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We know that Barack Obama is the most political of the supremely political creatures inside the Beltway. We believe that prior stories of his suggesting to Israel that they not do anything regarding Iran until after the US election are credible. And we understand from Obama’s own words that he disapproves of the US being the world’s only super-power; he is eager to apologize for us while taking us down a peg.
So, what is more surprising about this morning’s news is not that Obama said what he seems to have said, but that a compliant and complicit “mainstream” media actually reported it.
ABC News is reporting that President Obama asked Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to “give me space” regarding missile defense negotiations because, as Obama put it, “This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.”
What is troubling is not that Obama’s analysis of his flexibility is wrong. It’s that it is so easy to believe that the flexibility he is looking for is the flexibility to weaken the US and imperil our erstwhile allies — just as he did to Poland and the Czech Republic in 2009.
Beyond the questions raised of Obama’s intentions, there is the fact that Obama has yet again, and in a most concrete way, projected exactly the sort of weakness which emboldens our enemies and strategic competitors, whether Iran, Russia, or China. Imagine the glee of the ayatollahs in Tehran thinking to themselves “we’re safe, at least from the US — and therefore from everyone but Israel — for another year. Keep on enriching that uranium, boys!”
Barack Obama poses a threat not just to the United States’ long-term strategic position, and not just to the existence of Israel, but to the safety and security of many other nations who once thought that we were a reliable ally for aspiring democracies and a reliable foe of tyrannical and aggressively expansionist regimes.
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Jim Woodward| 3.26.12 @ 10:56AM
Treason? Planned treason? Bordering on treason?
Just asking.
Bob Grant| 3.26.12 @ 11:01AM
All of the above...and more!
Harpagon| 3.26.12 @ 2:34PM
Treason and planned treason. He must be impeached NOW.
SpiralArchitect| 3.26.12 @ 4:32PM
The man who was never eligible for the office now garners shouts for his impeachment...
Bob Grant| 3.26.12 @ 10:59AM
How me makes me sick is beyond my ability to post here.
He MUST be defeated in November. To all of you clowns still complaining about Romney, I say suck it up, hold your nose, and do the right thing on election day.
9thID| 3.26.12 @ 11:29AM
How did that "lesser of two evils" strategy work out for conservatives vis-a-vis Dole/McCain?
SpiralArchitect| 3.26.12 @ 4:33PM
Corruption will be the determining factor, I fear.
BruceTi| 3.26.12 @ 11:17AM
If Barry is re-elected, he will just about disarm the United States. That was a goal of his, even from long ago, when he was a pretentious, pompous, college student.
Like his mother, he's a social worker / peacenik.
Harpagon| 3.26.12 @ 2:35PM
Exactly! If he's reelected (God forbid), he will disarm the US completely and unilaterally. This is what the country would risk by reelecting him.
Of course, the pro-Obama media and the Obama regime were quick to spin this into something it was not. They claim Obama was merely referring to a compromise, a technical solution, "resolving differences".
Don't let them fool you. Obama was talking about gutting America's defense - including, but not exclusively, missile defense - after the election, should he win it.
How do I know by what he meant? From what he said and the comments of his advisors quoted above, as well as from his record.
His deputy NS advisor, Ben Rhodes, said that a deal cannot be reached this year because of the upcoming US presidential election and because there are serious "domestic political concerns" in the US about what Obama would do.
So because of "domestic political concerns" in the US, Obama wants to wait until after the election - when, by AP's own admission, "should he win re-election, would not have to face voters again" (and thus suffer any consequences of wrongdoing) - to... do what?
There can be only one answer: to gut the US military.
Think about it. If he intended to do something good for America, e.g. to strengthen America's defense or its negotiating position, would he really need to wait until AFTER the election to do so? Of course not. On the contrary, he would do so before the election to boost his resume and therefore his chances of victory. He has no foreign policy accomplishments to date (killing OBL was Panetta's achievement, not Obama's), and his actual FP record (despite what his campaign and the pro-Obama media will tell you) is one of disaster.
You don't wait with doing something good until after the election. You do so if you know it will be BAD for the country and you want to avoid the consequences.
Secondly, we have Obama's foreign policy and defense record to date to tell us what he meant. To this day, he has closed over 50 crucial military modernization programs, cut the US nuclear arsenal under the New START treaty while permitting Russia to grow its, accepted sweeping restrictions on missile defense as a part of that treaty, cut the military's force structure, given Russia classified information on US missile defense systems (thus helping it and its client regimes defeat these systems), dictated massive $487 bn budget cuts to defense (thus forcing it to retire scores of ships and aircraft and cut ship and aircraft orders and R&D programs dramatically), and signed a debt ceiling deal that includes a sequestration mechanism that will cut another $600 bn from the core defense budget unless it's detriggered (and he promises to veto any attempts to do so).
Ward Bond| 3.26.12 @ 11:21AM
Quisling. Hold on to your guns,Bibles, property, and family. Dark days are on the horizon.
9thID| 3.26.12 @ 11:36AM
The RINO cabal is intent upon foisting another Dole/McCain upon us. Romney most likely would be the lesser of two evils in running against Comrade Barry, but he is nothing more than McCain dug up from the grave. Welcome to a bad remake of Weekend At Bernies(Barry's)...
SpiralArchitect| 3.26.12 @ 4:34PM
Careful with that axe, the majority of the dead vote (D).
WL| 3.26.12 @ 11:52AM
And to think ol' Romney can't get past "He's just in over his head."....
"he's a nice guy but...."
Gerry| 3.26.12 @ 1:35PM
Leave it to the Israeli Spectator to take a post about US-Russia relations to talk about the Iranian Boogeyman.
Stan REdmond| 3.26.12 @ 1:48PM
Yeah. You're right. There's nothing to fear from Iran because it's just a made up boogeyman. "Death to America, Death to Israel," is just a silly little chant. Bombing Israeli cities through its little proxy Hesballah is just some harmless fireworks display. Ramping up enriched uranium is just an attempt to go green and produce carbon free electricity. Right?
bluecollarbytes| 3.26.12 @ 8:01PM
Obama attacks the U.S. on all fronts, because he hates the place, since he's not really from here...even if he is.