Saturday Politics : Progressivism, Obama's Failed Domestic and Foreign Policy, and Israel

Saturday Politics is sometimes about failure. • • • OBAMA , A FAILED PRESIDENT. There is no question that Obama has failed every domestic or foreign policy test an American President is put to. • His domestic policies consist of a rapidly crumbling quasi-nationalized healthcare system called Obamacare, and his ignoring of his promises to make a difference for Black Americans while stirring up racial tensions that have resulted in riots, an alarming increase in police deaths and a more entrenched notion among the leaders of his supporters in the Black community that they can use the "victim" card to browbeat America into continuing to give them the next bauble they ask for. • Barack Obama's foreign policy does not exist -- except for his abandonment of western Judeo-Christian values and his hatred for Israel. The Obama foreign policy vacuum has led to a North Korea reportedly soon to have mid- and perhaps long-range nuclear missiles. It has led China to take over the South China Sea and defy America to do anything to help its allies who are even now being menaced. It has led Russia to take Crimea and destabilize Ukraine through support for a pro-Russia war in east Ukraine and to destabilitze the Baltic states with a military buildup along their borders, both land and sea. It has led Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to feel safe in destroying his own country for the sake of preserving his brutal regime -- killing a half million Syrians and displacing 10 million more, all with the help of the emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran. This in turn has led to the as yet unresolved destabilization of Europe because of the refugee flow, begun by terrorized Syrians and soon increased by other Middle Eastern and African economic migrants seizing the opportunity. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel -- all learned not to trust anything Obama said. • • • THE BETRAYAL OF ISRAEL. Obama's betrayal of Israel began in earnest with his nuclear deal with Iran that put a nuclear enemy on Israel's border. It also provided billions of dollars -- some shipped as US paper currency sneaked into Iran while lying that it hadn't happened -- to be used to arm and financially support the islamic terrorist groups who are determined to eradicate Israel and kill all Israeli Jews. • While I have objected often in my blogs to his individual actions, it took the Iran deal to finally convince me that Barack Obama is a fraud and a menace to America and the world. His abstaining to allow the passage of the UN resolution on Israeli settlements on December 23 and his sending Secretary of State John Kerry out to explain the "policy reasoning" behind that decision were the final proofs. Despite the resolution, there are facts. Fact -- we know that the settlements are on "disputed" not "occupied" territory. Fact -- we know that there has never been any "nation," let alone a Palestinian nation, on the West Bank. Fact -- we know that under Resolution 242 -- enacted by the UN Security Council after the 1967 attempted invasion of Israel by Arabs led by Jordan -- Israel is entitled to keep territories it took duing its 1967 defense of its country until a general peace is agreed with the Palestinians, the envisaged, famous "land for peace" negotiation. Fact -- we know that Jews lived in what is now Israel more than 4,000 years ago and that they have an historical connection to their homeland that is biblical, historical and real. And Fact -- we know that that biblical, historical and real connection is intimately, inextricably, tied to Jerusalem and to East Jerusalem's Wailing Wall and the Holy Mount. But, Barack Obama is trying furiously to erase all these facts with his own anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, anti-democratic, anti-American determination that Israel ought to be left to be torn apart and destroyed by gangs of Iran-led jihadist terrorists whose raison d'étre is to do just that. • • • BARACK OBAMA AND THE PROGRESSIVES. Many writers and analysts I respect have tried to explain Obama's betrayal of Israel. The explanations range from his personal animosity toward Benjamin Netanyahu and his natural tendency to favor Moslems over Jews to his desire to extricate America militarily from the Middle East and his probable belief -- widely held by leftists and Progressives -- that Israel is the cancer in an otherwise Moslem Middle East, that if Israel were removed, the Middle East would become a peaceful garden of loving shiites and sunnis whose attacks on each other and the outside world would cease. That last idea is utter nonsense to anyone who has eyes in today's world. • What, then, drives Barack Obama? The story began around the time of World War I, a century ago, when President Woodrow Wilson and European Progressives, as they called themselves, decided that national governments should be subservient to a world order in which a global mechanism -- they founded the League of Nations that morphed into today's United Nations -- would erase national cultural and religious differences and replace them with a globalist one-world government in which all peoples would be cared for by a supra-national statist entity. They thought that nationalism was the evil that caused wars and that religion fed nationalism. Their goal was to repress the 18th century ideal of independent individualism that led to the founding of America and its Constitution, as well as to the religion-based self-responsibility of western democracies, with an all-powerful world government that would take over from republican constitutionalism and religion and become both god and government. • Progressive views were seen as "modern" and they held out the false promise of ending war. But, these views were also seized by President Franklin Roosevelt in America to begin to create the over-arching federal state that took care of the Depression's poor. It was also seen by FDR as a way of building a voter constituency that would cement the continuation of Progressive goals in the US. His social welfare programs ensnared American Blacks more than others because they were poorer than others, having been tied to tenant farming schemes by these same Progressives -- now represented by the Democrat Party -- after the Civil War freed them. • FDR's political agenda worked and Democrats controlled Congress and often the presidency for 50 years, until Ronald Reagan rallied Americans to again honor individual responsibility and the Constitution. But, Progressives by then had made Black Americans their major voter block and had led them through several generations of government-imposed poverty under welfare subsistence -- characterized as payment to make up for their victimization and to help them get on track for the American Dream -- in return for votes. Republicans did