Obama Doctrine -- Speak Too Much And Carry No Stick.

"The Obama Doctrine" illustrated by William Warren
in  (2009).  No wonder our enemies do not fear US.

by Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: As the calendar counts down to the June 30th deadline for President Obama to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran, the president is once again making it painfully obvious just how desperate he is to add this notch to his belt.

During an interview with an Israeli TV channel, the president said the following:
"I can, I think, demonstrate, not based on any hope, but on facts and evidence and analysis, that the best way to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon is a verifiable, tough agreement. A military solution will not fix it. . . it would temporarily slow down an Iranian nuclear program, but it will not eliminate it."My blood pressure is going through the roof! The president's entire foreign policy is based on hope, not facts. The facts, evidence and analysis clearly show that Iran cannot be trusted to keep any agreement it signs.

The New York Times reported that Iran is once again cheating on existing commitments and obligations. "Tehran's stockpile of nuclear fuel increased about 20 percent over the last 18 months of negotiations," the Times writes, clearly undermining the administration's claim that Iran's nuclear program had been "frozen" during the negotiations.

But putting the obvious aside, why on earth would the president say that a military solution won't work? Just two weeks ago, the president told members of the Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C., "I've made clear that when it comes to preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, all options are and will remain on the table."

Really? Obama once again took the military option off the table.

Even if he believes that a military solution won't work, those words should never have come out of his mouth. Iran has virtually no reason now to fear a U.S. strike and thus to make the concessions necessary to have a meaningful agreement.

I guess this is what we can call the Obama Doctrine -- Speak too much and carry no stick.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families

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