When the "president" is the enemy

The list of Gitmo detainee releases without any quid pro quo is lengthy and shameful.  Among others, there are the savages we sent to Uruguay, where they're free to do what they damn well please, including head back to the middle east.  There were the five released to Oman and Estonia earlier this month.

And, of course, there was Bowe Berghdal, he of the parents who stood with the Most Equal Comrade in the Rose Garden and who was exchanged for five vicious jihadists. He's been charged by the Army with desertion.  Not exactly an even exchange.  Actually, the charge happened a while back.  Why are we just finding out about it now?

 . . . the White House is stonewalling the Army’s charges on Bergdahl of desertion. Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser, has been a liaison between the Pentagon and the White House and has led the effort to keep this news from getting out.

Senior ranking military officials said two weeks ago that they would release the ruling soon. Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer referred to the White House’s efforts as a “titanic struggle behind the scenes.”

“As a corporate entity, the Army has decided that they want to pursue Bergdahl for this violation,” Shaffer said. 

The delay in releasing the charges against Bergdahl could stem from when the five Taliban members released were never briefed by Army officials. The White House just wants to make the situation to go away.

 Then there's the dog vomit the MEC spewed at the SOTU address about halting Iran's nuke-program progress and making post-America and Israel more secure.

"Dog vomit" a little over-the-top, you may be thinking?  Consider these five ways Iran is cheating on what it supposedly has agreed to so far:

1. Trying to buy equipment for plutonium reactor at Arak, breaking commitment to suspend work. The Obama administration actually complained about the purchases to the UN Security Council, even as it told the world that Iran had “lived up to its end of the bargain.” Iran’s defense–adopted to some extent by the State Department, which is desperate to save the talks–is that the agreement did not apply to work offsite, or to onsite work unrelated to the reactor.

2. Feeding uranium hexafluoride gas into a plant where it had agreed to suspend nuclear enrichment. The Institute for Science and International Security noted that Iran had begun enrichment at the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant at Natanz. It notified the Obama administration, which complained to the Iranians, which then claimed to have stopped the enrichment activity. Whether that is true or not, this is another case of the Obama administration knowing Iran cheated.

3. Withholding camera footage of nuclear facilities, defying the International Atomic Energy Agency.  A leading International Atomic Energy Agency official recently said the agency was “not in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran” (original emphasis). The interim deal was to provide surveillance footage of Iranian nuclear facilities–but Iran has only provided what it wants to reveal.

4. Testing new IR-8 centrifuges, advancing its enrichment program and making cheating much easier. A violation of the spirit, if not also the letter, of the agreement, the development of a new centrifuge that can work sixteen times fasterthan its first-generation centrifuges would make cheating far easier and verification far more difficult. The new device essentially nullifies the verification process agreed to in the interim deal (and which Obama promises to expand).

5. Exporting more energy than allowed under the interim agreement, blunting residual sanctions. The deal capped Iran’s exports of crude oil to 1 million barrels per day. But early on, Iran was already breaking that agreement, according to the International Energy Agency–nearly doubling the allowed amount. That means the effect of remaining sanctions has been seriously undermined, meaning Iran has broken the interim deal and reduced its need for another.

The MEC is so consumed with his self-image as history's greatest embodiment of the power to achieve global unity that he will permit post-American cities to get incinerated.  It's not a matter of a mere lack of patriotism.  He holds the country he rules in utter disdain.

If the MEC really gave a flying diddly about national security, we wouldn't be facing this:

The former vice chief of staff of the Army warned the Senate Armed Services Committee today that al-Qaeda has “grown fourfold in the last five years.”

“AQ and its affiliates exceeds Iran in beginning to dominate multiple countries,” retired four-star Gen. Jack Keane testified.

And three days of ISIS-supporter Twitter threats on US domestic flights.