“Mark my words,” Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden warned last October. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking.”
“Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
Today Iran tested a new long range ballistic missile. Israel sees Iran as an existential threat armed with such missiles and nuclear weapons.
A right wing government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu is being formed in Israel and Netanyahu has made noise about attacking Iran in the past.
The Jerusalem Post wrote today about Israel’s Military Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin, who told the cabinet on Sunday that Iran had “crossed the technological threshold” and that its attainment of nuclear military capability was now a matter of “incorporating the goal of producing an atomic bomb to its strategy.”
See:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid
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Article%2FShowFull
And all of this includes Russia.
Since President Obama’s inauguration, Russia has been testing Mr. Obama and his administration rigorously and continuously.
Russia has been jerking around all of Europe, showing who is boss of the gas and winter heating fuel for NATO which inludes the U.S.
Russia has even managed to withstand a threatened NATO boycott of ties as a direct result of Russia’s invasion of Georgia and South Ossetia last summer. Today NATO members scrapped their threatened cut off of Russian ties just as Russia threatened to again stop the flow of Russian oil to Europe.
And the New York Times and other media reported that President Obama sent Russian President Medvedev a letter which may have offered to scrap U.S. missile defense plans in Europe in exchange, some believe, for Russian help in stopping Iran’s nuclear program.
America’s missile defense effort in Europe was planned to stop Iran’s long range ballistic missiles: which were demonstrated as real and advancing again today.
Russian leaders are certain to be gloating at the pliability of the Obama Administration and the West since Obama became president.
Despite Joe Biden’s warning last October, the international “testing” of Obama is ongoing — just not as obviously and publically as Russia tested JFK during the Cuban missile crisis.
It seems that Russian leaders may have matured and become more subtle since the 1960s. U.S. leaders have not….
So, even before America’s economic problems are solved, even before the stock market has started to recover, even before the stimulus has worked any magic, and even without a real start of revolutionizing health care and turing our thirst for oil into a love of wind: the Biden predicted testing is ongoing.
And the clock is ticking.
John E. Carey
Wakefield Chapel, Virginia
March 8, 2009
Iranian clerics watch the launch of a Shahab-3 ballistic missile outside Qom in 2006. A top Iranian military commander said that the country has missiles that can reach the nuclear sites of its arch-foe Israel.(AFP/File/null)
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Iranians walk past a replica of a Shahab-3 missile on display in Tehran. The Fars news agency says Iran has “successfully” tested a new air-to-sea missile with a range of 110 kilometres (68 miles).(AFP/File/Atta Kenare)
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March 8, 2009 at 2:28 pm |
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