wsj.com’s Jay Solomon and Carol E. Lee wrote about what appears to be an unbelievable state of events presently existing in US relations with Iran, as follows:
“Iran’s paramount political figure, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has responded to overtures from President Barack Obama seeking better relations by sending secret communications of his own to the White House.
“The Iranian cleric wrote to Mr. Obama in recent weeks in response to an October presidential letter that raised the possibility of U.S.-Iranian cooperation in fighting Islamic State if a nuclear deal is secured, according to an Iranian diplomat. The supreme leader’s response was “respectful” but noncommittal, the diplomat said.”
Which means that, after countless discussions, promises of concessions by the US, continuing alienation of Israel, permitting the Iranian nuclear development to continue, the tacit support of that nation as a leader in the region, and likely many other unknown acquiescence's, the Iranian’s are still pulling all the strings.
But, the most incredible paragraph in the article says: “Mr. Khamenei’s failure to reject outright the possibility of a compromise on the nuclear file also raised hopes. “You don’t know how important it is for the supreme leader of Iran to actually write a letter to the U.S.,” said a second former U.S. official briefed on the correspondence. “It’s a sign he recognizes the country.”
As for myself, I write all day long, and done so for many years. However, I can’t come up with the words to describe how incomprehensible it is that the administration of the most powerful nation on earth, the US, thinks it’s a good thing that a two-bit desert hell-hole leader “recognizes the country.”
This situation has been handled upside down by the administration from the beginning and at other times could have been chalked off as a diplomatic error and forgotten. But, that isn’t the case. Because what’s happened here is that little desert nation is dedicatedly building toward the nuclear weaponry that will make it one of the most dangerous threats to the entire Middle-East and, eventually, the US. Aided and abetted all the way by the current US administration.
Item two is another case where the administration put itself on the wrong side of what hard facts and significant data clearly indicate.
Michael Bastasch writes on dailycaller.com that “Yale anti-fossil fuel campaigners have indefinitely postponed a protest that was set for this weekend due to “unfavorable weather conditions and other logistical issues.”
Fossil Free Yale, a group pushing the university to divest itself from fossil fuels, told the Yale Daily News that frigid, snowy weather set for this weekend will mean their global warming protest will have to be postponed.
May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, the group that started the divestment movement, said “The fossil fuel divestment movement has grown exponentially over the last two years–now it’s going global. From the Pacific Islands to South Africa, from the United States to Germany, people are standing up and challenging the power of the fossil fuel industry. We know that fossil fuels are the past and clean energy is the future.”
Divestment, however, has been criticized by global warming skeptics, conservatives and even liberals. The American Security Project, a D.C.-based left-wing think tank, argued that divestment will “not cause any meaningful financial impact to fossil fuel companies, but could hurt the universities and colleges dependent on fossil fuel share dividends.”
Additionally, “The North East has been pummeled by poor weather and snow all week and Yale’s divestment rally is not the first global warming event to be cancelled. Earlier this week, a state legislature forum on global warming was cancelled due to bad weather.”
As often happens, the best summation came from a reader. oldwhiteguy4deuce wrote: “I wonder how they manage to smelt the steel used in those wind turbine towers? I wonder how they transport those towers to the sites they are on? I wonder when the idiots of this world will realize that the planet and all that is on it is carbon based. jeez, carbon based organisms trying to eliminate carbon. it really does not get dumber than that.”
That's it for today folks.
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