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On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 4:28 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected]>wrote: > blessed are the peacemakers. > > On Monday, March 3, 2014 2:18:44 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4772/the_west_is_led_ >> by_the_weaklings_the_left_wanted >> >> >> >> The West is led by the weaklings the Left wanted >> >> *It is not clear what the Left is complaining about over items such as >> Ukraine and Syria. In Britain, Europe and the United States they all >> swooned over Barack Obama. They got the weakling they wanted. So, what's >> their problem?* >> >> [image: Obama_indifferent] >> >> Obama looking disengaged >> >> [image: >> The_commentator_logo_updated9]<http://www.thecommentator.com/author/the_commentator/475> >> >> *the commentator >> <http://www.thecommentator.com/author/the_commentator/475>* >> >> *On 2 March 2014 09:57 * >> >> [image: >> http://www.thecommentator.com/ckeditor_assets/pictures/1/original_98d68d3d58407cfb251e24870dd8d75b9e815a7b.gif]<https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=HHEHVN82WW9T4> >> >> Over in the United States, the attempt by foreign-policy enthusiasts in >> the Democratic Party to distance themselves from the train wreck that is >> the Obama administration has been gathering pace for some time now. >> >> Finally, it is starting to happen in Britain and Europe too where, after >> Syria, Ukraine and many other instances, the leading lights of the >> political Left seem to have woken up to the fact that Western leadership >> isn't quite what it might be these days. >> >> "One of the alarming features of the crisis on Ukraine's Crimean >> peninsula is the staggering confidence with which Vladimir Putin is >> pursuing his agenda there and in eastern Ukraine," reads the opening >> paragraph of the Observer's >> editorial<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/02/ukraine-crimea-russia-putin-europe>on >> Sunday. >> >> Actually, there's nothing staggering about it all, unless you have about >> six years of baggage to shed over your support for Barack Obama. Putin >> clocked Obama for the weakling he is from day 1. All we're seeing from the >> Russian leader is more of what we have seen over Syria, Iran and a host of >> other cases, except that Ukraine is right in Putin's own back yard. >> >> "One thing is certain," the Observer says, "the current crisis presents >> the biggest threat to security in Europe since the Balkan wars, and western >> leaders, including Obama and David Cameron (who has spoken to Putin on the >> phone), have hardly been impressive in their response, demonstrating a weak >> grasp on the events unfolding. For now, Putin is ahead of the game. It is >> time for the international community to catch up." >> >> Quite what they're complaining about isn't clear. In Barack Obama they >> have precisely the "Leader of the Free World" they always wanted. He >> embodies all that they stand for, and all that they are. >> >> He does not believe in the primacy of Western values. Neither do they. He >> therefore sees no reason to show leadership around the world. Neither do >> they. He has downgraded and diminished the U.S. military as a consequence. >> The Left applauds. He shows weakness to the mullahs in Iran. The Left >> praises him for his diplomacy. He worships dictatorship-friendly bodies >> like the UN. The Left cheers him as a peacemaker. >> >> You can't have it both ways. If you want a weak-kneed, apologetic, >> bleeding heart Western leadership don't feign surprise when the likes of >> Vladimir Putin fail to take you seriously. >> >> Defenders of Obama point to his drone strikes as evidence that he's not >> quite the soft touch his critics make him out to be. But that's foreign and >> defence policy reconstituted as a video game. Even Obama can act all tough >> and macho when the worst thing that can happen to him is a demonstration in >> Peshawar after he's accidentally taken out a wedding party. >> >> Drop the virtual reality and he's wandering in traffic. >> >> Weakness is policy, and the world's dictatorships have taken note. 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