Kathianne
06-16-2009, 08:35 AM
Ralph Peters nails what is unfolding. Just going to post the conclusion, the whole article is more than worth reading:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06162009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_obama_effect_174463.htm?&page=0
...Ahmadinejad believes that his faith alone will rule after the any-day-now apocalypse. Obama believes in . . . Obama.
This is not an even match, folks. No man preoccupied with his personal destiny can beat the man ablaze with revelation: This contest features the carnival barker vs. the suicide bomber.
My money's on Ahmadinejad, not Obama, to trigger change in the Middle East. And it'll be change you can believe in.
Meanwhile, the Saudis, our paramount enemies, just sit back and smirk after making a court eunuch of yet another American president. The stillborn hopes of greater freedom lie buried in the sand.
Obama's penitential Cairo sermon betrayed those Middle Easterners who embraced our ideals, who struggled for human rights and democracy, suffering prison, torture and death. Perceived as a confession of weakness and guilt, Obama's rhetoric electrified our enemies.
There has been a "Cairo effect." We just saw it. In Iran.
Now we face our bloodiest year in Afghanistan. Iraq's exciting progress has ground to a halt. All Palestinian factions just rejected an attempted opening by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. And al Qaeda has awakened from its coma.
The desert's a lousy place to walk on water.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06162009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_obama_effect_174463.htm?&page=0
...Ahmadinejad believes that his faith alone will rule after the any-day-now apocalypse. Obama believes in . . . Obama.
This is not an even match, folks. No man preoccupied with his personal destiny can beat the man ablaze with revelation: This contest features the carnival barker vs. the suicide bomber.
My money's on Ahmadinejad, not Obama, to trigger change in the Middle East. And it'll be change you can believe in.
Meanwhile, the Saudis, our paramount enemies, just sit back and smirk after making a court eunuch of yet another American president. The stillborn hopes of greater freedom lie buried in the sand.
Obama's penitential Cairo sermon betrayed those Middle Easterners who embraced our ideals, who struggled for human rights and democracy, suffering prison, torture and death. Perceived as a confession of weakness and guilt, Obama's rhetoric electrified our enemies.
There has been a "Cairo effect." We just saw it. In Iran.
Now we face our bloodiest year in Afghanistan. Iraq's exciting progress has ground to a halt. All Palestinian factions just rejected an attempted opening by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. And al Qaeda has awakened from its coma.
The desert's a lousy place to walk on water.