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Obama on the Hook
By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
Published on DickMorris.com on March 29, 2011
With each of his policies, Obama takes a gamble. If they work,
he’s OK. If they don’t, he’s on the hook for the outcome.
Consider the extent of his exposure:
* His involvement in Libya makes him responsible if Gaddafi stays in
power and slaughters his own people and/or renews his connections with
international terrorism. Obama will be equally responsible should
Gaddafi be toppled and an Iraqi-style civil war erupts between his
deposed supporters and the new government. As General Powell said
“you break it, you own it.”
* His support for the rebellion in Egypt and his action in forcing
Mubarak from power makes him responsible should the Muslim Brotherhood
take over the nation and use it as a basis for promoting terrorism and
battling Israel, undoing the Camp David accords.
* Obama’s anti-oil drilling policies make him vulnerable should oil
prices resume their upward march, particularly so if the Saudi monarchy
is toppled and prices surge. In that event, he will be subject to
blame for encouraging the wave or revolutions on the one hand and
neglecting our domestic energy resources on the other.
* Attorney General Eric Holder’s weakening of our domestic anti-terror
efforts and his curbs on investigatory tactics make Obama responsible
for any major terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
* Should the economy enter a double dip recession, it will be Obama’s
recession. No longer will the public blame Bush, but they will
realize that it is Obama’s policies which have led to disaster.
That’s all a lot for a president to have on his plate. But Obama
keeps helping himself to more responsibility without clear exit
strategies and with only a hope and a prayer standing between him and
disaster. He is now so dependent on the actions of other players
-- Egyptian Muslims, Libyan rebels, Saudi insurgents, domestic
terrorists, and global economic forces -- that he is no longer in
control of his own destiny.
He is now truly the hostage of events. Not a good place for a
president facing re-election to be.
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