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 The Path We Are Taking with Iran

Readers will learn a great deal from defense analyst’s Caroline Glick’s comprehensive You Tube giving a careful exposition of our descent into an Iranian maelstrom with obvious nuclear-weapons consequences.

We have written about author Glick earlier when reviewing her “Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad” here - -

“And as Glick praises both the American soldiers with whom she was an embedded journalist in the last Iraq campaign, she also reminds American conservative bloggers that they ‘have become a critical component of the free world’s defense in the current war.’”

Readers are cautioned, however, that this is no less-than-a-minute, entertaining YouTube about Dr. Evil and Barbara Boxer, but a longer yet vital and plain-words explanation of where the Obama Administration is leading us in the Middle East.

Why does the Obama Team Want Such a Limited Projection of U.S. Power?

Few have pinned down the motivation for the Obama Administration’s moves against our vital (read survival) interests: a dangerously reduced military budget, an attack on the Central Intelligence Agency’s intelligence-gathering operatives, and a policy of appeasement toward Iran, to list three of the most egregious presidential initiatives.

Visit today’s perspectives, for example, of former Federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy here and here on the CIA witch hunt, Michael Rubin here on the Obama policy toward Iran, and — on the defense budget — Newt Gingrich here and Heritage’s Mackenzie Eaglen here.

Perhaps the president and his circle of close advisers genuinely see a militarily curtailed U.S. — speaking with a soothing voice when dealing with dangerous governments, but a harsher one when dealing with long-time ally Israel — as the kind of global player and world-model they believe the U.S. should become.

Why they may believe this is a topic conservatives need to explore further.

The Obama Administration’s challenge to our way of life extends even beyond Obamacare and Cap-and-Tax to crucial matters of national survival.  Maryland and Virginia conservatives will want to talk to their national-defense-inclined Representatives here and here and Senators here and here whenever an opportunity permits.