Or, more accurately, some of our allies.  Allies that aren’t liked by his extremist, left-wing base.

If you were President of the United States, how would you treat a staunch, lonely ally committed to liberal democracy and free markets-the only such country in an increasingly anti-American region? A friend surrounded by hostile neighbors who harbor terrorists bent on its destruction, flush with oil money and weapons from the region’s maniacally anti-American and anti-Semitic dictator? A people regularly extorted through terrorist hijackings, murders and kidnappings? A country which faithfully shares invaluable intelligence with the United States regarding subversive anti-American groups and governments in the region?

Wouldn’t you back such a country, avoid propaganda victories for that country’s-and America’s-sworn enemies, and take simple steps to solidify that country’s sometimes shaky emerging economy, especially when those steps would strengthen America, too?

Not, apparently, if you are Barack Obama.

Israel? Who said anything about Israel? We’re talking about Colombia. But Obama’s disturbing attitude toward Colombia reveals how an Obama administration might worry Israel and other embattled American strategic allies.

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