July 15, 2011

Shovel-Ready in the Middle East?

By Ken Blackwell
Osama bin Laden famously said that people in his region always follow the strong horse.  President Obama sent bin Laden to sleep with the sturgeons earlier this year in a move widely hailed.  No one but the michaelmoores complained that bin Laden hadn't been given a Miranda warning or carped that our faithful friends, the Pakistanis, hadn't been tipped off first. As it turned out, however, the Osama raid proved to be the outlier.  President Obama turned from that undeniable success and ratcheted up the pressure on Israel.  (Why is it every time we finish off some Arab mass killer of Muslims we seem to find it necessary to tighten the screws on the Israelis?  It's as if some State Department expert wants to prove we are "even-handed.") Apart from the success of the Osama raid, this president has been stumbling, and stumbling badly, in the Mideast throughout his time in office.  First, the newly inaugurated Barack Obama bowed to Saudi Arabia's king during a...(Read Full Article)