Barry Rubin "They’ve been saying it in Arabic, in public, for most of President Barack Obama’s term in office. The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood said it in August 2010: he pointed to Obama’s weakness as a reason for launching a revolution. But the American mass media has ignored it all."
"Well, now we have some leaked Syrian regime internal documents that make the same point. In talking points for President Bashar al-Assad prepared by his staff and given him on December 31, 2011, Assad is told to warn pro-Arab Western countries:
America has started to leave our region and there will be no ally left to you but your Syrian neighbor.
"And Iran, of course, but Assad didn’t want to mention his non-Arab ally".
...".The message: you can’t depend on America to be a firm ally, and you can depend on America to be a weak enemy. The U.S. position in the region is eroding away.
"And yet almost all we hear from the mass media and “experts” is how successful Obama’s policy has been, how America is now loved in the Middle East, and how the radical Islamists are moderate democrats.
"Assad’s advisor also provided a piece of advice that would be well-heeded by Obama or his successor after the November elections:
The people need to see a powerful president defending the country.
Bear in mind if we elect a strong president with a good grasp of Middle East strategic necessities that any strong action serving to bring stability to that region will be demagogued in the press and media; expect Hollywood to make movies casting that president as evil and a warmongering "cowboy". One has to wonder: can America be governed in such a way that we remain safe, protected and prosperous?
This is how the American left sees Obama's Middle East policies: "Eventually, Barack Obama will be seen as the man who doubled oil prices and Islamic power, or the leader who shuffled in an genuine era of democracy in the Middle East. The key is Iran. The leaders of Iran believe in a Muslim planet before all else. If things work out like they seem to be working out Mr. Obama’s words that the “United States will never be at war with Islam” may be overruled by a future U.S. President. However, I’m rooting for the Obama administration’s brilliance on this one. They were very clever in how they usurped the will of the American public and beat the Republicans in passing ObamaCare. Let’s see how that cleverness plays out on the world stage." From Yes, But However
This is how the American left sees Obama's Middle East policies: "Eventually, Barack Obama will be seen as the man who doubled oil prices and Islamic power, or the leader who shuffled in an genuine era of democracy in the Middle East. The key is Iran. The leaders of Iran believe in a Muslim planet before all else. If things work out like they seem to be working out Mr. Obama’s words that the “United States will never be at war with Islam” may be overruled by a future U.S. President. However, I’m rooting for the Obama administration’s brilliance on this one. They were very clever in how they usurped the will of the American public and beat the Republicans in passing ObamaCare. Let’s see how that cleverness plays out on the world stage." From Yes, But However
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