What did the New York Times expect from President Barack Hussein Obama? Despite the fact that everything he does is unprecedented, did they ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe, Obama was a little too inexperienced for the top job in the nation? We reap what we sow, and what we – or should I say “they” – have sown is a disastrous foreign policy.
We were thrilled when President Obama decided to plunge fully into the Middle East peace effort. He appointed a skilled special envoy, George Mitchell, and demanded that Israel freeze settlements, Palestinians crack down on anti-Israel violence and Arab leaders demonstrate their readiness to reach out to Israel.
Nine months later, the president’s promising peace initiative has unraveled.
The Israelis have refused to stop all building. The Palestinians say that they won’t talk to the Israelis until they do, and President Mahmoud Abbas is so despondent he has threatened to quit. Arab states are refusing to do anything.
Mr. Obama’s own credibility is so diminished (his approval rating in Israel is 4 percent) that serious negotiations may be farther off than ever. …
You have to wonder, did they really believe all the hype? Did they honestly think the Man with the Teleprompter would be able to change the world, bring peace to bitter enemies and stop the rising of the oceans? (Good thing some hacker exposed the fact that the oceans aren’t going to rise, and if they do there isn’t a darned thing we can do about it. Maybe the Times can take a little time to report on that. But I digress) The same man, who before playing dirty politics to become a US senator, had little more than “community organizer” on his resume? Oh wait, sorry. I forgot, we’re one world community, and we only needed the Great Community Organizer to make all the world stop looking out for their own interests to reach the imaginary world wide utopia of the leftists’ dreams.
Sorry folks, the world doesn’t work that way. Too bad The One is too busy extending apologies and bowing to royalty to understand if you don’t look out for Number One, (in this case the US and our allies) nobody else is going to do it for you.
H/T HotAir
Update: Soldier left the following comment:
Israel offers to stop building in West Bank for 10 months in partial settlement freeze
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister, bowed to US pressure on Wednesday and announced that no new Jewish homes would be built in the West Bank for the next 10 months.
The article can be found here. Of course, Israel got nothing for this gesture.
His Arrogance had everyone on the left snowed. They thought he was “too big to fail.”
They never gave a first thought to whether he had anything to work with. And now they can’t believe he is actually as empty a suit as his critics said he was.
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Within the last couple days, a British newspaper reported that Israel stated they would put their settlement building on hold for ten months, but the Palestinians still weren’t satisfied.
Now how can the New York Times support their claim that the Israelis are building settlements?
Either the NYT or the British newspaper appears to be wrong. Oops!
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Israel offers to stop building in West Bank for 10 months in partial settlement freeze
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister, bowed to US pressure on Wednesday and announced that no new Jewish homes would be built in the West Bank for the next 10 months.
By Adrian Blomfield in Jerusalem
Published: 7:39PM GMT 25 Nov 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/6655566/Israel-offers-to-stop-building-in-West-Bank-for-10-months-in-partial-settlement-freeze.html
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As of this morning, Iran is full speed ahead on their nuclear program. It’s in your face and finger in the chest of the Obama administration. What to do, what to do? Probably nothing. Very scary; Obama is taking us to the event horizon of the black hole of nuclear weapons in the hands of suicidal radicals.
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