What and whom does Barack Obaam respect, Mona Charen Townhal [1]l:
This whole notion that somehow if we showed courtesy or opened up dialogue with governments previously hostile that we were soft. Only the American people didn’t buy it. And there’s a good reason the American people didn’t buy it. Because it didn’t make sense.”
Isn’t it the case that some leaders, by their dangerous and destructive actions, forfeit the right to warm greetings? Is there anyone Obama would decline to exchange friendly greetings with at a diplomatic encounter? How about Robert Mugabe? Kim Jong Il? Chavez’s close friend Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? If Barack Obama had been president in 1977, would he have shaken Pol Pot’s hand?
It does seem that Obama prefers unelected tyrants to constitutional leaders. It would nice if one would remember is supposed to the President of the United States, and would start defending his own country for a change.