U.S. Officials Keep Everyone Guessing About Iran Plans

The Arab Spring was a good idea, but it was a failure. We lost an ally in Mubarak, Qaddafi was more a danger to himself and civil could break out. Clearly it was aimed at the resistance block and state sponsors of terror, Syria, Iran, Hizbullah all three are still intact, so that is a failure.

Putting military intervention aside, not enough pressure was placed on Assad to not ratchet up the killing, that allowed him to gain the momentum.

A lot of things diplomatically did not take place, no one recognized the SNC, no one tried to unify them and remove the regimes sleepers, Assad still have Embassies which gave him legitimacy, the SNC did not get the AL seat, if the US had recognized the SNC and had a vote at the UNGA we could have stopped issuing visas to the regime to enter the US and attend the UN in NY.

Assad is not going to fall and if the Arab Spring was ever going to hit Iran. It is not going to now. So after what happened in Syria, the people will not try to overthrow the Iranian regime. If Assad had fallen perhaps Iran would have been next. But not now. If you count 2009 that is twice Iran has beaten regime change. Those failures bring two things closer either war or the bomb. The Ayatollah is king of the castle.

It is a clear message the US does not stand with people that demand freedom and democracy, if you try to gain that freedom you will be slaughtered and people from Tehran, to Moscow and Beijing has got the message loud and clear.

Obama has taken the US back to pre-9/11 foreign policy, it is very old Washington it reminds me of the 60's and 70's. Everyone said that Hillary was the brains behind Bill Clinton, clearly not in my humble opinion. You can set up a thing like the Arab Spring but once it is up and running to a large degree it is reliant on politicians and diplomats, much of the success or failure rest on their heads, unless they call on the CIA or Military once again that rests with them.

When you look around at this effort, Iraq looks like a big success, Afghanistan is dodgy, Libya possible civil war, Yemen well, Egypt handed to the MB, Assad slaughtered everyone.

Noble Peace Prize, Cairo Speech=Syria Slaughter.

Matt of TX 2:27AM March 07, 2012