The Obama Administration and the Middle East: A Half-Time Assessment

American Thinker ^ | February 06, 2011 | Barry Rubin

[Hotlanta Mike]

There are people -- many in the media and academia -- who figuratively go bananas if anyone criticizes President Barack Obama. They maintain that he is doing just a great job as if this is beyond any of rational discussion.

And yet what has happened in the Middle East in the first two years of his term?

[Hotlanta Mike]

"Worse still, it seems to presage more declines and disasters to come."

[Pollster1]

Was the full title:

The Obama Administration and the Middle East: A Half-Time Assessment of the Half-Witted Obama Regime?

[rocksblues]

From the article.

Generally, U.S. friends in the region are distressed, doubting they can trust in America's protection; U.S. enemies are encouraged, believing America is weak and in retreat.

Says it all for me.

[DTogo]

Half-time Assessment: Obama is attempting a field goal from his own 5 yard line after willingly diminishing America's domestic energy position.

But his team owner, George Soros, has already paid him to throw the game anyway.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Good assessment, ties in nicely with the Super Bowl. GO PACK GO!!!

[downtownconservative]

The Muslim Brotherhood knew that Barraack wouldn’t interfere with their plan for Egypt and Israel. They also knew that now was the time to strike with at least two more years of American weakness on the horizon, to solidify their positions of power in Egypt and their plan to crush Israel.

Zero’s speech of apology and weakness in Cairo gave them the impetus needed to get this whole thing started.

[richardtavor]

We have entered the darkness. Now it will become increasingly harder to find the light....May the G-d of Abraham, Issac and Jacob show us the way to the Light.

[Lee'sGhost]

“...friends in the region are distressed, doubting they can trust in America’s protection...”

And as ally all over the world now know, they can’t trust the U.S. re ANYTHING, as the U.K. learned the hard way.

[TexasFreeper2009]

The President of the United States always has the world on his shoulders... unfortunately... the current occupants wife has bigger shoulders than the current Metro-sexual in Chief

[cubreporter]

The light is there! We just have to find our way back to it and I am thinking that time is NEAR!