By Quin Hillyer - excerpts from article
At the risk of being melodramatic, it must nonetheless be said: We are in a war for civilization itself, and Barack Obama is not on the right side.
We are in a battle for civilization because the Islamic State, which is darkness and evil personified, has declared war against us and we in the West and the modernized Orient (Japan, India, Taiwan, and the like) are, despite our flaws, the very repository of civilization. They are backwards; we are enlightened. They are warped; we are well-intentioned. They are inhuman; we are humane. They are soul-less; we are desirous, however imperfectly, of a grace beyond our ken.
In the very heart of the Middle East darkness, only one nation fully embraces Western civilization. That nation is Israel. It is a representative republic. It guarantees civil rights and all the basic human rights. It is a land where commerce thrives, where faiths of all kinds are protected, where people walk free, and where Western civilization is cherished. Israel merits support not mostly because it is a haven for Jews in a hostile world although history teaches that such a haven is necessary but because it is a phalanx of liberty and decency behind enemy lines.
Yet Barack Obama, despite his longstanding f**ery to the contrary, is a deliberate adversary to the Jewish state. Obama bolsters Hamas, undermines Israel diplomatically on almost all fronts, pushes Israel to give up land for essentially no benefit to it, leaks intelligence about Israels self-defense, works to marginalize Israels American supporters, and puts roadblocks in the way of Israeli efforts to protect itself from Iran.
The problem is not just that Obama detests Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As William Kristol describes in his most recent column, the real trouble is much more fundamental: The reason Netanyahu bothers Obama so much is that Netanyahu has the gall to fight for Israels just interests and for Israels survival. Even worse, from Obamas perspective, is that Netanyahu believes in and defends not only Israels Jewishness but also its Western-ness. Against Obamas rather obvious belief that the West has been, in world affairs, at least as much oppressor as liberator, Netanyahu fully embraces the values that animate the whole of Western Civilization.
To keep Netanyahu from fighting for the West, Obama will try to destroy him politically, sending his minions to run a campaign in Israel against him. Yet thats not the worst of it. After all, Netanyahu is more a master of Israeli politics than anything Obama can throw at him besides, Israel will remain Israel even if Netanyahu loses the March e******ns. The worse way in which Obama works against the interests of the West is that he does not merely appease Iran he seeks to partner with it.
Wh**ever Obamas intentions, his actions will serve not to strengthen civilization but to weaken it. If the United States recedes as Obama seems to wish, those billions of people will not be represented, but even further subjugated.
Those who behead peaceful journalists and even aid workers, or who use the power of the state to execute bloggers, will never be anything but human swine. By not putting Americas full might against the swine in every prudent way, Obama hurts the cause of civilization itself. We who care about our heritage must oppose his policies with every republican (small r) weapon in our arsenal. Ordered liberty is at risk. We must defend it.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/398650/enemies-west-find-friend-obama-quin-hillyer