Can this be true, that Obama halted arms shipments to Israel during assault on Gaza? Just when ya think that Obama's practice of foreign policy along the delusional, bereft of common sense, strategically inept lines of classical far left wingedness can't sink you any further into despair regarding the future of this little thing we call Western Civilization, the man manages to reach into his big bag of stupid to pull out another deformed imp to dance his farce on the world stage.
I guess congress is on vacation but they should really come back for one day to officially censure in some way this act of betrayal against Israel by Obama - you can't allow the stench of this perfidy to linger and add to the anti-Israel sewage currently streaming through the out-house of world opinion.
But actually shouldn't refer to Obama's practice of foreign policy as inept - of course in objective realist terms it most decidedly is - but relative to how the average leftist academic in the US views the world and America's place in it, Obama's foreign policy farce is very much in keeping with that progressively addled mindset and therefore in that sense not inept - utterly delusional, yes, and fraught with oh so many dangers - but in essence not inept. It's the default thinking of this ilk of intellectual to see Israel as the villain [in this role it becomes a proxy for American capitalism and white privilege colonialism in general], the Palestinians as the victims and if we just isolate Israel and back it into a corner they'll be forced to compromise and peace will fall magically from the sky. What makes this point of view so shockingly stupid and detached from reality is that ten years ago Obama could have found people on the left in Israel who agreed with that position - not anymore, left and right in Israel are more or less united in belief that the only peace the Palestinians are interested in is the one that ends with Israel's destruction and therefore the only option is to defeat the extremists in battle and hold down the fort until another American president comes along who actually has a clue when it comes to the Mideast.
[what makes this behaviour by Obama doubly shocking in its stupidity or if you prefer misguided conceits is that all the other players in the region know Israel has it right - not meaning they support Israel of course, although Saudi Arabia and Egypt are definitely on board when it comes to squashing Hamas - but rather they know that Israel's reading of the situation is accurate and Obama's is way off - and the conclusion they draw is that Obama will not defend traditional American interests in the Mideast - and it's very hard to believe that that perception leads to anything 'good']
[so how do you explain the maladroit reasonings of Obama and his maenads? Ideological arrogance - arrogance is how the ideologue guards against ever having to imagine themselves wrong for the admitting of error about something so fundamental to a left wing ideologues thinking as Israel's culpability would threaten to unravel the entire belief system to which they cling - and consider the arrogance at work here: despite sound empirical evidence that supports Israel's position and against the opinions and perceptions of everyone in the Mideast whose opinions and perceptions we should care about, Obama is declaring he knows better - that's an impressive display of arrogance]
I guess congress is on vacation but they should really come back for one day to officially censure in some way this act of betrayal against Israel by Obama - you can't allow the stench of this perfidy to linger and add to the anti-Israel sewage currently streaming through the out-house of world opinion.
But actually shouldn't refer to Obama's practice of foreign policy as inept - of course in objective realist terms it most decidedly is - but relative to how the average leftist academic in the US views the world and America's place in it, Obama's foreign policy farce is very much in keeping with that progressively addled mindset and therefore in that sense not inept - utterly delusional, yes, and fraught with oh so many dangers - but in essence not inept. It's the default thinking of this ilk of intellectual to see Israel as the villain [in this role it becomes a proxy for American capitalism and white privilege colonialism in general], the Palestinians as the victims and if we just isolate Israel and back it into a corner they'll be forced to compromise and peace will fall magically from the sky. What makes this point of view so shockingly stupid and detached from reality is that ten years ago Obama could have found people on the left in Israel who agreed with that position - not anymore, left and right in Israel are more or less united in belief that the only peace the Palestinians are interested in is the one that ends with Israel's destruction and therefore the only option is to defeat the extremists in battle and hold down the fort until another American president comes along who actually has a clue when it comes to the Mideast.
[what makes this behaviour by Obama doubly shocking in its stupidity or if you prefer misguided conceits is that all the other players in the region know Israel has it right - not meaning they support Israel of course, although Saudi Arabia and Egypt are definitely on board when it comes to squashing Hamas - but rather they know that Israel's reading of the situation is accurate and Obama's is way off - and the conclusion they draw is that Obama will not defend traditional American interests in the Mideast - and it's very hard to believe that that perception leads to anything 'good']
[so how do you explain the maladroit reasonings of Obama and his maenads? Ideological arrogance - arrogance is how the ideologue guards against ever having to imagine themselves wrong for the admitting of error about something so fundamental to a left wing ideologues thinking as Israel's culpability would threaten to unravel the entire belief system to which they cling - and consider the arrogance at work here: despite sound empirical evidence that supports Israel's position and against the opinions and perceptions of everyone in the Mideast whose opinions and perceptions we should care about, Obama is declaring he knows better - that's an impressive display of arrogance]