THE PRESIDENT WHO MADE AMERICA A GLOBAL MOCKERY
The president who made his country a global mockery
TUESDAY, 9TH MARCH 2010
As predicted here, Obama’s foreign policy has collapsed in total ignominy. We are now all very much less safe than we were before this man was elected to the White House. A new poll — for the Democrats, forsooth — suggests that a majority of Americans think the USA is less respected in the world than it was two years ago and think President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national security.
You don’t say.
As this piece in American Thinker observes:
Barack Obama, in his first press conference after his election, called Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons ‘unacceptable.’ He repetitively offered Iran ‘engagement.’ He set a deadline of year-end 2009 for Iranian compliance, now unilaterally extended another three months.
Iran contemptuously and repetitively responded that it had no intention of abandoning its nuclear program. Obama’s Iran policy is collapsing to the accompaniment of open mockery around the globe. Obama assured us that his ‘engagement’ would make it easier to enlist other countries to stop Iran. The result is the opposite. Virtually every country Obama approached has rebuffed him. Without a credible threat of force, it is now clear that ‘engagement’ has no chance to stop Iran’s military nuclear program. It is indisputable that Iranian possession of nuclear weapons would destabilize the Mideast and gravely threaten world peace.
… The failure of Obama’s appeasement was understood in the region. Editor Michael Young asked in his Beirut Star: ‘Just what does Barack Obama stand for?’ His answer: ‘The Assad regime’s abuse of its own population, Syrian involvement in myriad bombings in Iraq, support for Iraqi Baathists, and its permissiveness toward Al-Qaeda in Iraq have not made the Administration reconsider its Syrian opening. Violence works, and Obama has not proven otherwise. The Obama Administration these days provokes little confidence in its allies, and even less fear in its adversaries” [emphasis added].
What a disaster. But as has been noted here many times, there is an enormous difference between the Iranian regime and the people of Iran, many of whom are in open revolt against the clerical fanatics who impose their tyranny on them. in this interview in the Bangkok Post a former officer in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence service said that instead of imposing sanctions, western nations should look to supporting opposition groups and not recognise the Ahmadinejad government. And he called for his country to form better relations with the United States and Israel and said the government of the ‘crazy’ President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was on the verge of collapse.
The great question has always been whether it will fall before it gets the bomb. The most urgent requirement the regime has craved has been time – and that is precisely what Obama has given it in such abundance.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/5829601/the-president-who-made-his-country-a-global-mockery.thtml
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