He doesn’t say it, of course, but Benjamin Netenyahu and the entire Israeli government does not trust Obama on a single thing. Not for his promise of support, not for his ability to understand the political and military realities and certainly not on his willingness to stand by Israel when times get tough. The only thing he absolutely believes about Obama is that he will do as much damage to Israel as he is capable of getting away with. The interview with Obama conducted by Jeffery Goldberg, which is reported in an article by Elliot Abrams subtilted Obama’s scary interview, should be read if your interest is in the preservation of the Israeli state in the midst of the most hostile American government since its founding in 1948. One exchange after another shows Obama either lying outright, or as Abrams suggests, living in a fantasy zone in his own head unaffected by reality. The final para:

Change is apparently not scary to Mr. Obama, who is confident all his policies are right. Those who disagree are uninformed, or itching for conflict, or ignorant about the risks they will soon face, or sadly unable to adapt to world events. This is the Obama who said of his own nomination that “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” If he believes it, it must be so. The Goldberg interview reveals that five years in, nothing has changed.

Obama may well be mentally disturbed, more than just a narcissist but someone who is fully detached from reality. He knows everything, and is smarter, shrewder, more insightful than anyone else. Other than in his ability to rise to higher and higher political offices, nothing he has every attempted has succeeded, but in no case has he ever shown self-doubt or any recognition that the things he set out to do did not work out in reality. There is no discussing anything with such a person and normally you would not have to. And then there’s this from The Washington Post about Obama’s escape from reality in relation to the Ukraine. This is an editorial titled, President Obama’s foreign policy is based on fantasy:

FOR FIVE YEARS, President Obama has led a foreign policy based more on how he thinks the world should operate than on reality. It was a world in which “the tide of war is receding” and the United States could, without much risk, radically reduce the size of its armed forces. Other leaders, in this vision, would behave rationally and in the interest of their people and the world. Invasions, brute force, great-power games and shifting alliances — these were things of the past. Secretary of State John F. Kerry displayed this mindset on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday when he said, of Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine, “It’s a 19th century act in the 21st century.”

That’s a nice thought, and we all know what he means. A country’s standing is no longer measured in throw-weight or battalions. The world is too interconnected to break into blocs. A small country that plugs into cyberspace can deliver more prosperity to its people (think Singapore or Estonia) than a giant with natural resources and standing armies.

Unfortunately, Russian President Vladimir Putin has not received the memo on 21st-century behavior. Neither has China’s president, Xi Jinping, who is engaging in gunboat diplomacy against Japan and the weaker nations of Southeast Asia. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is waging a very 20th-century war against his own people, sending helicopters to drop exploding barrels full of screws, nails and other shrapnel onto apartment buildings where families cower in basements. These men will not be deterred by the disapproval of their peers, the weight of world opinion or even disinvestment by Silicon Valley companies. They are concerned primarily with maintaining their holds on power.

OK, the President of the United States is disconnected from reality, a man who lives in his own head with a reality separate and distinct from the actual world of events. But is that it? Merely to note that this is so and then do nothing? Let your country be ruined along with your friends and allies because all avenues of escape are closed? If we know he’s crazy, why don’t we bloody do something?