Muslim Student Activist Insults Israeli Foreign Minister At Harvard Law School

Harvard Crimson editors and law school administration tried to protect the identity of the Muslim student activist who was accused of insulting the Israeli Foreign Minister. But fellow students outed him in the many comments under this story, also reported in the Harvard Law Record. Notice Crimson headline calling it "perceived Anti-Semitism."

[From article]
The event, titled “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the U.S.,” was a discussion between Livni and U.S. diplomat Dennis Ross co-sponsored by the Jewish Law Students Association and Harvard Hillel. During the question-and-answer session following the event, an unidentified student asked Livni, “How is it that you are so smelly?... A question about the odor of Ms. Tzipi Livni, she’s very smelly, and I was just wondering.”
The remark drew quick condemnation. Law School Dean Martha L. Minow sent an email to school affiliates on Tuesday denouncing the comment as inappropriate. “The comment was offensive and it violated the trust and respect we expect in our community. Many perceive it as anti-Semitic, and no one would see it as appropriate,” she wrote. “It was an embarrassment to this institution and an assault upon the values we seek to uphold.”
[. . .]
By Wednesday, the remark had sparked controversy on the other side of the world, as several Israeli newspapers began covering the story. The Jerusalem Post published a story about the incident, and Hamodia—described as the “Daily Newspaper of Torah Jewry”—wrote that Livni had been “subjected to verbal abuse” at the Law School.
The backlash prompted the student who made the remark to publish an anonymous apology in The Record, denying that he intended his comments to be anti-Semitic and expressing regret for any harm he might have caused.
“I am writing to apologize, as sincerely as I can via this limited form of communication, to anyone who may have felt offended by the comments I made last week,” the student wrote. “I can see now… how my words could have been interpreted as a reference to an anti-Semitic stereotype, one that I was entirely unaware of prior to the publication of this article.”

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/4/22/law-students-criticize-controversial-comments/

Minow, Law Students Condemn Perceived Anti-Semitism
By CLAIRE E. PARKER,

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
April 21, 2016

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Tzipi Livni, Israeli Foreign Minister

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/21/harvard-law-student-asks-tzipi-livni-israeli-polit/

Harvard Law student asks Tzipi Livni, Israeli politician, why she is ‘so smelly’
By Jessica Chasmar 

The Washington Times
Thursday, April 21, 2016

In Paris, Global Warming Alarmists Agreed To Have An Agreement

[From article]
Saving the planet has never been so easy.
The Paris climate talks concluded in a rousing round of self-congratulation over an agreement that, we are told, is the first step toward keeping the Earth habitable. If generating headlines and press releases about making history were the metric for anything, Paris might be as consequential — if misbegotten — as advertised.
[. . .]
The agreement is about the agreement, never mind what’s in it or what its true legal force is: namely, nil. Paris is a legally binding agreement not to have legally binding limits on emissions. It might be the most worthless piece of paper since the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed war — about a decade prior to the outbreak of World War II.
Politico reported that the talks were almost derailed at the last minute by the accidental insertion of the word “shall” deep in the text, which, by implying a legal obligation, was to be avoided at all costs (the US Senate would never give its assent to a legally binding treaty). The United States then scrambled to change the offending word to “should.”
The Paris summit operated on the principle of CBDRILONCWRC, or “Common But Differentiated Responsibility In Light Of National Circumstances With Respective Capability.” That means nothing was actually mandated on anyone because that proved — understandably enough, dealing with all the countries in the world — completely unworkable.
Instead, countries came up with so-called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions. That’s climate bureaucratese for you make up your emissions target, whatever it is, and we will pretend to take it seriously. Thus do the waters recede and the Earth is saved from looming climate catastrophe.
Even if you believe the extremely dubious proposition that somehow the climate “consensus” perfectly understands perhaps the most complicated system on the planet, and can forecast with certitude and in detail what the global temperature will be a century from now, Paris is a charade.
[. . .]
As Oren Cass of the Manhattan Institute points out, Pakistan produced a one-page document promising to “reduce its emissions after reaching peak levels to the extent possible.” For this we needed a headline-grabbing global confab?
[. . .]
As the Guardian put it, India “says coal provides the cheapest energy for rapid industrialization that would lift millions out of poverty.” That’s correct.
[. . .]
It speaks to a naive belief in the power of global shame over the sheer economic interest of developing countries in getting rich (and lifting countless millions out of poverty) through exploiting cheap energy — you know, the way Western countries have done for a couple of centuries.
If this is the best hope of the climate alarmists, their global campaign will be a welcome fizzle. All things considered, it probably is best that they occupy themselves with grand meetings and with the exertions attendant to believing their own p.r. Otherwise they could do real damage.

