Liberalphobic.com

Obama asserts that it’s his way or the highway, that war with Iran will be inevitable if this deal is rejected by Congress.

But who would start such a war? The mullahs are smart enough not to go to war against the United States. We logically conclude that Mr. Obama is afraid that he might be the one to start the war. Who else does he think it could be? His “it’s me or war” is rendered nonsense, and he knows it.

Many bad things happen when a leader is weak, confused and forever searching for a reason to do nothing. For all his softness on Islam, he can’t imagine that men who listen to the call to evening prayer that so captivated him as a boy in Indonesia — “the prettiest sound on Earth” — actually dream of bringing death to America.

International order has begun to unravel under this president to the consternation of America’s most faithful allies and to the unexpected delight of our enemies. The anarchy that follows this unraveling is the legacy that Barack Hussein will leave behind.

Obama remains oblivious to the fact that his worldview is the problem. ISIS has created a version of the future which Obama appears unable to grasp. Its caliphate is being sustained through the mass murder and repression.

“Unable to grasp.” That will be the epitaph and the legacy of Mr. Obama’s presidency.

President Obama flinches from the sound of the guns. He orders air strikes reluctantly. In the month before ISIS captured Ramadi, the United States flew 165 air strikes. Bill Clinton ordered that many in a single day in Kosovo. George H.W. Bush ordered 42,000 in a month of Operation Desert Storm.

He can’t talk about a strategy in the Middle East because he doesn’t have one (see video). He thinks ISIS will implode. He cannot even bring himself to say the words “Islamic violence.” He insists that ISIS does not demand to be recognized as a state. “Nobody,” he says, “is under illusions that [ISIS] can actually feed or educate people or organize a society.”

Blinded by what he wants to see, Obama could never pull the trigger in a confrontation with Iran, and the mullahs — and the world — know it.

The U.S. Senate need not fear war if they take the highway rather than the Obama way. They should fear the Islamic bomb if they don’t.

[Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times.]

Tags: COMMENTS