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A Pantywaist Appeasing President
By Joan Swirsky, For The Bulletin
Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a two-part series. The first appeared in the April 16 edition of The Bulletin.
What did the president get for what columnist Charles Krauthammer described as him “bearing a basketful of mea culpa” and “indicting his own people for arrogance, for dismissiveness and derisiveness, for genocide, for torture, for Hiroshima, for Guantanamo and for insufficient respect for the Muslim world, while engaging in an obsessive denigration of his country?
• He wanted more NATO combat troops in Afghanistan … he was rudely rebuffed.
• He wanted more stimulus spending from Europe … he got nothing.
• From Russia, he got no help on Iran.
• From China, he got the blocking of any action on North Korea.”
He also wanted European countries to take the Gitmo terrorists off his hands, but Austria said “no thanks” and France said they’d take only one!
And just as North Korea was launching its missile, the president told an audience in Prague that he wanted a nuclear-weapons-free world.
“Now is the time for a strong international response,” he exhorted them, which he also didn’t get, as the feckless and ineffectual do-nothings at the United Nations did nothing — “no sanctions. No resolution. Not even a statement,” Mr. Krauthammer reports.
“It is passing strange,” Mr. Krauthammer says, “for a world leader to celebrate his own country’s decline.”
U.K. writer and broadcaster Gerald Warner is not so polite. Calling Mr. Obama a president pantywaist — the new surrender monkey on the block, Mr. Warner says the president’s foreign adventure was “the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. You name it, he blew it.”
Commenting on Kim Jong Il’s missile launch, Mr. Warner says that “President Pantywaist is hopping mad and he has a strategy to cut Kim down to size: he is going to slice $1.4 billion off America’s missile defense program, presumably on the calculation that Kim would feel it unsporting to hit a sitting duck, so that will spoil his fun. Watch out, France and Company, there is a new surrender monkey on the block and, over the next four years, he will spectacularly sell out the interests of the West with every kind of liberal-delusionist initiative on nuclear disarmament and sitting down to negotiate with any power freak who wants to buy time to get a good ICBM fix on San Francisco, or wherever.”
Weakening our national defense, of course, is among President Obama’s chief goals. As writer Caroline Glick has noted, “somewhere between apologizing for American history — both distant and recent; genuflecting before the unelected, bigoted king of Saudi Arabia; announcing that he will slash the U.S.’s nuclear arsenal, scrap much of America’s missile defense programs and emasculate the U.S. Navy; leaving Japan to face North Korea and China alone; telling the Czechs, Poles and their fellow former Soviet colonies, ‘Don’t worry, be happy,’ as he leaves them to Moscow’s tender mercies; humiliating Iraq’s leaders while kowtowing to Iran; preparing for an open confrontation with Israel; and thanking Islam for its great contribution to American history, President Obama made clear to the world’s aggressors that America will not be confronting them for the foreseeable future … none of them has any reason to fear Washington.”
But, Ms. Glick adds that after Mr. Obama’s European trip, “America’s most stable allies worldwide began a desperate search for a reset button that would cause the administration to take back its abandonment of America’s role as the protector of the free world” — including Japan, India, Iraq, Europe, Czechoslovakia, the Ukrainian governments and of course Israel.
“America’s betrayal of its democratic allies,” Ms. Glick says, “makes each of them more vulnerable to aggression at the hands of their enemies — enemies the Obama administration is now actively attempting to appease.”
But Ms. Glick didn’t include our important ally Canada, which has also criticized American foreign policy, but whose citizens are now gravely concerned about America’s defensive umbrella under which they’ve lived in security since the end of World War II.
The Smiling, And Even Cackling, Continue
Relieved temporarily from his chronic condition — nausea brought on by antipathy to America — President Obama returned to the U.S. to face yet another of the irritating “distractions” that threaten to sidetrack his single-minded pursuit of destroying our country. Recently, a small band of Somali pirates attacked an American cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama, for the purpose of kidnapping its sailors and extorting millions of dollars for their return. The ship’s heroic captain, Richard Phillips, offered himself as hostage and the ship, filled with humanitarian aid, was able to proceed on its way to Kenya.
Capt. Phillips was whisked into a small covered boat that ran out of fuel, leaving it to float aimlessly in the Indian Ocean. He dove overboard trying to escape, but was recaptured by the terrorists and we didn’t know if he was offered a glass of water or was being starved or if he thought he would live to see his family or serve his country again.
The crew of the Maersk Alabama had taken hostage one of the terrorists and agreed to exchange him for Capt. Phillips. The Americans met the bargain but the terrorists reneged. At the time, an American warship, the USS Bainbridge, was close by, and was then joined by three more U.S. warships and six U.S. naval vessels.
At the same time, African terrorists took three Frenchmen hostage. In short order, the French fought back fiercely and rescued them.
