“ Israeli military strategy.   .   . could further harden Palestinian attitudes for generations, erode global support for Israel, play into the hands of Israel’s enemies, and undermine long term efforts to achieve peace.   .   .” — Barack Obama (October 2023) Mark Twain once said that “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” The Italy, Germany, Japan Axis Powers precipitated World War II (1939-45) because they saw the West unable to fight a war that would mean millions dead and a world destroyed. Historians later concluded Allied failure to act at the threat’s early stage meant far more death and destruction later. The Munich Lesson. Barack Obama’s word-salad pitch for “peace” (above) seems likely to embolden Iran, Russia, and China -- today's "Axis of Evil" --  to push further against a divided West in the Middle East, in Ukraine, and in Taiwan. We are rhyming the 1938 Munich Lesson. Follow Obama appeasement now, pay a much higher price l...

Hamas’s invasion of Israel.   .   .  means the Biden-Obama approach to Iran has failed catastrophically.  -- Charles Lipson , Spectator  O ne hopes the Obama-induced Middle East turn to Iran died October 7. Hamas, the Barbaric equal of ISIS, is not a shadow government-in-waiting, but rather a terrorist force seeking Israel’s destruction with Iran’s full backing. Ashley Rindsberg traces America’s turn from Israel to Tehran back 15 years to Obama’s lunched presidency.  Wrote Rindsberg: The Iran deal, in whose name the administration twisted itself into a moral pretzel, was .   .   . predicated on a wholesale restructuring of the Middle East. [A]n ascendant Iran would be a counter-balance to Israel. It would force Israel ’ s hand in dealing the Palestinian situation in the way that Obama and his foreign policy circle believed was the [right] way. Rindsberg added Iran as a counter to Saudi Arabia would create a “triangle of tension” maintaining a r...