Conservative activist and publisher Steve Forbes, brushing back White House efforts to smear House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress, charges that the president’s team is out to destroy the “Churchill of our time.”
Writing in an online column for his business magazine, Forbes said, “The president has made clear his intense dislike of Israel’s prime minister and his refusal to keep quiet about Obama’s desire to conclude a Neville Chamberlain-like deal with Tehran. In a flagrant interference in another country’s election, Obama operatives are working hard in Israel to help bring down the courageous prime minister.”
Boehner’s invitation was his first move this year in challenging Obama’s foreign policy and bid to cut a deal with Iran over nuclear weapons. Netanyahu has been urging caution and believes the White House is moving too fast — and too naively.
Forbes agrees. “The basic problem is that the Obama administration wants a deal – any deal – with Tehran and the other parties to the talks are willing to go along in order to snag business contracts with Iran, oblivious to the implications of a radical regime that will be in the position to get the bomb anytime it wants,” he wrote.
“President Obama is either oblivious to all this or feels that in his perverted worldview, these things don’t much matter. Iran knows Obama desperately wants an agreement. It figures that the more it refuses to accept Obama’s willingness to surrender, the more concessions he will offer,” he said.
His full column can be seen here.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
