How Dangerous Is Obama?

James Lewis, American Thinker

It’s now quite clear that Obama is playing chicken with Israel on Iranian nukes. That is why Leon Panetta came out with a statement this week accusing Israel of planning to attack Iran. If that statement is true, it’s the worst kind of sabotage, undermining the advantages of surprise. If it’s false, it is intended to place Israel at the focus of Iranian rage. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

The goal of Obama’s nuclear brinkmanship is to drive Israel into making dangerous territorial compromises. This is a Carteresque policy: blame the victim, and arm her enemy. Jimmy Carter enabled Iranian radicalization starting with Ayatollah Khomeini, heedless of the disastrous and possibly genocidal consequences. Carter recently said that an Iranian nuclear weapon was no big deal, as if a nuke in the hands of a suicide-preaching Khomeinist ideology machine is just fine with him. Well, the Saudis know their Iranian enemies a great deal better than Jimmy Carter does, and they are sending their money to Switzerland.

Obama and Carter represent the dangerous “left of the left wing” Democrat foreign policy establishment, the folks who thought we should surrender to the Soviets, who created the retreat from Saigon, and who rationalized the Iran-Iraq War, which killed a million people after Carter allowed Khomeini radicalism to rise in Iran. The destruction caused by left-leftist foreign policy “thought” from the Democrats is immense. Over the years, they have colluded in hundreds of thousands of deaths abroad — covered up by the mainstream media. They are Lenin’s useful idiots, who colluded in 100 million Communist terror victims in the 20th century alone, and they have not changed one little bit.

Such people are dangerous. When they enabled Mao Zedong’s “Great Leap Forward” at the cost of 40 million Chinese lives, all the damage was to China. There was no plausible nuclear threat to Japan, South Korea, or Taiwan, because mad old Mao Zedong turned his mass-killing efforts inwards. When Vietnam killed hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese after the U.S. withdrew from Saigon, again, Ho Chi Minh’s purges were turned inward. Now that North Korea is again filling its concentration camps and having another major famine, its neighbors feel reasonably safe. Yes, the useful idiots of the West engage in criminal collusion with madmen of the East, as Dr. Thomas Sowell points out in his latest book on Western intellectuals, but our criminal colluders always stay safe themselves.

That is not true with a nuclear Iran, which is really run by a suicide-glorifying cult, just like World War II Japan, or Hitler during the last days in the bunker. For the first time in history, humanity is facing the worst of all possible options: nuclear weapons in the hands of a cult which preaches and glorifies massive martyrdom and which has carried out giant martyrdom attacks during the Iran-Iraq War.

That is why Iranian nukes are different from American or Soviet nukes. The left-of-the-left has always lived in denial of that plain and obvious fact: that the war ideology of one’s nuclear enemies has everything to do with the lethality of the danger those enemies pose. Every child in Iran is raised with the daily chant Death to America! Death to Israel! Our useful idiots have preached for thirty years that “they don’t really mean it,” in exactly the way Western appeasers told the world that Hitler didn’t really mean Mein Kampf.

There’s bluffing, and there’s genuine war ideology. Nazi ideology used bluffing but was perfectly willing to sacrifice a generation of Germans in assaulting France and Russia. Imperial Japan likewise. Khomeinism shows all the signs of a suicidal war ideology, but it is happy to bluff its enemies — which includes all the Sunni Muslims in surrounding countries — to get its way. Martyrdom is glorious, but spreading fear and terror by bluff is also in the war manual.

Obama has failed to do anything about Iranian nukes in order to pressure Israel (and probably the Saudis) into obeying his Napoleonic destiny. The slogan “Audace, audace, toujours audace!” comes from Napoleon and Marshall Ney, who practiced Blitzkrieg on European armies a century before Hitler.

Obama is a reckless gambler. He is gambling with our economy. He is gambling with our first-rate health care system, including your future as you age. He likes to gamble, and he figures to blame everybody else when he inevitably fails. That’s the role of the Occupy Mobs during the election: to blame “capitalism” when the economy aches and groans from Obama misgovernment. Obama (like Bill and Hillary) has figured out that misgovernment doesn’t matter in the least — not if you have the Big Media on your side, ready to rant and rage to blame your enemies for the chaos you bring.

