Reuters this morning is reporting "Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday he expects new U.N. sanctions on Iran by late April or early May and dismissed the notion that Israel might attack the Islamic Republic before first allowing sanctions to take their course." Sound familiar? It should; it is just the latest in the line of "future sanctions" coming from the Obama folks.
When Obama got elected, he promised that there would be progress with Iran or there would be meaningful sanctions put in place. Obama scrapped planned installations of US defensive missiles in Poland, the Czech Republic and elsewhere in Eastern Europe in order to win approval of the Russians for the sanctions. While the Russians spoke kindly about the possibility of sanctions, they did not agree to any. Obama also dropped any pretense of there being consequences for the russian invasion of Georgia in 2008 in the hope of getting sanction approvals. The Russian response was the same. Lately Obama has agreed to a treaty reducing nuclear weapons which requires US reductions but no Russian reductions. The treaty even allows the Russians to walk away from it if the US goes ahead with introduction of defencsive missiles. Again, the Russians have not agreed to sanctions out of the United Nations.
Obama has been played effectively by the Russians. No progress on sanctions has occurred, but the Russians have gotten nearly everything that they wanted. And for NOTHING in return!
Previously, the Obamacrats were telling the world that there would be UN sanctions by December of last year. Now we hear that December has become late April or early May. That is in just two weeks. Do I beleive it? Let me put it this way: Biden said late April or early May but he did not say of what year.
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