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The First Anti-American President
PJ Media ^ | December 28, 2017 | Michael Ledeen

Posted on 12/28/2017 7:44:49 PM PST by Kaslin

Barack Obama will no doubt be chronicled, among other things, as the first anti-American president. No wonder; he’s the product of an educational system that has become increasingly radical and anti-American with each passing decade, and his mother was a stereotypical leftist anthropologist with a passion for the Third World.

The pattern is unmistakable. As Luis Fleischman notes, Obama wanted to make deals with our enemies, Iran being the most dramatic example. But just look at Latin America:

The Obama Administration tried to avoid confrontations with anyone it wanted to make a “historic deal” with. Most of these “historic deals” were intended to be made with enemies, as Obama desperately sought an agreement not only with Iran, but also with Cuba and reconciliation with Venezuela.

Thus, Obama failed to insist on the extradition of Venezuelan military and drug trafficker Hugo Carvajal from Aruba and the Syrian-born Venezuelan drug lord Walid Makled from Colombia. Carvajal was the chief of Venezuelan military intelligence and Makled is one of the most notorious drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere. Makled himself disclosed his own cooperation with scores of the highest officials within Chavez’s government -- including Carvajal himself, with the chiefs of the Venezuelan army and navy, as well as with dozens of Venezuelan generals.

The Obama people did not want to know the details of Venezuela’s collusion with the drug Mafiosi. If you have followed the story of the obstruction of the DEA investigation of Hezbollah, you will recognize the pattern. Indeed, it is part of the story.

It is also part of a bigger story: What is Trump going to do about Iran? The rhetoric on Iran is great. Inspirational, even. But as even “Mad Dog" Mattis says, there’s, well, more rhetoric, along with some sanctions:

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says Washington will deal with Iran through a "diplomatically-led effort," a day after a top U.S. diplomat said Tehran was supplying weapons to the Huthi rebels in Yemen.

So we still don’t have an Iran policy worthy of the name, despite the welcome clarity the Trump people have brought to the subject. “Everywhere you find turmoil,” Mattis said following our UN Ambassador Nikki Haley’s expose of Iran’s role in Yemen, “you find Iran’s hand in it.”

But then the secretary of Defense went on to embrace consciousness-raising.

Consciousness has long been suitably raised. There is no confusion about the nature of the Iranian regime or its intent to develop nuclear attack weapons or its savage repression of seventy-plus million people who would undoubtedly enter the ranks of the West if they could. But if we do not directly challenge the regime, no one else is going to do it.

Donald Trump is certainly the opposite of an anti-American president, and he has no affection for our enemies. He has enabled the Ukrainians to fight, perhaps effectively, against the Russians. So why can’t he enable the Iranians to fight against the ayatollahs?

In the Ukrainian case we’re talking about military weapons; in the Iranian conflict the weapons are political. If the Iranians rose up against the regime when Obama entered the White House, you can be sure they are at least equally motivated to do it with Trump in office. There are many protests in Iran today, and the Khamenei/Rouhani regime has responded by executing half as many Iranians as in the past. We should relentlessly expose this mass murder, and we should publicize the ongoing protests.

The target audience for such exposes is the great mass of the population. Paradoxically, Iranians are better informed about events in Jerusalem and Washington than in Iranian Kurdistan, the southern oil regions, and cities like Mashad and Qom.

All Iranians need this information, which shows them that they are not alone. The technology for such a campaign exists. It is the same as it was when we deployed it against the Soviet Union with such powerful consequences: our broadcasting network, starting with the Voice of America. Today, Farsi-language VOA is often a vehicle for anti-American polemics, since personnel is virtually unchanged from the Obama years. We need a thorough housecleaning, but there are few signs that our national security team understands its urgency.

Faster, please.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Israel; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aruba; barackhussein0bama; colombia; cuba; dea; hugocarvajal; iran; israel; jerusalem; letshavejerusalem; obama; syria; venezuela; walidmakled; waronterror; worstpresidentever
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1 posted on 12/28/2017 7:44:49 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

History will not be kind to the fraud known as “Obama”.


2 posted on 12/28/2017 7:48:44 PM PST by WMarshal (John McCain is the turd in America's punch bowl. McLame cannot even fake an injury.)
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To: Kaslin

Mr. Ledeen used to post here back in the day.

Smart guy.

L


3 posted on 12/28/2017 7:49:40 PM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Kaslin

We’ve never had an unmasked Enemy in Chief before. We’ve had pretenders to that throne - FDR and LBJ - but never a bald-faced hater of America who promised to “fundamentally change” America.


