Tagged with "obama"

Cheering crowds in Tehran, and Obama's delusions

If Obama does have a coherent foreign policy it is one of non-intervention, and fear of military entanglements. Certainly the US, as Saudi Arabia has made clear, is no longer a leader in Middle Eastern affairs
by Michael Curtis - 26 November 2013
Obama's Iran deal and a pattern of incompetence

Obama's limited experience and lack of serious interest in anything other than getting the US out of foreign wars was always going to create some serious shortcomings in US foreign policy
by Taylor Dibbert - 25 November 2013
An Iran deal brokered by EU's Catherine Ashton, former apologist for communism, has to be suspect

UPDATED: The lavish praise over the Iran nuclear deal being heaped on EU foreign policy supremo Catherine Ashton, who failed to back the West during the Cold War, is itself a signal we should be deeply worried
by Yorker - 24 November 2013
Obama's latest attempt to raise unemployment... yes, you read that right

If Barack Obama's legacy on economics is that the jobless rates are to be raised permanently it won't be an accident. It's policy!
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 17 November 2013
The continuing…and continuing…Obamacare disaster

The President is acting like America is a banana republic and he’s the tinpot dictator who can arbitrarily decide the law. What a fiasco
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 16 November 2013
Obama's catastrophic moves on Iran

Obama's desperately eager posture towards the smiling Mullahs has doomed any negotiation to failure by signaling that the U.S. fears confrontation more than anything else
by Noah Beck - 12 November 2013
Season of mellow mists and fruitfulness? I don’t think so

A satrical look at recent happenings with the spooks, by Robin Mitchinson
by Robin Mitchinson - 2 November 2013
Putin humiliates Obama, named world's top leader

The US economy is almost 8 times bigger than Russia's, the US spends $682 billion on defence to Russia's $91 billion. So what kind of a loser can Barack Obama be to have been eclipsed by Putin?
by the commentator - 31 October 2013
Obama starts to cave on Iran sanctions as yet another dictatorship plays him like a violin

The call from Washington to pause implementation of new sanctions against Iran is another terrible miscalculation by the most naive and clueless US administration since WWII
by MidEast watcher - 26 October 2013
Ignoring Egypt's brutalised Christians

Islamists in Egypt are responsible for destroying nearly 100 Christian churches. Western policy is all over the place, and the media is largely ignoring it
by Raymond Ibrahim - 25 October 2013
Obama's intransigence keeping US government shut

The administration has shown zero willingness to negotiate, despite what you may have read. This is one very petty and ideological president
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 7 October 2013
The Security Council Resolution on Syria: Farce and Fait Accompli

Moscow is no longer a major power; they haven’t been for some time. Still, Putin and company are looking shrewd these days. Not hard against Obama though...
by Taylor Dibbert - 1 October 2013
Iran understands American weakness and is bound to exploit it

As attention turns to Iran, events in Syria suggests that American global leadership and an Obama presidency are hopelessly incompatible
by Taylor Dibbert - 27 September 2013
Now it's Iran running rings around Obama

Desperate for a sign of progress, delusional optimists say Rouhani hasn't actively denied the Holocaust. But even by this measure, Rouhani just looks more sophisticated opting to say that "he's not a historian"
by Noah Beck - 25 September 2013
Oh no! Another Obama/Kerry fiasco, this time on Iran

This is so laughable you could cry. Obama at the UN says he's sending in Kerry to get Russia, China, the EU etc to sort out the Iran nuclear question! The BBC is loving it by the way
by Yorker - 24 September 2013