http://nypost.com/2015/12/14/obama-is-only-pretending-to-save-the-planet/

Obama is only pretending to save the planet
By Rich Lowry
New York Post
December 14, 2015 | 8:00pm

American Foreign Affairs Crumbling, Putin Takes Charge

Vladimir Putin

[From article]
Under Obama and the Left, America has retreated from the world. We have abandoned our allies, all the way from Japan and South Korea to Saudi Arabia and Israel. Obama has supported the paleofascist Ikhwan (brotherhood) in the Sunni Arab world, and Iran in the Shi'ite half of Islam. China has snatched a major part of the South China Sea, with its undersea mineral wealth. Russia is gradually pushing Europe back from the East.



While Obama was distracting you with Mohammed the bomb-faking kid, Russia made a major anti-Iran, anti-Obama move in Syria, sending a reported 2,000 personnel to take over a large Syrian airbase in Latakia, along with the naval port of Tartous.
[. . .]



Assad will owe his survival to Uncle Putin, not the theocracy of Iran.
Putin has an alliance of convenience with Tehran, but Russia has centuries of experience fighting Muslim enemies, all the way to the end of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. Putin has battled Muslim rebels in Chechnya and doesn't need a rising nuclear Caliphate next door, an hour's flight from Russia’s borders.
Putin is nobody's friend. He is a Russian nationalist, with a close domestic alliance with the Orthodox Church, just like the czars.
[. . .]



By rescuing the Saudis and Israel from Iranian aggression, Putin is piling up IOU's in the fast-changing world of energy politics. The world price of oil is collapsing with the spread of shale exploitation, and there is no way to stop it. China is becoming a shale producer in the South China Sea.
[. . .]




Western Europe keeps importing hostile Muslim populations from Pakistan, Africa, and the Middle East. The Germans just collapsed in the face of a phony invasion by thousands of "refugees," many men of military age, who did not bother to hide their hatred for their new welfare hosts. Europe's flabbiness is an open invitation to aggressors, both Russia and Islam, and Russia seems more rational.
[. . .]



Only Russia has the will and the military capacity to resist jihad by infiltration. France just launched a bombing raid against ISIS training camps, which happened to coincide with Putin's troop movement into Syria, which also claims to be a move against ISIS.
Our (former) allies, Egypt, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, having been backstabbed by Obama, are not saying a word against the Russian move into Syria. They may not trust Putin, but they can make deals with him. They know what he wants. Saudi Arabia can offer oil and price coordination with Russia, and help to control the Chechen rebels. Israel can utilize its new shale discoveries in the Eastern Med, and is a valuable source of badly needed technology; Egypt is in desperate straits in fighting ISIS and the Ikhwan, and can use direct military help in the Sinai Desert. Even Jordan has been directly threatened by the Iranians.
One big name is missing in all this: America.
[. . .]
As long as Obama is in power, things are likely to get worse for America.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/09/russia_is_the_new_hegemon.html

September 30, 2015
Russia is the New Hegemon
By James Lewis

Opposing Migrants From Middle East Makes Sense

[From article]

