What the President's Reaction to Dr. Gates Tells us about the Future of Iranian Nuclear Weapons

It is disturbing that the President chose to play the race card so quickly over the Gates-gate affair. That he failed to even consider the alternative (e.g. Dr. Gates was responsible for the hub-bub) speaks to a world-view in which facts play a very small role.

To call out the Cambridge Police department as "...acting stupidly..." would seem to indicate an eagerness to embrace comfortable stereotypes. The very sort of stereotype which he implied was applied by the Police. Irony is seldom this thick.

I bring this up as the government of Israel as made it very clear that they will not allow Iran to build a nuclear bomb.

Since taking office the President has gone out of his way to make nice with Middle-Eastern despotic dictatorships to include senior-level visits by himself, Secretary Clinton and Secretary Gates. He seems unable to be challenging of any middle-Eastern leader who isn't the Prime Minister of Israel.

Given the Israel's stand vis-a-vis Iranian nuclear weapons and Iran's stated goals: a bloody outcome is all but certain.

Failure of the Obama administration to acknowledge the long-term relationship between the U.S. and the regions only democracy is a shift with possibly calamitous consequences. It certainly sends the wrong message to BOTH Israel and its Holocaust-denying neighbors.

Much like the issue with Dr. Gates, Mr. Obama is quick with his Middle-East stereotype, has his views and appears reluctant to allow facts to alter his position.

Bottom line: Supporting the only Middle-Eastern democracy is critical to the United States. And this is increasingly NOT in the cards of the Obama administration.