Trust

There is now a fourth biggest lie: "Trust us, we have your back."

Until recently, whether the U.S. was willing to admit it, the foreign policy it has exhibited toward Iran was one of "containment" (see: The Atlantic Article and Washington Post Article).  Basically what this policy said to this theist dictatorship was "OK you can get atomic weaponry, but if you use them, there will be hell to pay."  This policy was even overtly stated by our Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in 2009 when she said that the Middle East could be protected by the U.S.'s nuclear umbrella (see: Financial Times Comments, last paragraph).  Not surprisingly, this policy seems strategically silly and certainly catastrophic when one hears Iran's Ahmadinejad continually rant about his Armageddon ambitions (see: Human Events Article).

Now, Obama, feeling the tug of the upcoming elections and trying to hold onto the usually-reliable Jewish vote, has ask for more time to allow his "sanctions" to work.  Basically, in my opinion, this policy is an attempt to thread the needle between Iran containment and the Jewish-voters fleeing the Democrat ticket in droves.  Now, The Barry has the audacity to claim (apparently out of the other side of his mouth) that the U.S. policy toward Iran is not one of containment (see: Boston Herald Story).  The problem with his current posture is that most people breathing can see that it is opportunistic bluster ... and the President of the United States can't be trusted.

The Prime Minister of Israel, Netanyahu's recently-completed trip to the United States was, to me, his last ditch attempt to get the current administration to abandon our policy of containment and the notion that lily-liver sanctions will cause Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions.  My guess would be that Netanyahu hoped that he might get Obama to agree to crippling sanctions against Iran (closing down all bank transfers, stopping all gasoline imports, arming Iranian rebels, etc.) as the only hope for getting Iran to understand the gravity of the suicide track that it was on.  This Netanyahu plea, despite Obama's promise that the United States "has Israel's back," clearly did not sway Obama ... as our President repeatedly insisted that our current sanctions need more time to work. 

And, thus Israel is on its own to watch the clock tick down to its looming nuclear destruction while Obama continues to dither.  It will then do what it has to do to counter this "existential threat" ... and not trust the United States to have its back.