Clarice Feldman "There’s more than a passing similarity between Obama’s race baiting and his Netanyahu baiting: lies, agitprop, media complicity, shady financing, and prejudice -- in one case against whites, in the other against Jews.
"Jack Cashill, who often graces these pages, explains this week how the president has been ginning up racial animosity with the help of his friends and funders, describing techniques which I see Obama also using against Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel."
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"After all, Obama’s diplomatic efforts have not once redounded to our interests. As my friend Cecil Turner notes:
I think Obama's track record on "diplomatic solutions" is a bit checkered:
The Russian "reset" presaged takeovers in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, and raised tensions to dangerous levels (and spawned a series of military maneuvers, including the latest bizarre armored column touring Eastern Europe);
the Iraq pullout that spawned ISIS resurgence;
Syrian negotiations that strengthens Iran and leaves us picking between a dictator and terrorists;
"Kinetic military action" that replaced a relatively docile Libyan dictator with a hotbed of terrorist chaos;
The Yemeni government overthrown by Iranian-backed rebels; and,
Our strongest regional ally rejecting a State Department sponsored get-out-the-vote effort to depose its prime minister, with resultant dysfunction.
The negotiation track record on this issue is similarly unimpressive. Recognizing Iran's right to enrich (which was implicit in allowing them to continue during the current round of talks), and removing sanctions as a condition for talking (whilst missing deadline after deadline), and throwing away a strong hand engendered by a[n] oil market price collapse demonstrated our desire to negotiate from weakness. Not too surprisingly, I lack confidence in Obama's team to negotiate anything, but in any event I seriously doubt kissing Iran's a$$ on nuclear issues is the sensible way forward.
Obviously that makes me a racist.
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