Mixed messages from the guy sitting in our White House. Obama talks tough but does NOTHING to slow Iran's pursuit of a nuclear bomb.

Editor's notes: from the Wall Street Journal, we have a story that reminds the reader of Obama's misguided Iranian, anti-Semitic, Middle Eastern policy. In the end, talk talk talk is over-shadowed by the deeds of this Administration. Two areas of concern for those of us on the Obama Watch include his failures in the economic arena and the evolving sadness that is his foreign policy. It is becoming clear that Obama will be THE President who watched the beginning of the death of Israel.

The free and fair world simply cannot allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. We ask this question: How is the cause of world peace benefited by placing a nuclear weapon in the hands of a suicidal leadership bent on the destruction of not only Israel but all of the non-Muslim world?

Rather than taking a position of leadership, Obama and Hillary Clinton are hiding behind the non-consequential efforts of a pacifist UN community. While pacifism has its place in the advancement of the Christan faith (there really is no such thing as a "Christian militia"), it has no place in the world of politics.

Why Pacifism Works for the Church but not for World Governments

How can this be? Really, the answer is quite obvious. The Christian Faith is rooted in and borne of a God who is transcendent when it comes to time and history. Death is not the enemy of faith and we have thousands of years proving this point. In fact, the greater the opposition, the faster the growth of the Christian Faith.

This scenario is not true for the nations of this world. The United States participates in history via the propagation of its own history. While Christianity is birthed of a transcendence that is not of itself, nations are just the opposite. Nations are purely physical realities, having no innate ability to extend themselves beyond death/destruction as does the Christian faith. During the same period of time the Judeao/Christian reality was adding to its historical presence, past political regimes such as ancient Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome and modern day political imperial efforts such as Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Uganda, Bosnia, have all seen destruction.

Because the Kingdom of God transcends time and persecution, "peace" and "salvation" survive. While God is Lord of our World, his is not at the center of any world government - including the United States. Don't misunderstand, he (God) blesses nations from time to time, but he is NOT the author and finisher of any particular secular society. If he were, the message of secular society would be precisely the same as the message of the Church --- jds.

Here is the WSJ's article - a documentation of the mess that is our Iranian foreign policy.

'Our aim is not incremental sanctions, but sanctions that will bite." Thus did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seek to reassure the crowd at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee two weeks ago about the Obama Administration's resolve on Iran. Three days later, this newspaper reported on its front page that "the U.S. has backed away from pursuing a number of tough measures against Iran" in order to win Russian and Chinese support for one more U.N. sanctions resolution.

This fits the pattern we have seen across the 14 months of the Obama Presidency. Mrs. Clinton called a nuclear-armed Iran "unacceptable" no fewer than four times in a single paragraph in her AIPAC speech. But why should the Iranians believe her? President Obama set a number of deadlines last year for a negotiated settlement of Iran's nuclear file, all of which Tehran ignored, and then Mr. Obama ignored them too.

In his latest Persian New Year message to Iran, Mr. Obama made the deadline-waiver permanent, saying "our offer of comprehensive diplomatic contacts and dialogue stands." Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had a quick rejoinder. "They say they have extended a hand to Iran," the Iranian President said Saturday, "but the Iranian government and nation declined to welcome that."

The Iranians have good reason to think they have little to lose from continued defiance. Tehran's nuclear negotiator emerged from two days of talks in Beijing on Friday saying, "We agreed, sanctions as a tool have already lost their effectiveness." He has a point.

The Chinese have indicated that the most they are prepared to support are narrow sanctions on Iran's nuclear program of the type Tehran has already sneered at. As the Journal's Peter Fritsch and David Crawford reported this weekend, the Iranians continue to acquire key nuclear components from unsuspecting Western companies via intermediaries, including some Chinese firms