Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Israel Will Strike…
by Publius“If Israel attacks…we should expect the worst” – Robert Baer
Even though his attempts to mediate the Syrian-Israeli conflict will likely end in frustration, French President Sarkozy may yet emerge as a more sober leader for the West than Barack Obama, who took the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s opening to merely descend from on high and digitally address the world, and somehow found a way to neither mention the Soviet Union nor quote Ronald Reagan. In his speech, President Obama also neglected to mention, for the benefit, say, of the middle school students or democratic dissidents who might have been listening: Margaret Thatcher, the Pope, Gorbachev, or even the word Communism. Eventually, as we must now aknowledge was not surprising, he mentioned his own life story and election as some sort of metaphorical wall coming down. Either “full of himself” doesn’t even begin to describe our president, or his speechwriters are literally in love with him – which would be cute, were it not so perilous.
Because the world watches. In Israel, they watch and they listen and they don’t like the way the “winds of change” are blowing. They feel america leaving them in the desert. In Europe, they listen and they must, if their ears are working, hear the news that America will no longer play the bad cop to their good cop. If Obama’s America, while dreaming of a world without nuclear weapons, allows Iran to attain the ability to strike German cities, what should the Europeans leaders do? Will the Germans build new weapons of their own? As this interview with two experts on the region reveals, circumstances are rapidly growing too dire to ignore.
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