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2015: “Obama likes Soleimani, and admires his work,” says Arab Muslim countries should be “more like Iran”

Jan 3, 2020 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

As always, on the side of America’s enemies. Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of numerous Americans. That makes him a “revered” figure to the Leftist establishment.

“Obama Strikes a Deal–With Qassem Suleimani,” by Lee Smith, Hudson Institute, July 14, 2015:

According to the terms of the Iran deal announced in Vienna on Tuesday, U.N. Security Council sanctions regarding nuclear-related issues will be lifted on a number of entities and individuals—from Iranian banks to Lebanese assassins, like Anis Nacacche. The name that most sticks out is IRGC-Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani. Administration officials counsel calm, and explain that Suleimani is still on the U.S. terror list and will remain on the terror list. But that’s irrelevant. The reality is that Suleimani is the key to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

The White House’s so-called nuclear talks with Iran over the last 18 months were never about Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Like everyone else in the Middle East, the Iranians understood that when Obama failed to strike Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in September 2013 for crossing his redline against the use of chemical weapons, there was no way the president would ever order military action against Iranian nuclear facilities. When Obama took that option off the table, he signaled to Iran that he wasn’t going to stop them because he thought there was no way to do so. When he leaked information about the Stuxnet worm, he suggested that he could help with Israel, too.

The negotiations were about something else entirely—they were about what Obama has described as a new geopolitical equilibrium, which would stabilize the Middle East and allow the administration to further minimize its role in the region. The way Obama described it publicly, this new security architecture was going to balance Iran against traditional American allies, like Saudi Arabia. However, it soon became apparent that the White House wasn’t really balancing at all, but had rather chosen one team over the others, Iran. Obama made his preference for Iran and its allies clear—in Lebanon, Syria, and most obviously in Iraq where the White House ordered air strikes on ISIS positions that allowed various Iranian-backed outfits, under the leadership of Qassem Suleimani, to take Tikrit.

Obama likes Suleimani, and admires his work. As the president reportedly told a group of Arab officials in May, the Arabs “need to learn from Iran’s example.”

In fact, they need to take a page out of the playbook of the Qods Force — by which [Obama] meant developing their own local proxies capable of going toe-to-toe with Iran’s agents and defeating them. The president seemed to marvel at the fact that from Hezbollah to the Houthis to the Iraqi militias, Iran has such a deep bench of effective proxies willing to advance its interests. Where, he asked, are their equivalent on the Sunni side? Why, he wanted to know in particular, have the Saudis and their partners not been able to cultivate enough Yemenis to carry the burden of the fight against the Houthis? The Arabs, Obama suggested, badly need to develop a toolbox that goes beyond the brute force of direct intervention. Instead, they need to, be subtler, sneakier, more effective — well, just more like Iran….

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  1. RichardL says

    Jan 3, 2020 at 12:37 pm

    I truly despise 0bama, but to argue he liked Soleimani because he understood just effective the man was in organising proxies is wrong. You should look at your enemy with a clear eye.

    • Infidel says

      Jan 3, 2020 at 9:53 pm

      Agree w/ you here: the article suggests that Obama admired Soleimani’s techniques in dealing w/ his enemies, not that he supported him. The other things that do point to Obama supporting Iran were the Iran deal, as well as Obama receiving Amiri in the White House.

      In fact, considering that Iran is just one country of some 60 million people, whereas the Arab world is a region totaling around 400 million, it’s amazing how Iran has been able to strike fear into the hearts of a people who once conquered and converted it. It’s also ironic at watching Arabs having to pay the price for destroying Iran’s Zoroastrian profile

    • gordon miller (@dagmiller) says

      Jan 4, 2020 at 6:04 am

      Of course, Obama liked Soleimani, as birds of a feather—being a crypto-Muslim and hater of the USA of which he was president, oddly enough.

