I have a reputation on this forum for bashing President Obama and have had that for years. It is a totally undeserved reputation because I criticize his polices a lot, but you will never find me joining in on these posts with simple little cracks about him. I didnt like the cheap shots on President Bush and I actually dont like them on here.

I say all of that because I am sincerely concerned about the direction in the middle east and how our country is reacting.

This post will criticize both Republicans and Democrats and the President.

I have made clear that I believe the Iran deal is a disaster. Not because President Obama made the deal, but because it flies in the face of EVERYTHING he said in the past, and I believe in my heart that he and Valerie Jarret, etc. are lying by omission at the minimum on the secret deals with the IAEA. The leaked deal from the AP was met with such high minded comments, including calling them a forgery, but now it is admitted it was real. Iran WILL in fact do their own testing at Parchin and I think that alone should allow for the american public to be so very upset. What might be in those other side deals ?

And remember the only reason we know ANYTHING about these side deals is that they were accidentely found out on a visit from two Republican congressman, and they were told (Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Representative Mike Pompeo (R., Kans.) and these two men were told they could not share it with anyone in the US government.

Funny thing...ONE WEEK LATER, the WH is advising congress about these deals and telling them they do not know what is in them but cannnot share anything else. ONE WEEK AFTER the deals were found by accident. OR WE KNOW NOTHING.

BUT NOW, the Republican Party is fighting this deal but doing so in a very polite manner. Again, they have been out politicked by the President, something I will tell everyone that he is very very good at. Why they are not attacking him is beyond me.

In this weekends Wall St Journal, there is an editorial wondering two things...

Why are not the Republicans putting pressure on the WH.....

and

Why is not the WH sharing information that they have.

It seems when the raid was down on Bin Ladens hideaway, papers were found, a real treasure trove it seems. In those papers there were details of the tie between and cooperation between Al Queda and Iran.

When the administration was trying to keep pressure on the sanctions with Iran, they released little dribs and drabs but enough to put together a bit of a picture.

In the report on 9/11 there was this quote talking about Iran and the attack on our soil....

"“there is strong evidence that Iran facilitated the transit of al Qaeda members into and out of Afghanistan before 9/11, and that some of these were future 9/11 hijackers.”

So the tie is strong and yet the Republicans are not demanding that the papers be made public or at minimum shared with congress about the relationship between Iran and Al Queda.

This is the link to this weekends article....

The Bin Laden Papers - WSJ

So we have a deal that will go forward with Iran, the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. We have the Russians building airfields (PERMANENT) in Syria and flying in arms over Iran to Syria. We have information that the WH has information garnered from the Bin Laden raid that supposedly might spoil the Iran deal being kept secret, and there is a report out today that Al Queda is reaching out to ISIS to join forces.

Al Qaeda's al-Zawahiri to ISIS: We can work together - CNN.com

Many liberal posters will make fun of me for sure. They use the sarcasm as if I am practicing "the sky is falling" but I am legitametly concerned about the ME and how this "perfect storm" is setting up.

This is not like WW2 or any other struggle in the past where we had the luxury of geographical location keeping people from our front door. Not only do we have our own immigrant problem, those countries I just mentioned are sending refugees by the many thousands out to various countries and you know they will end up here.

There are so many warning signs and yet our President does not even acknowledge them.

To me this is serious and not worthy of useless one liners. I suggest we read and understand what is developing in the ME.

This is one time I hope my fears are unfounded.