4 posted on 12/28/2017 7:49:53 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: Kaslin

Anti-American is the best description of Obama.


5 posted on 12/28/2017 7:50:16 PM PST by blam
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To: WMarshal
He will be known as the worst president ever.

That is his legacy

6 posted on 12/28/2017 7:50:50 PM PST by Kaslin (Quid est Veritas?: What Is Truth?)
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To: Lurker

He did? I must admit his name looked familiar.


7 posted on 12/28/2017 7:52:28 PM PST by Kaslin (Quid est Veritas?: What Is Truth?)
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To: WMarshal

“History will not be kind to the fraud known as “Obama”.”

I don’t really think he cares. He was not a successful president doubling our debt, raising unemployment, destroying our relations with many of our allies, empowering our enemies, and trying to do damage to a system of government and country that has been the most successful in the history of man and the one that hundreds of thousands of people are trying to get to to include those that will gamble their lives doing it on cardboard boats in open ocean.

And it never seems to stop even after he’s gone.

rwood


8 posted on 12/28/2017 7:53:42 PM PST by Redwood71
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To: Kaslin

Most radical anti-American President for sure but there have been others. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Lyndon Johnson exhibited those traits as well. And then there’s Woodrow Wilson...


9 posted on 12/28/2017 7:54:48 PM PST by \/\/ayne (-.. .-. .. -. -.- / -- --- .-. . / --- ...- .- .-.. - .. -. .)
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To: Jim 0216

“We’ve never had an unmasked Enemy in Chief before.”

And his “All for a damn flag” wife.


10 posted on 12/28/2017 7:55:22 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry Christmas, Mr. President, and another happy year!)
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To: Kaslin; MLedeen

He sure did as Mledeen. Screen name is still active.

L


11 posted on 12/28/2017 7:55:33 PM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: blam

“Anti-American is the best description of Obama.”

Unfortunately it is also the best description of half of American voters.


12 posted on 12/28/2017 7:57:38 PM PST by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: Kaslin
Barack Obama will no doubt be chronicled, among other things, as the first anti-American president. No wonder; he’s the product of an educational system that has become increasingly radical and anti-American with each passing decade, and his mother was a stereotypical leftist anthropologist with a passion for the Third World.

Here's the simpler, correct explanation. Obama is an illegal alien whose only allegiance is to Islam. His purpose was to weaken America. That he managed to usurp the Presidency for 8 years exceeded his handlers' wildest expectations.

13 posted on 12/28/2017 7:58:34 PM PST by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: Kaslin

Barack Obama should never have been allowed to be sworn in.
(Both times repeated in secret)

He is not a natural born citizen.

Ignoring the Constitution will have serious long term consequences.

BOTH parties colluded to violate the Constitution.


14 posted on 12/28/2017 7:59:43 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents-Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin

What do you expect when someone has a Muslim name like him? Can’t believe how dumb the voters are after people with the same names attacked the US on 9/11. HE doesn’t think like an American.

Period.


15 posted on 12/28/2017 8:05:57 PM PST by Tamatoa (Fight for our America, Fight for our Country I fought to defend!!!)
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To: WMarshal
History will not be kind to the fraud known as “Obama”.


Obama never could have been elected without collusion with the fake news media.
16 posted on 12/28/2017 8:06:00 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Kaslin
I have this little book...QUOTABLE AMERICA....in which I found this little gem...

"Our whole duty, for the present, at any rate, is summed up in the motto: AMERICA FIRST." Woodrow Wilson

17 posted on 12/28/2017 8:09:27 PM PST by goodnesswins (There were 1.41 MILLION NON Profit orgs in 2013 with $1.73 TRILLION in REVENUE)
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To: Jim 0216

"...FDR and LBJ..."


Completely concur. Interesting post and a topic that I have discussed with family and friends.
Others who were disastrous came along like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.

None of those four truly hated our country like Barack 0bama.
He stands alone in that regard...


18 posted on 12/28/2017 8:10:38 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Kaslin

Barry was a “wrecker”.


19 posted on 12/28/2017 8:14:02 PM PST by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: WMarshal
:You mean the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHEIF, the one who has furnished the path for our ENEMIES to get NUCLEAR WEAPONS to DESTROY Israel and the United States.
The Arab-Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama II, (a.k.a. Barry Soetoro), ( the one guilty of TREASON ! ) truly IS the greatest danger TO BOTH the United States of America, AND Israel !
20 posted on 12/28/2017 8:14:02 PM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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