So what has the Gaza conflict revealed about Obama? What many people uncorrupted by bias have known since before he was president: he's not a pragmatist, not a realist, not a clear thinking moderate, not a conscientious and evenhanded rationalist - he's an ideologue who gets away with pretending to be all the former because of media complicity - his foreign policy is governed not by reasonable analysis but by ideology and that ideology is of the weak kneed, America hating uber left. He has one goal as president: push the country as far left as possible before his term is over regardless of damage that might do and dangers that might give rise to.
The policy approach to the Gaza conflict should have been a no brainer for an American president: the American people supported Israel, the congress supported Israel, both left and right in Israel were firmly behind the steps taken, especially once the dire threat of the tunnels became obvious, virtually all our Arab allies behind the scenes supported the action since they hate Hamas too because of its ties to Iran, Egypt, no friend of the Muslim Brotherhood which Hamas is an offshoot of, openly supported Israel by refusing to accept Hamas' demands for a truce, and finally Hamas is a recognized terrorist outfit without any political legitimacy whose sworn purpose in life is the destruction of Israel and whose tactics of choice are to indiscriminately target Israelis and then when Israel responds throw as many of their own people as possible in front of bombs so as to feed the anti-Semitic idiocy of 'world opinion' - this should have been a no brainer, all the more so because Obama didn't have to act, all he had to do was say the right words - and yet still he got it wrong. That tells you all you need to know about his presidency: he's not driven by common sense or an objective analysis of what's in America's best interests - he's driven by ideology, he's there to serve the interests of the far left [the only faction in the country that didn't side with Israel] and quite frankly I think couldn't care less about those who do not share his vision - and he's gotten away with this because he's an expert manipulator of a media utterly corrupted by bias.
[hey, the Obamaphiles cry - what do you mean he got it wrong - he supported Israel's right to defend itself! Please, people, enough with the bullshit - if you truly supported Israel's actions you would do so knowing that there's gonna be civilian casualties because that's exactly what Hamas wants to have happen and you'd figure out how you're gonna talk about those casualties without undermining Israel's actions and needs - that's not what Obama did: out one side of his mouth he defended Israel's right to defend itself and out the other he talked about the death toll in a way that undermined Israel's actions and served the interests of Hamas - which tells me Obama did not support this operation but had to pretend he sort of did because the country did - that's the reality here and so just stop with the bullshit. Israel knows this is the case, they know they were betrayed by Obama - and word coming out that Netanyahu in a phone call yesterday with Kerry hung up on him is testament to that and probably a good indication that Israel is more or less done with this administration - and how that impacts the Iran negotiations ought to make for an interesting spectacle]
The policy approach to the Gaza conflict should have been a no brainer for an American president: the American people supported Israel, the congress supported Israel, both left and right in Israel were firmly behind the steps taken, especially once the dire threat of the tunnels became obvious, virtually all our Arab allies behind the scenes supported the action since they hate Hamas too because of its ties to Iran, Egypt, no friend of the Muslim Brotherhood which Hamas is an offshoot of, openly supported Israel by refusing to accept Hamas' demands for a truce, and finally Hamas is a recognized terrorist outfit without any political legitimacy whose sworn purpose in life is the destruction of Israel and whose tactics of choice are to indiscriminately target Israelis and then when Israel responds throw as many of their own people as possible in front of bombs so as to feed the anti-Semitic idiocy of 'world opinion' - this should have been a no brainer, all the more so because Obama didn't have to act, all he had to do was say the right words - and yet still he got it wrong. That tells you all you need to know about his presidency: he's not driven by common sense or an objective analysis of what's in America's best interests - he's driven by ideology, he's there to serve the interests of the far left [the only faction in the country that didn't side with Israel] and quite frankly I think couldn't care less about those who do not share his vision - and he's gotten away with this because he's an expert manipulator of a media utterly corrupted by bias.
[hey, the Obamaphiles cry - what do you mean he got it wrong - he supported Israel's right to defend itself! Please, people, enough with the bullshit - if you truly supported Israel's actions you would do so knowing that there's gonna be civilian casualties because that's exactly what Hamas wants to have happen and you'd figure out how you're gonna talk about those casualties without undermining Israel's actions and needs - that's not what Obama did: out one side of his mouth he defended Israel's right to defend itself and out the other he talked about the death toll in a way that undermined Israel's actions and served the interests of Hamas - which tells me Obama did not support this operation but had to pretend he sort of did because the country did - that's the reality here and so just stop with the bullshit. Israel knows this is the case, they know they were betrayed by Obama - and word coming out that Netanyahu in a phone call yesterday with Kerry hung up on him is testament to that and probably a good indication that Israel is more or less done with this administration - and how that impacts the Iran negotiations ought to make for an interesting spectacle]