From: Congressman Thaddeus McCotter/HUMAN EVENTS
In his latest lecture to the Middle East, an ideologically purblind President Obama has again failed to acknowledge the facts on the ground, much to the detriment of American and Israeli strategic interests.
First, the President continues to confound "popular uprisings" with America's strategic interests. This fails to account for the inherent danger that such movements can be usurped—if not instigated and abetted by—radical elements bent upon usurping them for anti-American purposes, as is increasingly evident in Egypt. Providing the new Egyptian government billions in debt relief and loans without the conditions that the Camp David Accords must remain inviolable both in law and practice, is but the latest manifestation of this administration's Mideast dumbfoundment.
Secondly, the President's ill-conceived and incoherent policy and mission creeping into Libya has now resulted in the administration's diminished willingness to promptly call for Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to exit power, ergo, we witness the Obama administration being more resolute in precipitously demanding the removal of an ally in Egypt than of an enemy in Syria—let alone in Iran.
While an increase in human intelligence-gathering and grassroots support for nascent democratic and free-market institutions and movements within oppressed nations will help ensure these freedom movements are not hijacked by worse tyrants and steered into anti-American regimes, the Obama administration refuses to accept the reality that these uprisings' beneficent outcomes can best be effected by the success of Iran's Green Revolution. Succinctly, the removal of a murderous terrorist regime that stole a popular uprising in 1979, and its indigenous replacement with a true, free, antiterrorist republic, will serve as an example and deterrent to the present movements being perverted by would-be despots.
Such strategic celerity, though, is lacking in the Obama administration. For, as is becoming abundantly clear, its missteps and missed opportunities stem from the President's inconstant commitment to the strategic partnership that founds America's Middle Eastern policies for our national security and regional peace: the American-Israeli alliance.
Israel is a market-based, liberal democracy that protects the lives and property of its people, including its minorities.
Israel is America's key strategic ally in the region. Israel enhances our defense capabilities, provides us a secure foothold in the strategically important and turbulent Middle East, and has supported our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan by sharing its military technology and its intelligence on hostile forces.
