Hopeychange? Not So Much

Ralph Peters makes tasty mincemeat out of Obama's "outreach" to Muslims/betrayal of Israel.:

...The aura of unreality extends to the assumption that Israel, faced with threats to its very existence, can be bullied by a White House aligned with its enemies.

The Israeli government's capable of doing stupid, counterproductive things. Israel's raucous democracy sometimes falls hostage to nasty splinter groups. But it remains the only country in the neighborhood where an irate electorate can vote offenders out. Does Obama honestly believe that tilting against Israel will have any positive effect on the Arab world's moral incompetence and ingrained anti-Americanism?

Apparently he does. The roots of this month's diplomatic debacle lie in Cairo -- where Obama preened and pandered a year ago, sugar-coating the Arab world's self-made problems, groveling before Islamist bigotry and fatally encouraging Palestinians and their manipulators to believe that the US had turned away from Israel.

The result has been the collapse of the fragile peace process, which tumbled from direct negotiations back to grudging proximity talks (that have yet to occur).

Israel's on guard. Arabs are intransigent. And progress is dead. All thanks to Obama's arrogant refusal to do his homework before his Cairo apologia. ("No-Drama Obama?" Check out the riots in Jerusalem)...

No surprise. Why should he be any less incompetent in the international arena than he is at home?