Dan Friedman, a frequent commentator on the political scene, said: “when the French show you up, you’ve sunk very low. When you’re outsmarted and outmaneuvered by a band of illiterate savages, you’ve neared rock bottom. When four kids with rotting teeth who’ve never seen a flush toilet can stop you in your tracks, you’re foundering. When your sophisticated Navy and your will to use it is defeated by your own commander in chief’s naïveté and cringing self-doubt, your country is up a creek without a paddle.”
In perfect keeping with President Obama’s abject pandering to the Muslim world and his by-now-proven “style” of appeasement and capitulation (read North Korea, Iran and Capt. Phillips), what did we hear from him?
On day one of the crisis: “We’re talking about housing, guys,” he shot back at a journalist who dared question him about the Somali incident and Capt. Phillips’ plight.
On day two: Silence.
On day three: Deafening silence.
On day four: Thundering silence.
Responding quickly to their new ally in the White House, Somali terrorists promptly hijacked an American-owned, 16-crew-member tugboat in the Gulf of Aden. President Obama’s response: “Absent.”
As editor Charlotte Baker said; “In less than 90 days, President Obama has pushed America back to the malaise of the Carter days — hostages and all.”
James Lewis writes that, “Jimmy and Zbig (Brezenski) have been trying to explain their disastrous ignorance ever since and because they are mentally stuck in appeasement they have infected the Obamanites with the same bacilli. If Obama fails to take action, watch for Russia to make a move on the Ukraine. China will get more aggressive toward Taiwan. Iran will openly throw sandals at Obama effigies, and the rest of the world will realize — uh oh, no more cop on the international beat. North Korea will launch another missile over Japan … another satellite launch will somehow go astray, heading toward Hawaii … welcome to the age of American weakness.”
No problem, our president seems to be saying. Just as he chortled his way through an interview with “60 Minutes” journalist Steve Kroft about our devolving economic situation — prompting the horrified reporter to ask, “Are your punch drunk?” — his mood remains good. So good that during this horrific siege — while the life of Capt. Richard Phillips hangs in the balance — he decided to fly a St. Louis chef 860 miles to whip up some gourmet pizza in the White House. And his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, apparently thought Capt. Phillips’ imperiled life and the entire hostage scene was hysterically funny, as she weirdly cackled her way through a press conference about it.
Easy to explain. As long as America is in trouble, Mr. Obama and his America-loathing co-conspirators are free of their incurable nausea. That intractable condition will only be cured when America is completely and utterly destroyed.
Joan Swirsky (www.joanswirsky.com) is a New York-based author and journalist who can be reached at joansharon@aol.com.
What did the president get for what columnist Charles Krauthammer described as him “bearing a basketful of mea culpa” and “indicting his own people for arrogance, for dismissiveness and derisiveness, for genocide, for torture, for Hiroshima, for Guantanamo and for insufficient respect for the Muslim world, while engaging in an obsessive denigration of his country?
• He wanted more NATO combat troops in Afghanistan … he was rudely rebuffed.
• He wanted more stimulus spending from Europe … he got nothing.
• From Russia, he got no help on Iran.
• From China, he got the blocking of any action on North Korea.”
He also wanted European countries to take the Gitmo terrorists off his hands, but Austria said “no thanks” and France said they’d take only one!
And just as North Korea was launching its missile, the president told an audience in Prague that he wanted a nuclear-weapons-free world.
“Now is the time for a strong international response,” he exhorted them, which he also didn’t get, as the feckless and ineffectual do-nothings at the United Nations did nothing — “no sanctions. No resolution. Not even a statement,” Mr. Krauthammer reports.
“It is passing strange,” Mr. Krauthammer says, “for a world leader to celebrate his own country’s decline.”
U.K. writer and broadcaster Gerald Warner is not so polite. Calling Mr. Obama a president pantywaist — the new surrender monkey on the block, Mr. Warner says the president’s foreign adventure was “the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. You name it, he blew it.”
Commenting on Kim Jong Il’s missile launch, Mr. Warner says that “President Pantywaist is hopping mad and he has a strategy to cut Kim down to size: he is going to slice $1.4 billion off America’s missile defense program, presumably on the calculation that Kim would feel it unsporting to hit a sitting duck, so that will spoil his fun. Watch out, France and Company, there is a new surrender monkey on the block and, over the next four years, he will spectacularly sell out the interests of the West with every kind of liberal-delusionist initiative on nuclear disarmament and sitting down to negotiate with any power freak who wants to buy time to get a good ICBM fix on San Francisco, or wherever.”
Weakening our national defense, of course, is among President Obama’s chief goals. As writer Caroline Glick has noted, “somewhere between apologizing for American history — both distant and recent; genuflecting before the unelected, bigoted king of Saudi Arabia; announcing that he will slash the U.S.’s nuclear arsenal, scrap much of America’s missile defense programs and emasculate the U.S. Navy; leaving Japan to face North Korea and China alone; telling the Czechs, Poles and their fellow former Soviet colonies, ‘Don’t worry, be happy,’ as he leaves them to Moscow’s tender mercies; humiliating Iraq’s leaders while kowtowing to Iran; preparing for an open confrontation with Israel; and thanking Islam for its great contribution to American history, President Obama made clear to the world’s aggressors that America will not be confronting them for the foreseeable future … none of them has any reason to fear Washington.”
