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       Obama's Reversals Weaken US Credibility!
       By: I-Luv-Rashi Date: September 19, 2013, 3:25 am
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       Obama's Reversals Weaken US Credibility!
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       Let’s say you’re an Israeli prime minister and you get a visit
       from the US secretary of state, and this secretary of state
       assures you that nearby Syria, your longtime enemy, will be
       undergoing “the most far-reaching chemical weapons removal
       ever.”
       If you were a top Israeli official who had watched the US back
       off a military strike on Syria because the Russian despot
       Vladimir Putin, of all people, had promised all those 1,000
       metric tons of Syrian poison would get seized and destroyed in
       the middle of a civil war—would you believe such assurances?
       Should anyone?
       In fact we have to ask: who is going to believe America about
       anything anymore? So rattled is the Obama administration by the
       prospect of re-energized potential aggressors now that it has
       retreated from its previous stance on Syria that the American
       president felt compelled to issue yet another pallid threat over
       the weekend—this time to Iran. Iran’s nuclear program is “a far
       larger issue for us” than Syria’s chemical arsenal, said Obama,
       and no one should think that just because the US didn’t strike
       Syria “we won’t strike Iran.”
       Who briefs Obama these days on what to say on TV?
       I-didn’t-mean-what-I-said-about-Syria-yesterday-but-I-mean-what-
       I-say-about-Iran-today
       is not exactly a Churchillian response to the threat of war.
       Small wonder then that, as the Washington Post reports, Israel’s
       prime minister sounded pretty doubtful after meeting with
       Secretary of State John Kerry. “We hope the understandings that
       have been achieved between the US and Russia regarding Syria’s
       chemical weapons will show results,” said Benjamin Netanyahu
       (emphasis added). “Here as well it is not words that will
       determine the outcome, but rather actions and results.”
       In Israel, as a poll by the newspaper Israel Hayom indicates,
       three-quarters of Israel’s Jewish population reflects the
       skepticism of their leader: they don’t, in other words, believe
       for one minute that Syria will relinquish all its chemical
       weapons. And they also don’t believe—by a margin of
       two-thirds—that Obama can prevent a nuclear Iran.
       They are not pessimists, these Israeli poll respondents. They
       are realists. They know—by now everyone knows—the US cannot be
       trusted.
       Judy Bachrach.
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