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GOLAN HEIGHTS - Surveying the live minefields, cratered roads and mortar-pocked concrete buildings along the border here between Syria and Israel, it is hard not to be reminded of the historic and monumental disappointment President Obama has been. ...Mr. Obama has devoted his administration to raising taxes, adding to the byzantine structure of the federal government, and has created a whole new massive bureaucracy he claims really will cure our every little boo-boo. Mr. Obama chose to unilaterally alienate perhaps our most strategically important ally in the world and do all he can to cozy up to the very people...

(Reuters) - U.S. officials have met members of the Muslim Brotherhood's political party, a U.S. diplomat said, after Washington announced it would have direct contacts with Egypt's biggest Islamist group whose role has grown since U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak was ousted.

Israel doesn’t have a dog in the fight, but paying the brunt of frustrationA former head of the Mossad called US President Barack Obama’s policies in the Middle East naïve and his “Obama Doctrine” was destabilizing the region. "Obama chose to support the peoples' populist demands instead of supporting his strategic allied rulers,” Shabtai Shavit told a conference on counter terrorism opening near Tel Aviv Sunday. "Obama didn't think the ruler could be influenced or the status quo would survive and that was political naïveté on his part." Shavit, who ran the Israeli secret service between 1989 and 1996, said...

TEHRAN—Iran's elite military unit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has transferred lethal new munitions to its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent months, according to senior U.S. officials, in a bid to accelerate the U.S. withdrawals from these countries. The Revolutionary Guard has smuggled rocket-assisted exploding projectiles to its militia allies in Iraq, weapons that have already resulted in the deaths of American troops, defense officials said. They said Iranians have also given long-range rockets to the Taliban in Afghanistan, increasing the insurgents' ability to hit U.S. and other coalition positions from a safer distance.

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IS DEFENDING MILLIONS OF ISRAELIS NOT INCLUDED IN "OBAMA'S HUMANITARIAN" MISSION?April, 2011Obama Welcomes Arab League Support for Libyan People - 13 Mar 2011http://www.america.gov/st/peacesec-english/2011/March/20110313143440elrem0.5616861.html Libya’s Backseat Drivers - Claudia Rosett - National Review Online - 23 Mar 2011 ... Barack Obama is tempted to follow the leadership of the Arab League, he’ll think twice.http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/262806/libyas-backseat-drivers-claudia-rosett Obama’s “Humanitarian” War to Cause Major Earthquake in America? John Lillipop | April 2, 2011http://www.americanconservativedaily.com/2011/04/obamas-humanitarian-war-to-cause-major-earthquake-in-america/ ACCEPTANCE DESPITE HYPOCRISY The sincerity of Obama in his argument is irrelevant, since the argument was accepted, though critics expose the hypocrisy and murdered in cold blood by the Islamic Republic's notorious...

Leadership: As we put CIA boots on the ground to find out who the rebels are and withdraw air support as they retreat, our defense secretary describes how we're making up our policy as we go along. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were on Capitol Hill Thursday in a marathon of congressional testimony trying to explain our ad hoc "kinetic" military actions in Libya and a policy that seems to change and get redefined minute by minute. Among the issues discussed was the decision to remove American close air...

Syria's 'Reformer'Why the delicacy for Assad? Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he’s a reformer.— Hillary Clinton on Bashar al-Assad, March 27 Few things said by this administration in its two years can match this one for moral bankruptcy and strategic incomprehensibility. First, it’s demonstrably false. It was hoped that President Assad would be a reformer when he inherited his father’s dictatorship a decade ago. Being a London-educated eye doctor, he received the full Yuri Andropov treatment — the assumption that having been exposed to...

This, in short, is the essence of a deal struck between the Barack Obama administration and the House of Saud. Two diplomatic sources at the United Nations independently confirmed that Washington, via Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gave the go-ahead for Saudi Arabia to invade Bahrain and crush the pro-democracy movement in their neighbor in exchange for a "yes" vote by the Arab League for a no-fly zone over Libya - the main rationale that led to United Nations Security Council resolution 1973. The revelation came from two different diplomats, a European and a member of the BRIC group, and...

Mugabe loyalists blame Ian Smith regime for corpses Pathologists say bodies appear less than 30 years old Hundreds of skeletons found in a remote mine shaft in Zimbabwe have been used as political propaganda by supporters of President Robert Mugabe. The Fallen Heroes of Zimbabwe Trust, a previously little known group of Mugabe party loyalists, says says the remains of more than 640 bodies have been discovered in the disused Chibondo gold mine near the provincial center of Mount Darwin, 110 miles from Harare, But while the trust says the bodies are those of victims of colonial atrocities committed under...