The United States is the most generous nation in the world, and we have taken many refugees from foreign lands. Europe has not offered to take refugees from Central America, so why are some politicians here insisting that we take many thousands of refugees from the Middle East?
While refugee crises are tragic, crimes committed by transplanted peoples against unwarned, unprotected victims in our own country are even more tragic. Politicians demanding that American neighborhoods accept thousands of refugees, without proper screening or any indication by the migrants that they genuinely want to assimilate into our culture, should be rejected.
Americans are horrified by images of tens of thousands of people, mostly young unattached Muslim men from the Middle East and Africa, crossing unguarded borders into Europe. The news media often describe these people sympathetically as refugees from the civil war in Syria, but many could be migrants seeking a more comfortable life in a rich society with a cradle-to-grave welfare state.
The scene is eerily reminiscent of the tens of thousands of people from Central America who crossed into the United States last summer. Often described sympathetically as unaccompanied minors fleeing gang violence, most of those Central American arrivals were able-bodied, tough young men who left their families in search of better economic opportunities.
Wealthy European nations did not offer to help out by accepting thousands of migrants from Central America. We did not expect that of them, and they should not expect it of us now.
The Muslim migrants follow a route through Turkey, Macedonia and Serbia into Hungary, the European country closest to the Middle East, and from Hungary they can travel throughout 26 European nations. That route may soon close when Hungary completes the razor-wire fence it is building along its entire 108-mile border with Serbia.
[. . .]



The idea of creating nations without borders, allowing the free movement of people inside a common perimeter, was pushed by President George W. Bush when he met with Mexico's president and Canada's prime minister in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005. Soon after that first summit of "the three amigos," the Council on Foreign Relations published "Toward a North American Community," which called for a "seamless market" with "a more open border for the movement of goods and people."
[. . .]
Stark financial problems also stand against welcoming so many strangers into our country. More than 90 percent of recent refugees from the Middle East are on welfare, according to official statistics published by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
Our welfare system is already strained by the Central American migrants who entered our country illegally and never went home. There are a potential six billion people in the world who would like to partake in the American welfare system if given the opportunity, but we cannot afford to foot the bill for everyone in the world who does not have a job.

http://www.creators.com/conservative/phyllis-schlafly/america-has-taken-more-than-our-share-of-refugees.html

America Has Taken More Than Our Share of Refugees
Phyllis Schlafly
Creators.com

Ex Massachusetts Governor, Deval Patrick and Pals, Traveled Well Using Secret Trust Fund and State Credit Cards

Former Massachusetts Governor, Deval Patrick

[From article]
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and his wife put taxpayers on the hook for nearly $17,000 in airfare on a single trade mission to Israel, part of an often lavish worldwide tour funded by a tucked-away trust the Patrick administration never revealed to the public, new records obtained by the Herald reveal.
State records tracking the trade mission costs also showed Deval and Diane Patrick took a three-day trip to Colombia in 2013 on the taxpayer dime, ringing up a $8,342 bill for flights that far exceeded what other state officials paid.
Patrick’s airfare on other overseas junkets sometimes tripled that of his traveling contingent, such as a round-trip flight to Ireland reported in state records as costing $5,751. The former governor also racked up a $2,400 tab for a three-day stay at the five-star Merrion Hotel, which bills itself as the most “luxurious” hotel in the city, according to records.
Patrick saved the most expensive flight bill for his last trade mission — $12,356 for just a five-day trade mission to France, Denmark and England, according to records compiled by the state’s Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, which oversaw the travel trust fund.
The records also list a one-way flight from Hong Kong to Singapore under Patrick’s name costing a hefty $1,640.
One of Patrick’s traveling companions on several trips was Richard Davey, former Department of Transportation chief and current CEO of the Boston 2024 Olympic bid.
[. . .]
The former governor’s 10 international trade missions have come under new scrutiny by government watchdogs and lawmakers since the Herald first reported that the Patrick administration funneled $27 million from state quasi-public government agencies into trust funds kept separate from budgetary constraints and hidden from public scrutiny.
The Herald first reported that one of the trusts, funded by Massport and the Mass Tech Collaborative, paid for the $1.4 million trade mission costs from 2009 to 2014.
A former Patrick administration aide, Alec Loftus, said the trips were well worth the cost, citing new international flights that the former governor pushed for in the countries he visited.
[. . .]
The $21,141 hotel bill for the Colombia trip was simply charged to a “state credit card,” according to records.
But it’s clear that the former governor and his aides traveled in style. In Tel Aviv, Patrick bedded down at the InterContinental and was charged $1,005, while the room for Richard Elam, the former executive director of the international trade office, cost $1,550, according to records.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/joe_battenfeld/2015/07/battenfeld_deval_patrick_was_flying_high_on_taxpayers

