Obama’s Pandering to Moral Equivalence Between Israel and Hamas Illuminates His Shortcomings as an American Strategist
It doomed his own attempts to effect any improvement in Arab-Jewish relations or American-Muslim relations.
President Obama’s pandering to sentiments of moral equivalence between Hamas terrorists, violating a truce and murdering Israeli children and women in the most brutal possible manner, and Israeli soldiers conducting operations designed to destroy Hamas, is the most startling development we have yet had of the former president’s shortcomings as an American geopolitical strategist.
It has been a fact of American history since its earliest days as an independent country that recourse to armed combat, if it entailed any significant number of American casualties, had to be justifiable both in terms of the country’s national interest and its national ethos as a peace-loving country that never took up arms for morally unjustifiable purposes.
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