Obama’s inhuman “humanitarian” doctrine Obama is active in Libya, spending Billions of dollars, he said it's a "humanitarian" mission to "protect civilians." * When protesters against the oppressive totalitarian Islamic-apartheid regime of Iran were slaughtered in the streets. Obama said: "We don't intervene." At a time when the Islamic Republic pushes bloodshed (directly or via its Hezbollah arm) in: Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Israel, Somalia, Afghanistan, etc. * In the Ivory Coast people are dying. "Moral" Obama couldn’t find oil there, apparently. * In the Sudan, 2,500,000 already died in previous years by the racist Arab and militant Islamic North /...

Basically to me Obama is Switzerland. Not because of anything remotely resembling neutrality...

Middle East: Our secretary of state says there will be no intervention in Syria because its brutal dictator with territorial designs and nuclear ambitions is a "reformer." Our incoherent Mideast policy just got worse. 'It was ridiculous to call Bashar Assad a reformer. She should not have done that," Ammar Abdulhamid, a spokesman for Syrian protesters, told the Washington Times. Indeed, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should not have said that because, first, it's not true and, second, it makes our Mideast policy look like Jimmy Carter is running it. It was her husband who let Carter be our emissary...

A foreign policy adviser to President Obama said this evening that the Administration has "rehabilitated" the concept of human rights, tarnished by the Iraq war, in a way that laid the groundwork for international collaboration. Samantha Power, a senior director on the National Security Council best known for her human rights advocacy before she entered the White House, spoke at Columbia University in New York City two hours before the president's planned speech in Libya tonight. Obama "has used his pulpit and a number of speeches ... to kind of clear the brush that had gathered around the norms in...

Mideast: A White House suddenly enthralled with cruise missile diplomacy and, without a Libyan exit strategy, issues a verbal warning to another murderous dictatorship. Our policy is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Did President Obama ever say, "Ahmadinejad must go"? Did he support the Iranian protestors when it could have made a big difference in the region? If we want regime change in Libya, take charge, Mr. President, then go big or go home. If it's not, why waste our time when serious problems such as Iran are ignored? If we are into protecting civilians against murderous despots,...

According to a story in Sunday’s Washington Post, as President Obama and his advisers measured their response to the mass killing in Libya, they were mindful of the fact that diplomats in Tripoli had told them, in the words of one official, that “certain kinds of messaging from the American government could endanger the security of American citizens.” “Overruling that kind of advice would be a very difficult and dangerous thing to do,” said Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser for strategic communications. “That was the debate, and frankly we erred on the side of caution, for certain, and...

Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Express have roared right through the latest round of Republican Party primaries this week, rattling the party establishment and terrifying the Democrats. For those of you who are trained in the fastidious ways of the British ‘liberalism’ and are therefore shocked and can’t think why the American Right is gaining such strength, here’s the reason: Barack Obama. Americans are waking up to the fact that they have elected a man as president who is every inch an exotic creature. Which was rather fun at first. The problem is, America is discovering that Mr Obama...

It's mildy entertaining to watch a once love-stricken Liberal Media discuss why Barack Obama is unwilling or unable to address the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. They seem truly bewildered by his lack of leadership. But it's really not that difficult to understand. In a 2006 Washingtonian article titled The Legend of Barack Obama, Garrett M. Graff examines "Obamania." At the heart of "Obamania" is his personality and presence - part preacher, part professor, part movie star. His charisma seems effortless, his charm an afterthought. ... Much of Obama's allure is that he is new and exciting enough...

The man who is our president: “Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another we get pulled into them; and that ends up costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure.” -President Obama yesterday at Nuclear Security Summit The man who would have been: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., slammed the leader of the free world Thursday, calling the remark a "direct contradiction to everything America believes in." Read more at floppingaces.net...

As the lone journalist on Sunday's Meet the Press roundtable (with Newt Gingrich, Michael Bloomberg and Deval Patrick), NBC's Andrea Mitchell insisted the “Obama Doctrine” has “borne fruit,” but “it is not perceived yet” -- though the President has already “united the world behind the United States.” Citing all those who “camped out” for the Sarah Palin book signings, Mitchell denigrated her appeal as evidence of how “they are so hungry for a symbol for anyone who can give them answers” it shows “there's an anger out there” she hasn't seen since George Wallace in 1968. And that, she maintained,...