Battenfeld: Deval Patrick was flying high on taxpayers’ dime
Thursday, July 16, 2015
By: Joe Battenfeld
Boston Herald

Supreme Court of the US: US Citizen Born In Israel Cannot List It on His Birth Certificate. Palestinians As Usual Use This For Propaganda, Deceiving Their People

[From article]
Siding with the White House in a foreign-policy power struggle with Congress, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that Americans born in the disputed city of Jerusalem can't list Israel as their birthplace on passports.
In a 6-3 ruling, the court said Congress overstepped its bounds when it approved the passport law in 2002. The case mixed a dispute between Congress and the president with the thorny politics of the volatile Middle East.
The ruling ended a 12-year-old lawsuit by a Jerusalem-born American, Menachem Zivotofsky, and his U.S.-citizen parents.
The law the court struck down Monday would have forced the State Department to alter its long-standing policy of not listing Israel as the birthplace for Jerusalem-born Americans. The policy is part of the government's refusal to recognize any nation's sovereignty over Jerusalem until Israelis and Palestinians resolve its status through negotiations.
Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his majority opinion that the president has the exclusive power to recognize foreign nations, and that determining what a passport says is part of that power.
[. . .]
[This Palestinian recites nonsense. US Courts do not make international law. More baloney from these propagandists.]
"It is a clear message to the Israeli government that its decisions and measures in occupying and annexing Jerusalem are illegal and void and that it should immediately stop these measures because it's a clear violation of the international law," Erekat said.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPREME_COURT_BORN_IN_JERUSALEM?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-06-08-10-19-32

Jun 8, 2:06 PM EDT
SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN 'BORN IN JERUSALEM' PASSPORT LAW
BY MARK SHERMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS

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NOVEMBER 4, 2014 Zivotofsky v. Kerry Oral Argument
The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Zivotofsky v. Kerry. The case involves whether Congress has the power to pass a law requiring the State Department to record the birthplace of an American citizen born in “Jerusalem” as born in “Israel” on a U.S. passport, or if doing so infringes on presidential recognition power. In 2002, Congress enacted the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, which directs the secretary of State to record “Israel” as the place of birth on a passport of a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem, if the citizen requests it. President George W. Bush signed the act but issued a signing statement noting that the provision interfered with the constitutional functions of the presidency in foreign affairs, and he did not enforce it. This program contains the audio recording released by the court. Still images of participants were shown on the screen as they spoke. Justice Thomas did not speak.
[Audio of oral arguments]

Tennessee Senator May Have Proper Respect for Complexity of Middle East Conflicts

[From article]
Were Barack Obama more prudent than vain, he would want congressional collaborators in problematic foreign ventures. He has, however, ignored the historical norm whereby presidents specify the authority they need. He has offered no substitute for the 60-word AUMF [authorized use of military force] from Sept. 18, 2001, which authorized force against "those nations, organizations, or persons" complicit in 9/11. This was a decade before the Islamic State — which is not a nation and has no clear borders or regime with which to deal — existed.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will010215.php3

A senator to watch in 2015
By George Will
Published Jan. 5, 2015

White House Policies Promote, Enable Genocide

[From article]
As the media keep telling us, America is infested with Islamophobia, which is worse than racism, genderism, anti-gay agenda-ism, and so on.
[. . .]
Christians qualify for genocide, Jews qualify, Yazidis, Kurds, and of course atheists. For the Saudis, the Iranians qualify for genocide, and to the nuke-happy Iranians the Saudis are dead bait. Because Allah wills it.
That’s why Iran needs nukes so badly -- to kill off the Saudis, Jews, Christians, and yes, Americans, much more efficiently. They don’t make a secret of it.
Well, the President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, is now trying to get a phony “agreement” with the mullahs that will give them everything.
The Europeans, to their everlasting shame, are standing in line to get their dirty oil from the mullahs, and damn the consequences for peace and humanity.

