“Until Saturday, Obama’s Middle East policies were generally regarded
by the Arab world as confused and incoherent,” notes the Times of
Israel. “As of Saturday, he will be
perceived as one of the weakest presidents in American history. That
scent of weakness has emphatically reached Iran. . . . Khamenei and his
advisers recognize that the likelihood of this administration using
military force against a country with Iran’s military capability are
very low, if not nonexistent. And they’re not the only ones who realize
this. The same conclusions are being drawn by Hezbollah and al-Qaeda.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet colleagues, who will
doubtless have been watching the Rose Garden speech, will have
internalized what they had long suspected: that Washington will not be
the place from which good news will emanate about thwarting Iran’s
nuclear drive.”
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