Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post:
“President Obama, I support the Americans’ outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing.”
— French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Sept. 24
When France chides you for appeasement, you know you’re scraping bottom…
…Sarkozy, who could not conceal his astonishment at Obama’s naivete. On Sept. 24, Obama ostentatiously presided over the Security Council. With 14 heads of state (or government) at the table, with an American president at the chair for the first time ever, with every news camera in the world trained on the meeting, it would garner unprecedented worldwide attention.
Unknown to the world, Obama had in his pocket explosive revelations about an illegal uranium enrichment facility that the Iranians had been hiding near Qom. The French and the British were urging him to use this most dramatic of settings to stun the world with the revelation and to call for immediate action.
Obama refused…
Why forgo the opportunity? Because Obama wanted the Security Council meeting to be about his own dream of a nuclear-free world. The president, reports the New York Times citing “White House officials,” did not want to “dilute” his disarmament resolution “by diverting to Iran.”
Diversion? It’s the most serious security issue in the world. A diversion from what? From a worthless U.N. disarmament resolution?
Yes. And from Obama’s star turn as planetary visionary: “The administration told the French,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “that it didn’t want to ‘spoil the image of success’ for Mr. Obama’s debut at the U.N.”
Image? Success? Sarkozy could hardly contain himself. At the council table, with Obama at the chair, he reminded Obama that “we live in a real world, not a virtual world.”..
John Robson in the Ottawa Citizen:
…the American president, on the weekend, spoke of sanctions as an alternative to diplomacy rather than a component of it. As for Frederick the Great’s “diplomacy without force is like music without instruments,” it’s a tune they cannot carry.
Last Thursday, the hapless Gordon Brown uttered two revealing fatuities. First, “The level of deception by the Iranian government and the scale of what we believe is the breach of international commitments will shock and anger the entire international community.” Second, there is “no choice but to draw a line in the sand.”
By “the entire international community” he means not actual governments but high-minded post-modern liberals like himself who think words are deeds and therefore use them in highly inappropriate ways. For instance calling vacuity “pressure.”..
…The Iranian government is building nuclear weapons so it can blow the Jews off the face of the earth, and our leaders have neither the spine to act nor the wit to perceive their own shameful paralysis. It’s that bad.
18th March 1940: British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) walking across the Horse Guard’s Parade, Buckingham Palace on his seventy-first birthday. Photo: Davies/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.
And there’s a Canadian connection.
X-posted.
I cannot stress enough how Russia, Iran and North Korea cannot be trusted. They have given us no reason to trust them. Obama’s mistakes are either deliberate or due to ignorance. He should not stay in office.
Yes, Gordon Brown, I am Claude Rains and I am shocked, shocked.
(The Canadian connection link seems to be broken.)
Worth repeating:
Bismarck is said to have said: “There is a providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children, and the United States of America.” Bismarck never saw Obama at the U.N. Sarkozy did.
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So let me translate those newspaper stories into real world language. The Iranian government is building nuclear weapons so it can blow the Jews off the face of the earth, and our leaders have neither the spine to act nor the wit to perceive their own shameful paralysis. It’s that bad.
“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Having descended from the dreaded HUNS maybe we need to publish a Facist Spotters Guide.
Naturally, these are the nations that won WWII?
Psalm 91:5-6, 10-11
5 You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.
10 no evil shall befall you, no scourge come near your tent.
11For he will give his angels charge of you to guard you in all your ways.
Hey when in doubt, prayer sounds pretty good…cause we know for sure our august leaders are surely asleep with maybe one or two exceptions.
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht-Commander in Chief
Army Group “True North”
1st St. Nicolaas Army
It’s sickening that the world is going to suffer the consequences of having a U.S. President with the ego development of a 14-year old boy. While Iran gets ready to deliver a nuclear hate-letter to Israel, Obama not only continues to preen in his own mirror but asks the world to join him there.
He dreams of a fantasy world of peace plastered with him name, and this entirely, revoltingly selfish concern of his now s**t-waves over very, very serious and consequential threats to millions of people. While Obama grins away.
Words fail.
“The administration told the French that it didn’t want to spoil the ‘image of success’ for Mr. Obama’s debut at the U.N.”
The people who voted for Obama with all the consideration of someone voting for “dreamiest hunk” at Tiger Beat magazine are *idiots.* At the moment when there’s finally a great deal of resolve from Britain and France to do something about Iran, the great narcissist “did not want to ‘dilute’ his disarmament resolution ‘by diverting to Iran.'”
