-By Warner Todd Huston
I guess our only friend in the Middle East is souring a bit on The One, the Obammessiah, the Light Bringer, our President, Barack Obama, as an Israeli dentist is making waves in Israel for taking out an expensive, 3/4 page ad in a newspaper slamming Obama as having “no bite.”
The ad was taken out in the Haaretz newspaper and features a big, close-up photo of a somewhat vacant looking President Obama with an English translation caption of “Lost your bite?”–below which is the info for the dentist’s office.
The paper this ad appeared in is also interesting because it isn’t a conservative paper, but the left-wing Haaretz. The fact that a left-wing citizen took out this ad and the left-wing paper allowed this ad really goes to show how far President Obama has fallen in the eyes of our Israeli allies.
This ad comes on the heels of Obama’s constant redrawing of his “red line” with Syria as Asssad has been accused of several attacks on civilians with chemical weapons in his civil war with rebels trying to oust him.
Obama has re-drawn his supposed red line, that trigger that will cause him to finally act against the dictator’s regime, several times already and the result has made him look weak.
Of course, this week he is finally pushing for military engagement, but is having nothing but trouble getting both Democrats and Republicans–not to mention our foreign allies–to agree with him.
As an aside, it is odd that US Secretary of State John Kerry called Assad the new Hitler, but Hitler never used chemical warfare in attacks on his enemies–though he did use the gas chambers for his own Jewish population.
Of course, even the leftists in Israel who so loved Obama when he first came to office are coming to realize what a disaster he has been for American foreign policy and for the security of Israel in the Middle East. Many in Israel understand all too well that Obama’s weakness in Middle Eastern policy gives the mad Mullahs of Iran the idea that there will be no consequences for their own overt attempts to push jihadism and extend their own influence over the region.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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