A "Post-American" or "anti-American" President"?

****A friend to our enemies and an enemy to our friends. Not surprising; this guy shares very little of the "American experience" with other Americans, and especially little of the "black" experience. Indonesia? Hawaii? Harvard Law? The South Side of Chicago? Cocoons, all and not quintessentially American ones, at that.****
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Israel and the Crisis With Obama Benjamin Netanyahu made the mistake of believing the president is serious about stopping a nuclear Iran.By JOHN BOLTON
...if Mr. Obama were simply another president in the long line since Franklin Roosevelt who vigorously asserted U.S. national interests, championed our friends (especially beleaguered ones), and kept alliances strong. But Mr. Obama is different. He is our first post-American president. He looks beyond American exceptionalism and believes that our role on the world stage should be merely one nation among many....Israel has sought to accommodate Mr. Obama on two critical issues: negotiations with Palestinians and Iranian nuclear weapons. ... now the suppressed conflicts are fully visible and will either be resolved or cause a serious collision between Israel and the U.S....Mr. Netanyahu's efforts to avoid open disputes with Washington have not won him White House plaudits. Mr. Obama almost certainly believes the real obstacle to peace is not new housing or unfortunate timing but so-called Israeli intransigence....As time passes, Israel's military option grows more difficult and the chances for success shrink as Iran seeks new air-defense systems and further buries and hardens nuclear facilities.
Mr. Netanyahu's mistake has been to assume that Mr. Obama basically agrees that we must prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. ...the White House ...will therefore not support using military force to thwart Tehran's nuclear ambitions....also unwilling to let anyone else, namely Israel, act instead. That means that if Israel bombs Iranian nuclear facilities, the president will likely withhold critical replenishments of destroyed Israeli aircraft and other weapons systems....a mistake to think that further delays in such a strike will materially change the toxic political response Israel can expect from the White House. Israel's support will come from Congress and the American people, as opinion polls show, not from the president.
Mr. Obama is not merely heedless of America's predominant global position. He is also embarrassed enough by it not to regret diminishing it. ...Ceding America's role in world affairs is not an act of becoming modesty but a dangerous signal of weakness to friends and adversaries alike. Israel may be the first ally to feel the pain.