But, Ms. Glick adds that after Mr. Obama’s European trip, “America’s most stable allies worldwide began a desperate search for a reset button that would cause the administration to take back its abandonment of America’s role as the protector of the free world” — including Japan, India, Iraq, Europe, Czechoslovakia, the Ukrainian governments and of course Israel.
“America’s betrayal of its democratic allies,” Ms. Glick says, “makes each of them more vulnerable to aggression at the hands of their enemies — enemies the Obama administration is now actively attempting to appease.”
But Ms. Glick didn’t include our important ally Canada, which has also criticized American foreign policy, but whose citizens are now gravely concerned about America’s defensive umbrella under which they’ve lived in security since the end of World War II.
The Smiling, And Even Cackling, Continue
Relieved temporarily from his chronic condition — nausea brought on by antipathy to America — President Obama returned to the U.S. to face yet another of the irritating “distractions” that threaten to sidetrack his single-minded pursuit of destroying our country. Recently, a small band of Somali pirates attacked an American cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama, for the purpose of kidnapping its sailors and extorting millions of dollars for their return. The ship’s heroic captain, Richard Phillips, offered himself as hostage and the ship, filled with humanitarian aid, was able to proceed on its way to Kenya.
Capt. Phillips was whisked into a small covered boat that ran out of fuel, leaving it to float aimlessly in the Indian Ocean. He dove overboard trying to escape, but was recaptured by the terrorists and we didn’t know if he was offered a glass of water or was being starved or if he thought he would live to see his family or serve his country again.
The crew of the Maersk Alabama had taken hostage one of the terrorists and agreed to exchange him for Capt. Phillips. The Americans met the bargain but the terrorists reneged. At the time, an American warship, the USS Bainbridge, was close by, and was then joined by three more U.S. warships and six U.S. naval vessels.
At the same time, African terrorists took three Frenchmen hostage. In short order, the French fought back fiercely and rescued them.
Dan Friedman, a frequent commentator on the political scene, said: “when the French show you up, you’ve sunk very low. When you’re outsmarted and outmaneuvered by a band of illiterate savages, you’ve neared rock bottom. When four kids with rotting teeth who’ve never seen a flush toilet can stop you in your tracks, you’re foundering. When your sophisticated Navy and your will to use it is defeated by your own commander in chief’s naïveté and cringing self-doubt, your country is up a creek without a paddle.”
In perfect keeping with President Obama’s abject pandering to the Muslim world and his by-now-proven “style” of appeasement and capitulation (read North Korea, Iran and Capt. Phillips), what did we hear from him?
On day one of the crisis: “We’re talking about housing, guys,” he shot back at a journalist who dared question him about the Somali incident and Capt. Phillips’ plight.
On day two: Silence.
On day three: Deafening silence.
On day four: Thundering silence.
Responding quickly to their new ally in the White House, Somali terrorists promptly hijacked an American-owned, 16-crew-member tugboat in the Gulf of Aden. President Obama’s response: “Absent.”
As editor Charlotte Baker said; “In less than 90 days, President Obama has pushed America back to the malaise of the Carter days — hostages and all.”
James Lewis writes that, “Jimmy and Zbig (Brezenski) have been trying to explain their disastrous ignorance ever since and because they are mentally stuck in appeasement they have infected the Obamanites with the same bacilli. If Obama fails to take action, watch for Russia to make a move on the Ukraine. China will get more aggressive toward Taiwan. Iran will openly throw sandals at Obama effigies, and the rest of the world will realize — uh oh, no more cop on the international beat. North Korea will launch another missile over Japan … another satellite launch will somehow go astray, heading toward Hawaii … welcome to the age of American weakness.”
No problem, our president seems to be saying. Just as he chortled his way through an interview with “60 Minutes” journalist Steve Kroft about our devolving economic situation — prompting the horrified reporter to ask, “Are your punch drunk?” — his mood remains good. So good that during this horrific siege — while the life of Capt. Richard Phillips hangs in the balance — he decided to fly a St. Louis chef 860 miles to whip up some gourmet pizza in the White House. And his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, apparently thought Capt. Phillips’ imperiled life and the entire hostage scene was hysterically funny, as she weirdly cackled her way through a press conference about it.
Easy to explain. As long as America is in trouble, Mr. Obama and his America-loathing co-conspirators are free of their incurable nausea. That intractable condition will only be cured when America is completely and utterly destroyed.
Joan Swirsky (www.joanswirsky.com) is a New York-based author and journalist who can be reached at joansharon@aol.com.
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