AH, THE FRUITS OF OBAMA'S POLICIES – AT 8:27 A.M. ET:  Well, folks, the results of President Obama's change in nuclear-weapons strategy are pouring in.  Can you hear the applause?  You can't?  Must be something wrong with your ears. 

Well, actually, there is no applause.  Our allies – the countries most Americans think of as allies, but Obama doesn't – must be shivering in their boots to see that American foreign policy is governed by a doctrinaire leftist.

And, of course, Obama claimed he was trying to influence Iran to change its ways by setting a good example, pure as the Campfire Girls.  Here is Iran's reply, via AP:

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's hard-line president on Wednesday ridiculed President Barack Obama's new nuclear strategy, which turns the U.S. focus away from the Cold War threats and instead aims to stop the spread of atomic weapons to rogue states or terrorists.

Obama on Tuesday announced the new strategy, including a vow not to use nuclear weapons against countries that do not have them. Iran, however, was a notable exception to that pledge, along with North Korea, because Washington accuses them of not cooperating with the international community on nonproliferation standards.

Concerns over Iran's nuclear program figure prominently in the new U.S. strategy. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the focus would now be on terror groups such as al-Qaida as well as North Korea's nuclear buildup and Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad derided Obama over the plan in a speech Wednesday to a crowd of thousands in the country's northwest.

"American materialist politicians, whenever they are beaten by logic, immediately put their finger on the trigger like cowboys," he said.

And get this:

"Mr. Obama, you are a newcomer (to politics). Wait until your sweat dries and get some experience. Be careful not to read just any paper put in front of you or repeat any statement recommended," Ahmadinejad said in the speech, aired live on state TV. "(American officials) bigger than you, more bullying than you, couldn't do a damn thing, let alone you."

COMMENT:  The warmth, the gratitude, the respect.  This is what Obama gets after more than a year of "engagement." 

Will he learn?

I recall one of those five-year-old minds in the body of an adult who once announced to me proudly that she'd been a Communist until the Soviet 20th Party Congress, when "Stalin was unmasked."  I remember asking myself, "When did Stalin ever wear a mask?"

I get the same sense about Obama.  He won't change until the facts are so crushing that even his adolescent mind must accept them.  By then the damage will have been done, and he'll probably be writing his 17th book about himself.

April 7, 2010