It’s a motley crew alright: Israel, Honduras, Iraq, Poland, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Ukraine, Britain, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Egypt. But despite their differences, these nations have something in common.

Each has been abandoned by the United States.

The Trumpet has reported on the callous treatment of each of these states at the hands of the Obama administration. But while each specific case is a painful indictment of American foreign policy, it’s the collective picture that is most alarming: It reveals the systematic abandonment by America of nearly every friend and ally.

Consider.

Israel

The U.S. has been Israel’s most ardent ally since its establishment as a state in 1948. Though the intensity of America’s support has waxed and waned over the years depending on who inhabited the White House, the waning that has occurred under the Obama administration is unprecedented. The U.S.-Israel bond has essentially been severed, explained Stephen Flurry, in the wake of Mr. Obama’s watershed speech in Cairo, in which he declared a “new beginning” in the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world.

By coddling the Muslims, “the U.S. effectively ended its brotherly and strategically critical alliance with Israel,” explained Mr. Flurry. Whether it was America giving political legitimacy to Israel’s sovereignty, or selling hardware to Israel’s military, or defending the interests of the Jewish state internationally, Israel’s existence has largely depended on its brotherly, sometimes testy, bond with the U.S. Mr. Obama’s lofty rhetoric and assurances notwithstanding, that “unbreakable” bond is now broken.

As Mr. Flurry put it, “Israel knows it has been abandoned by the United States.”

Britain

The unbreakable bond between the United States and Britain was the defining relationship of the 20th century. Together the two countries defeated the Kaiser in World War i, and the Axis powers in World War ii. Together they formed the dual heart of the global economic system. Together they rebuilt postwar Europe. Together they confronted and eventually defeated Communist Russia. Together they overthrew Saddam Hussein and waged war against Islamic terrorists.

Barack Obama wasn’t in office a month before he was undermining this historic relationship. “It has been said that the new president does not share the affinity for Britain of his predecessors,” observed the Telegraph in February. His disregard for Britain was evident early, when he made the decision, without consulting Downing Street, to send four Guantanamo detainees to settle in the British colony of Bermuda. Washington’s arrogance resonated in London. “The U.S. is clearly determined to act in what it perceives as its own national interest even riding roughshod over what it should have done, which is spoken to the British government,” stated one British member of Parliament.

Around the same time, the president ditched the term “relationship” in favor of “partnership” when describing America’s association with Britain. And don’t forget about the infamous Churchill bust incident, or his frosty reception of Prime Minister Gordon Brown in early March, which consisted of a 30-minute chat inside the White House and a gift of a dvd collection of 25 Hollywood movies. “There’s nothing special about Britain,” a Washington insider was reported to have said during preparations for Mr. Brown’s visit. “You’re just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn’t expect special treatment.”

And they don’t—not anymore.

Saudi Arabia and Egypt

Although it’s a stretch to say Saudi Arabia and Egypt are friends of America, the “moderates” in Cairo and Riyadh have definitely been counted among Washington’s firmest Muslim allies. “Have” is the operative word too. Watching Mr. Obama work, it’s hard to imagine Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the moderate Muslim world remaining allies for long.

The president’s address in Cairo in June defined America’s relationship with the Muslim world. It’s telling then, that during that speech President Obama didn’t express a shadow of interest in dealing with Iran, the nation Mort Kondracke correctly stated that “the whole Arab world is scared to death of.” Mr. Obama said nothing about dealing with Iran’s sponsoring of terrorists, nor its rapidly advancing nuclear program. In fact, he made it clear that America has no interest in preventing Iran from acquiring nukes.

Charles Krauthammer called Obama’s speech “the weakest statement on Iran and nukes in at least eight or nine years by anyone in the West” (emphasis mine). Instead of using this watershed address to reassure America’s moderate Arab allies, President Obama terrified them by making it clear he has no interest in defending them, or Israel, or the rest of the world, against Iran’s ambitions.

