Obama's Dangerous Weakness

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The Patriot Post:

Obama's Dangerous Weakness

 

By Mona Charen · September 14, 2012

President Obama's weakness in foreign policy is a contributor to the events of the last several days in the Middle East. Though he gave the order to take out bin Laden (who wouldn't?), and though he attacks suspected terrorists with drones, this president has nevertheless conveyed to the world that he believes in a diminished world role for the United States.

He believes in a more modest United States -- remember those bows -- because he comes from an intellectual tradition that is hostile to American power. His pastor and mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, expressed a common leftist view when he said after 9/11 that the attacks represented "America's chickens coming home to roost." Mr. Obama's one-time green jobs czar, Van Jones, was of the same school, showing up at a radical leftist rally on September 12, 2001 and, amid the drum circles and curses, heaped on the nation that had just suffered an attack of unprecedented savagery and joined in the denunciations of the victim. "It's the bombs that the government has been dropping around the world that are now blowing up inside the U.S. borders."

As if the U.S. were in the habit of bombing nations just

[Pepper]

Obama's Dangerous Weakness

 

Singular, just one?

[RedlegDuke]

Time for Obama to hide out in the Rose Garden or under the "Resolution Desk" in the Oral Office.

[Chickadee]

Indeed, 'The One' Wimp Obama hides out most of the time instead of making any truly "RESOLUTE" decisions from the disrespected-by-him oval office. If the world seems to be falling apart, it is because the leader of the free world is NOT leading.