We look at the Middle East, and we can see that the mass failures in Obama’s engagement in the region are caused by the three characteristics that most precisely describe the president. Invariably, Barack Obama plays one of three roles when formulating policy or engaging in diplomacy throughout the Middle East. He is either: Obama the Impotent, Obama the Infant, or Obama the Fool.
In Saudi Arabia, the new monarch King Salman contemplates the future of a kingdom tied together through the intricacies of baksheesh bribery and oil-funded entitlements. The irony of funding terrorists abroad while combating them in one’s own backyard has perhaps dawned on Salman, as he consults with Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates. Now, for the first time, the King and his consults, the Crown Prince and myriad other Sunni royalty must not discount the option of tacit cooperation with Israel. Sure, it’s fun to rail against Zionists and their lapdogs in world finance and Hollywood, but the Saudis know as well as anyone that a Shia minority with the power of a nuclear bomb is a thousand times the threat Israel would ever be.
In Libya, Coptic Christians in orange jumpsuits, not proper prisoners despite the garb, go on a beachside stroll. Behind them are stateless soldiers, men who kill not in the name of a state but in the name of a religion, a religion whose name may not pass over the lips of Western leaders, leaders whose constraints are those manufactured by a frenzy of political correctness that mounts in growing tidal waves, daily, monthly, yearly. The last words that these Christian men utter are “Ya Rabbi Yesou”, or “My Lord Jesus” in English. Then, the barbarians of ISIS decapitate them in front of their in-house film crew.
As Pope Tawadros, leader of the Coptic church, and Pope Francis, the Catholic pontiff of one billion souls, both pray for the slain, the ISIS butchering is digitally immortalized. The title of ISIS’s short film is “A Message Signed With Blood to the Nation of the Cross”, and according to ISIS its location is “The Coast of Wilayat Tarabulus by the Mediterranean Sea.” Its message to Christians worldwide isn’t ambiguous. It is intended for mature audiences.
No, no, this isn’t Islam, “and we are not at war with Islam” the Infant harps. Obama plugs his ears and pronounces with a tone of authority that doesn’t quite square with his ignorance in stating that “we are at war with people who have perverted Islam.” Very bold words for someone who is not an Islamic scholar. Very bold words in the face of the millions who openly advocate the more radical interpretations of Wahhabist and Salafist clerics, and the imams of their communities who crowd out moderates with implicit and explicit threats of violence. More than a billion and a half Muslims, a significant percentage of which willingly support the blood cult of ISIS, feverish proponents of sharia and the reconquering of the lost lands of the caliphate, and none of them are Muslims? Very bold words indeed.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif sits in a room lined with bookshelves of Islamic texts along with his boss Ayatollah Ali Khameini. They laugh as Zarif recalls his latest humiliation of John Kerry, of his manhandling of the Secretary of State from the world’s single Great Power, of his expert use of taqiyya -- the Shia precept of justifiable deceit in the face of peril -- in keeping the Americans at the negotiating table. Zarif and Khameini double over in laughter after watching our State of the Union Address, because they could see Obama the Fool at his very best. The Ayatollah may well have busted his guts guffawing when he heard President Obama insist that his “…diplomacy is at work with respect to Iran, where, for the first time in a decade, we’ve halted the progress of its nuclear program and reduced its stockpile of nuclear material.”
The reality is that Ayatollah Khamenei, Zarif, even Kerry and Obama know the truth about how inconsequential this “reduction” really is. They know that even though the interim agreement brokered in Vienna shuts down centrifuges at Natanz, Iranian scientists are developing the IR-8 centrifuge, which will be even faster and more efficient in forwarding progress towards a nuclear bomb. In Arak, the Iranians continue to buy materials for their nuclear reactors, all while refusing the release of photographic and video documentation of their nuclear facilities. Wow, what a deal.
Obama the Impotent says to the American public that he is an alchemist, taking an impossible scenario and manipulating it to conform to his desires, changing iron ore into sparkling, shimmering gold. Really, any impartial observer can see that he’s instead cultivating a nice, fat field of horse manure. The core problem that the President has is that foreign policy isn’t a high gloss campaign commercial, or a speech given in front of a teleprompter, and Middle Eastern despots aren’t his media cheerleaders, or vapid college kids that can be persuaded with a bumper sticker and a monosyllabic slogan like “hope” or “change” that means absolutely nothing.
At home, in the Oval Office, a seat is occupied not by a leader, but by a man who should have never ascended beyond the harmless provincial position of the Illinois State Senate. President Obama is certainly giving thought to his next book deal, or speaking to a Hollywood producer about a movie option, or possibly with Lorne Michaels about appearing in a sketch on Saturday Night Live, or whatever the latest debasement of the formerly honored office of the Presidency is this week.
What will the world think of Obama when he leaves office? What will they think after eight years of leading from behind? If I had to venture a guess, they’ll think the same of him on January 17th 2017 as they do right now: not very much. Across the globe, prime ministers and potentates rightfully doubt the seriousness of a leader who hits 18 rounds at the greens after James Foley, an American, was decapitated by a legion of benighted butchers who believe that they are doing the work of Allah. Obama’s final term has been unique in its unwitting combination of incompetence and idiocy.
What does the President imagine his personal legend will be? Or perhaps it doesn’t much matter anymore. He has always been concerned primarily with his legacy as he himself envisions it -- a fanciful endeavor into self-indulgent denial. Corpses pile on and the contours of history, frayed nerves that they are, exposed and vulnerable, are quite sensitive to the damage Obama has done. Even after the adoring chorus of press adulation dies down to a whisper, as the present becomes the past, proper historians will always remember the current president as Obama the Impotent, the Infant, the Fool.