[. . .]
And yes, the President is quite happy to violate the “advise and consent” clause of the US Constitution, and go to the UN instead, just to get his own g-philiac brownie points from the wretched of the earth.
Obama tells us we should “trust him.”
Honestly, that’s what he said.

[. . .]
We now have the first president elected for the color of his skin, and Martin Luther King, Jr. would repudiate him on sight. Obama could never be elected for the content of his character.
Boko Haram and ISIS are enslaving black and white folks, and selling girls and women in the open slave market. The younger girls sell for a higher price, because… well because these are genuinely evil freaks.
And yet, our new liberator, Barack Hussein Obama, has not said one word against the slave raiders and slave sellers, mass rapists, head choppers of Christians, Yazidis, and several Jews who have been caught in the enormous meat grinder they run over there. The other day the Iraqis found a mass grave with 1,700 of their soldiers, not combat deaths but simple mass murder.

[. . .]
But the most amazing thing is that the President of the United States cannot pronounced the simple truth -- that these are Koran-inspired mass murderers who kill perfectly innocent children and adults, simply because of their religious faith, their ethnic identity, and their gender. Adult men are killed, young boys and girls are kidnapped for the rape market, and women likewise.
At the university massacre in Kenya last week, the Muslims neatly separated the Christian and Muslim students one by one, and murdered only the Christians.
[. . .]
But it’s no big deal for Obama. What’s important is helping our Islamofascist allies in the Middle East destroy archeological treasures, kill off whoever they like, rape, kidnap, and sell on the slave-markets whoever surrenders to them, propagandize the sociopathic teenagers of the world to help their fight for the freedom to impose Shari’a law from the Dark Ages -- and to take revenge against European Imperialism.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/04/we_now_have_a_genocideenabling_president.html

April 9, 2015
We now have a genocide-enabling President
By James Lewis

Obama's Salute, A Muslim Religious Signal?

[From article]
The hand sign that the president appeared to be flashing at the African Leaders’ Conference in August, described by F. W. Burleigh on these pages last week, is not merely a Muslim gang sign. It has a long and venerable history.
As Burleigh notes, it represents the shahada, the Islamic declaration of faith: there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his messenger.
[. . .]



Thanks to the efforts of British Evangelicals and the Royal Navy, the slave trade was virtually ended early in the 19th century. But it was never extinguished in Dar al Islam, and it now has been revived with a vengeance. After all, God’s messenger owned slaves and enslaved hundreds.
In flashing the Muslim salute, if that’s what he was doing, the president was giving the finger to Christians and Jews throughout the world.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/02/obamas_finger.html

February 23, 2015
Obama's finger
By Jeff Lipkes

US Israel Relations, Why Does Kerry Impose Double Standard On Israel?

[From article]
Earlier on Friday, Ynet revealed that the Obama administration refused the Israeli defense minister's request to meet with other top officials, including Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, and the National Security Advisor Susan Rice.
Since then, reports have said the same officials tried to prevent Ya'alon from meeting with the US' UN ambassador Samantha Power – and when the two did meet, Ya'alon reportedly heard mostly of Power's objection to settlement construction.
During the last bout of US-led peace talks, Ya'alon dubbed Kerry's diplomatic efforts "obsessive and messianic," saying "Kerry should win his Nobel and leave us in peace." Ya'alon's current treatment is said to be an attempt to settle the score.
Ya'alon did hold a successful meeting with his US counterpart, Chuck Hegal, indicating that the reason for the cold shoulder was more a testament to personal tensions between Ya'alon and the White House than an attempt to sabotage Israel's relations with the US.
[. . .]
Ya'alon also infuriated officials in Washington with comments accusing the administration of being weak on Iran and by questioning the US commitment to Israel's security. That followed reports that Ya'alon had criticized Kerry for being unrealistic and naive in trying to forge an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4584052,00.html

Lapid: Israel-US relations in 'crisis'
After Ynet learns White House officials prevented defense minister from meeting Kerry and Biden, Lapid says 'We need to act with more respect. We must remember that US funds and technology helped Gaza operation.'
Moran Azulay
Published: 10.25.14, 20:17 / Israel News

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John Kerry (left), with Benjamin Netanyahu

