Posted on 10/02/2009 12:36:47 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross
"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. Just how low we've sunk was demonstrated by the Obama administration's satisfaction when Russia's president said of Iran, after meeting President Obama at the U.N., that "sanctions are seldom productive, but they are sometimes inevitable."
You see? The Obama magic. Engagement works. Russia is on board. Except that, as The Washington Post inconveniently pointed out, President Dmitry Medvedev said the same thing a week earlier, and the real power in Russia, Vladimir Putin, had changed not at all in his opposition to additional sanctions. And just to make things clear, when Iran then brazenly test-fired offensive missiles, Russia reacted by declaring that this newest provocation did not warrant the imposition of tougher sanctions.
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? An oblique hint, of possible support, for unspecified sanctions, grudgingly offered and of dubious authority -- and, in any case, leading nowhere because the Chinese have remained resolute against any Security Council sanctions.
Confusing ends and means, the Obama administration strives mightily for shows of allied unity, good feeling and pious concern about Iran's nuclear program -- whereas the real objective is stopping that program. 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.
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When our President speaks to world leaders, world leaders laugh. The biggest problem is the President doesn’t know they are laughing. This community organizer has no idea how to handle or communicate to other world leaders. He has now become the court jester to the world.
Barack Obama: Tower of Jello.
What a naive putz.
This guy is stinkin up the place so bad, the Demcorats will soon be the ones looking for his birth certificate and his other important documents.
Wa, wa, we didn’t know...
He is good at getting losers to show up in a bank lobby and threaten to “shut it down” if more loans aren’t made to “da hood.” Somehow, that doesn’t work outside of the USA.
Perhaps ACORN should show up in Afghanistan. Yes, THAT’S THE SOLUTION! Send all of Acorn to Afghanistan!
“[Sarkozy] could hardly have been surprised by “Obama’s fecklessness.”
“After all, 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?”
Absolutely excellent piece by Charlers Krauthammer. Great read!
Unknown to the world, Obama had in his pocket explosive revelations about an illegal uranium enrichment facility that the Iranians had been hiding near Qom. 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. Not only did he say nothing about it, but, reports Le Monde, Sarkozy was forced to scrap the Qom section of his speech. Obama held the news until a day later -- in Pittsburgh. I've got nothing against Pittsburgh (site of the G-20 summit), but a stacked-with-world-leaders Security Council chamber, it is not.
Why forgo the opportunity? Because Obama wanted the Security Council meeting to be about his own dream of a nuclear-free world. The president, reports The New York Times citing "White House officials," did not want to "dilute" his disarmament resolution "by diverting to Iran."
The EGO has landed ... with a 'face-palm' thud.
“This guy is stinkin up the place so bad, the Demcorats will soon be the ones looking for his birth certificate and his other important documents.”
Elections are determined by independent voters, more than any other factor.
Many independents are national security hawks. Likely these voters are fiscal conservatives, too.
Obama’s poll number deterioration has been with these people.
Sacre Blustate!
Strange you should say that... I was thinking the same thing myself this morning. They will be sooooo sick of him, all wings of the Democrat party, that there will be interncine warfare.
0bama will realize that he really doesn't like being president, people are laughing at him, that he doesn't want the job, and will quit.
This is my intuitive feeling and I'm sticking to it.
“This is my intuitive feeling and I’m sticking to it.”
And never doubt a woman’s intuition, folks.
Community organizing at its finest....Obama style!
Obama is the wrong guy...
That would be my guess too. I’m not sure your old diehard Democrats are as happy as they thought they’d be though. He’s losing support. That trend is going to escalate as he pushed the fascist takeover of health care.
Wow, that’s going out on a limb. From your mouth to God’s earl...
BTTT
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