The French astounded at Obamaian naivete (and narcissism.)

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Obama's French Lesson By Charles Krauthammer
"President Obama, I support the Americans' outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing." -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Sept. 24 WASHINGTON -- When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom..Do the tally. In return for selling out Poland and the Czech Republic by unilaterally abrogating a missile-defense security arrangement that Russia had demanded be abrogated, we get from Russia ... what?...This feel-good posturing is worse than useless, because all the time spent achieving gestures is precious time granted Iran to finish its race to acquire the bomb....Take it from Sarkozy, who could not conceal his astonishment at Obama's naivete....The French and the British were urging him to use this most dramatic of settings to stun the world with the revelation and to call for immediate action. Obama refused...Why forgo the opportunity? Because Obama wanted the Security Council meeting to be about his own dream of a nuclear-free world....did not want to "dilute" his disarmament resolution "by diverting to Iran."Diversion? It's the most serious security issue in the world. A diversion from what?... from Obama's star turn as planetary visionary: "The administration told the French," reports The Wall Street Journal, "that it didn't want to 'spoil the image of success' for Mr. Obama's debut at the U.N."Image? Success? Sarkozy could hardly contain himself....just a day earlier in addressing the General Assembly, Obama actually said, "No one nation can ... dominate another nation." That adolescent mindlessness was followed with the declaration that "alignments of nations rooted in the cleavages of a long-gone Cold War" in fact "make no sense in an interconnected world." NATO, our alliances with Japan and South Korea, our umbrella over Taiwan, are senseless? What do our allies think when they hear such nonsense?
Bismarck is said to have said: "There is a providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children, and the United States of America." Bismarck never saw Obama at the U.N. Sarkozy did.