When Leon Panetta and Hillary come out in public to blame Israel for wanting to defend itself, the same cynical Napoleonic strategy is at work. When Obama called for Hosni Mubarak to resign after thirty years of upholding peace in the Sinai, triggering off a rolling overthrow of Arab regimes from Tunisia to Egypt and Yemen, the same recklessness was at work. Who cares if Muslim radicalism took over the Arab world? Just like Jimmy Carter, who was willing to see Ayatollah Khomeini establish a sadistic tyranny over our ally Iran, Obama loves Muslims so much that he is quite willing to see sadistic, reactionary forces take over in Egypt and elsewhere for the greater glory of Barry.

The bottom line is that Obama is threatening Israel with nuclear genocide if it doesn’t obey his Napoleonic orders, which are to retreat to the 1948 ceasefire lines that make Israel look like a gerrymandered congressional district. Such a “solution” doubles or triples the borders to be defended against lethal enemies, while shrinking Israel’s small territory by two-thirds. It is a death sentence.

But that is the barely hidden agenda of the left-of-the-left foreign policy establishment the Democrats have cobbled together in the last several decades. These are the same people who approved the fraudulent intelligence estimate at the end of the Bush years, claiming that Iranian nukes posed no danger at all. They are the same people who brought Muslim propagandists into our universities, just as they are the generation of pseudo-historians who brought in the Stalinist Howard Zinn version of American history to propagandize an entire generation of American teenagers. They are taking vengeance on America for defeating Soviet Communism in the Cold War. They are the “declinists” who constantly preach that Pax Americana is dead, and that we will have to rely on China to enforce the peace of the world from now on.

We don’t have to guess at their goals, which are on full display in Europe today. Europe can no longer defend itself, because the simple will to survive has been radically undermined by a generation of left-of-leftists. When a Norwegian maniac killed almost a hundred people several months ago, the immediate reaction was to blame the tiny and oppressed democratic minority in Norway.

That is how the left-of-the-left operates. They no longer believe in the nation-state, just as Obama no longer believes in the nation-state. And yet, our safety and security depends crucially on what remains of nationalism. We are ruled by delusional saboteurs who will do anything to destroy our national security on behalf of their dream of international peace — which means international tyranny, of course.

For the first time, the United States is in the hands of an ideological minority that rules our schools and media with an iron fist. We can see who they are every day when they conduct witch hunts against Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, and any other ideological opponent. They are out to destroy their enemies, who are ultimately you and me. If they are willing to see the United States go down in defeat, why would anyone wonder that they want to end the State of Israel? The U.S. and Israel are just bourgeois capitalist democracies to the Jerry Wrights and Bill Ayerses of this world.

Obama is a radical leftist. His mind is stuck in ideological delusions. We haven’t seen his kind in the United States since the Stalinism of the 1940s, but around the world Obamas are a dime a dozen. The third Kim in North Korea is one. Hugo Chávez is another. Israel has its own suicidal left, like the editor of the daily Haaretz who told Condi Rice that “Israel must be raped” to bring peace and love to the Middle East.

Objectively speaking, these people are mad. Psychologically, they have created a delusional cult, which happens often in human history. Instead of bringing peace, they are a clear and present danger to peace. Ronald Reagan, who understood Stalinists from his time in Hollywood, had a deep sense of who they are. So did Cold-War liberals like Senator Scoop Jackson. Today, with the media penetrated mostly by left-of-left cult members, we can no longer see who they are.

We are therefore watching the most dangerous nuclear crisis in world history since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1964, which occurred when Fidel Castro — also a leftist fanatic — demanded that nuclear missiles be placed a hundred miles from Florida in Cuba.

John F. Kennedy, a Cold-War liberal who recognized the danger, was president in those days. We, for our part, have Barack Hussein Obama, political tightrope-walker, who is willing to risk seven million Jews in Israel to achieve his narcissistic aims.

It is a curse to live in interesting times.

February 9, 2012 | 10 Comments »

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  1. What have we done to ourselves.

    I believe you choose the leadership you deserve and you may take some solace that in different Ways McCain would have been worse. Obama didn’t win the elections the Republicans lost it.

    The Republicans seem determined to repeat. Obama seems on track to win by default. What does that say about Americans?

  2. Barack Obama a sociopathic Marxist–is Satanically dangerous!

    I don’t think he is a Marxist but if he is then around 50% of the American electorate supports that Marxist.

    On the other hand most republicans support the corporate Robber Barons and the Wall st criminal Banksters. No matter which side you choose you’re screwed. Bye Bye American Pie….

