Psychosis refers to an abnormal condition of the
mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as
involving a "loss of contact with reality".
People with psychosis are described as psychotic. People experiencing
psychosis may exhibit some personality changes and thought
disorder. Depending on its severity, this may be accompanied by unusual or
bizarre behavior, as well as difficulty with social interaction and impairment in carrying
out daily life activities.
A regime might well be tyrannous and murderous, as Iran had
been since the return of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, but the better angels of
human nature might reassert themselves if embraced in a web of cooperation. It
was a big bet, given the history of Iran where the very word ‘democracy’ was
not used in Khomeini’s regime, with many hundreds executed and thousands
targeted for assassination in other countries. And the new Supreme Leader Ali
Khamenei had maintained that monstrous program for a time, even doubling the
rewards for assassinations. He interpreted Obama’s gesture as a weakness.
Six
months later, he was brutal in his suppression of the Green Revolution. He was
confirmed in his evaluation when the Obama administration failed to do more
than whimper. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said he now regrets their
restraint; they were advised by the CIA and the State Department that too
powerful an American voice might enable the regime to label the protesters as
American puppets. Maybe so, but the inertia was also an expression of the new
strategy of conciliation. Gates says the suppression of the Green Revolution
ended “most support inside the administration.” What it didn’t end was Obama’s
infatuation with his illusion of making Iran safe for democracy.
Khamenei’s appreciation of U.S. restraint was another bout
of fist-clenching, albeit in secrecy. `Only later did we discover that he had
built an underground bunker at Fordow for the enrichment of uranium, in
violation of the agreements under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Obama opened a secret bilateral channel to Mahmoud
Ahmedinejad’s regime, according to Mosaic’s Michael Doran. Major concessions
were offered on sanctions and permitting the Iranians to continue enriching
uranium to levels of 5 percent.
Six U.N. Security Council resolutions had
ordered Iran to cease all enrichment and reprocessing. Iran demanded the right
to enrich. In effect, Obama was prepared to end the economic sanctions on Iran
entirely and allow the Iranians to enrich uranium in perpetuity.
pathological lying has been defined as "falsification
entirely disproportionate to any discernible end in view, may be extensive and
very complicated, and may manifest over a period of years or even a
lifetime". The individual may be aware they are lying, or may believe they
are telling the truth, being unaware that they are relating fantasies.
Obama is such a captive of his own illusions about Iran that
he has been unable to be straight with the American people. In reporting
belatedly on the November 2013 interim agreement, he boasted it had “halted”
Iran’s nuclear program. In fact, major American concessions were traded for
Iranian gestures of temporary restraint, concessions that will likely never be
reversed. Instead of halting the Iranian program, the agreement froze only
American actions. Iranian nuclear engineers continued their work to improve the
efficiency of their centrifuges and to master the use of more effective
centrifuges.
National Suicide ( administrations frustration, focusing on small matters,
indecisiveness, easily distracted, trouble thinking)
Iranian foreign minister said no nuclear plant is being dismantled.
Here, too,
the administration has misled the public by underplaying the American concessions
and overplaying the Iranian commitment. The Iranian foreign minister blew a
hole in the smooth talk by defying an interviewer on television to find a
single word in the agreement that even closely resembled dismantling or could
be defined as dismantling in the entire text.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
went further. Iran had refused to destroy centrifuges, he said, and would never
destroy them under any circumstances, contrary to the implicit suggestion by
the administration that the final agreement would force the Iranians to
dismantle some 15,000 centrifuges.
In a speech delivered last month to commanders and other
personnel in the Iranian Air Force, whom he described as “officials who have
very sensitive occupations,” Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—Iran’s Supreme Leader
and commander in chief—boasted that Iran had enriched uranium to the 20-percent
level “Iran’s production of LEU enriched to the 20% level has caused concern because
such production requires approximately 90% of the effort necessary to produce
weapons-grade HEU.
The audience of Air Force commanders and other personnel responded to this
with a chant,
“Allah Akbar [God is great],” they chanted, according to the BBC
transcript. “Khamenei is the leader. Death to the enemies of the leadership.
Death to America. Death to England. Death to hypocrites. Death to Israel.”
The great Greek leader and historian Pericles once warned:
“What I fear more
than the strategies of our enemies is our own mistakes.”
* sources US News and World Report
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