Thread by @drawandstrike

Reminder: @JoshMeyerDC pulled back the curtain not just on Obama's sabotaging of #ProjectCassandra with is investigative report; he also helped clarify exactly what this Iranian regime really is: a gang of criminal thugs.

Not only has the Iranian regime been exporting terrorism by shipping weapons & manpower to various proxy wars around the region; it's also been funding & supporting itself through a very lucrative world wide trade in illegal narcotics such as cocaine.

Before Obama, this criminal regime was being held in check. Obama spent 8 years implementing a radical policy in which an Iranian backed nuclear hegemony over the Middle East was forgone conclusion; it could only be 'managed' or delayed, not stopped.

Obama's curious 'management' of the 'Iran problem' involved lifting most sanctions on Iran that had been placed there due to it's terrorist activities & then handing over billions of dollars to these criminals despite knowing what they'd do with it.

If you watched Obama's implementation of his foreign policy from the start of his 1st term in 2009, you immediately noticed all of it was predicated on a massive reduction of American influence/leadership around the world.

In the Middle East, his shaping of his foreign policy began with what has now been coined his 'apology tour' as he went around to various ME countries & basically apologized for past American actions & promised America would now stay home.

I and many others at the time pointed out immediately how dangerous & short sighted this was. The 'Pax Americana' that American influence around the world exerted kept a lot of rogue regimes in check.

Obama either did not grasp this or actively rejected it.

What Obama ended up doing with the deliberate withdrawal of American power & influence around the world was create a POWER VACUUM.

He seemed to have some benighted idea that the UN would step up and fill the vacuum he was creating & replace America's leadership.

After Obama spent the 4 years of his first term clearly signaling American withdrawal & appeasement, in his 2nd term the bill started coming due as rogue regimes rushed in to fill the vacuum he'd created.

Having taken Obama's full measure, Putin launched his invasion of the Ukraine, something he NEVER would have done if he'd known there'd be any kind of real US response.

Having done a complete pull out of Iraq, Obama then scoffed at the rise of ISIS by calling it 'the JV team'.

Having toppled Ghadaffi in Libya, Obama/Hillary then small-footprinted the aftermath to the point 1 terrorist attack caused a complete & total US pullout.

Obama compounded his errors by then fixating his entire second term on making his nuclear deal with Iran.

To get that deal done, Obama & his team lied incessantly both to Congress & the American people.

Obama touted his nuclear deal as if it was actually going to help 'contain' Iran and make it a more 'moderate' regime & lessen it's import of terrorism around the ME and stop it's spreading of proxy wars.

As time has passed, we've learned more & more about things Obama & team hid from the public and Congress. In fact, there's a strong evidence the Obama White House actually SPIED illegally on members of Congress & leaked classified info to the media to help pass the Deal.

Once the Iran Deal was secured, every single thing Obama had promised would happen turned out to be false.

Iran started another proxy war in Yemen. It escalated it's involvement in Syria. It continued right on testing & launching ballistic missiles.

Over the past 2 years time and again more information/side deals that Team Obama hid from everyone about this Deal has surfaced.

As Iran kept defiantly launching ballistic missiles, Obama & Co. pontificated these weren't really violations of the Deal.

Now thanks to a stunning investigative report from Josh Meyer at Politico, we now know about something ELSE Obama & his team did to ensure the passage of the Iran Deal: the sabotaging of Project #cassandra to allow Hezbollah to move drugs & arms unchecked.

Literally ALL of Obama's foreign policy his 8 years in office in relation to Iran, Russia, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Turkey, it's ALL predicated on how it affected his Iran Deal.

The brutal truth that the DNC Media won't tell you is this: Because Iran is a Russian-backed proxy state, Obama gave Russia & Iran free reign in the Ukraine, Syria, Yemen and Iraq.

Hundreds of thousands of people died because of this.

He can't enforce a red line in Syria because that would make Iran and Russia mad & kill the Iran deal.

He can't act in Yemen for the same reason.

Or in the Ukraine.

It's also why he can't allow moves against Hezbollah, to stop it's drugs/arms trade.

Obama spent 8 years virtually paralyzed because he was scared of doing anything whatsoever that might antagonized Putin or the Mullah's and thereby kill any chance at getting the Iran Deal done.

This included watching our Navy sailors being grabbed by the Iranians.

We got a big preview of Obama's paralysis in 2009 when the Green Revolution arose in Iran and Obama wouldn't even give the Iranian people crying out for freedom even tepid, token support.

Americans who'd watched Ronald Reagan throw his enthusiastic public & moral support behind Lech Walesa & Solidarity in Poland were treated to the spectacle of Obama insisting he wasn't about to 'meddle' with internal Iranian politics.

In the past year, our new President, Donald Trump, has had to consciously work to reverse & undo much of the damage Obama has caused around the world.

In addition to rejecting Obama's micro- managing of the US military, President Trump has put the world on notice we intend to take back the leadership role that Obama abdicated.

Trump has adopted a policy of providing support to our allies in the Middle East. Instead of leading the way & dictating to other countries, we remain in a support role while the locals do the heavy lifting.

In a new support role, the US has helped the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) lead the way in rolling back all the gains ISIS made in Iraq & Syria, culminating in the liberation of Mosul & Raqqa.

While Obama blathered about decades that would spent in a long war vs ISIS, Trump & our allies rolled up the Islamic State & ended the threat of a terrorist state in less than 9 months.

Unlike Obama, Trump has no compelling reason to stay out of Putin or the Mullah's way. Which is why we are sending arms to Ukraine to help them defend themselves against Russian aggression, & why the Iran Deal will soon be scrapped.

Now that another mass protest movement has sprang to life inside Iran, the world shall see a marked contrast between how Obama handled Iranians calling out for freedom & democracy vs how Trump will handle it.

All the usual suspects are now telling Trump to do what Obama did: bite his lip, stay silent and don't 'meddle' in Iranian affairs.

Well the usual suspects are going to be disappointed. Trump will go the route of Reagan when it comes to supporting people crying out for freedom from an oppressive, terrorist & criminal regime.

He will not go the Obama route.

Deal with it.

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