Clinton saber rattling

Ahem ... Clinton saying the U.S. won't back down from European missile defense? Says we not only need to protect Europe from Iran but from other unnamed threats too.

"Missiles not only with a nuclear warhead but a conventional warhead or some other chemical, biological weapon could very well be in the hands of a regime like Iran's, which we know will use whatever advantage they have to intimidate as far as they think their voice can reach, and who are actively pursuing a missile development program ... We have real potential threats, and obviously Iran is the name we put to them, but it is a kind of stand-in for the range of threats we foresee ..."

- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, March 4, 2009

I am not buying it. There are numerous indications that President Obama wants to warm up to the Arabs in general, and the terrorist-sponsoring ones in particular. This is demonstrated, for example, in his willingness to talk to Hamas and Syria, and even Iran (though strictly speaking, the Iranians are not ethnically Arabs). All of this is part and parcel of his apparent belief that the principal reason that the Arab and Islamic worlds are hostile toward the US is because the US supports Israel.

Ahhh, Barry! Barry! Barry!

And therein lies the danger. Clearly, the Obama government wants to improve relations with the Arab world. If the President sees Israel as the main roadblock to that goal, it is believed that he will either try to manipulate Israel to his own ends, or, if Israel proves intransigent, eventually abandon her. Better start that review of Revelations ...