The Arab Street

Barack Hussein Obama came into the Presidency with the promise that the world would like, respect, or even love the United States of America again with Obama being such a cosmopolitan internationalist, the real President of the world in sharp contrast to the provincial cowboy President with his willing to go it alone attitude that was the way George W. Bush was falsely portrayed by his opponents including those in the dinosaur press. Obama made a major foreign policy outreach as the US President on June 4, 2009 with his address to Al-Azhar University in Cairo. This speech was an appeal to the Muslim world and much of Obama's foreign policy since then has been directed at placating and protecting Muslims right to military support for parts of the so-called Arab Spring. The world does not love America. The world (including the rising Red China and resurgent Russia) does not respect Obama or America. Even the jihadists who clamored for our help to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi and gladly accepted US aid despise Obama's America and Americans to the point of murder. A massive failure on the part of United States intelligence agencies permitted our embassy in Egypt to fall from our grasp and allowed the slaughter of innocent Americans at our consulate in Benghazi, Libya on a day that should be sacred September Eleventh but with unprovoked attacks against Americans continuing, remains notorious.