WARNING ON IRAN – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 9:47 A.M. ET:  This worry has been expressed by a number of political observers in the United States, and is well articulated by Newsmax, quoting the Times of London: 

President Barack Obama's hope to turn Iran's President Hassan Rouhani "into a friendly ally in the fight against Islamic State" could lead him to undertake "the single most reckless act of 2015" and cut a bad nuclear weapons deal with Teheran, The Times of London editorialized on January 1.

The newspaper agreed that "a deal that places Iran significantly farther away from developing a nuclear bomb is clearly attractive."

It cautioned that the "weakened American leader" could turn to foreign policy to justify his 2009 Nobel peace prize.

"If he does so, it has to have at its heart a sense of what the West considers to be worth fighting for and worth preserving."

The Times warned that "Europe has a tendency to turn inwards, the UN is too often rendered impotent by Moscow and Beijing and NATO summits have degenerated into fundraising events."

It was time to rethink these institutions which were constructed for a different age, said the editorial.

"If the idea of the 'West' is to retain meaning, then its leaders have to find ways of acting together to limit the power and influence of expansionist dictators. It must find coherent responses rather than purely reflexive strategies towards marauding terrorist armies."

COMMENT:  Well said.  We are moving toward the moment of truth with Iran, and the president's recent record includes reckless attacks on police and an open appeasement of Cuban dictators. 

And it isn't only Obama we have to worry about.  There is a faction within the Republican Party, or at least using the Republican Party, led by Rand Paul, that is actually to the left of Obama on foreign policy. 

We have dangerous days ahead.  And a president out of control, with nothing to lose.

January 2,  2015