Tolerant of Obama, Not the Crises

The question of the day: Has the West become tolerant and indifferent with respect to our crises, the simplest example of these being the Syrian crisis? The simple answer is that everyone has become tolerant of the crisis with Obama himself, not the region’s crises! Today, everyone is convinced of the Obama administration’s hesitant passivity, incapable of adopting earnest positions regarding what is going on around us.

To illustrate the situation, we are currently facing the bloody Syrian crisis, the crisis in Iraq with the expansion of ISIL, and Nouri al-Maliki’s inflexibility. And we now have the monstrous Israeli aggression against Gaza, which broke out due to senseless political reasons aimed at finding a role in the region, which is what Hamas and those behind it demand.

Conversation about Obama’s crisis is not only for us Arabs to talk about, but for Americans as well. It is worth reflecting on what journalist David Ignatius wrote in The Washington Post, which was published in this newspaper, where he blamed Obama for his hesitance in Iraq and Syria, then concluded saying, “You can sympathize with the White House’s situation in a chaotic world that simultaneously craves and resents U.S. leadership.”

He added, “But when core U.S. national security interests are involved — as in combating the Islamic state or maintaining the strongest possible alliance with Germany — the White House must break through whatever resistance or inertia it encounters. The rest is excuses.”

Therefore, the crisis is with Obama himself; unfortunately, we must find a way to tolerate it for now.