The Audacity of Weakness…Obama’s morally confused foreign policy is making the world more dangerous by the day.

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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Congress on Tuesday to warn Americans of the anti-Western threats from theocratic — and likely to soon be nuclear — Iran.

Netanyahu came to the U.S. to outline the Iranian plan to remake the Middle East with a new nuclear arsenal. His warning was delivered over the objections of the Obama administration, which wants to cut a deal with Iran that allows the theocracy to continue to enrich lots of uranium.

Netanyahu received a standing ovation for stating the obvious. Iran is currently the greatest global sponsor of terrorism. Tehran now has de facto control over four Middle East nations: Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. Iran has serially ignored all past U.S. deadlines to stop nuclear enrichment. It habitually misled U.N. inspectors. It threatens to spark a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

At one point the Iranian economy was sputtering due to Western sanctions. Hundreds of thousands of reformers hit the streets of Tehran in 2009 to protest what they believed to be the fraudulent results of a presidential election. The theocracy was worried that its nuclear plans would either cause economic collapse due to the sanctions or prompt some sort of Western military response.

But all of that has changed due to the Obama administration’s zeal to conclude an agreement with Iran at any cost.

For the last six years, lots of American allies besides Israel have become scared of this strange new diffidence of the United States — as if the Obama administration feels that America’s prior prominence as leader and protector of the West was either unwarranted, too costly, or resulted in an unfair world order in need of adjustment.

President Obama entered office promising reset diplomacy with Russia. He declared an end to former president George W. Bush’s punitive measures against Russia — as if somehow the United States, not Russia, was responsible for the growing estrangement.

Russian president Vladimir Putin, however, interpreted the reset as American guilt. He assumed there would be few consequences to gobbling up the Crimea and eastern Ukraine in the same way that he had sliced off parts of Georgia. So far, he has been right. No wonder that he eyes the Baltic states next.

Controversy surrounds the creation and spread of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. But there is no disagreement about what followed Obama’s abrupt withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, as he fulfilled a campaign promise.

At one time the administration bragged of Iraq as possibly its “greatest achievement,” and as being “stable” and “secure.” But the precipitous pullout led to anarchy and a fertile landscape in which the Islamic State could thrive. After 2011, it turned out that the absence of U.S. troops in Iraq, not their presence, had enabled the savage terrorists.

The same muddle characterized American policy in Syria. Syrian president Bashar Assad ignored Obama’s “red line” by using chemical weapons, but Obama imposed no consequences. Then, Secretary of State John Kerry was reduced to asking Putin to negotiate a face-saving compromise — as if somehow the U.S., not Syria, had overstepped.

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Not just his foreign policy that is “morally confused”…he doing a hell of a job right here at home…

He should look closer at Jordan’s “policy” with their pilot “ultimatum” and follow through….red lines in my opinion are childish – grandstanding….especially if there are no repercussions for “crossing” the red line “voiced” ….

Shortly after Obama took office, Honduras ousted its Chavez wannabe president, by authority of the Honduran congress and according to Honduran law. Obama demanded that the ousted president be restored to office immediately. Hillary Clinton threatened Honduras with economic sanctions and a cessation of all U.S. federal aid.

Honduras told the Obama administration to pound sand.

Anyone who wondered about Obama’s foreign policies had to look no further than Honduras. That was five years ago. Now, his policies in nation after nation have failed. Egypt, once a strong ally against radical Islam, is openly defying the Obama administration. Iraq, even with its growing pains, was beginning to see progress. Now it is nothing more than a proxy state for Iran as Iran joins Iraq to fight ISIS. Good move, Obama. Is there any question who Iraq will join forces with? It certainly won’t be the United States that abandoned them.

The fallout from Obama’s foreign policy will be felt for generations to come. And I ask, if Obama was on the side of radical Islam, what would he be doing differently?