A devastating piece on the unfolding debacle of Obama’s Iran policy in today’s Wall Street Journal. Among the lowlights:
Now we hear that the French and British leaders were quietly seething on stage, annoyed by America’s handling of the announcement. Both countries wanted to confront Iran a day earlier at the United Nations.
President Sarkozy in particular pushed hard. He had been “frustrated” for months about Mr. Obama’s reluctance to confront Iran, a senior French government official told us …
The Administration told the French that it didn’t want to “spoil the image of success” for Mr. Obama’s debut at the U.N. and his homily calling for a world without nuclear weapons, according to the Paris daily Le Monde.
“We are right to talk about the future,” Mr. Sarkozy said, referring to the U.S. resolution on strengthening arms control treaties. “But the present comes before the future, and the present includes two major nuclear crises,” i.e., Iran and North Korea. “We live in the real world, not in a virtual one.”
Read the whole thing here.
And if you’re feeling especially appalled, you’re going to find yourself in interesting company, viz Richard Cohen’s Washington Post column ripping the president cum campaigner in chief. Here’s your teaser: “Sooner or later it is going to occur to Barack Obama that he is the president of the United States.”