Neo-​​Neo Droll re: Obama Moll

Break­ing news from Neo-​​Neocon:

Did you know that Iran will back down?

You heard it here first—from Valerie Jar­rett, Obama aide and for­eign pol­icy expert extraordinaire:

NOTE: Jar­rett has an inter­est­ing history.

Neo goes on to fur­ther note

A lawyer, most of her expe­ri­ence has been as a mover and shaker in local Chicago demo­c­ra­tic pol­i­tics, and she was an early friend, sup­porter, and booster of Obama. But she was born in 1956 in Iran

and

She lived there for the first five years of her life, and learned Per­sian as well as French when she was a child.

Of course, none of this sheds any light on just why ABC News is inter­view­ing her about for­eign affairs or why she feels qual­i­fied to make the cat­e­gor­i­cal asser­tion men­tioned in Neo’s title:

Iran will back down.

Ms. Jar­rett works for the Pen­ta­gon? The State Department?

Well, no.

Ms. Jar­rett stud­ied Inter­na­tional Rela­tions? His­tory? Mil­i­tary History?

Well, no.

Then why is ABC ask­ing Valerie Jar­rett about what the Ira­ni­ans are going to do with their nukes? And how can she be so con­fi­dent that she answers unam­bigu­ously They will back down?

Ah! Wikipedia sez

Jar­rett grad­u­ated from North­field Mount Her­mon, a New Eng­land board­ing school, in 1974. She earned a B.A. in Psy­chol­ogy from Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity in 1978, and a Juris Doc­tor (J.D.) from the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan Law School in 1981.

Not a lot of strate­gic for­eign affairs expe­ri­ence there.  Let’s try the White House.

Their web site is a lit­tle con­fus­ing, because it looks like she was work­ing for com­pet­ing par­ties at the same time, but basi­cally it says she worked for The Habi­tat Com­pany, the Richie Daley admin­is­tra­tion, the Chicago Stock Exchange, was a Direc­tor of the Fed­eral Reserve Bank of Chicago for 4 months, and helped get Obama elected.

You know, an evil cynic such as, oh, me, might be tempted to sug­gest that the rea­son Obama picked Valerie to make such an unsup­ported asser­tion just might be that, should she be com­pletely, dis­as­trously wrong, while it would be very bad for the coun­try as a whole, it would do no dam­age to Ms. Jarrett’s for­eign and strate­gic affairs rep­u­ta­tion, because she has none, and then Obama could solemnly swear that next time he’d ask peo­ple who knew what they were talk­ing about.

Oh! Right.  Neo notes that Jar­rett lived in Iran until she was Five (5). Years. Old.

On that note, I have a nom­i­nee for the Food and Drug Administration.

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Tags: Experience, Foreign Affairs, Iran, Nuclear, Obama, Valerie Jarrett