I think we found out today what those are.

He’s clearly intent on rolling back Bush policies that treated Israel as a staunch ally, a valued friend, and an independent state that has the right and duty to decide on policies it believes are in its best interests without being dictated to by outsiders.

What a complete and utter dirtbag he’s turned out to be. His whole Middle East policy consists of letting Abdullah fuck him in the ass while he’s going down on Imanutjob.

I’ll bet he doesn’t even get a reach-around, the dishrag.

The Rodney Dangerfield POTUS. He and Dhimmi Carter ought to take their show on the road.

How do you give them a trial when it’s almost certain that laws were broken and what comes out in trial infuriates the people you want to make peace with?

You’re darn right he doesn’t think it’s a good idea. Which is my point. He is having to deal with realities and they aren’t clear-cut or simple.

And the same goes for giving in to the generals. He can’t fight everybody all at once. He has to choose his battles, and the Pentagon is probably not the best place for a Democrat to start cutting things if he doesn’t want to be attacked as “weak” on terror or security, or to take the blame for failure in Iraq or Afghanistan.

It seems to me he’s being responsible for the government, but it will take time to undo 8 years of an activist insane government that had such few reservations about pushing its agenda that there may well be one governor in prison and several fired prosecutors because of the breathtaking chutzpah of the Bush administration.

Sadly, among the “realities” that Bush has “created” are a number of bad guys rounded up in the war on terror. However, this could easily be “rolled back”. The prisoners could be transferred elsewhere by executive fiat. They could each receive a trial in an Article III court, with the full panoply of constitutional and procedural rights. The military tribunals, created by the old executive, could be eliminated with a stroke of Obama’s pen.

He either lacks the balls, or on reflection, shall we say, doesn’t think these things are good ideas. Even Eric Holder, back from Cuba, thinks Gitmo is a swell place.

Let me know when Obama begins to have responsiblility for the government, he being, you know, the president and all.

However, considering the retread Arabist hacks, anti-Semites and kapos he’s surrounded himself with, I have a feeling that he may very well try to impose his will on Israel. But success in that endeavor has eluded better men than him, so we’ll see. It could go either way.

As far as Israel is concerned, what are the “realities that some Bush policies have created that aren’t so easily rolled back”, Middle?

The fact that the Arabs hate Israel? Yeah, all Bush’s fault. Obama’s gonna have to fix that. Yes we can!

I don’t think he’s backing off Israel any time soon.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone if our soigne president simply gives up on an aggressive, newly-formulated approach to the Mideast.

Vicki, I should have known to let you write the post!

We’ll see what Obama says in his forthcoming speech in Egypt.