[From article]
Like a regular mantra, US Secretary of State John Kerry has a habit of saying that the Israeli-Palestinian issue cannot remain unchanged.
Strangely enough, he isn't saying that about the conflict in Syria, where the death toll has already crossed the 200,000 mark with people being slaughtered, beheaded and dying in different ways, on its way to the 250,000 mark; he isn't saying that about four million refugees from Syria and 10 million displaced people; he isn't saying that about the Islamic State, which is beheading people and butchering minorities; he isn't saying that about Iraq, which has been torn into pieces, or about Baghdad's airport which is about to fall into the hands of jihadist terror.
He isn't saying that about Libya either, a country controlled by a coalition of insane jihad organizations, on the verge of Europe. He isn't saying that about Yemen, which has died and is controlled by wild tribes navigated from behind the scenes by the "smiling" Iran; he isn't saying that about the intolerable uranium enrichment in Tehran, which has him and the West wrapped around its little finger.
He isn't saying that about Russia either, which not only conquered eastern Ukraine, but also annexed the huge Crimea region. It isn't an "occupation," after all; that only exists in Israel.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4583494,00.html

Why is Kerry singling out Israel?
Op-ed: US secretary of state keeps saying Israeli-Palestinian issue cannot remain unchanged. What about the situation in Syria, Iraq, Russia, China and Turkey?
Published: 10.25.14, 11:44 / Israel Opinion

Is Obama Incompetent, or Is He Intentionally Destroying the Nation?

Hanson seems to believe that Obama is incompetent and trying to avoid confrontation because he weak. He says the White House made a mess. But he does not consider that the mess was made intentionally. In that case Obama is not incompetent but quite successful. If it was his intention to weaken the United States image, and to create strength in American enemies and to weaken its allies,  and the economy by bringing more and more illegal aliens to drain taxpayer funds, he is wildly successful. Hanson assumes Obama acts in good faith. There is no evidence for that. 

[From article]
Over the last five and a half years, America has had lots of clear choices, but the administration usually took the path of least short-term trouble, which has ensured long-term hardship.
[. . .]
Any time Israel’s enemies have glimpsed growing distance in the U.S.–Israeli friendship, they seek only to pry it still wider. We see just that with terrorists in Gaza who launch hundreds of missiles into Israel on the expectation that the U.S. will broker a favorable deal that finds both sides equally at fault.
[. . .]
the U.S. participated in a multi-nation bombing campaign and all but guaranteed that a failed state would be left on Europe’s doorstep. Now we have just closed our embassy in Tripoli and fled the country entirely.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/384163/cost-american-indifference-victor-davis-hanson

JULY 31, 2014 12:00 AM

The Cost of American Indifference
By continually taking the path of least short-term trouble, the U.S. ensures long-term hardship.
By Victor Davis Hanson

The Man Made Of Wax Flew Too High

[From article]
In short, our Icarus-in-Chief, without much foreign-policy experience but with youthful zeal and good intentions, soared far too high for his flimsy waxen wings. Now they are melting, and as the American commander-in-chief careens back to earth, lots of those below are wondering what will come next. Still, there is a lot of irony as Obama freefalls to earth.
[. . .]
Then came the waxen Obama soaring on hope and change, the president who would remake the world along the lines envisioned in a college faculty lounge or a Chicago organizing session. Obama was not a Buchananite isolationist who would be easy for Europeans to caricature. Rather, he is a postmodern, postracial progressive, who deeply felt either that traditional U.S. alliances were not worth the commitment, or that the U.S. was properly moving away from its European heritage and thus without any need for special trans-Atlantic relationships, or that an internationally engaged America came at the expense of dollars better spent on redistributive entitlements at home — or all three and more still.
The result is that the Europeans are increasingly bewildered if not a little anxious. They cannot reduce Obama, a man of the Left, to a caricatured Texan who often misunderstands the world, because Obama is an Ivy Leaguer who has never yet understood it.
[. . .]
Obama is not so much patient as uninterested. [. . .], Europe cannot play Athens when there is no longer a Rome to back it up. The result is a sort of sad update of Stalin’s thuggish but instructive rhetorical question to French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval when the latter in 1935 suggested that the Soviets reach out to the Catholic hierarchy in order to thwart Hitler: “The Pope? How many divisions has he got?”
[. . .]
when Japan and the U.S. uncouple, then China will do what it pleases to Japan — for no other reason than, to paraphrase Dirty Harry, it likes to.
[. . .]
Libya, Syria, Egypt, and the general regional turmoil suggest instead that tribalism, religious intolerance, misogyny, anti-Semitism, and authoritarianism were mostly indigenous and did not need British colonists, Russian generals, American oil men, or the Bush family to activate them. To paraphrase Ward Churchill, with the American recessional from the region, the long-awaited Middle East chickens are coming home to roost.
The nosedive of the melting Obama will leave the world a more dangerous place, but also serve as another mythological reminder of why the pretentious without real wings should not try to fly.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/370259/our-icarus-chief-victor-davis-hanson

