In “Fast Times at Disaster High,” in The American Thinker today, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs skewers Obama’s disastrous policies — and the public indifference to them:
The sick, slumbering American wakes up in his Obama tee shirt and boxers, rubs his swollen eyes, hungover from a night of hope, change, spending, debt, and government takeover. He’s in the back of a runaway stagecoach headed for a cliff, unaware the driver has fallen off.
That describes all too many Americans today. That’s the American who is sure that the country’s big problem is Christian conservative gun owners, while Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton give one hundred million dollars to Pakistan, even as the Taliban continues to make gains in that country, and even as Taliban fighters have been spotted toting American weapons – arms we gave to Pakistan to help them fight the Taliban.
This is the sick, slumbering American who is sitting by, besotted by American Idol, while Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton give Pakistan a hundred million dollars at the same time that the jihad is within striking range of seizing Pakistan’s nukes.
The unacceptable becomes the inevitable. There are no words for such stupidity.
The former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton wrote recently that “Pakistan must move to the top of our strategic agenda.” Bolton said that the U.S. must be ready to take “hard steps” to keep Pakistan’s nukes away from the Taliban. He warned that “neither greater economic assistance, nor more civilian advisers upcountry, nor stronger democratic institutions will eliminate the strategic threat nearly soon enough… We must strengthen pro-American elements in Pakistan’s military so they can purge dangerous Islamicists from their ranks; roll back Taliban advances; and, together with our increased efforts in Afghanistan, decisively defeat the militants on either side of the border.”
But instead, Obama is giving the Pakistani government a hundred million dollars. To what end?
That’s not all. Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, a U. S. military “security coordinator,” is training “Palestinian” Authority troops in the West Bank. Dayton explained: “We also have something in our pocket called the West Bank Training Initiative where we have plans to continue a series of courses in the West Bank on logistics, leadership, first aid, maintenance, English language, battalion staff training and driver education.”
Why are the U.S. and its allies giving the “Palestinian Authority” military this kind of training? The broken thinking is they’re hoping that American-trained “Palestinian” military personnel will then turn and fight Hamas.
Read that again. Such deductive reasoning would be possible without a premise so false. This represents a nonsensical foreign policy and a willful ignorance of what and who the enemy is. Islamic jihadists are going to fight Islamic Jihadists…not the Jews? This is beyond stupid; it’s bloody frightening. The training of “Palestinian” military units by U.S. advisers is taking place, mind you, at the same time the PA is negotiating to join forces with the Hamas terrorist organization, which rules Gaza….