When Obama took office I said to my conservative friends, “He will initially get some “traction” as an apparently efficacious president by pushing his domestic agenda. He will run aground on international affairs, an arena wherein he is a babe in the woods.”
It can’t bode well for his international performance that his debut on the domestic affairs stage has been bumbling. He presents there as distant — unengaged, really — yet eerily touchy and volatile, but to no good effect.
I now think of him as an adolescent, one who hasn’t acquired the emotional mindset of a mature man. He needs experience to teach him that, assuming he is teachable, but the cost of this particular learning curve may be catastrophic. Meanwhile he barges around the world proffering various quid pro quos to friends and enemies alike:
He says to the Israelis: “Help me with the Arabs (by curtailing settlements) and I will help you with your Iran problem.”
V. Putin
He says to the Russians: “Help me with my Iran problem, and I will help you with your East European and Balkan problems (by terminating missile defence there).
But Obama’s only “Iran problem” is Israel, who will surely attack Iran if no concrete movement occurs on the nuke front there.
So then, the spectacle unfolds of an American president requesting help from — of all nations, Russia — in order to calm down a bunch of restive Jews!
D. Medvedev
Note to Obama: the Russians invented modern anti-semitism! Does the word “pogrom” ring any bells Barry? How about the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a best-selling Russian literary production.
I wonder, in his mind, who these men are that he talks to and corresponds with, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, and Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev? What could he possibly have in his limited experience that might help him size up these men correctly? Or are we to believe he really goes to the CIA and says, “Tell me all about these guys so I don’t underestimate them.?”
Maybe it’s me. Maybe it stands to reason that the Russians feel as if they really need help from Obama. And, perhaps it does after all make sense that the Russians want to see the Israelis and Arabs at peace, finally. Anything’s possible, I suppose.
So we back off the missile defense of Eastern Europe. How’s that working out for us, you ask? Here’s Investor’s Business Daily’s take on that:
So far, it hasn’t been much of a deal. And as we scale down our defense efforts, Russia is boosting military spending at double-digit rates. Here we have all but abandoned the testing and rebuilding of our nuclear deterrent, and Russia only last month test-launched two new Sineva class sub-based ICBMs.
(my emphasis)
Just peachy I’d say. This guy is going to get us all killed.