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OBAMA AND THE BETTER PICTURES
“July 22 (Bloomberg) -- Middle Eastern and European leaders are lining up to hear what Barack Obama has to say on his seven- country tour this week. For his presidential campaign, what he says on the trip may not be as important as the photos and videos it produces.”
More important than Senator Obama’s photo ops are his conversations with key players in the area and his ability to actually listen and absorb the reality – we are still in a long term war that chose us. It’s not too late for the senator to adjust his actual policy approach. I added an addendum to yesterday’s post:
July 22 - Policy Footnote: The single most important meeting on Obama’s current trip is with General Petraeus, who by all responsible players in DC is regarded as the genius who rescued Iraq and is now acknowledged by centrist democrats as highly credible. To the extent that Senator Obama actually listens to the general and adjusts not only his rhetoric but his actual policy approach, the country and his campaign will be better for it.
The US remains at war with a jihad directed and coordinated by anti-American elements in the Middle East that share a virulent ideology masquerading as a religion. They fully intend to intimidate moderate followers of Islam and terrorize the secular forces in those countries that they do not fully control. Some of these jihadi elements are embedded in the Iranian and Syrian governments. The object of this war – declared on us and our friends – is to destabilize all regimes in the oil producing Middle East, creating openings for Islamist extremist takeovers. Seen in this light, the Iranian a-bomb ambitions are particularly chilling. Once it is clear that the junior senator from Illinois has absorbed this lesson (if he does), we can all sleep better at night, knowing that his campaign is not for Jimmie Carter’s second term.
JBG
