by Al Bienenfeld, American Thinker:
As Barack Obama slowly fades from the landscape, let’s consider how he has helped to destroy Western civilization, especially the United States of America. He did this via his fealty to Iran, which allowed unchecked, deadly drug trafficking into America while giving Iran the time, space, and funds to develop its nuclear weapons.
The Obama Administration killed hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing the Iran-founded and funded terrorist organization Hezbollah to operate in the Western Hemisphere, where it built a narco-terror network that shipped illegal drugs into this country. The Middle Eastern threat is now below our southern border, something obvious as far back as 2011:
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Over the last several years Hezbollah and its patrons in Iran have greatly expanded their operations in Latin America to the detriment of inter-American security and U.S. strategic interests. Today, Hezbollah is using the Western Hemisphere as a staging ground, fundraising center, and operational base to wage asymmetric warfare against the United States. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and other anti-American governments in the region have facilitated this expansion by rolling out the welcome mats for Hezbollah and Iran.
Thirteen years ago, it was estimated that Iran/Hezbollah was remitting $300-$500 million annually to Middle East terrorists. By 2017, that number was believed to be $1 billion or double the 2011 take. Their profits were derived from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering, and other criminal activities.
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Beginning in 2008 and for the next eight years, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) ran Project Cassandra, an investigation into these activities. In 2017’s “The Secret Backstory of How Obama Let Hezbollah Off the Hook,” Josh Meyer explained that the Obama administration interfered with an ultimately blocked the DEA’s efforts to neutralize these operations:
In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.
Over the next eight years, agents working out of a top-secret DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, used wiretaps, undercover operations and informants to map Hezbollah’s illicit networks, with the help of 30 U.S. and foreign security agencies.
They followed cocaine shipments, some from Latin America to West Africa and on to Europe and the Middle East, and others through Venezuela and Mexico to the United States. They tracked the river of dirty cash as it was laundered by, among other tactics, buying American used cars and shipping them to Africa. And with the help of some key cooperating witnesses, the agents traced the conspiracy, they believed, to the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Iran.
After all this effort, though, Obama’s Justice Department declined to prosecute major players. For example, Hezbollah’s envoy to Iran, a Lebanese bank that laundered billions in drug money and that was a central figure in a U.S.-based cell of the Iranian Quds force, got a pass.
If you read the 65-page report highlighted in the Politico article, you can readily understand that the United States missed a great opportunity to either dismantle Hezbollah’s Western Hemisphere operations or dramatically curtail them. The reason for America’s passivity was Obama’s 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, the real purpose of which was to pad the President’s resume with a fake foreign policy achievement and threaten Israel.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans died from drug overdoses because the Obama administration freed Hezbollah to operate, which it now does in conjunction with Mexican cartels and China. In my opinion, this was willful mass murder, which President Barack Obama sanctioned.
The reality, which Obama may or may not have recognized, is that Iran is our enemy. Its leaders have repeatedly called for our destruction. In 2023, the Tehran leadership announced, “Death to America is not a slogan. It is policy.”
Iran and its proxies have attacked and killed American soldiers and citizens of our ally, Israel, and interfered with the world’s shipping, undermining Western economies. We should never forget how Iran’s revolutionaries held and tortured 53 American hostages at our embassy in Tehran from 1979-1981. We should never forget that Hezbollah killed 241 American troops killed in 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon. Allowing Iran to profit from illegal drug trafficking that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans should be impermissible, even for a theoretical “higher purpose.”
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