The perils ahead

Caroline Glick as usual takes a wide ranging look into the future of Obama's presidency, and it does not look good for Israel. Obama is bringing back all the old anti-Israel folks like Zbigniew Brzezinski from the Carter administration and Robert Malley from the Clinton years.

FROM JEWISHWORLDREVIEW.COM:

The perils ahead
By Caroline B. Glick
US President-elect Barack Obama has properly sought to maintain a low profile in foreign affairs in this transition period ahead of his January inauguration. But while Obama has stipulated that the US can have only one president at a time, his aides and advisors are signaling that he intends to move US foreign policy in a sharply different direction from its current trajectory once he assumes office. And they are signaling that this new direction will be applied most immediately and directly to US policy towards the Middle East.

Early in the Democratic Party's primary season, the Obama campaign released a list of the now-President-elect's foreign policy advisors to the Washington Post. The list raised a great deal of concern in policy circles, particularly among supporters of the US-Israel alliance. It included outspoken critics of Israel like Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as national security advisor under President Jimmy Carter, and Robert Malley, who served as a junior Middle East aide to President Bill Clinton. Both men are deeply hostile to Israel and both have called repeatedly for the US to end its strategic alliance with Israel.

In the months that followed the list's publication, the Obama campaign sought to distance itself from both men as the President-elect's advisors worked to position Obama as a centrist candidate. Brzezinski was cast aside in February when he headed a delegation to Syria to meet with President Bashar Assad. The purpose of his "fact-finding" mission was to castigate the Bush administration for its refusal to pursue Syria as an ally, and to decry Damascus's international isolation caused by its support for the insurgency in Iraq, its strategic alliance with Iran, its support for Hizbullah as well as Hamas and al Qaida, its illicit nuclear program and its subversion of the pro-Western Lebanese government.
To Brzezinski's dismay, his mission was overtaken by events. The depth of Syria's support for terror was graphically displayed during his visit when arch-Iranian/Lebanese terrorist Imad Mughniyeh was killed in Damascus the day after he called on Assad.
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