Cause & Effect

I swear to you, folks, it's almost like pushing a button:

Today White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Iran's "recent missile test validated Obama's decision to switch from a missile defense system in Eastern Europe targeting long-range Iranian missiles to a program concerned more with short and medium range Iranian ballistics."

And even while Beltway Bob was gibbering like a trained seal:

Iranian state television said the Revolutionary Guards, which controls Iran’s missile program, successfully tested upgraded versions of the medium-range Shihab-3 and Sajjil-2 missiles. Both can carry nuclear warheads and can reach up to 2,000 kilometers, putting Israel, U.S. military bases in the Middle East, and parts of Europe within striking distance.

Oh, but don't worry, "Obama’s a genius, we’re holding all the cards, and today’s tests are likely just a peevish little expression of machismo ahead of Iranian concessions at nuclear talks this week."

Obama's no "genius," but it beggars belief that he could be this willfully obtuse.  I'm telling you, there's more going on here than just Carteresque naivete.  Barack Obama wants the mullahs to get nuclear weapons and ICBMs, because his idea of a "balance of power" is to make sure that we can NEVER remove the Islamic regime in Tehran, and that Israel will no longer be the only nuclear power in the Middle East.

And perhaps a further goal that would be more...."final".