Posted on 01/24/2015 5:54:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Remember how Richard Nixon told us to watch what he does, not what he says? Good advice. Well, Barack Obama — our POTUS who makes Nixon and Clinton seem like Diogenes — thinks like a postmodern agnostic, professes to be a Christian, but acts like a Shiite.
During Obama’s presidency the influence of Ayatollah Khamenei’s Iranian Shiite regime has spread across the world like the proverbial wildfire, reaching from North Africa into Iraq, Lebanon (via Hezbollah), Syria (via Assad whose red line on chemical weapons famously faded into invisibility), Gaza (via improved relations with Hamas) and now into Yemen (via the Houthis) and undoubtedly a number of other places, including Venezuela, North Korea and Cuba. And our president, consciously or unconsciously or both, has had as much to do as anyone with the creation of this nascent, soon-to-be nuclear armed and missile-ready fundamentalist “Greater Persia.” No wonder the Sunni Saudis are alarmed — they have been for a long time — and no wonder Obama suddenly decided to replace Biden in paying a condolence visit to Riyadh for the death of King Abdullah. He has some powerful fence-mending to do that pretend bowing and scraping may not so easily solve.
Much of this Iran-coddling began back when the Green Movement was in the streets of Tehran seeking the overthrow of the ayatollahs and chanting “Obama, Obama… Are you with us or are you with them?” Our president did not respond. He was already in private communication with the bizarre Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Obama wanted to be the one who got credit for reining in the excesses of the Islamic Republic, not those unruly student demonstrators who were the ones suffering from the regime in the first place, being murdered, tortured and raped in Evin Prison, often in reverse order.
Indeed, this unconscionable and out-of-control narcissism has been the key to Obama’s foreign policy throughout and accounts for the catastrophic global results we see in front of us now. The “leading from behind” mantra has always been a fraud, masking what it really means “I, Barack, know best and manipulate affairs from behind.” It’s all about me. (Is it ever!)
Now I realize Obama is not really a Shiite. He was raised in Sunni Indonesia. And, yes, Sunnis — notably ISIS, Boko Haram and AQAP — are leading the way in the public butchery department for the moment and need to be opposed with all our might. But that doesn’t mean Shiites are not active. Just the other day we had the mysterious Buenos Aires death of Alberto Nisman who was about to reveal truths about the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in that city in which 85 were killed — a kind of simultaneous beheading in which Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah are said to be the culprits. Almost anyone honest and awake knows the Islamic Republic is and has been the primary state sponsor of terrorism world wide for decades.
Yet Obama persists in playing sides in a literally insane Shiite-Sunni religious conflict that has gone on so long it makes the Hundred Years’ War seem like the three-week invasion of Grenada. (Interestingly, in a January 20 column, “Say It Like It Is,” Thomas Friedman finally breaks the New York Times omertà on radical Islam, saying the president is wrong for not naming the enemy. But in doing so, Friedman isolates the violence as almost all coming from Arab and Pakistani Sunnis, giving the president continued cover to appease Iran.) The reason for Obama’s persistence is not religious, but the aforementioned narcissism. He had already plighted his troth on a pax Iranian. Making it easier was his longtime conviction that Western imperialism was the root cause of most evil on the planet anyway. The president now has an Iran deal so tied up in his mind with his legacy that the appearance of Netanyahu in front of Congress opens a psychological wound so large Obama is likely to do almost anything. The world — not just Saudi Arabia and Israel — had better beware.
I don't know if you see the flashing sign, but I sure do.
See it? I can hear the buzz and crackle of the neon and smell the ozone.
Frankly it sounds like everybody is switching sides again. If anything, Obama has been a much bigger help to the Sunnis (Al Qeada, ISIS, Boko Haram).
As far as our “ally” in Yemen is concerned, that’s questionable at best. I’ve been watching for months and it sounds like the Yemeni president was looking the other way as long as Al Qeada was attacking the Houthi.
The whole mideast is a chaotic mess with Obama playing all sides and his only clear enemy is Israel.
I think he’s clearly a Sunni. Starting with the massadras he grew up in. His bow to the Saudi king. Then his speech in Cairo as his first foreign speech after winning. His 100% support of the moslem brotherhood, and his valuable aid to the Syrian rebels. His support to the bunch that overthrew Egypt. His support of the Libyan rebels.
All of these are Sunni.
He helps Shiites when it is another way to hurt Israel or America. But he is clearly a Sunni. Any goodwill he shows Iran is because he dislikes seeing moslem vs moslem strife. It should all be directed at Israel. That, and Valerie Jarrett is an Iranian.
If it walks like Shiite, talks like Shiite, and acts like Shiite, then it’s probably Shiite.
Barack Hussein Obama is Shiite.
For some reason, suddenly I note that everyone thinks America should reduce the Shiites for the Sunni A-holes.
They want us to remove Assad. They want us to remove or box in Iran.
Meanwhile the Saudis and their wahabbism blows up Boston, commits 9/11, 7/7 in London, the Spain train bombs, the Paris attacks, the shoe bomber, Major Hassan and forth hood, the Oklahoma beheading, gives us ISIS and the Taliban, and almost every new mosque in America.
The Sunnis are a bigger threat than the Sunnis. But they both suck.
“As far as our “ally” in Yemen”
Who in their right mind -ever- thought Yemen was a US ally? Not a soul outside the DC beltway.
Wait... what?
Exactly. His hatred of Israel is the only thing that really matters.
Let’s not forget, when there was a moderate uprising in Iran a few years ago he had nothing to say. He couldn’t care less about reform in Iran. He only wants chaos.
bigger than Shiites. Typo dyslexia!
You mean the shiite head, right?
But they both really suck and we should encourage them to fight each other.
I agree. He is very very Sunni.
The president of Yemen was a result of the Arab spring just like Morsi in Egypt. No wonder Obama cuddled up to him.
That was the arab spring movement that really could have done something good. And he remained silent, and quietly let them be gunned down in the street.
Actually, I find arabs and especially Saudis to be some of the laziest most arrogant people on earth. Almost without redeeming qualities. But the Iranian people on average are good people and had a very pro west position. They are so ready to be out from under that regime. But after Obamas betrayal, they will probably wait a long time before they try that again.
That makes sense. Actually, the most apt description of heard of Obama came Putin. He said Obama was like “a monkey with a hand grenade”.
a) Weakens America/AmericansThere are no counter examples.
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Serves Islam
e) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
True. Also, the author hit on something else. Obama and everything being about him. I don’t think he has a plan beyond the moment, and showing everyone he deals with how he is the friendliest guy they’ve ever met, and that like them, he hates America too.
Iran?,,,im your buddy.
Saudi king?,,,bow.
Wants to help Al Qeida in Syria,
Want Hezzbolah to like him.
He wanders from one crisis to another like a kid who was abandoned by his parents, hoping he can make some someone like him. He is so dangerous.
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