The real news is that already notorious photo: the president of Brazil, our largest ally in Latin America, and the prime minister of Turkey, for more than half a century the Muslim anchor of NATO, raising hands together with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the most virulently anti-American leader in the world.
That picture — a defiant, triumphant take-that-Uncle-Sam — is a crushing verdict on the Obama foreign policy. It demonstrates how rising powers, traditional American allies, having watched this administration in action, have decided that there’s no cost in lining up with America’s enemies and no profit in lining up with a U.S. president given to apologies and appeasement.
Proving once again that incentives work.
There is no way that this is true. The photo must be doctored.
Obama and the Dem leaders in Congress promised us that if we were just really nice to the rest of the world and stopped acting like a super-power, then everyone would like us and we’d live happily ever after.
Now you are telling me that they were wrong? No Way.
Of course the world loves us now — we don’t fight back.
Proving once again that incentives work.
Love that dry wit. You can really turn a phrase.
Nations need respect, not love.
Ouch, that has got to hurt. We would say. Unfortunately I believe I just saw Obama metaphysically join in.