The reason why the US is being hoodwinked by Islamo-snake oil salesmen, is that they do not learn from history. They shun actual knowledge in favor of fantasy.
Iran Fiasco: John Quincy Adams Knew Jihad, John Kerry Does Not
Expatriate Iranian journalist Amir Taheri has written an intriguing — and essential — “linguistic” analysis comparing the various diplomatic “framework” statements at the conclusion of the latest round of the deadline-challenged Iranian nuclear negotiations. The discordances range from nuanced but important grammatical differences in how the Persian text delineates Iranian versus U.S. responsibilities, to the Persian and U.S. texts being “diametrically opposed.”
It is these latter starkly contrasting representations that merit elaboration. As Taheri describes:
- The U.S. declaration maintains Iran has consented not to use advanced centrifuges (i.e., the IR-2m centrifuges, which, as nuclear weapons non-proliferation expert Olli Heinonen has reported, are operated in Iranian hands at about seven times the capacity of the older generation IR-1 centrifuges). The Iranian text asserts that “on the basis of solutions found, work on advanced centrifuges (ostensibly, even faster than the IR-2ms) shall continue on the basis of a 10-year plan.”
- Despite the American text’s claim that Iran will dismantle the core of the heavy water, plutonium-generating reactor in Arak, the Iranian text states, in 180-degree opposition, the facility will not only be kept intact but will undergo updating and modernization.
- Notwithstanding U.S. assertions that “the Iranian nuclear project and its military-industrial offshoots would be put under a kind of international tutelage for 10, 15 or even 25 years,” this alleged timeline — and oversight — are absent from the Persian, as well as the Italian and French text summaries of the “framework” agreement.
- While the U.S. articulates a phased process of sanctions “relief,” Iran insists the sanctions would be “immediately terminated” upon announcement of a final accord.
- The U.S. text even avers, albeit “in an oblique reference,” to Iran’s joint nuclear weaponization/missile delivery development programs with North Korea, that Tehran has somehow “agreed to take measures to reassure the international community” on these military aspects of its nuclear project. But, “there is absolutely no echo of that in the Iranian and other non-American texts.”
Former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz has chronicled (see slide below) Iran’s burgeoning accumulation of low-level enriched uranium (LEU) on the Obama administration’s watch, since 2009 — enough to produce eight to eleven nuclear weapons.
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John Quincy Adams, a seminal architect of U.S. foreign policy as secretary of State and president, possessed remarkably clear, uncompromised understandings of Islam that apparently cannot penetrate the ignorant hubris of his distant successor, John Kerry. Essays Adams wrote while he was in retirement, before his election to Congress in 1830 (Chapters X-XIV, pp. 267-402, in The American Annual Register for 1827-28-29, New York, 1830), succinctly elucidated the permanent Islamic institutions of jihad war and dhimmitude, the latter being the deliberately humiliating imposition of Islamic law on those non-Muslims, who survived their jihad conquest. Regarding jihad, Adams states in his essay series:
… he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind … The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.
And Adams captured the essential condition imposed upon the non-Muslim dhimmi “tributaries” subjugated by jihad, with this laconic statement:
The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute.
Adams also drew the following unabashed distinction between the Christian theology of neighborly love—while acknowledging with full candor its imperfect practice—and Islam’s doctrinal, Koran-inspired fomenting of hatred toward non-Muslim infidels.
This appeal [citing a prototypical 19th century Ottoman Muslim Sultan’s edict to his Muslim votaries] to the natural hatred of the Mussulmen [Muslim] towards the infidels, is in just accordance with the precepts of the Koran.…The fundamental doctrine of the Christian religion, is the extirpation of hatred from the human heart. It forbids the exercise of it, even towards enemies. There is no denomination of Christians, which denies or misunderstands this doctrine. All understand it alike—all acknowledge its obligations; and however imperfectly, in the purposes of Divine Providence, its efficacy has been shown in the practice of Christians, it has not been wholly inoperative upon them. Its effect has been upon the manners of nations. It has mitigated the horrors of war – it has softened the features of slavery – it has humanized the intercourse of social life. The unqualified acknowledgement of a duty does not, indeed, suffice to insure its performance. Hatred is yet a passion, but too powerful upon the hearts of Christians. Yet they cannot indulge it, except by the sacrifice of their principles, and the conscious violation of their duties. No state paper from a Christian hand, could, without trampling the precepts of its Lord and Master, have commenced by an open proclamation of hatred to any portion of the human race. The Ottoman lays it down as the foundation of his discourse.
Finally, of most immediate, ongoing relevance to the current misguided Iranian nuclear negotiations charade, Adams warns even non-Muslim victors not to be too reassured:
… by a false and delusive promise of peace;… the faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective.
