In chess, a desperado is a piece that seems determined
to give itself up...
Jennifer Rubin at contentions:
The most common adjective used to describe the administration these days is “desperate.” It is desperate to get a New START deal, and get it now. It is “desperate” to restart the non-direct, non-peace talks. It has made common cause with the Fed’s “desperate” bond-buying scheme.
The increasingly frantic policy gambits can be attributed to the attempt to convince the voters that Obama is not a failed president. If only he can get a deal on — fill in the blank — then he’ll cut the losing streak and regain his political mojo. The theory is as, well, desperate as are the individual schemes. The president’s difficulties stem from his jobs-killing agenda, his misunderstanding of the Middle East and most other foreign policy conflicts, and his inability to relate to voters....
President Barack Obama, with an ice pack over his mouth, looks out a second floor window of the White House during the arrival of the official White House Christmas tree on Friday. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press)
You would think that having been a "Jakarta street kid" in his youth, Obama would understand that it's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Having disabused the "world community" of any notion of American exceptionalism, we have to wonder how His Omnipotence will cope when his liberal nihilism comes back to bite him... and us.
At the Rubin post, Eli Lake quotes an Egyptian editorial reflecting "the mood from official Cairo" --
“Egypt has played and plays an important role in matters of regional peace and security … and is capable of bringing regional stability to all the areas that are regressing due to wrong U.S. policies in Sudan, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. … The United States is the one that ought to listen to Egypt, and not the other way around.”
Remember Cairo? That's where Obama promised that "America does not presume to know what is best for everyone."
In case memory fails you, the White House has translated The Cairo Speech into Arabic, Chinese, Dari, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Malay, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish and Urdu -- available in transcript and or video with translated captionings. There's also a slideshow from "behind the scenes" if you want to re-live the glory days.
PostScript ~ courtesy of the Washington Post:
Speaking shortly before Obama delivered his address, in which he called for a "new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that... "People of the Middle East, the Muslim region and North Africa -- people of these regions -- hate America from the bottom of their heart."
