Nauseating…

Here are  thumbnail bios  on the four U.S. prisoners Iran released in exchange for seven Iranians being held on charges of violating sanctions or export control violations.

Not included  was former  F.B.I. agent,  Robert Levinson,  whose whereabouts are currently unknown.   A  recently retained  American student was also released.

What a coincidence this occurred on the same day  economic sanctions against Iran were lifted.   The U.N. Atomic Agency  has certified  that Iran has met all his commitments under the deal.   I haven’t been able to find a transcript of Secretary of State John Kerry’s fulsome praise for the insane Iran deal, but the gist of his comments  are here.

I am still waiting for someone  — anyone — to tell me how there can be an Iran deal when Iran has not signed it yet.   The Obama Administration is stuffed full of lawyers,  including His Oneness himself,  yet none of them apparently grasp a fundamental tenet of contract law,  which is that no agreement exists until all parties have executed it.

 

Zero Dark Shut Up…

The State Department  has insisted  it never would have willingly revealed the failed U.S. attempt to rescue American journalist James Foley,  and that it had no idea who leaked the information,  but that it had to speak out because the media was about to go public.   I’m disinclined to believe the reason or the excuse,  when all the stupids at State had to do was lift an eyebrow and say  “No comment.”   After all,  it’s not like anyone in the Obama Administration has any problem with lying through their teeth.   By revealing not merely the failure of the mission,  but the valuable intelligence provided by the released hostages,  the Administration has pretty much signed the death warrants of the remaining and any future hostages,  and has guaranteed their treatment will be brutal and their deaths horrific and captured on video.

Mark Hemingway has written the  blog post  from which I stole the title.   I agree that His Oneness was so desperate to look as if he had taken some action for which he should receive applause that he gave scant consideration to hostages or military planners.   We know he didn’t consider the special operators,  since he happily revealed SEAL teams conducted the bin Laden raid.   There is a reason the elite military forces are never pictured  —  because there is often a bounty placed on their heads,  and those of their family and friends.   I knew one who had a million dollar bounty placed on his head in the early 70’s,  when that was a hell of a lot of money.   Happily,  no one was ever able to collect,  but there have been successes in the past.   The fact that the new generation of jihadists have European and American passports makes futujre successes more likely.

Memo to His Oneness:  Shut up!

UPDATE:  Pentagon  agrees.