Friday, November 20, 2009

Obama's chump diplomacy


By Rich Lowry

"Oh, how the international community loves Barack Obama — loves to stiff him, play him along and manipulate him. He's the world's celebrity ingenue, the slender naif perpetually undone by the recalcitrance of foreign leaders.


Earlier this year, in a touching exercise in diplomatic and civilizational outreach, he sent two letters to Iran's mullahs and a new year's message to the Iranian people. How mannerly, how unthreatening. When the Iranian government beat protesters in the streets after it stole the election for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June, Obama kept his criticism muted. How sensitive, how subtle."


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