7-12-15 Our Iranian Nuclear Negotiations: Hopelessly Incompetent, Naive, Pro-American Or Pro-Enemy?

Our Iranian Nuclear Negotiations: Hopelessly Incompetent, Naive, Pro-American or Pro-Enemy? You Be The Judge.

Today and perhaps tomorrow comes another deadline extension in, and maybe an ending of, the Iranian nuclear negotiation. It is one of the most important — and dangerous — energy and world security issues in history.

Why?

The current process is alienating the United States from all of our 'former' Middle Eastern allies who, together, have helped provide significant security to the region. Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries in the area recognize Iran for the supporter of terrorism and threat to their own sovereignty that it is.

They also know that regardless of the American-led negotiation's outcome, the Iranians will continue with their nuclear weapon program. This will cause neighbors to engage in an "arms race" to become similarly armed.

Why do our readers care?

The end game could result in continuing sanctions on Iranian oil sales, supporting higher oil prices. The end game could also find Iran free of sanctions, causing the legal and unrestrained trade of Iranian oil — pressuring oil prices to go lower. Both results will impact Alaskan and Canadian local governments, companies and their national economies.

Russian and Chinese mischief also surrounds the Greek financial crisis — which may be coming to a head any moment. See this Calgary Herald article by Deborah Yedlin.

North American and European security could be affected by the outcome of the Iranian nuclear talks. A lifting of sanctions could refill Iran's coffers with billions, sure to be shared with terrorist organizations.

Relations with Russia and China will be affected, for whereas they might have supported Iranian sanctions earlier, today they would most assuredly not do so in the likely event that Iran would soon begin violating the terms of any 'deal'. Moreover, today they are, respectively, challenging the resolve of the United States with: provocative and imperialistic movements against Europe; bomber probes of North American air space; and threats to countries and international sea traffic in the South China Sea.

Forgive us for our own naiveté, but we do not understand why any but the most incompetent, inexperienced or unpatriotic administration would even consider negotiating with a fascist, Islamic regime that is a master of breaking agreements, holds American hostages, and also publicly wishes "death to America" and to America's best Middle Eastern ally, Israel. This is occurring at the same time the administration is downgrading the U.S. military and upgrading onerous natural resource regulations throughout America and calling, "global warming a top national security priority". On second thought, we are not naive; we have put the puzzle together logically and the picture is one of either the American leadership's incompetence or deceit.

Sitting next to Secretary of State John Kerry, a Vietnam Veteran who publicly threw his military medals away, is Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz. He has enjoyed a distinguished career in previous lives, a physicist who served in academic leadership at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as Under Secretary of the US Department of Energy and as Associate Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Neither, however, is known for negotiating high stakes positions in the international big league.

We believe Kerry is executing orders bound to endanger the national security of the United States. We believe that while Dr. Moniz is a nuclear expert, neither he nor Kerry know when America should not negotiate, nor how to negotiate.

So when we awaken tomorrow, we hope that as Monday unfolds we'll not see any agreement. We hope that we will see sanctions continue and be made even more robust until — and not before — Iran:

pleads for peace,
agrees to destruction of weapon related nuclear equipment and material,
agrees to unannounced and unfettered inspections of both military and nuclear facilities,
demonstrably ceases all funding and other tangible and intangible support for Islamic terrorism,
releases all American hostages, and
recants its threat to destroy Israel.

Without such common sense conditions being agreed to and successfully implement for at least 12 months, no lifting of sanctions should even be considered, much less discussed or negotiated.

The fact that the United States is bowing so low to such low life savages and transmitting such weakness during such perilous times is an affront to the entire foundation and history of the United States of America and poses a clear and present danger to all free people at home and abroad. Our leaders are giving comfort to our enemies and alienating our allies.

Today, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell weakly stated that the Senate would not approve a "bad deal". We ask: Why in the name of millions of fallen patriots should he not have said, "The President is on a fool's errand. The United States should not negotiate with an enemy, a proven liar, a terrorist state. Sanctions will continue and increase until the road to a nuclear Iran is permanently destroyed. From our viewpoint any nuclear "deal" brought to this body is DEAD ON ARRIVAL if it does not represent a complete capitulation of Iran's imperialistic, untrustworthy ways to our COMPLETE SATISFACTION."

The administration SHOULD BE ashamed of its performance and our Congressional representatives SHOULD NOT BE ashamed to remind the country of this misrepresentation loudly and daily lest their lack of powerful objection be interpreted as weak acquiescence.

Dave Harbour, publisher of Northern Gas Pipelines, is a former Chairman of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska and a Commissioner Emeritus of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). He served as NARUC's official representative to the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC). Harbour is past Chairman of the Alaska Council on Economic Education, former Chairman of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, and past President of the American Bald Eagle Foundation and the Alaska Press Club. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Alaska Oil & Gas Congress.

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