A disgusting, dangerous peacock of a man. Absolutely evolting. The grave threat to the world remains incidental, in His mind, to his own ego.
What a disaster for the world it’s turned out to be that Americans couldn’t see through this preening ***hole.
The comparison of Obama with Neville Chamberlain are deeply insulting to Chamberlain.
Chamberlain was much more of a realist; his government helped to prepare the UK for war in terms of materiel,
e.g. the Spitfire. He served in the British War Cabinet from his resignation until his death, one assumes honorably.
Nor was Chamberlain a great narcissist.
On the other hand, Obama is, in the marvellous phrase of reader EBD above, “A disgusting, dangerous peacock of a man”.
canadian connection link is broken.
With respect to Iran, we are on a very dangerous path at the moment, in my opinion, one with a high probability of leading to world war. Yesterday, I was very gratified to watch the O’Reilly Factor, and Bill suggested the same thing.
I watch our world leaders and marvel at the repetition of history taking place, at the predictable failure of appeasement with both the Norks and the mullahs. Yet, all we get are talks, and promises of yet more talks, concessions and more concessions.
Our leaders are failing us.
Chamberlain played a poor hand that was his courtesy of former PM Stanley Baldwin, a great fool who starved Britain’s armed forces of tax money for modernization because he feared a communist led uprising every time the sun came up. Sort of an early prototype of a Carter/Obama hybrid.
Chamberlain was tight with the powerful people in Britain who could make things happen or not but his public personna was obsolete even in the mid 1930s. The defeat of the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain was such a near thing that his decision to postpone war against Hitler up to the invasion of Poland and the six month “phony war” afterwards was certainly well founded.
Everyone wants a nuclear-free world, but any country with a lab can create a virus or bacteria that can wipe out millions and leave the infrastructure.
http://www.physorg.com/news172671261.html
http://www.stevequayle.com/dead_scientists/UpdatedDeadScientists.html
Link fixed.
Mark
Ottawa
I wonder if The B.O. will croak like Chamberlain did, when he realizes what a misguided LOSER he is. Like Chamberlain did.
If we are in the End Times, can we stop events?
Should we stop events?
Hal Lindsay’s description of the Israeli PM’s speech at the UN:
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu came to town, too. But he didn’t come to entertain. His appearance was more like that of an Old West lawman standing in the dirt street outside the saloon. He called out the bad guys for a showdown in the street. It was the most courageous, unvarnished truth-slinging I’ve ever witnessed in a public forum. You might call it, “Gunfight at the UN Corral.”
gellen: I to watched the speech and was struck by the fortitude shown…love that point “Gunfight at the UN Corral” it seems so fitting that David once again stands so alone against Goliath.
Perhaps the Israelis will, once again, take matters into their own hands. They certainly have the capability and the cajones required to set Iran’s nuclear ambitions back a few decades. After all, it is the Israelis who have the most to lose if the Iranians are successful in developing a weapon. And the Israelis don’t really need the permission of their so-called allies who appear content to sit on their hands and direct gentle criticism in Iran’s direction.
Excuse me, Sgt Lejaune, are you totally ignorant about WW2?
“the invasion of Poland and the six month “phony war” afterwards”
The Finnish Winter War was not a phony war!
Finland was attacked by the communists, without a declaration of war, defended itelf valiantly, all on its own, and lost 23000 soldiers.
The communists lost 127000 soldiers, which tells you something about the superiority of the Finnish soldier.
The shame here is, first, that no one (France, Britain,…) declared war on the communists when they attacked Poland, while they did when Germany attacked Poland. I suppose
Second, no one dared to militarily assist Finland in its struggle against the communists (except some Swedish volunteers).
Third, after the war, the west approved the communists’ claim that the Finnish wars were Finlands fault, and must therefore pay reparations to the communists.
Shameful!
Excellent column from Mr. Robson. I, too, fear the worst. Hang on to your hats folks.
Johan i Kanada
I concur….
I can’t remember the place name but basically it was a failed masterstroke by the Soviets towards the north. A corps sized attack westwards along a narrow road through the forest, the intention was to cut Finland in half by penetrating to the Swedish border.
What occurred was, it was perhaps the biggest ambush in history with few survivors of that 100 km Soviet column.
I recall the prophetic words of the old Finnish border guard on seeing the Soviet masses approaching….
“Where will we bury them all?”
On reflection I now can recall that mega ambush name.
Central Finland—-the Battle of Raate Road….can’t believe I forgot that!!!!