Then We'll Fight In The Shade

Iran's crazed leader has threatened to wipe Israel off the map. Emperor Barack Xerxes Obama cannot have his subjects fighting with each other, and since Iran is an older part of his empire, he has decided that Israel must bow to Iran or the arrows of Iran will darken the sky. The emperor will do nothing to stop it. Since the empires of China and Russia will not cooperate in restraining Iran, Israel is on its own.

All right, that's enough of the tortured 300 references. But you get the idea. Obama, in his deluded arrogance, has decided that it has no real stake in defending our ally, Israel--the only genuine pro-western democracy in the entire Middle East. As the blundering president and his state department kowtow to Islamic potentates and Muslim zealots and dismiss our allies with a wave of the hand, he weakens the ability of the United States and the west to protect themselves from nuclear rogue nations. Obama sends his emissaries into Israel to dictate the future of the small nation by repeating Palestinian demands for the creation of a separate state with headquarters in the heart of Jerusalem. Then he schedules nuclear disarmament talks which exclude Iran and North Korea while maximizing the humiliation of Israel.

Depending whom you listen to, Iran is somewhere between three months and three years from having sufficient nuclear-grade materials to produce atomic weapons. Obama knows this, but he's too busy unilaterally disarming America to be bothered with the problem of preemptive disarming of Iran. His disarmament initiative is the most feeble plan to reduce the global nuclear threat since Rodney King asked "can't we all just get along?" As Wes Pruden said in The Washington Times, "[The recent maltreatment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he was a guest in the White House] now looks like an exploitable opportunity for the man who learned about who's evil in the world from a crazy, Jew-baiting preacher in Chicago."

Even the tone-deaf Obama can't be oblivious to the fact that if the United States, its allies, and the autocrats in the East do not destroy Iran's nuclear facilities, Israel will have no choice. Better to risk annihilation during a lopsided war with the Muslim world than to surrender to the near-inevitable annihilation raining down from a nuclear Iran. But as long as Obama is president, our allies have no faith in America's will to stand firm, and the Russian and Chinese autocrats laugh at his silly attempts while sabotaging his ludicrous efforts to get real, crippling sanctions against Iran. He views the Iranian leader as a rational though vicious opponent, instead of the madman Ahmadinejad truly is.

Obama thinks even a tyrant will yield if he's given enough love, and is occasionally warned with meaningless threats. As an "expert" on Islam, Obama should know that death is not a threat to a madman who believes that if Iran were nuked out of existence, the Twelfth Imam would lead all the faithful to paradise. Death is only death to the infidels, but a Muslim martyr's death is the sure road to the garden of celestial delights. If the Iranian nuclear facilities are not utterly destroyed and its people freed to rule themselves, Israel will risk its own destruction rather than wait for its assured destruction from Iran.

Obama simply has no compunctions about abandoning Israel to its fate while seeking the good will of Islamic and Latin American dictators. America's long affinity for the tiny Israeli democracy is to be replaced by the hope of friendship from people who clearly hate us. Pruden channels Obama by asking: "Why retain an emotional attachment to the sources of American law and literature when you could bow to the Saudi king and and court the leaders of Iran, Syria and Venezuela?"

There is still time for Obama to avoid the inevitable violent clash between Israel and the Muslim world, but there is no reason to believe he will grab the opportunity. His roots are far too closely enmeshed with those of Kenya, Indonesia, his leftist mentors in Hawaii and Chicago, and Islam to allow him to see that the interests of America and Israel are far more natural than any he would prefer. This skewed and dangerous view comes from the man who proudly announced that America is one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. Not only is that factually untrue, but it is philosophically, intellectually, and unpatriotically delusional and disengenuous.

Instead of pulling the world away from the brink of nuclear war, Obama's policies are the most dangerous kind of naive foolishness that history tells us leads directly to war. Negotiation from a position of weakness and idle threats only embolden bloodthirsty tyrants. And the first victim of his feckless behavior will be the State of Israel, which Obama compares constantly to "The Islamic Republic of Iran." That appellation alone tells anyone who is paying attention that Obama simply has no conception of the enemy that Israel, America and the entire world actually face.