In the last year, while the seemingly endless 2012 campaign has unfolded, president Obama has taken a number of actions which seemed bizarre. Obama did things which seemed senseless until one looks at them through the lens of how they might help Obama's campaign. First came the death of bin Laden. After that raid, Obama immediatelyt told us all pretty much everything that happened. He did not wait to try to use the information obtained in the compound to roll up other al Qaeda groups elsewhere. No, he immediately told the world in order to get maximum credit for himself. He even gave out details that have now led to Pakistan arresting a doctor who helped the CIA locate bin Laden. After all, what is more important: getting Obama re-elected or preserving the safety of the agents who helped find him.
A few weeks back, a bomb plot involving another underwear bomb was thwarted in the Arabian peninsula. Again, Obama had us all informed of this immediately and we also learned about the American agent who had stopped the plot. Of course, as a result of that news, the agent's cover was blown and he had to flee for his life. What is more important: getting Obama re-elected or having an agent embedded in al Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula so that future attacks could be stopped?
There are other events like this, but today brings news of perhaps the most astounding of them all. According to a lengthy New York Times article today, it was American forces under the direct order of Obama who are responsible for the cyber attacks on the Iranian nuclear program. Reading the article, one quickly understands that a whole group of "sources" came forward to tell the NY Times reporter about this top secret program, something that would never have happened without approval at the highest levels.
This story is mindblowing. Let me put it this way: the cyber attack we are talking about resulted in the destruction of about one-third of all the centrifuges that Iran had working to get enriched uranium for its bombs. That's right, a computer virus actually tricked the machines into destroying themselves. By any standard, and intentional act by one country to use computer systems to destroy a major national program in another country is an act of war. Maybe I should repeat that: it is an ACT OF WAR!!!!!
After the Stuxnet virus was first discovered, we were told repeatedly that no one was sure exactly who had developed and deployed it. It might be the USA, it might be Israel, it might be another group altogether. Surely, Iran had its suspicions, but it just did not and could not know for sure. Obama has just made it clear to the mullahs just who it was that destroyed a big chunk of their nuclear program. It is much like painting a target on American installations around the world.
How can Obama give up the benefits of secrecy which are immense in exchange for the benefit to his re-election campaign? Does he have no understanding of what is good for the USA? Does he even care?
Look, I do not know if the NY Times story is even true. Maybe Obama is just trying to take credit for something that the Israelis did. Who cares if by doing so he is likely to foster some counter attack from Teheran? In the world of Obama all that matters is that it may help him with some of the voters.
Obama has got to go!
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