The Battle of Gaza and Obama
Tags: Israel/Judaism, terrorism, Terrorist Groups.
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From Simon Tisdall:
Barack Obama’s chances of making a fresh start in US relations with the Muslim world, and the Middle East in particular, appear to diminish with each new wave of Israeli attacks on Palestinian targets in Gaza. That seems hardly fair, given the president-elect does not take office until January 20. But foreign wars don’t wait for Washington inaugurations.
Obama has remained wholly silent during the Gaza crisis. His aides say he is following established protocol that the US has only one president at a time. Hillary Clinton, his designated secretary of state, and Joe Biden, the vice-president-elect and foreign policy expert, have also been uncharacteristically taciturn on the subject.
But evidence is mounting that Obama is already losing ground among key Arab and Muslim audiences that cannot understand why, given his promise of change, he has not spoken out. Arab commentators and editorialists say there is growing disappointment at Obama’s detachment – and that his failure to distance himself from George Bush’s strongly pro-Israeli stance is encouraging the belief that he either shares Bush’s bias or simply does not care.
This might actually work to Obama’s long term favor – given the way Obama ran very strongly against President Bush and American policy over the past 8 years, the impression given in the Arab would was of a 180 degree shift in American policy…which would translate into abandoning our friends and currying favor with our enemies. By not speaking out on Gaza, Obama has cast doubt about this, and therein lies his great opportunity.
Now, I happen to think that Obama hasn’t made a statement on Gaza because he, Biden, Hillary and the whole gang simply don’t know what to say. They are entirely at sea here, lacking even cursory knowledge of how things work in foreign affairs and military policy. You’re supposed to call for a cease fire, get the President of France over there, cobble together a truce which will be violated on a daily basis and then have some grand conference somewhere (with preference given to places with swank hotels and nice beaches). Its not working out that way because Israel just might possibly be determined to fight this out to the finish (and I suspect with the tacit approval of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and perhaps with such approval from the Egyptian government, as well) – what might happen here is complete Israeli victory, abject Hamas defeat and thus an end to the Gaza issue…there is no one in Obama’s team who can grasp this set of circumstances. But, no matter – it can still work to our advantage.
The befuddled silence on the part of Team Obama might start to convince our friends that Obama won’t actually abandon them and also convince our enemies that Obama just might fight them – and this will greatly strengthen our friends and dismay our enemies, who have already been greatly weakened by 8 years of President Bush relentlessly hammering them. The sole remaining bastions of State-sponsored terrorism – Syria and Iran – are both politically and economically on the ropes – they breathed a sigh of relief on November 4th as they contemplated what would at least work out to a period of truce allowing them to rebuild their shattered terrorist organizations…but now they’ll doubt, and if Obama presses, he can cause them to collapse upon themselves.
We’ll see – unfortunately, that same ignorance which is the likely explanation for Obama’s current reticence is likely to prevent his seeing this massive chance to finish the War on Terrorism with victory within a year or two.
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9 Responses to “The Battle of Gaza and Obama”
Caucus of Corruption
There are only two things Obama can say: either agree with Bush’s policy of blame Muslims uber alles, or tear Bush a new one for sitting on his first one since Taba.
You write a laundry list of things you think Obama should do that are BUSH’S job for now.
It’s hysterical how much the right wants Obama to take the blame for Bush’s blunders. It’s like they’re all begging him to say something so the criticisms can begin.
This one, for now, is Bush’s. It’s HIS job, and he does NOTHING. He doesn’t know what to do, and furthermore, does not CARE.
bozotheassclown
for now, is Bush’s. It’s HIS job, and he does NOTHING
He is doing exactly
what he should do.
Staying out of it, and let the sovereign nation of Isreal defend her self from islamic cutthroats neighbors who continually attacked her with missile barrages…= an overt act of war.
it is a lot easier from the outside looking in…you dont have to pay the dues to be a member…
than again…as deeply as corruption runs in obama’s background…its a natural for him to blame everybody else…he will probably blame bush or someone else until he is put in jail…
thats the normal progression of liars and con artists..and thieves…
bozo (accurate nick to be sure!),
Is Hamas a threat to us?
Is Hamas creating and storing WMDs?
Was Hamas involved in 9/11?
Has Hamas attacked us in any way?
if you answered no, to any of these question, then by LIBERAL criteria, this is not our fight.
Wow, you BDS is out of control. Are these the new talking points for the beginning of the year to attack Bush? OR are you mouthing off without your liberal marching orders?
Or are you just a fool?
Remember, Obama can silence war with just the right selection of words because of his willingness to talk. Remember that talking point? Remember how you libs swooned over that little nugget of campaign BS? Remeber all the hope and change that will instantly happen when Obama takes office? Remember the good standing we will regain in the world when Obama takes office?
What is Obama take on the situation? Has he said anything? or are we getting nothing but crickets?
Face it, you are a fool.
tiredoflibbs,
just curious… were you one of those that were complaining about Russia’s response to Georgia a few months ago? Were you one of those that was saying their response was over the top?
On a side note… why do you righties have to do things like “bozotheassclown” and calling someone a “fool” just because they don’t agree with you? Are you folks still in the 3rd grade?
joe, it’s js02 and FmrMarine who are the main proponents of name calling. They both resort to belligerence and childish behaviour when intellectually cornered.
Pathetic, isn’t it? And I thought it was the Left who had hate in their hearts.
Wow, weren’t those Ron Paul’s talking points?
Nice “liberal criteria” strawman, though.
So, explain again why Obama SHOULD be speaking out while Bush SHOULD remain quiet, if “liberal criteria” says this is not our fight (Obama says nothing), while “conservative criteria” means Shock and Awe DESPITE answering no to all those delightful questions (Bush bombs Iraq)?
Oh, and… Obama isn’t president yet. Repeat after me: Obama isn’t president yet.
Harry Reid was on Meat the Press this week, and says he’s in total agreement with Bush on Israel’s retaliation that’s killing civilians to punish Hamas. All the rest of the bobbleheads on the show agreed that the solution to the Israel/Hamas mess: bomb Iran.
We liberals may have won a battle last November, but the war has just begun.
Think about that statement for a moment… ponder it a bit longer… do you see it yet? Keep pondering… ok, time’s up.
What a bat-feces craaaaazy anachronistic abandonment of the time-space continuum to obfuscate a ridiculous attempt at dumping Bush’s failures onto his heir-elect.
I knew that’s what you were thinking, too.
bongobut
Pathetic, isn’t it? And I thought it was the Left who had hate in their hearts.
Not “hate” just no time for MORONS!
you fit that bill to a T