The Patriot Post® · Iran Is Not a Friend

To combat the advance of the ISIL, the United States has turned to the enemy of her enemy: Iran. The U.S. sent 275 troops to protect its embassy (a lesson learned from Benghazi?) and Iran deployed its Revolutionary Guard to fight the ISIL. The two countries spoke briefly and Obama officials hope the crisis will thaw their relationship, making the American mistake of forgetting wrongs quicker than the enemy. Yet Iran has responded coldly. In an editorial, The Wall Street Journal observed, “This outreach to Iran smacks mostly of strategic desperation. It is what an Administration does when it realizes its policy has failed and the damage to U.S. interests is becoming too obvious to hide from the American public. [Obama’s] abdication on Syria created a mecca for jihadists and his total withdrawal from Iraq created a vacuum for regional sectarians and Iran to fill.” In the Middle East game of cutthroat, Obama has put on a blindfold and stumbled right into the middle. More…