Obama's Dangerous Weakness

NRO ^ | 9/14/2012 | Mona Charen

[Unam Sanctam]

President Obama’s weakness in foreign policy is a contributor to the events of the last several days in the Middle East. Though he gave the order to take out bin Laden — who wouldn’t? — and though he attacks suspected terrorists with drones, this president has nevertheless conveyed to the world that he believes in a diminished world role for the United States.

He believes in a more modest United States — remember those bows — because he comes from an intellectual tradition that is hostile to American power. His pastor and mentor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, expressed a common leftist view when he said, after 9/11, that the attacks represented “America’s chickens coming home to roost.” Mr. Obama’s one-time green-jobs czar, Van Jones, was of the same school, showing up at a radical leftist rally on September 12, 2001, and, amid the drum circles and curses heaped on the nation that had just suffered an attack of unprecedented savagery, joined in the denunciations of the victim. “It’s the bombs that the government has been dropping around the world that are now blowing up inside the U.S. borders.”

As if the U.S. were in the habit of bombing nations just to throw its weight around, or for the sheer joy of dominating and hurting others. In fact, of the last six wars in which the United States was involved (Kuwait, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya), four were undertaken to rescue Muslims, and the other two (Afghanistan and Iraq) had the side benefit of liberating Muslims — to what end remains an open question.

[tsowellfan]

I agree! I also think Obama (already anti-Israel) had made a promise to the Muslim brotherhood that he would remove the support of Israel from the DNC platform. When Obama saw a loss of support because of it he may have reluctantly allowed them to put it back in. I suppose the Muslim Brotherhood were angered by this. This anger may have something to do with the attacks. That film surely has nothing to do with it. That's been all but debunked as the reason for the recent violence.

Now Obama snubs Israel even more today and invites the Muslim Brotherhood to the White House for a meeting next week.

The film is a scapegoat. Always blaming someone or something

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[Bullish]

Obama either doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing, and that’s bad, or he does know exactly what he’s doing and that makes it much worse.

I pray to God we can see the end of him and his idiot regime this fall.

[wayoverontheright]

Even liberals are angry about this. Obama has a very short window to change course. The country is clamoring for a reaction that must have a punitive, retaliatory flavor, and I don’t believe he has it in him.

This is the end of the Obama Doctrine, as relates to foreign policy.

[Doogle]

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[DaveA37]

“Though he (Obummer) gave the order to take out bin Laden...

Someone please correct me if I am wrong but didn’t Bush put out a “Dead or Alive” reward on Bin Laden? I also believe that order stood until the day Bin Laden died.

Obummer taking credit (again) for something he didn’t do.