TRULY GREAT BRITAIN – AT 9:14 A.M. ET:  British Prime Minister David Cameron is on a roll.  His comments about Islamic terrorism, which he named without hesitation, put Field Marshal Obama to shame.  Now Cameron is taking on Vladimir Putin, and he's just as deadly with his words.  Again, our president looks like the head of a student government in a high school for troubled teens.  From the New York Post:   

WASHINGTON — British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned European leaders against repeating the historic World War II blunder of appeasement instead of resisting Russian belligerence in Ukraine.

Cameron invoked the sellout by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to Hitler at Munich while urging his counterparts at a closed-door meeting Saturday to stand firm against Russia’s meddling in Ukrainian territory, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica said.

“We run the risk of repeating the mistakes made in Munich in 1938. We cannot know what will happen next,” Cameron was reported as saying in Brussels.

“This time we cannot meet Putin’s demands. He has already taken Crimea and we cannot allow him to take the whole country.”

Cameron’s visceral warning came as President Obama jetted to Estonia, where he will deliver a speech Wednesday intended to solidify the “steadfast” commitment of the United States to the Baltic states on Russia’s border, the White House said.

NATO obligations commit members to mutual defense, but Ukraine isn’t part of NATO.

Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the main mediator with Putin, was reported to be furious with the Russian leader, calling him “irrational and unpredictable.”

COMMENT:   No matter what Obama will say, he can't be trusted.  That is the general opinion of America's allies, and the sentiment surfaces all the time.   The question that so many are asking is whether Obama's bizarre behavior is based on indifference or on a contempt for our very civilization.  I'm leaning toward the latter.  I think what we're seeing now is the real Obama, and most Americans don't like it.

Cameron, by contrast, is positively Churchillian.

September 3, 2014