.
You can finish the story yourself.