little to stop the damage being done. Many Blacks broke out through education and job training but many more were stuck in the welfare rut. During this period, a Progressive Supreme Court turned the Constitution on its ear -- ripping away what the Framers wrote and replacing it with the Progressive goals they preferred. • • • WHO AND WHAT IS BARACK OBAMA. Then, just as Progressives thought they had got hold of all the strings and touch points of American constitutional democracy and were ready to make the final push to engulf America with a globalist ascendancy led by the UN -- George Soros is a chief funder of this final push, but there are many others -- along came Barack Obama. In him they saw a young, articulate and rather handsome possibility to lead the final charge. His mother was a white American, his father African, his early formative education far removed from that of normal American children, his later education a deepening of his radical anti-American views learned as a child in Indonesian islamic schools, his religious beliefs a confused mix of Christianity and Islam. In fact, he was the perfect Progressive torchbearer. • But, as is so often the case with plans, the Progressive plan didn't work as they had expected. Obama was aloof, alienated Republicans in the House by refusing to deal with them on spending, ignored Congress's constitutional role in passing federal legislation by relying of executive orders to do what he wanted without thought to political consequences, angered many of the white Americans who had voted for him by treating them as racist milk cows befuddled by Christianity whom he had the right to tax to feed his Progressive nanny state agenda, and forgot that one of the Democrat party's key constituencies were Black Americans as he paid them lip service while ignoring their needs. The Tea Party rose up and took back the House in 2010 and about 2/3 of state governments as well. The Obama Progressive Domestic campaign promise "we will change America" was dead in the water. • But, there was one arena where Obama didn't have to bother about the opinions of Americans. The World. And, after all, wasn't that what he had been sent to Washington to do? Create a globalist world order that would replace the America weakened by his domestic policies, especially the US military devastated by his budget cuts and inattention. So, Obama turned his attention to the Middle East, Europe and China. Each scenario was the same -- belittle or backstab any current democratic policies or groups, insist on open borders to dilute national cultures, refuse advice from well-meaning allies, allow the UN's third world component to dictate anti-democratic anti-Israel policy to the West, and then withdraw to his White House to watch the whole post-World War II international order unravel. And it did. Europe was overrun with refugees and migrants from islamic countries. China wreaked havoc on the US Dollar and US trade by its currency manipulation and then decided to take over the South China Sea. North Korea didn't even bother to nod to Obama as it ramped up its nuclear weapons program. Russia took back Crimea and instigated civil war in Ukraine while re-asserting its presence in Syria and Iran. Iraq was doomed by his 2011 troop withdrawal and his answer was to tell the Baghdad government to be more open to sunni tribes. • The result was that Saudi Arabia and Egypt, more afraid of a nuclear Iran than of a Jewish Israel, began to quietly work with the Israelis. Obama could see his Progressive world vision slipping away if these three Middle East powers began to provide a unified center of resistance to Iran's terrorist acts and goals. To eliminate that possibility, Obama realized that in the last days of 2016 he could do what he had been unable to do when he still wanted to count on American voters to keep Progressives [Hillary Clinton being the front] in power -- he could bring down the one stubbornly democratic anti-Progressive country in the Middle East. Israel. Hence, the December 23 UN resolution and the Kerry speech. They were not newly created tactics for Middle East peace. They were not meant to help Israel. They were meant to give the UN and its anti-Semitic majority the means to destroy Israel. But, because Barack Obama is not and never has been a very good practical politician, he badly misjudged the reaction his resolution would provoke. Americans left and right, Democrat and Republican, are in a state of righteous fury -- and they mean to bring down the effects if not the reality of the December 23 UNSC resolution. • • • And, DEAR READERS, if you think that Obama's sudden outrage at Russian cyberattacks in the US is based on his love of fair and free democratic elections rather than diverting attention from the political howls his anti-Israel resolution has caused, consider that he is the President who sent teams into Israel to meddle in the last election there, in the hope of defeating Benjamin Netanyahu. And, Obama used State Department funding to help pay for the treachery. • IDF Major General Yaakov Amidror stated in a 2005 study on the security requirements for lasting peace that the 1967 Israeli ceasefire boundaries [especially the 9-mile width of Israel north of Tel Aviv] do not provide “defensive depth,” a principle of military doctrine holding that there must be an area sufficient for a defensive force to redeploy after being attacked, and for reserves to enter or counterattack. Defensive Depth is the territorial space between the battlefront and the strategic interior that any army must have in order to be able to function. The boundaries the Security Council seeks to impose through the December 23 resolution would be inadequate even if Palestinian leadership -- including the Moslem Brotherhood’s terrorist affiliate, Hamas -- were not determined to destroy Israel. Obama knows this. He knows he is leaving Israel literally defenseless under the terms of the December 23 resolution. He also knows that the campaign to destroy Israel is politically waged with UN resolutions as much as with Hamas rockets. The hope now -- and it took great statesmanship -- is President-Elect Trump’s willingness to use his limited pre-inauguration leverage in Israel’s defense. He stopped Egypt's sponsorship of the resolution. But, Malaysia, Senegal, Venezuela and New Zealand -- New Zealand for God's sake -- took up the resolution as sponsors. Fact -- Evil is pervasive and, as all Christians and Jews and people of ethical principle everywhere know, it must be confronted and defeated at every opportunity. Trump has told Israel to hang on. The most important thing he said about the resolution was his vow, after the resolution was adopted, that things will be different come January 20 “as to the UN.” • In the meantime, we just say, "Go, Barack Obama." Whoever you are, whatever ruin you wanted to cast over America and the world, you failed. Just Go.