Aaron Kliegman
Some analysts say not to worry about this rapid modernization because China has far fewer nuclear weapons than the US. They are sorely mistaken.
“I’m a nice guy and not Donald Trump,” was Biden’s case for the presidency. “I’ll end the chaos and return us to normalcy.” This was his electoral mandate: to govern as a boring, comfortable moderate. To be an old and tired president with low energy who was simply not his predecessor, nothing more.
The Obama administration’s toxic campaign to defend a severely flawed deal fostered visceral partisanship at home. The result has been devastating: A country so divided on Iran cannot create effective, enduring policies to combat Iran’s nuclear and imperial ambitions.
When we look at illegal immigration as a matter of national security, terrorism isn’t the only threat. Of perhaps greater concern is espionage — the prospect of adversarial countries such as Iran sending agents to spy rather than attack.
Last month, some 200 activists and academics unveiled a new and dangerous definition of antisemitism explicitly meant to undermine and replace IHRA’s version. What’s so remarkable about this “new” definition is that its authors seem far more concerned with protecting people accused of antisemitism than with protecting Jews victimized by antisemitism.
Today, many analysts correctly worry about Iran and China trying to dominate their respective regions through brute imperialism. But China wants more than just east Asia and sees Iran as an imperial partner in crime to help achieve the Chinese Communist Party’s grand ambitions.
Joe Biden sold himself to the American people as a moderate. Indeed, his presidential pitch was a “return to normalcy” following the chaos of Donald Trump. It was all rubbish.
Iran knows that President Joe Biden wants to save The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the Iran Nuclear Deal) after his predecessor withdrew from it in 2018. But Biden can’t let Iran’s leaders bully him into doing their bidding.
How glorious it must feel to summit history’s mountain of morality, standing in judgement over all those who came before. Such is the daily thrill enjoyed by today’s woke progressives, who believe they have the moral high ground as they continue to rewrite American history.
Exactly 10 years ago this week, the Syrian people began protesting peacefully against their government. The tyrannical Syrian regime, led by President Bashar al-Assad, had a choice: Implement reforms, or crush the protests. Assad chose violence.
