{"id":29761,"date":"2013-09-03T16:27:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=29761"},"modified":"2013-09-03T16:27:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:27:39","slug":"exactly-barack-obama-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-politics-analysis\/exactly-barack-obama-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"So What Exactly Does Barack Obama Stand For?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bobama<\/a><\/p>\n

The American drumbeat of war in Syria isn\u2019t about dubious intelligence.\u00a0 It\u2019s about the arrogance of power and being the bully of the world.\u00a0 But even the bully of the world can be bullied.<\/p>\n

President Obama thought his chemical weapons\u2019 red line was the end of the matter.\u00a0 Now he realizes it was only the beginning.<\/p>\n

In his second term as President, no one knows what Obama stands for \u2013 if anything \u2013 or where he really wants to take the nation.\u00a0 Out of war was his campaign mantra.\u00a0 Better to focus on the poverty and jobs war at home.\u00a0 The Iraq and Afghanistan war wound down, for Americans at least, but the drone war increased and now our (selective) Middle East meddling is staring Obama right in the face.<\/p>\n

Will Obama\u2019s Presidency be defined by missile strikes in Syria?<\/p>\n

The full court blitz of Congress and the Sunday talk shows is the rage right now and surprise, surprise, Iran and Israel have become as important in the discussion as the chemical weapons\u2019 charge against Syria.\u00a0 The argued threat is being globalized.\u00a0 Stand by for the President\u2019s thrust on the global stage.\u00a0 He needs to cobble together yet another coalition of the willing.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Israel and AIPAC, are theses bullies driving the elected bullies into yet another war?<\/p>\n

Will Congress pass the authorization Obama wants?\u00a0 Perhaps.\u00a0 The British have already backed away and the very eager French \u2013 now in a US ally competition with the British \u2013 will await the vote in Congress.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 To be honest, the French don\u2019t have the military capability to go it alone.\u00a0 Nor do they want to stand alone on the imperial stage without US cover.<\/p>\n

Since World War II, Europe has renounced its global imperialism \u2013 and let America secure it for them.\u00a0 It\u2019s always best to renounce imperialism without giving it up.\u00a0 Cowardly, though.\u00a0 If the French want to teach Syria and their old stomping ground a lesson, let the French go it alone.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile in Egypt, our blood-on-their-hands ally that doesn\u2019t have to sweat a US missile strike or even the loss of US aid continues on its martial law path by charging deposed President Morsi with inciting murder during the uprising against his rule.\u00a0 The charge is as convoluted as the lurking charge against Morsi\u2019s jail break during the last days of the (official) Mubarak regime.\u00a0 But, then, is the logic of Egypt\u2019s rulers any different than the logic the Obama administration is using in Syria?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it in a nutshell.\u00a0 Twisted logic that passes as reasonable discourse.\u00a0 With deadly consequences for those await the missiles duly approved by the paragons of moral virtue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MONDOWEISS: Is he about extracting the U.S from costly and involved foreign conflict or in favour of same? Maybe he’s the Drone Strike President? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":29763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,692,82,60,135],"tags":[8886,1209,1103,1530,2453,16634,18341,121,18286,1808,16517,18330,18302,16614],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29765,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29761\/revisions\/29765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}