  3. Alan says:
    February 10, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    There is a saying in Arizona that pretty much sums it all:

    OBAMA SUED, HOLDER LIED, WHILE RANCHER KRENTZ AND AGENT TERRY DIED…

    “The most treacherous way of harming a cause is to defend it intentionally with faulty arguments.” Friedrich Nietzsche

    Iran Contra? Gulf of Tonkin? I did not have sex….? WMD? Watergate?

    They all lie and all take you to unnecessary wasteful wars. The American leadership as a mirror of the American people should not inspire confidence that the American people are not deserving of the leaders they choose. One only need to spend some time in a foreign country to see Americans in a realistic unencumbered by the media distortions. Americans are shallow, nihilistic to a large degree, devoid of positive values. Americans have no national purpose or vision for the future except acquiring materialistic stuff they don’t need or value.

    “We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans”

    “Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.” Zbigniew Brzezinski

    What Alexander Hamilton said in his day [“the masses are asses”] was a mere echo of a famous Yiddish folk saying, “der oylem iz a goylem”. The golem, one recalls, is that brutish being incapable of independent thought, and keyed to the will of its master. Alas, the more things change, the less anything in the Jewish world does. The OYLEM, the Jewish audience, remains a GOYLEM…
    THE MASSES ARE ASSES

  4. Obama is a child playing with lives and bombs as toys.The though that this man is supposed to defend the US and the rest of the free world is beyond frightening.Frankly, I think that he does not give a spit whether people live or die, whether Israel survives or not.

    The man is the wrong man in the white house.He is more scary than the Iranian nuke industry.He is explosive,totally uncool,careless and heartless.

    What have we done to ourselves.

  5. No question about it. His track record speaks for itself.

    He is liar and he cannot be trusted. Forget what says, watch what he does. He politically motivated and is dangerous.

    If we know this (here I go repeating myself – Lois Lane) I notice on Fox News 95% of democratic strategist are Jewish defending and supporting Obama, all while he is throwing Israel under the bus.

    I recognize Obama as being a “acorn community organizing pamphlet distributing anti-Semite, pretending to be a Christian for political reasons who embraces Islam, the same Islam that wants to kill Jews and destroy Israel, supported by George Soros and the liberal left media”.

    First of all Israel is a sovereign Jewish Nation and the US has no business dictating anything. We treat our true friend and trusted ally as such and only ask “how can we be of help to you”.

  6. There is a saying in Arizona that pretty much sums it all:

    OBAMA SUED, HOLDER LIED, WHILE RANCHER KRENTZ AND AGENT TERRY DIED…

    The sooner we vote this anti-America, anti-Semitic bastard out, the better off America, Israel and the World will be. And enough of the hooting and howling about who’s better, Mitt, Newt or Rick. Any of them would be a vast improvement over this piece of crap who has been occupying the White House these past 3 years.

    Now, bring on those brick bats from the Lefty Ovomit lovers Catamarin and Yamit (I’ve learned to ignore them for good from now on).

  7. I don’t think the Saudis fear being nuked by Iran but they do fear Shia Persian (non Arab) hegemony of the ME under a nuclear threat umbrella, which could allow the Shia Saudis to successfully rebel against the Saudi ruling Family. The Shia Arabian tribes live in the predominantly oil rich areas of the Arabian Peninsula. Their Lands were stolen by the Sunni Saudis and they want their lands back along with the OIL.

    A nuclear Iran will force Sunni ME nations to counter Iran by developing or procuring their own. History has shown that every weapon ever invented was eventually used. A nuclear Iran would force nuclear proliferation of all ME nations and beyond.

    We would enter into not a Brave New World but a MAD MAD WORLD.

  8. This will take courage and belief in our G-d, both of which are lacking among the Jewish leadership.

    “And they scorned the desirable land and believed not His word.” (Psalms 106)

    “Ephraim, he mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is become a cake not turned. Strangers have devoured his strength and he knoweth it not.” (Hosea 7)

  9. James Lewis is entirely right. However the culpability of our so-called Jewish leaders is not mentioned. That is because the Jewish leadership has failed so badly and so consistently that no one even notices.
    Our leadership has failed to make the case for Jewish rights vs. Arab lies. They failed to educate the public to all the help Israel has given to America. They failed to expose the duplicity of the U.S foreign policy that has constantly betrayed Israel. The are failing to properly utilize Israel’s nuclear power to warn all enemies, both near and far, that the Samson Option is very much on the table. The world appeases Iran because they fear Iran far more than Israel. Israel should cause the world to fear Israel far more than Iran. This will take courage and belief in our G-d, both of which are lacking among the Jewish leadership.