How Not to Treat an Ally

This past week has proven to be another week in which the Obama Administration has chosen to alienate our closest ally in the Middle East, Israel.

The way in which President Obama treated Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House was deplorable. He treated him as if he was the Prime Minister of a pariah state (such as North Korea or Iran) in his not meeting with him in public and snubbing him afterwards. Add to this the fact that the Administration has been scolding Israel for building settlements in Jerusalem in the preceding weeks and you have a situation where this president is showing outright hostility to Israel. Considering he is not showing the same hostility to Iran through sanctions, but instead lessening the severity of them and you are left with a very strange foreign policy, one that can be said to be inconsistent with previous policy of both Democrat and Republican presidents and dangerous in the message it sends to our historical allies as well as our current enemies. President Obama should back off the bullying of Israel and instead turn his enmity to nations that pose a real threat to not only us and our allies but the world at large. Nations such as Iran.

America Will Survive

Considering the passage of the healthcare bill and what it means for our country I can't help but think our country will come through this. It will take more than one man or one bill to change the core of what makes America great. We survived the Great Depression. We are the country that came out victorious in World War II and won the Cold War through the leadership of Ronald Reagan. We were attacked on September 11 and rose from the ashes of that tragedy. The US is a beacon to the world, a symbol of hope and freedom. It takes more than one president to alter what makes America exceptional. It takes more than one man to fundamentally alter age old alliances. Just as we always have done we will bounce back. Our history and what makes us so great are bigger than President Obama despite what he thinks. This is something we must remember.