Stay classy, Obama administration

There is one democracy in the Middle East. One. So how does the Obama administration treat it? Like this:

As the ongoing crisis in U.S.-relations continues, a report by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg cites a senior U.S. official as saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “a chickenshit prime minister,” who only cares about his political survival.

 I guess officials in this administration definitely know when they see someone only interested in his own political survival, having served under President Present, so I'll let that one pass for the moment. Even if it's true about Netanyahu, though, it's a serious case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Lest you think this is some rogue Obama official talking out of his ass, Goldberg was able to find a second administration official to call Netanyahu a chickenshit, which I think says a lot about the administration:

This official agreed that Netanyahu is a “chickenshit” on matters related to the comatose peace process, but added that he’s also a “coward” on the issue of Iran’s nuclear threat. The official said the Obama administration no longer believes that Netanyahu would launch a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities in order to keep the regime in Tehran from building an atomic arsenal. “It’s too late for him to do anything. Two, three years ago, this was a possibility. But ultimately he couldn’t bring himself to pull the trigger. It was a combination of our pressure and his own unwillingness to do anything dramatic. Now it’s too late.”

Let me get this straight. The Obama administration, which was too chickenshit to do anything to stop Iran's nuclear program, calls the leader of Israel a "chickenshit" because he didn't do what they were too chickenshit to do themselves and in fact were pressuring the Israelis not to do?  So because Netanyahu acceded to the wishes of President Chickenshit, Netanyahu's a chickenshit? I'm confused. Besides, where does President Choom Gang get off calling  a former special forces operative who was wounded in action a chickenshit?

Hat tip for the image to Ed Driscoll via Instapundit. Also, Noah Rothman has a great analysis of the policy implications at Hot Air