France's Sarkozy wanted to confront Iran at UN but was told no because it would “spoil the image of success” for Mr. Obama’s debut

Which success was Obama afraid to spoil? Sacrificing Israel? Abandoning the Jews? The surrender to jihad? The advancement of the global hoax on humanity -- global warming?

You have to admit. Everything America does, we do on a huge scale. When we win, we win giant. When we screw up, we elect Obama. HUGE F*** UP.

Mirror man strikes again. Free peoples...duck! They talked about how the world disliked us under Bush. Lie! They respected us. Now, they have contempt for us. And rightly so.

Wall Street Journal (hat tip Sym)

Both countries wanted to confront Iran a day earlier at the United Nations. Mr. Obama was, after all, chairing a Security Council session devoted to nonproliferation. The latest evidence of Iran’s illegal moves toward acquiring a nuclear weapon was in hand. With the world’s leaders gathered in New York, the timing and venue would be a dramatic way to rally international opinion.

President Sarkozy in particular pushed hard. He had been “frustrated” for months about Mr. Obama’s reluctance to confront Iran, a senior French government official told us, and saw an opportunity to change momentum. But the Administration told the French that it didn’t want to “spoil the image of success” for Mr. Obama’s debut at the U.N. and his homily calling for a world without nuclear weapons, according to the Paris daily Le Monde. So the Iran bombshell was pushed back a day to Pittsburgh, where the G-20 were meeting to discuss economic policy.

Le Monde’s diplomatic correspondent, Natalie Nougayrède, reports that a draft of Mr. Sarkozy’s speech to the Security Council Thursday included a section on Iran’s latest deception. Forced to scrap that bit, the French President let his frustration show with undiplomatic gusto in his formal remarks, laying into what he called the “dream” of disarmament. The address takes on added meaning now that we know the backroom discussions.

“We are right to talk about the future,” Mr. Sarkozy said, referring to the U.S. resolution on strengthening arms control treaties. “But the present comes before the future, and the present includes two major nuclear crises,” i.e., Iran and North Korea. “We live in the real world, not in a virtual one.” No prize for guessing into which world the Frenchman puts Mr. Obama.

“We say that we must reduce,” he went on. “President Obama himself has said that he dreams of a world without nuclear weapons. Before our very eyes, two countries are doing exactly the opposite at this very moment. Since 2005, Iran has violated five Security Council Resolutions . . .

“I support America’s ‘extended hand.’ But what have these proposals for dialogue produced for the international community? Nothing but more enriched uranium and more centrifuges. And last but not least, it has resulted in a statement by Iranian leaders calling for wiping off the map a Member of the United Nations. What are we to do? What conclusions are we to draw? At a certain moment hard facts will force us to make decisions.”

We thought we’d never see the day when the President of France shows more resolve than America’s Commander in Chief for confronting one of the gravest challenges to global security. But here we are.

Comments

[CaptainAmerica]

Obama's egocentonic narcissism has injured and will continue to injure our Republic. I dread the remaining years of this sorry excuse for a leader's term.

[Account Deleted]

From the Wall Street Journal it wasn't just France but GB too:

But now we hear that the French and British leaders were quietly seething on stage, annoyed by America's handling of the announcement.

[Sarastro]

Why does Sarkozy allow Americans - or anyone - to tell him what he can or cannot say before a world-wide international meeting? Is he the president of a sovereign state or not? Is he Obama's lackey? Obama's speech was NOT a success and his image is forever besmirched. He's like soccer players who cannot win a ball game without applying their well practiced technique of committing furtive fouls and pretending to be fouled by rolling around on the ground grimacing. He couldn't win anything fairly, not an election or a well-orchestrated farce like the garbage presented by the diabolical institution that used to be the United Nations, but now is just a Council of the Elders of Islamic criminals. Shades of Russian Communists' show trials, mocking justice.

[al-Kidya]

Obama is such a narcississtic socialist.
He's a dangerous molatov cocktail in charge of the most powerful country in the world.

[PB-in-AL]

"image of success" - wow, there's a loaded phrase. Not real success, this administration has already disclaimed the word victory (well, except for the election), so they can only project an "image of success" not actual success.

This is getting ridiculous. 1984 Newspeak strikes again. Double plus.

[dented]

This story just makes my blood boil.
What sort of man accepts being dictated to like this at the UN?
A spineless weak willed English and French man!

[Rianun04]

I thought Sarkozy's statement was really pretty decent. I don't appreciate his offer to Israel to help evacuate all the 'settlements' (he did that last year), but his comments were pretty much a slap in the face to Barry.

[pythagoras]

If everyone was afraid of Mr. Sarkozy impinging on Obama's "image of success" their fear was for naught: Mr. Obama is an abject failure in every way imaginable. And you can't even WIN for failing.

Mr. Sarkozy SHOULD have been permitted to take center stage. Obama couldn't be looking worse--if he tried.