Trying to pick Charles Krauthammer’s best column is like trying to pick Ty Cobb’s best hitting day. There is an awful lot to choose from.
But his latest column, which talks about Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of congress, is right at the top of the list…maybe even the single best of them all.
Click here to read it…but continue below to read just the first third or so….and you’ll understand why I say what I do:
Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress was notable in two respects. Queen Esther got her first standing O in 2,500 years. And President Obama came up empty in his campaign to pre-emptively undermine Netanyahu before the Israeli prime minister could present his case on the Iran negotiations.
On the contrary. The steady stream of slights and insults turned an irritant into an international event and vastly increased the speech’s audience and reach. Instead of dramatically unveiling an Iranian nuclear deal as a fait accompli, Obama must now first defend his Iranian diplomacy.
In particular, argues the Washington Post, he must defend its fundamental premise. It had been the policy of every president since 1979 that Islamist Iran must be sanctioned and contained. Obama, however, is betting instead on detente to tame Iran’s aggressive behavior and nuclear ambitions.
For six years, Obama has offered the mullahs an extended hand. He has imagined that with Kissingerian brilliance he would turn the Khamenei regime into a de facto U.S. ally in pacifying the Middle East. For his pains, Obama has been rewarded with an Iran that has ramped up its aggressiveness in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and Yemen, and brazenly defied the world on uranium enrichment.
He did the same with Russia. He offered Vladimir Putin a new detente. “Reset” he called it. Putin responded by decimating his domestic opposition, unleashing a vicious anti-American propaganda campaign, ravaging Ukraine, and shaking the post-Cold War European order to its foundations.
Like the Bourbons, however, Obama learns nothing.
God I wish Krauthammer was wrong. But he isn’t. Not even a fraction of 1%.
Thank you, sir, for saying it this well. And let me again urge everyone who read the above excerpt to use the link I’ve provided and read the rest as well.
