How to Save the Obama Presidency: Bomb Iran
Before you hit the “comment” button to complain that I posted this story, the founding team at disinformation® always planned to expose multiple points of view on the site and let the reader decide for himself or herself which approach to an issue was correct, or at least most appealing. In this commentary by neocon Daniel Pipes (he is director of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University), I don’t agree at all with his ideology, but I think it is very important to understand that many Americans do subscribe to this type of idea.
I do not customarily offer advice to a president whose election I opposed, whose goals I fear, and whose policies I work against. But here is an idea for Barack Obama to salvage his tottering administration by taking a step that protects the United States and its allies.
If Obama’s personality, identity, and celebrity captivated a majority of the American electorate in 2008, those qualities proved ruefully deficient for governing in 2009. He failed to deliver on employment and health care, he failed in foreign-policy forays small (e.g., landing the 2016 Olympics) and large (relations with China and Japan). His counterterrorism record barely passes the laugh test.
