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| Blumenthal and Murphy |
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy is being touted by the progressive media as a possible secretary of state in the -- inevitable? -- presidential administration of Hunter Biden’s dad, Joe Biden.
Perhaps because he is a home state lad, Connecticut’s press has tended to speak of Murphy in the reverential tones formerly reserved for
such giants of international diplomacy as John Foster Dulles, President Dwight
Eisenhower’s Secretary of State, who is credited, according to The Department of State Office of the
Historian, with solidifying a “general
consensus in U.S. policy that peace could be maintained through the containment
of communism.”
Any sound foreign policy negotiator
will tell you that, as a general rule, it’s best to negotiate with an enemy
that had been defeated and, even then, negotiations, particularly if they
involve multi- nations, may conspicuously fail. Such was the case with Germany
after both World Wars. Germany bowed to the terms of surrender following its
defeat in World War 1, but the terms dictated were such as to pave the way for
the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, while the terms of surrender following World
War II benefited Stalinist Russia, which occupied half of Germany during the
post-war years until the Berlin Wall came tumbling down in 1989.
However, it is
nearly impossible, history convincingly demonstrates, to negotiate successfully
with an undefeated enemy. In the ancient world, Sparta and Athens negotiated
for thirty years before the Peloponnesian War was brought to a conclusion by a
Spartan victory. Spartan terms were lenient enough to permit, much later, a
cultural and military victory of Athens over Sparta.
Democrats have somehow got it into their heads that Western powers -- mostly Christian, placidly pacific, and averse, in the post-modern world, to colonization -- can successfully negotiate with Iran, a nation dominated by Shia Islamic warriors who seek to achieve the peace of Islam through the sword of Mohammed. Peace with Iran can be accomplished only when its enemies such as “The Great Satan” -- i.e. the whole of Western civilization -- submits unconditionally to Islam, religiously, culturally and militarily. It is nearly impossible under these circumstances to negotiate successfully with Iran, a country that aims to position itself in the Middle East as a dominant theocratic and militaristic power.
Iran’s numerically
superior Sunni neighbors know this; Israel, which the mullahs in Iran have
vowed to push into the sea, knows this; and every thoughtful politician who is
willing to learn from history in order to avoid making the same insane mistakes
over and over again knows this.
During the latter
part of his first term in office, “lead from behind” President Barack Obama
negotiated a deal with Iran that, according to pre-second-term-campaign
puffery, would result in a delay on the part of Iran of the production of
fissionable material.
For its part, Iran
agreed to sign a Neville Chamberlain like document swearing on a stack of
Korans to put off for a time the production of nuclear missile technology, in
return for… what?
Part of the deal
involved a late night secret shipment of $1.3
billion in cash
to Iran, a boodle that Iran no doubt disbursed to its terrorist proxies in
Syria and Lebanon. The best way to achieve a temporary concordat with Islam on
the march, Obama correctly realized, was to pay the mullahs off. And he did –
handsomely. In November of 2012, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were
re-elected to a second term. During the same election, Murphy was hoisted into
the U.S. Senate to join his Democrat colleague, Dick Blumenthal, first elected in
2010.
Pro-Obama Democrats have not denounced these secret payments. Was Murphy's meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif during a Munich Security Conference a secret meeting? The meeting, also attended by former Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry, was news to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “If they met,” Pompeo said in answer to reporters’ questions, “I don’t know what they said. I hope they were reinforcing America’s foreign policy and not their own.”
Murphy, who acknowledged
he had met with Zarif several times before, had used “a back channel
facilitator to set up the meeting with the Iranian leader,” according to a
story published at the time in a Hearst
paper. A Murphy aide later said the State Department may have been “aware
of Murphy’s interest in the meeting” because Murphy’s office had “informed the
U.S. Embassy in Germany that Murphy was (all emphasis mine) potentially interested in meeting with Zarif in Munich. The
embassy said it could not set up the meeting and Murphy would need to find
another facilitator, Murphy’s staff said.”
President Donald Trump – who cannot
be trusted at a barbeque because he has history of overdoing the meat as well as his rhetoric – accused
Murphy of violating the Logan Act, a burnt to a crisp charge much overdone.
Even so, Murphy,
masterful in foreign policy, should be asked, sometime before he is appointed
as Secretary of State in a Biden administration, whether he would be pleased if
Republican politicians were to arrange secret meetings with Iranians that might
disturb delicate negotiations between the Great Satan and Iranian mullahs
pledged to push the Great Satan and Israel into the sea.
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