Anyone putting their faith in him will be disappointed.
Posted on 11/12/2014 8:59:47 AM PST by Dave346
With his misguided and naïve outreach, the president has spawned a new Iranian assertiveness, bolstered by an economic resurgence directly related to our unilateral concessions on sanctions.
Less than a day after the Republican midterm election landslide, President Barack Obama lashed out against the Republican Party as if it were America’s primary adversary in the world. On the very next day, we learned the president was secretly negotiating with one of America’s most implacable enemies, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
After six years of trying to placate America’s enemies, you would think that Obama would have learned that, in the Middle East, weakness is seen as weakness. The response to weakness will be – as it always is – increased demands, greater intransigence, disrespect and violence. If repeating the same mistakes is astute American diplomacy, then President Obama and his foreign policy advisors are masters.
Somehow, the president has concluded that Islamic State (IS) is a much more dangerous threat to America than Iran. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Iran is a powerful nation-state that is developing nuclear weapons, while it remains the leading state sponsor of worldwide terrorism. As Shahram Akbarzadeh opined in Al Jazeera, “From Iran’s point of view, history is on its side... Iran maintains the most battle-ready military force... buttressed with strong political ties with Iraq, Syria and Hezbollah. The Iranian leadership remains confident... to reclaim its role as regional leader.”
As dangerous as IS potentially is, Iran is infinitely more dangerous to long-term American security interests. If the president thinks Iran is a bulwark against Sunni jihadist terrorism, then he really doesn’t understand the nature of jihadist Shi’ite Iranian hegemonic ambitions.
The president apparently thinks there are gradations within radical Sunni and Shi’ite Islamism, some of which can become partners for shared US interests.
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"Arabs make formidable enemies, and even worse allies."
You get into Stupid Territory pretty quickly when your mission to “transform” America begins with the premise that nothing about it is right, and that’s exactly where 0bama and his merry band have been for the last six years. And they aren’t going anywhere.
The term the author is looking for is “Pathological altruism”.
Or it could be said that he treats his friends as friends and (punishes) his enemies as enemies, but treats America’s friends as enemies and America’s enemies as friends.
That's an inaccurate title...What it should be:
Why does President Obama treat OUR friends as enemies, and OUR enemies as friends?
He doesn't.
I thought it was “pathological liar”.
Those are our friends and enemies, his enemies and friends
If you still suffer under the delusion that the man called 0bama somehow thinks of Israel as a “friend,” you just haven't been paying attention these past six years, have you?
Wrong.
He treats AMERICA”s friends as enemies, and AMERICA”s enemies as friends.
But he is clearly treating HIS friends as friends, and HIS enemies as enemies.
Remember who he is (as far as anyone’s been allowed to find out, anyway)...Islamic-loving anti-American illegal immigrant or?, and remember who his lifetime friends all are (communists, anarchists, bombers and murders), and remember who he bows down to, who he adorizes, and who’s been paying for him (House of Saud, Soros, etc.)
No, lets be candid. O is indeed quite loyal to his friends
very much so, in fact.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Because Americas friends are his enemies, and our enemies are friends or potential friends.
He has no friends.
“Friends” are weak people that he can push to get his way.
And he is correct. No one should be friendly to such a vapid man. Anyone who likes him is an idiot and weak and to be despised.
Basic Sociopath 101.
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