There's an old joke about how the New York Times would announce the end of the world. "World to End Tomorrow; Women and Minorities Affected Most." I'm here to tell you today that the real "victims" of Israel's Thursday night airstrikes on Iran are in the Biden White House — and just two miles away in Washington's exclusive Kalorama neighborhood.
I'll get to that last part in a moment.
PJ Media's own Paula Bolyard stayed up late last night to give you the up-to-the-minute coverage, but now that the dust has had a little while to settle, I've taken the zero-dark-thirty shift (Mountain Time) to serve up a little perspective with your morning coffee.
Please notice that Iran launched an unprecedentedly large drone and missile strike on Israel Saturday, but everything they had either malfunctioned or was shot down. Israel seems to have hit Iran with impunity, and, according to my friend and colleague Jennifer van Laar's source, Israeli Air Force (IAF) warplanes simply did not show up on Iranian or Russian radar. Ponder for just a moment what that might have meant in the Russo-Ukraine War had the West gotten serious from the start about arming Ukraine.
But I digress.
This one is a real stumper for the Biden administration. While there are no indications yet that the IAF hit any sites related to Iran's mostly peaceful nuclear weapons program, it's safe to say that the Obama-Biden Iran nuclear deal got "blowed up real good" last night.
Jen's source also claims that the strike was "expected to be hypertargeted to eliminate IRN nuclear program and kill key personnel, eliminate known and suspected launch facilities" but nobody has admitted that's what actually happened. "Iranian state press has reported that Tehran’s atomic facilities were left unharmed," for whatever that's worth.
Taking their cue from Barack Obama's disastrous Middle East foreign policy, the White House has spent the last three years giving Tehran almost anything they wanted — relaxed sanctions, pallets of cash, treating Hamas with kid gloves, etc. — in exchange for pretending to do a somewhat better job of hiding their nuclear weapons program.
Whether or not Israel struck Iran's nuclear sites, the IAF has proven that they can hit anything in Iran, and there isn't a damn thing Tehran can do to stop them. I'm not saying that Iran can't strike back, because they surely will. Although I suspect that, after last night, Tehran might go back to using their proxies in Syria, Gaza, Yemen, etc., instead of attacking Israel directly again. Whatever the case, the point remains that Iran's air defenses cannot stop, hinder, or even see Israeli warplanes.
Biden's Middle East foreign policy is in tatters, blown up along with whatever else Israel hit last night. Barack Obama, the architect of Biden's Iran deals (and so much else), has failed this country — and the world — yet again, seven years after leaving office. The Arab-Israeli peace that Donald Trump's team of SecState Mike Pompeo and Jared Kushner had worked so hard to create was tossed aside by Biden-Obama in 2021 in favor of making Iran the dominant regional power.
Now there's no peace anywhere to be found. This is the inevitable result of making one of the world's worst actors the cornerstone of your regional peace efforts.
Or maybe war was what they wanted all along.
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