FEBRUARY 4, 2014 4:00 AM
Our Icarus-in-Chief 
Obama’s global fantasies are falling to earth along with him.
By Victor Davis Hanson

Obama Weakens International Standing Of United States

[From article]
Neutrals and enemies alike assumed that it was as unwise to be on the wrong side of America as it was beneficial to be on friendly terms.
The Obama administration apparently has tired of the global order that American power created. The president seems determined that America should become unexceptional, and his five-year-long efforts are now bearing fruit. The result is that no one knows where global violence will break out next, much less who will stop it.
[. . .]
Obama has misled over Benghazi, flipped and flopped over Syria and Egypt, and deceived the American people on the Affordable Care Act.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/363895/jumping-global-tigers-back-victor-davis-hanson

NOVEMBER 14, 2013 12:00 AM
Jumping Off the Global Tiger’s Back
The Obama administration has little interest in world leadership.
By Victor Davis Hanson

Obama Encourages Enemies To Ignore US

[From article]
John Kerry’s longer and louder pontifications will be relegated to the status of Obama’s “make no mistake about it” and “let me be perfectly clear,” and he may join Hillary in retirement, but without her sort of boast that “we came, we saw, Assad died.” And we will muddle on, clinging to the hope that the Russians, Iranians, North Koreans, Chinese, and various terrorist groups do not assume this administration is synonymous with 70 years of bipartisan foreign policy.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/358544/charade-can-go-and-and-victor-davis-hanson

The Charade Can Go On — and On and On . . .
By  Victor Davis Hanson
September 15, 2013 3:26 PM

Obama's Misguided Policies on Syria

[From article]
A serious foreign-policy intellectual said recently that Putin’s problem is that he’s a Russian leader in search of a Nixon, a U.S. president he can really negotiate with, a stone player who can talk grand strategy and the needs of his nation, someone with whom he can thrash it through and work it out. Instead he has Obama, a self-besotted charismatic who can’t tell the difference between showbiz and strategy, and who enjoys unburdening himself of moral insights to his peers.

http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2013/09/10/making-sense-of-syria/

Peggy Noonan
Wall Street Journal
September 10, 2013, 3:32 PM
Making Sense of Syria

Eliminating Canada, Mexico, US Borders

Does this explain why there is little interest in enforcing US immigration laws? The elite of the two political parties decided to open the borders without any input from the people of the country. They expect there to be enough illegal aliens so that it will be a fait accompli. So much for representative democracy.

http://www.cfr.org/canada/creating-north-american-community/p7912

Creating a North American Community
Chairmen’s Statement

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Chairs:	John P. Manley Pedro Aspe William F. Weld
Vice Chairs:	Thomas P. D'Aquino Andres Rozental Robert A. Pastor
Director:	Chappell Lawson

Publisher:	Council on Foreign Relations Press

Release Date: March 2005

No Solution Without All Available Information

[From editorial]
"No, we won't pretend to have a ready prescription for this admittedly vexing challenge. But then, we're not sitting atop a massive Pentagon, State Department, national-security-intel infrastructure."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/still_clueless_on_libya_qAgATprtngfHq040Ie4NrN

Still clueless on Libya
Editorial
New York Post
Last Updated: 9:00 AM, March 5, 2011
Posted: March 05, 2011