Friday, September 25, 2009

A weak Obama is best for America, her allies and the world.

****There comes a point when the head of a state is so wrongheaded that the best one can hope for is his ineffectiveness so that he doesn't do irreversible damage before he can be got rid of. Rush Limbaugh was prescient in his expressed wish for "failure" in that early everything the current President turns to is polluted by his ideologies and those of the people around him. There is always a buggy, lunatic fringe and they seem to have come out of the woodwork in this administration. Not since Carter has there been such a plethora of bad ideas combined with execrable management ( sometimes a good thing since partially self-cancelling.)The whole problem of Iran was created out of whole cloth by Carter and his Igor, Zbig Brzezinski. The carryover is extraordinary: it just proves that some malefactors have to be buried at a crossroad with a silver stake in his heart.
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An enfeebled Obama Caroline Glick
If Zbigniew Brzezinski had his way, the US would go to war against Israel to defend Iran's nuclear installations....the man who served as former US president Jimmy Carter's national security adviser said, "They [IAF fighter jets] have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch? We have to be serious about denying them that right. If they fly over, you go up and confront them. They have the choice of turning back or not." Brzezinski has long distinguished himself as one of the most outspoken Israel-haters in polite circles in Washington. Under normal circumstances, his remarks could be laughed off as the ravings of a garden variety anti-Semite. But...Brzezinski served as a senior foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign, and his views are not terribly out of place among Obama's senior advisers in the White House. In an interview in 2002, Samantha Powers, who serves as a senior member of Obama's national security council, effectively called for the US to invade Israel in support of the Palestinians....Brzezinski's view is in line with the general disposition of Obama's foreign policy....Obama has struck a hard-line position against Israel while adopting a soft, even apologetic line toward Iran and its allies....Obama conditioned the resumption of negotiations toward peace between Israel and the Palestinians on such a prohibition of Jewish building and so encouraged Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas to further radicalize his positions toward Israel....Obama made no equivalent demands of the Palestinians. He did not precondition talks on freezing illegal Arab construction in Jerusalem, or on dismantling the Aksa Martyrs Brigades terrorist group, or even simply on setting aside the Palestinian demand that Israel release convicted terrorists from its prisons. ...he has energetically supported the establishment of a Palestinian unity government between Fatah and Hamas - ...designated as a foreign terrorist organization to which US citizens, including the US president, are required by law to give no quarter....any residual doubt that Obama is willing to live in a world in which Iran is armed with nuclear weaponry dissipated completely....Obama made clear that, in the words of former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton, he has "put Israel on the chopping block." He referred to Israeli communities located beyond the 1949 armistice lines as "illegitimate."...
Obama explained that Israel can no longer expect US support for its security if it doesn't bow to his demand that it surrender all of the land it has controlled since 1967....it matters not to Obama that were Israel to fulfill his demand, the prospect of an Arab war against Israel would rise steeply. The fact that Obama made these deeply antagonistic statements about Israel at the UN in itself exposes his hostility...Obama's foreign policy as a whole makes it fairly easy to imagine him ordering the US military to open hostilities against a US ally to defend a US adversary - even as that adversary goes out of its way to humiliate Obama personally and the US in general....he has been abandoning one US ally after another while seeking to curry favor with one US adversary after another. At every turn, America's allies - from Israel to Honduras, to Columbia, South Korea and Japan, to Poland and the Czech Republic - have reacted with disbelief and horror to his treachery. And at every turn, America's adversaries - from Iran to Venezuela to North Korea and Russia - have responded with derision and contempt to his seemingly obsessive attempts to appease them....As many Western Europeans have begun to openly acknowledge, the man they once likened to the messiah is nothing but a politician - and a weak, bungling one at that. Even Britain's Economist is laughing at him....he is moving full speed ahead in his plans to subordinate US foreign policy to the UN...his feckless foreign policy in the face of its already apparent colossal failure is of a piece with his unswerving commitment to his domestic agenda in spite of its apparent colossal failure....Obama has insistently pushed for further governmental control over the US economy - most notably in his drive to transform the US health care industry...if he succeeds in passing such a law, his success will be a Pyrrhic victory because Obama has promised that his plan will do the impossible, and therefore it will... fail...
Obama's failures in both foreign and domestic policy have weakened him politically. His response to this newfound weakness has been to put himself into the public eye seemingly around the clock....whether we are better off with a politically strong Obama or a politically weak Obama. Given that the general thrust of his foreign policy is detrimental to our interests, America's allies are best served by a weak Obama....During a television interview this week, Sen. John McCain was asked for his opinion of Brzezinski's recommendation that the US shoot down IAF jets en route to Iran in a hypothetical Israeli air strike against Iran's nuclear installations. He responded with derisive laughter. And indeed, the notion that the US would go to war against Israel to protect Iran's nuclear installations is laughably absurd....It is true that a weakened Obama will seek to win cheap points by putting the squeeze on Israel. But it is also true that the weaker Obama becomes, the less capable he will be of carrying through on his bullying threats against Israel and against fellow democracies around the world.

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