In Saudi Arabia, the new monarch King Salman contemplates the future of a kingdom tied together through the intricacies of baksheesh bribery and oil-funded entitlements. The irony of funding terrorists abroad while combating them in one’s own backyard has perhaps dawned on Salman, as he consults with Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates. Now, for the first time, the King and his consults, the Crown Prince and myriad other Sunni royalty must not discount the option of tacit cooperation with Israel. Sure, it’s fun to rail against Zionists and their lapdogs in world finance and Hollywood, but the Saudis know as well as anyone that a Shia minority with the power of a nuclear bomb is a thousand times the threat Israel would ever be.
In Libya, Coptic Christians in orange jumpsuits, not proper prisoners despite the garb, go on a beachside stroll. Behind them are stateless soldiers, men who kill not in the name of a state but in the name of a religion, a religion whose name may not pass over the lips of Western leaders, leaders whose constraints are those manufactured by a frenzy of political correctness that mounts in growing tidal waves, daily, monthly, yearly. The last words that these Christian men utter are “Ya Rabbi Yesou”, or “My Lord Jesus” in English. Then, the barbarians of ISIS decapitate them in front of their in-house film crew.
As Pope Tawadros, leader of the Coptic church, and Pope Francis, the Catholic pontiff of one billion souls, both pray for the slain, the ISIS butchering is digitally immortalized. The title of ISIS’s short film is “A Message Signed With Blood to the Nation of the Cross”, and according to ISIS its location is “The Coast of Wilayat Tarabulus by the Mediterranean Sea.” Its message to Christians worldwide isn’t ambiguous. It is intended for mature audiences.
No, no, this isn’t Islam, “and we are not at war with Islam” the Infant harps. Obama plugs his ears and pronounces with a tone of authority that doesn’t quite square with his ignorance in stating that “we are at war with people who have perverted Islam.” Very bold words for someone who is not an Islamic scholar. Very bold words in the face of the millions who openly advocate the more radical interpretations of Wahhabist and Salafist clerics, and the imams of their communities who crowd out moderates with implicit and explicit threats of violence. More than a billion and a half Muslims, a significant percentage of which willingly support the blood cult of ISIS, feverish proponents of sharia and the reconquering of the lost lands of the caliphate, and none of them are Muslims? Very bold words indeed.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif sits in a room lined with bookshelves of Islamic texts along with his boss Ayatollah Ali Khameini. They laugh as Zarif recalls his latest humiliation of John Kerry, of his manhandling of the Secretary of State from the world’s single Great Power, of his expert use of taqiyya -- the Shia precept of justifiable deceit in the face of peril -- in keeping the Americans at the negotiating table. Zarif and Khameini double over in laughter after watching our State of the Union Address, because they could see Obama the Fool at his very best. The Ayatollah may well have busted his guts guffawing when he heard President Obama insist that his “…diplomacy is at work with respect to Iran, where, for the first time in a decade, we’ve halted the progress of its nuclear program and reduced its stockpile of nuclear material.”
The reality is that Ayatollah Khamenei, Zarif, even Kerry and Obama know the truth about how inconsequential this “reduction” really is. They know that even though the interim agreement brokered in Vienna shuts down centrifuges at Natanz, Iranian scientists are developing the IR-8 centrifuge, which will be even faster and more efficient in forwarding progress towards a nuclear bomb. In Arak, the Iranians continue to buy materials for their nuclear reactors, all while refusing the release of photographic and video documentation of their nuclear facilities. Wow, what a deal.
Obama the Impotent says to the American public that he is an alchemist, taking an impossible scenario and manipulating it to conform to his desires, changing iron ore into sparkling, shimmering gold. Really, any impartial observer can see that he’s instead cultivating a nice, fat field of horse manure. The core problem that the President has is that foreign policy isn’t a high gloss campaign commercial, or a speech given in front of a teleprompter, and Middle Eastern despots aren’t his media cheerleaders, or vapid college kids that can be persuaded with a bumper sticker and a monosyllabic slogan like “hope” or “change” that means absolutely nothing.
At home, in the Oval Office, a seat is occupied not by a leader, but by a man who should have never ascended beyond the harmless provincial position of the Illinois State Senate. President Obama is certainly giving thought to his next book deal, or speaking to a Hollywood producer about a movie option, or possibly with Lorne Michaels about appearing in a sketch on Saturday Night Live, or whatever the latest debasement of the formerly honored office of the Presidency is this week.
What will the world think of Obama when he leaves office? What will they think after eight years of leading from behind? If I had to venture a guess, they’ll think the same of him on January 17th 2017 as they do right now: not very much. Across the globe, prime ministers and potentates rightfully doubt the seriousness of a leader who hits 18 rounds at the greens after James Foley, an American, was decapitated by a legion of benighted butchers who believe that they are doing the work of Allah. Obama’s final term has been unique in its unwitting combination of incompetence and idiocy.
What does the President imagine his personal legend will be? Or perhaps it doesn’t much matter anymore. He has always been concerned primarily with his legacy as he himself envisions it -- a fanciful endeavor into self-indulgent denial. Corpses pile on and the contours of history, frayed nerves that they are, exposed and vulnerable, are quite sensitive to the damage Obama has done. Even after the adoring chorus of press adulation dies down to a whisper, as the present becomes the past, proper historians will always remember the current president as Obama the Impotent, the Infant, the Fool.
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