Syria, Obama and the world

Obama’s ears are burning. In Paris, in Berlin, in Riyadh, in Ankara, in Jerusalem, in Warsaw and even in Washington, we only talk about him, and not in a positive light. Obama lacks leadership. Obama is naive. The wool is being pulled over his eyes by Putin. Obama is a pacifist. Obama is indecisive. He has abandoned Iraq just as he is abandoning Europe. He has abandoned Israel. He has abandoned Saudi Arabia. He has abandoned Turkey. The West has become a great complaints office and Obama is the wailing wall. Obama is hated because he is a mirror, reflecting his wickedness and his cowardice. The United States is still an imperial power but in decline. Its economic domination is threatened by China and its military superiority is a myth (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Irak). In the past 50 years, the United States has won all battles and has lost all wars. All empires in empirical history had their military interventionism surpassing their economic dynamism. Since they have ceased sending their “boys” to the four corners of the world, the United States has improved its state of prosperity. “If your only tool is a hammer, all problems will look like nails” said Bush’s neoconservatists. Obama has ended this grand raid: even if you are holding a hammer, all your problems will not necessarily look like nails. Obama has understood that in Iraq, just as in Libya and even in Egypt and in Tunisia, the fall of the tyrant has led to chaos. He understood that the “Arab Spring” is a myth and refuses to go forward with the same experiment in Syria. Behind his idealistic appearance, Obama is in reality a cynical. The Russian offensive in Syria is all but a snub. He is choosing a laissez-faire policy. He is an accomplice and has made a deal with Putin. Thanks to Putin, he has unmasked his traitors: Turkey that is supporting Daesh and are bombarding the Kurds, Saudi Arabia, with its only enemy, Iran. By his inaction, he has revealed the europeans’ incapacity and are waiting for Uncle Sam’s orders. Europeans that are convinced that soldier Ryan will always come and save them. Save them from Russia’s tanks, from the wave of immigrants, from China’s money. But soldier Ryan won’t be back. Obama should dissolve NATO and let the european leaders take care of their responsibilities: rearm themselves or be forgotten in the pages of history. It is understandable that Hollande, Sarkozy and Merkel are mad at Obama, like children angry at their father who is asking them to grow up. 
It is the great American paradox: the power that is supposed to maintain world order is a predator that is destroying it as well. The United Sates is simultaneously conservatist and revolutionary, cynical and nihilist. By leaving, Obama is doing a service to the world and to the West in particular. He will allow us to live.