We can also include many of the smaller Islamic states, like Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen among the Middle Eastern states worried by Obama’s weakness in dealing with Iran. And don’t forget Iraq, a fragile nation quickly coming under the control of Iran, as the Islamic Republic fills the gaping void left by America’s ever-diminishing presence.

Honduras

In June, the Honduran Supreme Court lawfully booted its president, Manuel Zelaya, after he illegally trampled on the nation’s constitution in an effort to transform the country into a Venezuelan-style tyranny. The Obama administration responded with an embarrassing fit of moral inversion, and actually rallied to the defense of Zelaya, erroneously calling the Supreme Court’s decision a coup d’etat. Although Washington subsequently shied away from calling the impeachment a coup, it continues to do Zelaya’s bidding in Honduras.

It’s an almost unbelievable scenario. As the Trumpetnoted recently: “While punishing those who are struggling to uphold freedom, democracy and the rule of law, [America is] actively aiding and abetting the cause of murderous thugs who hate what America stands for and wish to destroy us.”

Japan, South Korea and the Philippines

Since Mr. Obama took office, North Korea has tested a nuclear weapon and a long-range missile, withdrawn from the 1953 armistice agreement with South Korea, and declared that it will weaponize its plutonium stocks. The Obama administration has responded to this belligerence by showering Pyongyang with concessions, the latest being its agreement to Kim Jong Il’s demand for bilateral talks.

Washington’s impotence in the face of North Korea has been noted in Japan, South Korea and to a lesser extent the Philippines, all important allies of America over the past 65 years. These nations are worried and have started to position themselves for a future in which North Korea has nukes. Japan, for example, as Robert Morley explained this week, is showing increasing signs of decoupling itself from the U.S.

Eastern and Central Europe

The Obama administration’s most recent act of betrayal occurred last Thursday. America’s planned Ballistic Missile Defense (bmd) system in Poland and the Czech Republic was a symbolic gesture of America’s strength and commitment to Central and Eastern Europe. It was a sign of Washington’s willingness to invest time and resources into amplifying its voice in European affairs, confronting Russian ambitions on its periphery, and checking Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

That program is now history.

The decision to scrap the bmd plan caused a political earthquake in Central and Eastern Europe. “By trading the loyalty of Poland and the Czech Republic to satisfy Russia’s security concerns, the United States is signaling that it no longer contests Moscow’s right to assert its interests in Eastern Europe,” wrote the Times Online (emphasis mine throughout). Others felt the tremors too. Ukraine and Georgia are currently being squeezed by the Kremlin; Obama’s capitulation over Poland and the Czech Republic was a sure sign that Washington ultimately plans to abandon them as well.

“Putin … sees this as a triumph of his will over Obama’s weak, retreating U.S.,” wrote Ralph Peters. “And he’s right.” Now we can “add Poland and the Czech Republic to the list of allies, such as Israel and Honduras, that we’ve thrown to the wolves.”

After Mr. Obama delivered his speech to the Muslim world earlier this year, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote, “President Obama’s speech is a great turning point in this world.”

He also identified it as a “signal to the world that America the superpower is dead!”

Clearly that was no exaggeration. The accuracy of that statement was rooted in Bible prophecy as much as it was real-world reality. In Deuteronomy 28, for example, God explains the curses He would send upon the United States. Verses 65 and 66 state: “Among those nations you shall find no ease, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a languishing spirit. Your life shall hang in doubt before you; night and day you shall dread, with no assurance of your life” (Revised Standard Version).

We are witnesses to this gut-wrenching prophecy. The U.S. is transforming from world superpower to global vagabond. Look at the American government: Its heart is skittish, its head is sick. Its leaders are naive and weak in the face of tyranny. They’ve engaged a foreign policy of abandoning friends and courting enemies. It’s a policy of entrapment, and one that will result in destruction.

As prophecy states, the United States will very soon find itself entirely friendless—isolated in a terrifying world drunk on hatred of America!