{"id":262631,"date":"2016-08-19T12:59:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T12:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/jennifer-rubin-hillary-must-stop-peace-with-iran-at-all-costs\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T17:04:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T17:04:13","slug":"jennifer-rubin-hillary-must-stop-peace-with-iran-at-all-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/jennifer-rubin-hillary-must-stop-peace-with-iran-at-all-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Rubin: Hillary Must Stop Peace With Iran at All Costs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>After anxiously and incessantly angling for a hardcore neoconservative to take &#13;<br \/>\n  the Republican presidential nomination, the Washington Post\u2019s online blogger &#13;<br \/>\n  Jennifer Rubin has made the long journey home. Rebuffed by Republican voters &#13;<br \/>\n  who selected Donald Trump as their candidate, Rubin\u2019s gunpowder breath is now &#13;<br \/>\n  desperately seeking Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton\u2019s ear.<\/p>\n<p>Her message? This damned Iran deal is improving US\/Iran relations and that &#13;<br \/>\n  is completely intolerable. \u201cHillary: Please bomb something over there,\u201d Rubin &#13;<br \/>\n  screeches, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/right-turn\/wp\/2016\/08\/18\/how-clinton-can-clean-up-obamas-iran-mess\/?postshare=1711471541204615&amp;tid=ss_tw&amp;utm_term=.d5e09bcb258d\">her &#13;<br \/>\n  latest installment<\/a> of the neocon chronicles.<\/p>\n<p>Why is Rubin so hot and bothered? Well, Secretary of State John Kerry has dared &#13;<br \/>\n  to encourage some business investment in Iran after the nuclear deal has begun &#13;<br \/>\n  paying dividends in more stable relations. Doing business is always preferable &#13;<br \/>\n  to sanctions and blockades because it makes war less likely. Each side has too &#13;<br \/>\n  much to lose when there are economic interests at stake so each side will act &#13;<br \/>\n  with more caution. As when a <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2001\/apr\/02\/news\/mn-45841\">Chinese &#13;<br \/>\n  incident with a US spy plane<\/a> led the damaged US plane to land in China, &#13;<br \/>\n  yet both sides realized that economic relations were sufficiently important &#13;<br \/>\n  that the potentially volatile situation needed to be carefully walked back from &#13;<br \/>\n  the brink of conflict.<\/p>\n<p>War kills economic opportunities for the average people on both sides, but &#13;<br \/>\n  it also produces unique financial opportunities for the specially connected. &#13;<br \/>\n  Like the people around Jennifer Rubin.<\/p>\n<p>Rubin is given a little corner of Washington\u2019s \u201cpaper of record,\u201d but she is &#13;<br \/>\n  either so ill-formed when it comes to the basic situation in Syria that one &#13;<br \/>\n  wonders why she has such a platform when surely there are plenty of better-informed &#13;<br \/>\n  high school students who could fill the slot\u2026or she is purposely obfuscating &#13;<br \/>\n  from her little perch in which case the Washington Post is a witting party to &#13;<br \/>\n  her deception.<\/p>\n<p>For example she writes this:<\/p>\n<p><i>This week we have also learned that as many as 100,000 Iranian-backed militia<span> &#13;<br \/>\n  members are fighting in Iraq\u2026<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>But she does not inform her readers that these Iranian militia members are &#13;<br \/>\n  in fact fighting ISIS in Iraq. In other words, they are helping us defeat our &#13;<br \/>\n  sworn enemy. While Washington is pained to admit it, even John Kerry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/348825-kerry-iran-isis-helpful\/\">said<\/a> &#13;<br \/>\n  not long ago that having so many additional fighters taking on ISIS in Iraq &#13;<br \/>\n  is \u201chelpful\u201d to America\u2019s efforts to defeat ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>Rubin would clearly prefer an ISIS victory to accepting the assistance of an &#13;<br \/>\n  Iran that also views the establishment of an anti-Iranian jihadist Caliphate &#13;<br \/>\n  in its backyard an existential threat.<\/p>\n<p>Again Rubin plays fast and loose with the truth when she writes:<\/p>\n<p><i>Russia is expanding its alliance with Iran and influence in Syria in unprecedented &#13;<br \/>\n  ways. Russian planes are now taking off <\/i>directly from Iran<i> to bomb Syrian &#13;<br \/>\n  targets\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<p>What she does not tell us&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/daniel-mcadams\/2016\/08\/18\/jennifer-rubin-hillary-must-stop-peace-iran-costs\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After anxiously and incessantly angling for a hardcore neoconservative to take &#13; the Republican presidential nomination, the Washington Post\u2019s online blogger &#13; Jennifer Rubin has made the long journey home. Rebuffed by Republican voters &#13; who selected Donald Trump as their candidate, Rubin\u2019s gunpowder breath is now &#13; desperately seeking Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton\u2019s ear. 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