Pretend it is 2015.
Pretend it is when then-President Barack Obama decided it would be a great idea to strike a “deal” with Iran, allowing it to create a nuclear capability (for peaceful reasons, of course; after all they said so) and sending its leaders $150 billion dollars that had, until then, been frozen/out of their reach.
Now Pretend then-Senator Marco Rubio had this to say about it:
“I do want to be recorded for history’s purposes before I know what is going to happen in regards to this if it goes through. Iran will immediately use the money that it’s receiving in sanctions relief to begin to build up its conventional capabilities.
“It will establish the most dominant military power in the region outside of the United States and it will raise the price of us operating in the region. They’re going to build anti-access capabilities, rockets capable of destroying our aircraft carriers and ships. They’ll continue to build these swift boats that are able to come on us, these fast boats that are able to swarm our naval assets. And they’ll make it harder and harder for U.S. troops to be in the region.
“They’ll also work with other terrorist groups in the region to target American servicemen and women. And they may or may not deny that they’re involved, but they will target us and raise the price of our presence in the Middle East until they hope to completely pull us out of that region. They’ll also continue to build long-range missiles, missiles capable of reaching the United States.
“Those are not affected by this deal. And they’ll continue to build them as they’ve been doing. And then at some point in the near future, when the time is right, they will build a nuclear weapon.
“And they will do so because at that point they will know that they have become immune, that we will no longer be able to strike their nuclear program because the price of doing so will be too high. This is not just a work of imagination. It exists in the world today.
“And never in the history of the world has such a regime ever possessed weapons so capable of destruction. Iran is led by a supreme leader who is a radical Shia cleric with an apocalyptic vision of the future. He is not a traditional geopolitical actor who makes decisions on the basis of borders or simply history, or because of ambitions. He has a religious apocalyptic vision of the future. One that calls for triggering a conflict between the non-Muslim world and the Muslim world. One that he feels especially obligated to trigger.”
“And he’s going to possess nuclear weapons? This is the world that we are on the verge of leaving our children to inherit. And perhaps we ourselves will have to share in it. And so I want to be recorded for history’s purposes, if nothing else, to say that those of us who opposed this deal understood where it would lead.”
If Senator Rubio had said those things, he would have been 100% correct. He read Iran perfectly.
Now let’s stop pretending. Let’s be real.
And, y’know what? In reality, that is exactly what Obama did…and that is exactly what then-Senator Rubio said about it. Here’s the video.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have someone with foresight like this (and a great deal more) in the oval office?
