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Saturday, July 18, 2015

An Assertive Iran? Blame Buscheney, Not Obama

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leon-t-hadar/an-assertive-iran-blame-b_b_7819870.html

  Senior Analyst, Wikistrat

An Assertive Iran? Blame Buscheney, Not Obama

Posted: 07/17/2015
Looking for the classical definition of chutzpah? Well, have you heard the story of the boy who killed his parents and then threw himself on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he was an orphan? That's chutzpah.
But that's an old story and whoever told it never heard apparently about Max Boot. In an analysis posted recently on commentarymagazine.com and entitled "The Dawn of the Iranian Empire," the renowned neoconservative pundit contended that President Barack Obama's decision to conclude a nuclear deal with Iran would open the road for the rise of Iran as a hegemonic power in the Middle East.

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