By Spengler,Asia Times
Obama is empowering our enemies
There’s a joke about a man who tells a psychiatrist,“Everybody hates me,”to which the psychiatrist responds,“That’s ridiculous –everyone doesn’t know you,yet.”Which brings me to Barack Obama:one of the best-informed people in the American security establishment told me the other day that the president is a “Manchurian Candidate”.
That can’t be true –Manchuria isn’t in the business of brainwashing prospective presidential candidates any more. There’s no one left to betray America to. Obama is creating astrategic void in which no major power will dominate,and every minor power must fend for itself. The outcome is incalculably hard to analyze and terrifying to consider.
Obama doesn’t want to betray the United States;he only wants to empower America’s enemies. Forcing Israel to abandon its strategic buffer (the so-called settlements) was supposed to placate Iran,so that Iran would help America stabilize Iraq,where its influence looms large over the Shi’ite majority.