Posted on 10/24/2013 5:33:04 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Last weekend the diplomatic world was agog at the refusal of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to accept a seat on the U.N. Security Council. Global disbelief gave way fast to clear understanding: The Saudis have decided that the United States is no longer a reliable partner in Middle Eastern affairs.
The Saudi king, who supported Syria's anti-Assad rebels early, before Islamic jihadists polluted the coalition, watched Mr. Obama's red line over Assad's use of chemical weapons disappear into an about-face deal with Vladimir Putin. The next time King Abdullah looked up, Mr. Obama was hanging the Saudis out to dry yet again by phoning up Iran's President Hasan Rouhani, Assad's primary banker and armorer, to chase a deal on nuclear weapons. Within days, Saudi Arabia's intelligence chief, Prince Bandar, let it be known that the Saudis intend to distance themselves from the U.S.
What is at issue here is not some sacred moral value, such as "In God We Trust." Domestic politics or the affairs of nations are not an avocation for angels. But the coin of this imperfect realm is credibility. Sydney Greenstreet's Kasper Gutman explained the terms of trade in "The Maltese Falcon": "I must tell you what I know, but you won't tell me what you know. That is hardly equitable, sir. I don't think we can do business along those lines."
Bluntly, Mr. Obama's partners are concluding that they cannot do business with him. They don't trust him. Whether it's the Saudis, the Syrian rebels, the French, the Iraqis, the unpivoted Asians or the congressional Republicans, they've all had their fill of coming up on the short end with so mercurial a U.S. president. And when that happens, the world's important business doesn't get done. It sits in a dangerous and volatile vacuum.
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Obama credibility. Now theres an oxymoron.
is melting ... like ... it just started ?
How can something melt if it never existed?
And integrity is one thing he just ain't got.
If his lips are moving, he’s LYING!
He wasn't kidding.
All the “credibility” of an impostor.
Maybe he could go on another “bowing” tour and apologize some more?
it existed. it was a given at the start of the vacillator in chiefs first coronation.
The morons that worship him are beginning to figure out that "the one" has been over his head since day one?
In this century Satan is even more successful than in the 20th century.
Marana tha
The entire Democrat party machine from dog catcher to President has been based on deception for the better part of a century. It’s worked, and worked well.
There’s no reason for them to stop, or believe it would not continue to work.
-——Global disbelief gave way fast to clear understanding:——
Then the author goes on to the wrong conclusion.
The Saudi’s rejected a seat on the Security Council because the Security Council is a farce. It accomplishes nothing of substance and gets in the way of meaningful accomplishment.
The author’s Amerocentric view is off the mark. The Saudi’s and the others in the coalition are now free of the American dalliance and do nothingness. The American shackles restraining respectable diplomats and military officers are now gone. the destruction of the shackles is not however related to refusal to sit on the Security Council.
The Saudi’s have done what good conservative Americans have wanted for decades. The Saudi’s dissed the UN as not being worth their time or effort and just plain old refused to join the charade.
The Clown never HAD any to melt.
WORST PRESIDENT EVER
The writer is confusing credibility with adoration. Credibility has to be earned. It builds up with one’s track record. Great Leader’s track record never built any credibility. But, he began his reign with vast portions of the population, both foreign and domestic, in a worshipful state of expectation. It is their adoration that is melting. The world can no longer hand him unearned accolades simply because he is Great Leader.
A little whitewash for the Saudis there, courtesy Daniel Henninger.
Sorry Danny, it won't fly.
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