Chickens coming home to roost

"Just how badly has Barack Obama and his administration damaged relations with our allies in the Middle East? NBC’s Richard Engel reports that the Sunni nations in the region have begun to fear that the Obama administration leaks intel to Iran as part of its efforts at rapprochement with the mullahs, which is why the US got blindsided by the Saudi-led coalition’s operations in Yemen. The White House’s “incoherence” in policy, Engel reports, has most of them losing confidence in American leadership, according to Engel’s contacts (via Free Beacon)."

This is unprecedented, and shows just how badly our relations with our allies in the middle east have deteriorated.  This is a very public vote of no confidence that all our enemies and friends will see.  At least these countries are willing and perhaps even able to do the fighting, so we don't have to, but even if this action is successful, we lose significant influence with regional players who are centrally important to the world economy.

If they screw it up and lose, then it will be all out panic time.  No doubt the Saudis are calling in their chips with the Pakistanis as we speak for their share of that country's nuclear arsenal ( the Saudis bankrolled the Paki's development of the bomb, with the understanding that they would get some of the nukes later if they needed them).

 "Clearly, Saudi Arabia has little confidence left in the Obama administration; that much is evident from their actions to cut the US out of the loop on this coalition. Engel’s report strongly suggests that it’s not just incompetence that has the Saudis and other US allies rattled, but a suspicion that they’re being purposefully sold out by Obama to get a deal with Iran that will unleash their ambitions to dominate the region."

Given that Obama just outed major parts of the Israeli nuclear program, this feeling is richly justified.  

It is frankly hard to believe this is simple incompetence.  Obama is setting the world on fire, and the flames he is stoking are bidding fair to be nuclear ones.  The first time one goes off in our country must be grounds for the arrest of Obama, and his cabinet, and an immediate trial for treason.