    • Kepha says

      Jan 4, 2020 at 12:21 pm

      @RIchardL: I agree that the O was about the worst POTUS we ever had. Also, your observation about the O is spot-on. Yet I also see that admiration for organizing proxies is a call for worldwide destabilization and lawlessness.

      • Mike Melina says

        Jan 4, 2020 at 3:11 pm

        It’s not O…it’s 0.

  2. abad says

    Jan 3, 2020 at 1:07 pm

    Maybe because Hussein Obama is a Moslem?

    • Robert Gorter says

      Jan 4, 2020 at 1:28 am

      But Obama is a Muslim himself? I have seen a few video tapes where Obama was a fervent advocate of Islam in his early twenties in the African country where he was born with Muslim father? But a few times, these videos appeared online, they were quickly removed, And why did Obama make payments up to 1,7 million to the Ayatollahs of Iran in cash (sic) …..

      • Hugo says

        Jan 4, 2020 at 4:31 am

        Give a link to Obama as a young man being enthusiastic about Islam. Obama’s father was almost certainly an atheist, and had nothing to do with his upbringing – they only met a few times.
        His stepfather could perhaps have had more influence, but while he lived in Indonesia and was educated for 3 years in Bahasa (I have never heard him refer to the fact that he’s speaks it fluently), he was educated at a Catholic school.
        What is perhaps more interesting and certainly scandalous at the time is Obama was born out of wedlock – his African father having lied to his mother about his previous divorce.

        But to return to my original point – where are the videos of Obama waxing lyrical about Islam?

        • TimothyS says

          Jan 4, 2020 at 8:58 am

          “where are the videos of Obama waxing lyrical about Islam?”
          Other than the one that’s extremely well known?
          I’d be interested in seeing the others. No guarantee they aren’t memory-holed, but if they exist, I’d be curious to see them.

        • Carol the 1st says

          Jan 8, 2020 at 1:08 am

          Mohammed Subud (cult leader in Indonesia) is a possibility and was a real match in the looks department. Obama’s mother was a part of his cult as was Loretta Fuddy (the women who lacked qualifications for some Hawaiian position obtained via Obama but was then able to release Obama’s supposed birth certificate (and then soon conveniently died in a plane crash of a heart attack while everyone else around her easily survived!?!). Many comment on the scars on Obama’s scalp (scarring is a problem for blacks) and wonder why they’re there. I suggest that if you transpose Subud’s picture with that of Obama but mark a lower hairline matching Obama’s the resemblance is even more striking. Perhaps Obama knew those photos might someday be matched up?
          Here’s a link, just for the fun of speculation:
          http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/2014/01/the-real-obama-an-indonesian-muslim-socialist-puppet/

  3. Wellington says

    Jan 3, 2020 at 1:28 pm

    Obama was the worst President in American history. He was kind to the cruel (e.g., Iran) and cruel to the kind (e.g., selling the Czechs and Poles down the river on missile defense). He was regularly apologizing for America as well as stoking the flames of racial division in the USA. His abject defense of Islam was beyond pathetic and his co-sponsoring with Egypt UN Resolution 16/18 which, effectively, would disallow any criticism of Islam under the guise of disallowing incitement to religious violence because Muslims are incited to violence so easily—and thus Obama by co-sponsoring this shameless resolution went DIRECTLY contrary to the freedom of speech provision of the First Amendment.

    His Iranian nuclear deal was not only awful but it should have been submitted to the Senate as a treaty where a two-thirds majority would have constitutionally been required (and no way he would have even gotten 50%)—instead Obama passed it off as an executive order and thus engaged in a massive abuse of power, as he also did by having AP reporters monitored and conservative groups targeted by the IRS.

    He is the ONLY President in American history to not have at least one year of at least 3% GDP growth and he piled up as much debt as ALL Presidents before him combined. He gutted our military, sucked up to Russia and did nothing about enormous trade imbalances.

    Obama projected weakness ad nauseam. He sucked. No wonder the Left loved him.

