[Iran is] six months away from being about 90 percent of having the rich  uranium for an atom bomb. I think that you have to place that red line before  them now, before it’s too late. —Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  to David Gregory on NBC’s “Meet the Press”

One of the most enduring myths about Barack Obama is that he’s been a better  foreign policy president than a domestic one. Given his feeble record at home,  that isn’t saying much. And now, after the wholesale collapse of his “soft  diplomacy” throughout the Muslim world, that myth has finally been  shattered.

Indeed, when it comes to foreign policy, it’s amateur hour in the White  House. This rank amateurism was on full display in the confusing and  contradictory manner with which Obama treated the two most important leaders in  the Middle East— Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu of Israel and Mohammed  Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt.

The current Islamic rage against America began in Egypt, and the American  embassy in Cairo has been under constant assault by Morsi’s radical Islamist  political partners. So how did Obama react? He agreed to reward Morsi with a  private meeting at the United Nations General Assembly later this month, but  flatly turned down a request for a get-together with America’s chief ally in the  region, Netanyahu.

Netanyahu has made no secret of the fact that he doesn’t trust Obama, and the  president has been equally candid that he despises the outspoken Netanyahu. The  White House didn’t even try to come up with a valid excuse for the president’s  snub of Netanyahu. It said that the president would arrive in New York for the  UN on Monday, September 24 and depart on Tuesday, September 25, and Netanyahu  wouldn’t arrive in New York until later in the week. But that explanation didn’t  wash, because Netanyahu offered to go to Washington if New York wasn’t  convenient.

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