Sick Spain nears EU Presidency Exit

El País, one of Spain´s national dailies, publishes a  paradoxical headline late Tuesday evening online: Zapatero defiende la solvencia de España en la cumbre de la UE (Zapatero Defends Spain´s Solvency at EU Summit).

Spain heads the EU until the end of June. The Spanish term began with such high hopes after finally getting Ireland to agree to the latest EU treaty revision.

Six months later, Spain has contributed mightily to the further destabilization of the entire EU project with its dire economic straits.

Unfortunately, Spain makes Greece look like a walk in the park.

The effete President of Spain, Socialist Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero, is out of ideas because socialism is at its foundation a bankrupt economic model.

Now France has joined Spain in pushing aggressive pension reforms to try to stave off the inevitable culmination of quack economics - financial ruin.

The hardline unions in both countries are already crying in the streets, completely tone death to the economic precipice on which the EU rests.

The European Union is evaporating right before our eyes, just as GSM has long argued. The faux union and the faux euro currency are now in their death pangs.

Is France next? Then the EU project will certainly be fini!

World Cup Eclipses Serious African News

Amid football fever gripping the world, serious issues remain on the African continent.

While global spectators cheer their favorite team beamed back home by satellite, others not too removed from the action are suffering.

The return of terror to white-owned farms in Zimbabwe, a critical presidential election in Guinea, and a food crisis in Nigeria only are some notable press items in the shadows of the fun and frolic in the World Cup held in South Africa.

While attention is focused on the game, problems in the rest of the continent are given scant notice, according to an article appearing in the local Mail and Guardian this Sunday.

Saudis Give Israel Green Light

In a ramp up to an inevitable conclusion to both the Turkey-Brazil diplomatic hat trick to shield the Teheran Tyranny and the toothless UN sanctions in which the US gave away the store to enact, Saudi Arabia, reports the Times of London, has given Israel, its erstwhile non-friend, rights to pass its airspace enroute to bomb Iran´s nuclear program.

As the recent raid on the Turkey aid convoys to Gaza reveals, Israel will not hesitate to defend itself.

While outside powers like the United States have the luxury, for now, to continue playing patty-cake with Terror, Inc. in Teheran, Israel does not.

All diplomatic nicieties aside, Iran presents a clear and present danger to global security. Pretending otherwise is a march of folly.

Teheran, unimpressed by UN Security Council sanctions, is actually much closer to passing the nuclear threshhold by continuing headlong on producing higher-enriched uranium, as even the IAEA conceded in a restricted UN report, according to the AFP in May.

Indeed, as GSM wrote in its net assessement, theWestern powers would actually make an Israeli attack on Iran more urgent given their pussilanimity.

The Iran case is a ticking-time bomb and regimes that rule by force only respect the use of force, a timely gem from the study of world history.

US Diplomacy in Tatters - Iran Wins Again

 "...as long as the dictatorships exist, war is inevitable, and that it may be better to have war now, when we have an issue that may be supposed to appeal to the whole world, rather than to put it off to some future date when our position may be more difficult and dangerous." -  Statement by Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for the Home Department, British House of Commons, October 3, 1938 after the Munich Pact

The difficult and dangerous time arrived this week for the United States when its Nato ally Turkey and supposed Latin American friend Brazil provided the Teheran Tyranny a fig leave to continue its drive for nuclear primacy in the Middle East.

As the Heritage Foundation´s blog, The Foundry, notes: "[The agreement] would only deflate the perceived urgency of imposing sanctions on Iran while allowing Tehran to advance its nuclear weapons program with impunity."

Thus, Iran will have nuclear weapons and the ballistic missiles to deliver them to Tel Aviv and Washington. It is astonishing that this is an acceptable toll for Washington to pay.

 The West has failed just as GSM forecast in its Net Assessment: Iran last year.

In the short run, the US Administration´s pusillanimous policy toward Iran, best qualified as "Sanctions or Bust," is at a dead end.

While headlines speak of Russia and China aboard, there is little chance enough UN Security Council members will vote for any sanctions given the Turkey nuclear fuel swap deal.

Some policy wonks actually believe in the Teheran Tyranny´s peaceful intentions. No, Ms. Slavin, Iran cannot deliver on a deal it reneged on before. 

Iran has no peaceful intentions. The Teheran Tyranny has not engaged in deceit, deception, and duplicity to just throw away an expensive public and hidden nuclear program. Terror, Inc. is not building longer-range ballistic missiles for a rainy day.

The rogue regime in Teheran is dead serious in continuing to inflict as much harm as possible against the Israel and the United States and their allies and interests. To believe otherwise is beyond naive.

As a young John F. Kennedy wrote before World War II after the failed Munich Pact:  "Appeasement was, therefore, as I have said, partly based on the mistaken belief that peace might be achieved by concession but it was also a realistic hard-headed policy of playing for time."

For freedom lovers worldwide, that time is nearly up. A nuclear Iran is a game-changer in the global security calculus.

As like Munich, paper-mache charades like the nuclear deal brokered by Turkey and Brazil with the Iranian dictatorship does not prevent war, but make it more certain. 
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