The American view that the French are wimps is ugly and undeserved but widely held, so French President Sarkozy’s statement implying that President Obama is one gets our attention. Apparently Obama didn’t want Sarkozy to upstage him at the UN in September. The result:
Sarkozy was so annoyed with Obama’s weak-kneed approach that he reportedly told Le Monde that “we live in the real world, not in a virtual one”, a cutting and mocking reference to the US president’s drive for a new arms control treaty.
More from the Wall Street Journal
President Sarkozy in particular pushed hard. He had been “frustrated” for months about Mr. Obama’s reluctance to confront Iran, a senior French government official told us, and saw an opportunity to change momentum. But the Administration told the French that it didn’t want to “spoil the image of success” for Mr. Obama’s debut at the U.N. and his homily calling for a world without nuclear weapons, according to the Paris daily Le Monde.
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Is President Obama unintentionally outsourcing US foreign policy?
A pattern emerging from recent events suggests so. Up first, of course, is the plan to scrap the US Missile Defense shield in Eastern Europe, a long-time thorn in the side of many European and US Liberals, not to mention Vladimir Putin. By putting the planned system on hold, Obama has simultaneously angered many of our European allies and appeased the Russians, who must be dancing in glee behind the walls of the Kremlin.
What’s the effect? The EU has neither the will nor resources to effectively deal with a resurgent and emboldened Russia looking to expand its influence, especially with former Eastern Bloc nations. This credibility-destroying decision cements Russia’s position as the other 800-lb gorilla in the room, and effectively outsources at least some European security decisions to them.
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Obama’s people can’t even get subversion right. A fifth column is supposed to be a clandestine group of intelligent agents, not an overt cluster of moonbats. Michelle Malkin » Anti-war congresswoman who protested surge now at the Pentagon.
Hot Air reports on the CIA’s super-secret plan to assassinate al-Qaeda leaders. I am shocked, just shocked and appalled that we might actually want to kill terrorist leaders and deny them their rights under our Constitution.
Yeah, right, guess again. Could The White House be looking to drum up a sense of outrage among their useful idiots in the press, thereby creating a barrage of coverage and opinion pieces to distract the populace from the fact that the stimulus isn’t working?
Guess what guys? Pursue this at your own political peril. I’ll wager that most Americans think assassinating terrorist leaders is a good idea.
