"What we should be dreading this week is not Syria, but IRAN"

 

 At the suggestion of BtB's friend Michael Krauss, we're reading the comments of "an American academic who has lived in Israel for years" as emailed to Jennifer Rubin:

“There are two kinds of fear here … the fear of the people on the street who’re worried that we’re going to get attacked, which most people know is VERY unlikely, and the fear of [those] who understand that the president of the United States is basically signaling to the world that there is no head of the free world, that the US can’t be counted on to stop Iran, either.”

He concludes, “So, ironically, people are panicked about the wrong thing.  What we should be dreading this week is not Syria, but Iran, because Obama is giving them a green light. THAT is the truly frightening piece of this.”

 

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Hard to believe that just a generation or two ago, leadership was personified by people like Reagan and Churchill; today, what's risibly called leadership is personified by people like Obama and David Cameron. The sad-sacks who now "lead" the West are as indecisive, irresolute, and wavering, (none of which adjectives can be applied to the mullahs in Tehran) as any heads-of-state in modern times. It's okay -- and probably wise -- for us ordinary shlepps to dread Iran, but it is NOT okay for the president of the United States -- because dread in a president is a guarantor of infirmity and ultimately appeasement. Yet nothing could be clearer than that Barack Obama dreads Iran and will never act decisively against it. Israel is on its own -- which I'm sure comes as no surprise to thoughtful Israelis.