I thank Daniel Greenfield, who writes for frontpagemag.com, and also for his own blog, sultanknish.com.
Despite the (unfortunate, in my opinion) cutesiness of that blog name, Mr. Greenfield is an exceptionally talented thinker and writer…which is proven by today\’s commentary, which deals with the contortions President Barack Obama and his people engage in to accuse others of what they themselves do.
The title of Mr. Greenfield\’s piece is “Obama\’s Treason Is The New Patriotism”. It is angry. It is sarcastic. At several points it is over the top. But it brings home a point about how this administration operates that I wish everyone would think long and hard about.
Here are a few excerpts (but promise me you\’ll read them only if you also click on the above link and read the rest as well):
When Republicans complained that Obama refused to talk about Islamic terrorism, he accused them of playing into the hands of ISIS by demanding that he identify the enemy we\’re fighting. When they spoke out against his Iranian nuclear sellout, he accused them of “wanting to make common cause with the hardliners in Iran”. Those hardliners would presumably toe a harder line than Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who responded to Obama\’s outreach in his first term by saying, “The Islamic peoples all over the world chant \’Death to America!\'” and who stated last year that “This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors\’ front with America at the head of it.”(The Supreme Leader of a country which stones teenage rape victims and rapes teenage girls so that they don\’t die as virgins, also claimed that “The European races are barbaric.”)
Meanwhile Joe Biden, Obama\’s number two, accused Republicans of undermining Obama. This would be the same Biden who threatened to impeach President Bush if he bombed Iran\’s nuclear program and who blasted Bush and the idea of an Axis of Evil at a fundraiser in the home of a pro-Iran figure.
The toadying of “Tehran Joe” to Iran had already reached its absolute lowest point when Biden responded to the terrorist attacks of September 11 by suggesting, “Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.”
The administration that Biden is part of has instead been releasing $490 million a month to Iran.
Ignoring terrorists is patriotic. Fighting them is unpatriotic. Dealing with their actual beliefs is unpatriotic. Pretending that they have no beliefs, no matter how impossible it makes it to predict their actions and fight them, is patriotic. Stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons is unpatriotic. The patriotic thing to do is to cut a deal that will let Iran go the way of North Korea. During his original campaign, Obama said, “We cannot allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon.” That should sound familiar.The first rule of treason is to call the other guy a traitor. Having aligned with everyone from Castro to the Supreme Leader of Iran, Obama has to make it seem as if it\’s the Republicans who are the traitors.
An administration of political hacks who spent the Bush years undermining the White House in every way possible short of officially defecting to the enemy now claim that dissent from their policy is treason.
I hope Daniel Greenfield is being rhetorical instead of literal when he calls President Obama a traitor. I certainly don\’t believe he is.
But I do think that, when it comes to foreign policy, Mr. Obama has been an absolute disaster, with an astonishing, unbroken string of failures resulting from his combination of incompetence, ineptitude, personal arrogance, and an ongoing dedication to finding a way that the USA is wrong in just about every situation we are involved with.
So thank you again, Mr. Greenfield. Please keep writing, and I\’ll keep reading.
