Commenting on Robert Satloff's article on the disasterous Middle East policy of Obama, Jennifer Rubin concludes that:
the Israelis have come to see that the American president is not to be relied upon and does not regard the U.S.-Israel relationship in quite the same way as the past few presidents. Friendship has been replaced by legalisms, trust has been superseded by public acts of defiance. That will have ramifications not merely for the moribund “peace process” but also for the immediate and overriding issue that Israel and its neighbors must confront–the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran. The lesson the Israelis have learned is that they rely on Obama at their own risk. That’s not likely to be forgotten any time soon.
That's kind of like the lesson that American voters are learning too, isn't it?
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As if there was ever an American president to rely upon
ReplyDeleteFair enough, but there have been presidents about whom we felt they would not stab us in the back.
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