From a foreign policy standpoint our young untested president understands only applause and adulation, which he gets by apologizing for America’s past and equating his country with the lowest of the low in the obsessive, Israel-bashing Human Rights Council of the United Nations. Yep, our tax money is going to these fools!
Hey, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize with his rock-star status, so who can fault him? Certainly not the European socialists he tries to emulate, forgetting that American protection and blood spilt in two world wars and beyond gave his fellow-travelers the luxury to become socialists.
But there are some who may find fault. I suspect the GIs in Afghanistan waiting for support and some decision from his seemingly constant vacillation may be a bit anxious and perhaps nervous in the leadership shown so far by their commander-in-chief.
Then the Eastern nations, Hungry, Poland, the Czech Republic may shudder a bit at Obama’s abandonment of the nuclear shield they so courageously agreed to host, abandoned so Obama could curry favor with Russia which continues to play him like a fool.
Without a doubt there are the Iranian dissidents who had the courage to protest the fraudulent elections sponsored by the mullahs and Amadinejad. Their ranks are being tortured, beaten, raped, imprisoned and killed on a daily basis without a word of support from Obama. There is a telling piece in the November 4th WSJ by Akbar Atri who in his younger days participated in the Iranian Hostage crisis thirty years ago. He tells of his maturity and realization that Iran must embrace modernity and freedom. He tells of how he became one of the leading voices in democratic opposition. And, sadly, he tells of how the Untied States under Obama has failed democracy.
Now a rational American perspective suggests four alternatives with Iran: 1. Allow Iran to have nuclear arms and export them to terrorists. 2. Sit back and wait for Israel to strike unsuccessfully. 3. Attack Iran’s leadership and nuclear installations, or, 4. Support the democratic dissidents and foster an overthrow to a more democratic, modern and rational regime. If a rational, brave and proud American president and leader of the free world were to make the decision which decision would you expect and hope for him to make?
Would he continue to seek applause and adulation from his European sycophants or would he make the hard choice and do what is best for America? Obama is weak, he continues to dither, and our adversaries are playing him like the fool that he is.
God save us!
Tom Motherway