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May 06, 2009

True colours

Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller says that Israel should join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. That is to say, the Obama administration believes the path to peace in the Middle East begins and ends with the disarmament of Israel.

Well, they say Islam means peace.

Former prime minister Ariel Sharon's chief strategist, Dov Weisglass, said Gottemoeller's comments were very alarming.

"If these statements indicate a change in American policy on this issue, I believe this may be the most worrisome development for Israel's security in many years," he told Army Radio.

No, the most worrisome development for Israel's security in many years is how American Jews remain overwhelmingly clueless about the man they helped vote into the presidency.

Directly related: America's Praetorian Guard may have decided that having taken down one President they might as well try to take down another.

The CIA's war against President Bush was motivated by ass covering, or by political partisanship. But with President Obama, it's personal.

Many are furious about his disclosure of explicit details of the interrogation methods used on some al Qaida bigwigs, and his waffling on whether or not those who employed them will be subject to prosecution. Others are incensed by his decision to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, and to let some of those incarcerated there (17 Chinese Uighurs) loose in the United States.

It gets better.

Other Western intelligence services regard the Obama administration with contempt and rising concern, an officer of the DGSE, France's military intelligence agency, told my friend Jack Wheeler (the real life Indiana Jones) last week.

"All of us in our little community are worried -- us, our friends in Berlin, London, Tel Aviv," the DGSE officer told Jack. "It is not like the barbarians at the gates. It is every barbarian horde in the world being told there are no gates."

Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 6, 2009 08:58 AM