To reiterate, President Obama chose to shun the only functioning democracy in the Middle East, the most (and arguably only) free state in the Middle East, and the lone unwavering political and ideological ally the United States has in the area. Instead, the Obama administration chose to honor the Hosni Mubarak regime in Egypt with his first foreign speech. A Mubarak regime that, while allied with the U.S. in several important regards, was also demonstrably abusive of the Egyptian people. Oh, and not coincidentally it was the same Egypt that ousted Mubarak and is now ruled by a Fundamentalist Islamic Army (the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces). With the benefit of hindsight, is it conceivable that President Obama would have visited Israel and shunned the neighboring States instead? Is it reasonable to believe that he might have just as easily supported our allies and ignored or even frustrated those nations and non-state actors purposefully arrayed against the United States? I don’t believe so. I believe all available evidence shows that President Obama treats antagonistic nation-states (and even hostile non-state actors) with more deference and humility than he directs at either our allies abroad OR his patriotic opposition in the homeland. This fact has been made plain numerous times in President Obama’s approach to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel. One has only to enter “Obama Netanyahu snub” into any Internet search engine to read a litany of incidents in which the POTUS made his antipathy regarding his personal relationship with the Israeli PM clear. Among those examples was the infamous open mic incident, wherein President Obama told French President Nicholas Sarkozy, “You’re fed up with him but I have to deal with him more often than you.”
Posted on: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:12:58 +0000
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