Posted by
Always To The Right on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:13:55 PM
According to Ha’aretz,
the Israeli government has information that Nicolas Sarkozy has derided
Barack Obama as an empty suit on foreign policy. The French president,
who has worked hard to bring his country closer to the center-right
policies of strength especially on Iran and Israel, considers Obama
“utterly immature” in this arena
Can anyone blame him? Europe does not want direct
presidential-level negotiations with Iran — they want the mullahcracy
isolated. They need American strength behind that position in order to
wring concessions from the ruling Guardian Council. With the price of
oil plummeting over the past two months, the economic sanctions on Iran
finally have a chance to bite the mullahs hard. Obama’s stated policy
would undo everything just at the moment that it has a chance of
producing real change.
In fact, Sarkozy believes that Obama would wind up being more
unilateral than George Bush in his foreign policy. When a French
politician uses the word “arrogant” as an accusation, that means
something. Apparently, their brief meeting during the Obama World Tour
did not set Sarkozy’s mind at ease. He saw something that makes him
extremely uneasy with Obama in charge of American diplomacy.
Formulations empty of all content. Sounds familiar, no? It has the ring of Hope and Change.