Walter Russell Mead writing May 25 in the American Interest:
“His [Obama’s] record of grotesque, humiliating and total diplomatic failure in this dealings with Prime Minister Netanyahu has few parallels in American history Three times he has gone up against Netanyahu; thee times he has ingloriously failed. This last defeat — Netanyahu’s deadly, devastating speech to Congress in which he eviscerated President Obama’s foreign policy to prolonged and repeated standing ovations by members of both parties — may have been the single most stunning and effective public rebuke to an American President a foreign leader has ever delivered.
Netayahu beat Obama like a red-headed stepchild; he played him like a fiddle; he pounded him like a big brass drum. The Prime Minister of Israel danced rings around his arrogant, professorial opponent. It was like watching the Harlem Globetrotters go up against the junior squad from Miss Porter’s School; like watching Harvard play Texas A&M; like watching Bambi meet Godzilla — or Bill Clinton run against Bob Dole.”
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