Bill O’Reilly: Testing Obama
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Testing Obama
by Bill O’Reilly
Joseph Biden is a prophet. On Oct. 19, 2008, the now-vice president said: “Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.”
Forget about six months, the foreign affairs insults arrived within three weeks of Obama’s presidency. And with the economy dominating the news cycle, very little attention has been paid.
Let’s take them one by one:
By far the most important insult to the Obama administration came this week. Shortly after U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke visited Pakistan, the country surrendered to the Taliban and al-Qaida, putting the entire world in danger.
In a shocking abdication of responsibility, the Pakistani government now says the Taliban has the authority to impose sharia law in the northern part of the country. This means the Pakistani government is allowing these terrorists to do whatever they want, and that will include continuing their attacks on American forces in neighboring Afghanistan.
This is huge. And President Obama would be wise to respond quickly and punish the Pakistani government. They have thrown in with terrorists and killers, and the United States cannot accept that, nor should any responsible country.
Insult two: The government of Kyrgyzstan is closing the U.S. air base on its soil. That air base supplies NATO forces in Afghanistan. Again, this is huge.
The reason the base is being closed is because Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin doesn’t like America assisting nations like Poland and Ukraine in their defense strategies. So Putin, whom the Kyrgyzstan government fears, has succeeded in hurting NATO’s war against the Taliban. Nice.
