BIDEN'S BLUNDER – BUT IS ANYONE WATCHING? – OVERNIGHT:  The Biden administration is moving quickly to return the United States to the failed foreign policy of Saint Barack the First, who seems to be the guiding light behind the Biden presidency.  From Dailywire: 

Top former U.S. officials and national security experts slammed Democrat President Joe Biden late on Thursday following his administration signaling that it was willing to re-enter talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, to pursue a nuclear deal.

State Department spokesman Ned Price said that Biden administration would “accept an invitation from the European Union High Representative to attend a meeting of the P5+1 and Iran to discuss a diplomatic way forward on Iran’s nuclear program.”

The Washington Free Beacon reported that Iran has increasingly acted aggressively with its nuclear program, stockpiling large quantities of enriched uranium, installing advanced nuclear centrifuges, and blocking international investigators from monitoring its actions.

Left-leaning Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin wrote that the move from Biden comes after alleged Iranian backed terrorists attacked U.S. forces in Iraq earlier this week — to which Biden still does not appear to have responded.

“Other Iranian proxies, such as the Houthis in Yemen, are not rewarding Biden’s more diplomatic approach with restraint — responding to outreach with new attacks on civilians,” Rogin wrote. “Meanwhile, the leaders in Tehran are acting as if they have all the leverage, making demands and escalating their nuclear brinkmanship.”

Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who also served as Trump’s secretary of state, told the Free Beacon that the Trump administration “refused” to “appease the Iranian theocracy.”

“The Ayatollah understands only strength,” Pompeo said. “I led a response to the Iranian threat that protected the American people from its terror and supported the Jewish state of Israel. Adopting the European Union model of accommodation will guarantee Iran a path to a nuclear arsenal.”

Nationally security expert Tim Morrison, who was on Trump’s National Security Council and is currently a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, told The Daily Wire in a statement that the Biden administration was giving up all leverage as it tried to restart the “dangerously flawed” deal.

COMMENT:  A bad move, but expected.  Appeasing Iran is just what the Obama crowd ordered, and is popular with the militant, anti-Israel left of the Democratic Party.  It is not popular with America's friends in the Mideast, Arab and Israeli alike, who regard Iran as an existential threat. 

In a way, it's crazy, rewarding Iran for cheating on the nuclear agreement and wreaking havoc throughout the region.  American allies around the world are watching this absurd maneuver, and undoubtedly asking what kind of a friend America would really be in a crisis. 

The European Union is pleased.  That should scare the hell out of any sane American.

February 18, 2021