So who did you say our friends were “leaving” the US over? What that George Bush? ============= President Obama likes to boast that he has repaired U.S. alliances supposedly frayed and battered by the Bush Administration. He should try using that line with our former allies in Saudi Arabia. As the Journal’s Ellen Knickmeyer has reported from Riyadh in recent weeks, the Kingdom... Read more
Archive for the ‘Obama’ Category
U.S. monitored Merkel’s phone?
October 23 | Posted by mrossol | NSA, Obama, The LeftThe Left is in an uproar! I’m sure there will be calls for Congressional inquiry soon. ============== BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government has obtained information that the United States may have monitored the mobile phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel and she called President Barack Obama on Wednesday to demand an immediate clarification, her spokesman said. White House spokesman Jay Carney said... Read more
U.N. Insecurity Council
October 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle East, ObamaCan anyone imagine the press “feeding frenzy” if Pres. Bush had been “snubbed” like this by Saudi Arabia? Maybe Obama isn’t having enough “dialog”? Maybe he should send Michelle to Saudi Arabia to generate a little more good will? ============ Membership in the United Nations Security Council is supposed to be like a Nobel Prize—no one ever turns it down. So when... Read more
A Crisis of the President’s Own Making
October 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Tax IssuesA week or so old, but good nonetheless. ======= For months now, the GOP has been held hostage by a faction of its party that deluded itself into believing President Obama might be rolled on his signature health-care law. Witness now an equally grand delusion on the Democratic side, one that President Obama nurtures at his peril. According to Democrats, their steadfast refusal... Read more
From Damascus to Tehran
September 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, The LeftHook, line and sinker. Any guesses on what the Adminstration will do? ======== The ruling clerics in Tehran haven’t survived in power for 34 years without cunning. Fresh from their ally Bashar Assad’s diplomatic victory in Damascus, they now see an opening to liberate themselves from Western pressure too. They’re hoping an eager President Obama will ease sanctions in return for... Read more
Putin Snookers Obama
September 11 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Obama, SyriaSnookered… How’s that “Change has come…” working for you? ========= Putin’s deft timing on a Syria chemical arms surrender plan snookered Obama Simon Tisdall The Guardian, Wednesday 11 September 2013 10.22 EDT It is no consolation at all to Syria’s suffering people, stuck with Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime. But for Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president and long-standing anti-western bogeyman, the decision to put military action on... Read more
