Posted by
Bert Chapman on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 7:15:00 PM
President Barack Obama began his Mideast foreign policy by traveling to the Islamic world and apologizing for real, or in the overwhelming case, imagined sins of U.S. foreign policy in that region. This foreign policy novice and his guilt ridden liberal advisors who are ashamed of American exceptionalism and Israel, sought such going to Canossa pronouncements to the Arab masses would sow numerous benefits and improve our allegedly tarnished image in that part of the world. A year and a half into Messiah Barack's presidency, none of this is working. Recently released public opinion polls show the U.S.' standing in the Mideast has not improved and may actually be worse. Obama has managed to alienate Israel our most important ally in that world, has a Afghan policy that seems determined to cut and run in mid 2011 instead of actually trying to win the war against the Taliban and Al Qaida, his efforts to get increased international sanctions against Iran's nuclear aspirations have failed miserably and the fanatical Shiite regime is closer to become a nuclear weapons state, and our withdrawal of combat forces from Iraq is resulting in increased internecine violence negating the hard won progress which has been made in that country since 2007.
Obama Administration incompetence in this region all merit apologies. There are other historical mistakes we've made in this region we should apologize for. We should apologize to Iran for not crushing Islamist opponents of the Shah after we helped him over throw the leftist secularist Mossadeq regime in 1953 which helped lead to the Ayatollah's revolution of 1979 whose human rights and geopolitical consequences still plague that region today. We owe an especially big apologize to the British for not supporting them, the French, and Israelis, against Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1956 Suez War. This betrayal, out of an idiotic sense of anti-imperialist spite, drove two important countries out of the Middle East and emboldened Islamist terrorists into the belief that they could impose their noxious doctrines on that entire region without the U.S. or any other country trying to stop them. We should apologize to Lebanese Christians for our military withdrawal in 1983-1984 and allowing militant Muslims to gain greater political and cultural influence in that country. We should also apologize to Israel for not letting it fully develop the West Bank and Gaza and for clinging to the delusional belief of the Palestineans and Arab World that "lasting peace" in that region is only possible by creating a terrorist controlled Palestinean state in Israeli territory which would be a dagger pointed at Israel's jugular vein. We should also apologize for not having the courage to tell Saudi Arabia to quit promoting its poisonous Wahhabite Islamist ideology in educational systems all over the world and for not allowing freedom of religion within its own borders and we should also collaborate with Israel if it becomes necessary to take military action to prevent Iran from acquiring and using nuclear weapons.
We have to accept the Mideast as the bloodthirsty tribal Islamic cauldron that it is, with the honorable exception of Israel and maybe Jordan and some oil rich Persian Gulf countries, and quit deluding ourselves into thinking that we can transform these countries through soothing words or more money. Unfortunately, that won't happen under this President and administration who are useful idiots for Islamist tyranny!