From Wednesday night’s Fox News All-Stars.
On President Obama’s remarks on the passage of U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran:
It’s really hard to believe how the president could actually say with a straight face [that] . . . it [the resolution] gives “an unmistakable message about the international community’s commitment” here.
This is an unmistakable message about the fecklessness of the U.S. and the international community (which in and of itself is a fiction anyway). The sanctions are totally watered down by Russia and China to be almost meaningless. To achieve even this, it took 16 months of administration labor . . . producing a mouse.
And last, the three sanctions resolutions that the Bush administration [passed] — without apology and without concessions — were approved unanimously. And this one received 12 of the 15, with opposition by allies Turkey and Brazil and abstention from Lebanon.
So if anything, it is a clear demonstration of a collapse of the international effort — to the extent that it ever existed — under this administration’s policy, as Senator Kyl said, of appeasement and apology. And the president of Iran is exactly right that this is a flea, it’s meaningless. And everybody in the administration, I think, knows that.
On Obama’s meeting with Mahmoud Abbas:
I think anybody would be struck by the warmth of that handshake with the leader of the Palestinians and the fact that a few months ago. . .he [Obama] wouldn’t even. . .allow a picture of himself — the president — with the prime minister of Israel, our oldest ally in the region, and the only ally in that region with whom you never have to worry, when you go to bed, that you’re going to wake up in the morning and [find that] a coup has replaced it with an anti-American government — because it [Israel] is intrinsically an ally as no other country in the region is. . . .
It says a lot about how Obama has shifted and reversed American sympathies in that region.






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