Charles Krauthammer: Obama Policy Collapse, Middle East Meltdown

Charles Krauthammer offers his analysis of what's happening in the Middle East and why.

He holds Obama accountable.

Accountability - What a concept!

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Transcript:

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: What we're seeing on that screen is the meltdown, the collapse of the Obama policy on the Muslim world.

The irony is that it began in Cairo, in the same place where the speech he made at the beginning of his presidency in which he said you wanted a new beginning with mutual respect - implying that under other presidents, particularly Bush, there was a lack of mutual respect, which was an insult to the United States, which had gone to war six times in the last twenty years on behalf of oppressed Muslims in Kuwait, in Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

So to imply that we somehow had mistreated the Muslims, which was the premise of his speech, and how the Iraq War had inflamed the Arab world against us, well, there was no storming of the U.S. embassy in Cairo in those days. What we're seeing now is al Qaedistan developing in Libya; a meltdown of our relations with Egypt; we've got riots in Yemen; attacks on our embassy in Tunisia.

This entire premise that we want to be loved and respected, we're going to apologize, has now yielded all of these results and these are the fruits of apology and retreat and lack of confidence in our own principles.

Krauthammer is exactly right.

We're seeing the fruits of Obama's foreign policy in the Middle East.

This Nobel Peace Laureate has shown just how terribly he miscalculated. Obama the brilliant has shown himself to be so wrong it's scary.

Obama's plan of appeasement and apology failed.

The recent events in the Middle East reveal his administration in all its incompetence.

Obama has given the American people a clear choice in the upcoming election.

Do we want to stick with his failed "peace through weakness" plan?

Do we want to blame America first (and last and all times in between)?

If we do, Obama should get four more years, years most likely filled with more attacks like the one on 9/11, 2012.