    • Natty Bumppo says

      Jan 3, 2020 at 5:44 pm

      Well said. Glad to see I’m not the only who thinks Obama was the worst President in our history. He was a traitor to this country.

      • bill says

        Jan 4, 2020 at 3:19 am

        It’s neck and neck between him and Carter, but, I think he wins by a nose.

    • abad says

      Jan 3, 2020 at 5:46 pm

      +1

    • James Lincoln says

      Jan 3, 2020 at 6:28 pm

      Wellington,

      Excellent and accurate post – my compliments.

      I never really knew how bad Pres. Obama was until Pres. Trump took over and started exposing all of the rot.

      • Haroldp says

        Jan 3, 2020 at 6:35 pm

        You ain’t seen nothing yet. Just wait until Barr get through with the Obama administration.

        • bill says

          Jan 4, 2020 at 3:19 am

          I’m just waiting for Barr to get started!

      • Terry Gain says

        Jan 3, 2020 at 7:33 pm

        I knew how bad – and dangerous – Obama was when I watched his June 4, 2009 speech in Cairo. He gave a completely convincing portrayal of himself as a Muslim. It was vomit-worthy.

        • James Lincoln says

          Jan 3, 2020 at 11:40 pm

          Very perceptive Terry, my compliments.

          You were ahead of the curve…

    • LauranNYC says

      Jan 3, 2020 at 6:37 pm

      And he continues to do both.

    • Gloria Davenport says

      Jan 3, 2020 at 6:42 pm

      Well stated

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 3, 2020 at 7:53 pm

      Fine analysis.

  4. ntesdorf says

    Jan 3, 2020 at 4:47 pm

    Whenever O’Bummer liked something you could be assured that it was a really, really bad thing.

  5. gravenimage says

    Jan 3, 2020 at 7:54 pm

    2015: “Obama likes Soleimani, and admires his work,” says Arab Muslim countries should be “more like Iran”
    …………………..

    Well, that’s just horrifying–but who can be surprised?

  6. Tom Washburn says

    Jan 3, 2020 at 8:07 pm

    When George Snufalumpicas has to remind you (wink wink) that you are a Christian and not a Muslim …

    • Infidel says

      Jan 4, 2020 at 5:31 pm

      Is he? I mean the ‘bible’ that says ‘God damn America’ – is that one of the Christian sects these days? Which one?

  7. tgusa says

    Jan 3, 2020 at 8:15 pm

    In a show of solidarity the democrat party should begin treating their women, homosexuals, non muslims and other un-islamic miscreants just like they are treated in Iran. Quit leading from behind democrats.

  8. OLD GUY says

    Jan 4, 2020 at 11:05 pm

    That finger he has got up is not aimed at Iran, its aimed at the American people. His actions with Iran are traitorous and he should have been so charged but our politicians continue to fail us with their ties to the swamp.

  9. Huh!?! says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    As I learn more about the Obama presidency I am stunned and saddened about how much damage he did to Uncle Sam. Fortunately Hillary did not make it Obama part 3.
    That singer Madonna was correct. Obama was that muslim in the White House.

  10. jca reid says

    Jan 6, 2020 at 8:50 am

    Every time this man speaks about the Middle East/Islam, he goes down & down in my estimation. Whilst as US President he thought NOTHING of the US Servicemen murdered in Benghazi, also the business of “BATCHI BAZI” being routinely practised by Afghan Police Officers on young boys in their barracks. That is the ‘cultural’ practice of sodomising/gang sodomising of young boys. A big deal apparently in Afghan & Pakistan “culture”. They pussyfoot around this guy when he should be put under the microscope & thoroughly scrutinised. e.g. Is his wife a Michelle or, a Michael & are the kids purported to be his – is he the actual biological father? How did he manage to amass a fortune whilst working as a Public Servant in Chicago? Before folk complain it has nothing to do with his skin colour, but his conduct!

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