Barack Obama’s biggest accomplishment may turn out to be making that other Nobel Appeasement, er, Peace Prize winner, Jimmy Carter, look like an effective President. O likes to compare himself to Lincoln (oh, the hubris), but a more apt comparison would be Nero, for O fiddles with the healthcare “crisis” while Afghanistan, an existential crisis, burns.
Strange that US healthcare, which 85% of Americans were quite happy with, thank you, was in such dire straights that we needed to rush through major legislation before members of Congress had even read it and before the American public could be alerted to its draconian provisions.
But when it comes to Afghanistan, upon which, it is no exaggeration to say, hinges America’s security and credibility as the world’s greatest (only?) effective deterrent against terrorism, he is paralyzed with fear and political calculation. Yesterday US forces retreated from an Eastern Afghanistan base after it suffered a devastating attack. The enemy is emboldened while American troops, wondering if their government gives a damn about them or this war, are increasingly demoralized.
Even former Senator, Bob Kerrey, a strong Obama supporter, says of Obama, “he has made too many apologies” and “his strategy is too naïve and has too little coherence to be called a strategy.” (Kerrey goes on to say, “And if I weren’t a supporter, my judgment would be harsher.”)
Our enemies, current and potential (Ahmadinejad, Assad, Kadahfi, Kim Jong Il, Putin, Chavez) and our allies are watching to see if we any longer have the will to keep our commitments and oppose tyranny. Upon the answer to that question could well hang the prospects for freedom and self-determination in the coming decades. And time is not on our side.
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