I could almost feel sorry for Angela Merkel if only her good intentions hadn’t led so inevitably to the murders and rapes that have plagued Germany ever since Frau Merkel swung open her nation’s doors to 400,000 of the Islamic scum.

Recently, there was an art contest in the Netherlands with the competitors asked to create a work that depicted the multiculturalism that has led to so much grief across the entire continent. The winning entry depicted a person identified as Europe standing next to a little tree called Islam. One end of a noose is tied around the man’s neck, the other end is connected to one of the tree’s limbs. The man is watering the tree.

And Angela Merkel, I would suggest, is supplying the fertilizer.

Although one of my best friends is a male physician, I heard that a study recently published in JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association) reported that people are likelier to survive if they are treated by a female doctor. They went so far as to suggest that 32,000 people die every year in America simply because their medical professional happened to be a man.

Although I have no way of proving or disproving it, it rang true for me. The reason, they suggested, is that females tend to be more sympathetic and are far likelier to take the concerns of their patients to heart and to devote more time to explaining procedures and dispelling fears than their male colleagues.

Even though it is anecdotal in the extreme, I have had two operations in my life and both times there were problems that required my going back to have corrections made. While it’s possible that surgeons are in a class by themselves when it comes to self-esteem or, as it’s more commonly referred to outside medical circles — insufferable arrogance — both surgeons were men and neither of them felt they owed me an apology or even an explanation for the mishaps.

Although I prefer to rely on my own words, sometimes I feel I must hand the ball off to another. In this case, it’s political satirist P.J. O'Rourke, who observed: “At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”

I would only add that in Barack Obama, the tots had a leader tailor-made to their infantile specifications. He somehow passed unseen through college and law school, leaving no lasting impression on any of his classmates or professors, winding up, inevitably, as a black community activist. That is a creature I would define as an individual possessed of an agenda, whereas another, better, man would come equipped with a sense of values and a moral center.

As you may have read, ever since Trump was elected to replace him, Obama has been granting pardons, commuting the sentences and releasing from Gitmo, a record number of criminals and jihadists. With just weeks to go before he’ll be compelled to vacate the premises, Obama has been working at a feverish clip to release those who deserved to be incarcerated. He’s been carrying on like a demented Santa Claus, bestowing favors on every naughty boy and girl in sight.

In the meantime, his equally appalling wife goes on TV to lament America’s future under the auspices of Donald Trump. One wonders what these two sniveling, pampered brats make of the fact that Americans were so eager to make amends for twice electing the worst president in American history that, against all odds, they not only elected the man who promised to undo everything Obama had done, but also ensured he would have a Senate and a House to assist him in his herculean efforts.

Not only did Trump — mainly thanks to Obama, I’d submit — run away with the Electoral College vote, but he became the first Republican president since Eisenhower in 1952 to take office with his party controlling both houses of Congress. My joy is boundless.

Speaking of Eisenhower, in one major way, his foreign policy wasn’t that different from Obama’s. Eisenhower, it seems, was no friend of Israel, and thought it unfortunate that Harry Truman had recognized the newly-created Jewish state in 1948. Ike, along with his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, considered Israel, at best, a nuisance. They preferred to relinquish the Middle East to Gamal Nasser, the general who had led the coup against King Farouk, even siding with Nasser against Britain and France when Nasser took control of the Suez Canal.

In much the same way, even prior to abandoning Israel to its enemies at the U.N. last week, Obama and his bumbling henchman, John Kerry, had sacrificed America’s interests, Israel’s interests and even the last vestiges of common sense and decency, in order to facilitate the Ayatollah Khamenei’s control of the region.

Part of the reason that Eisenhower and Dulles sided with the Arabs and Muslims is that foreign nations are overseen by different bureaucrats at the State Department, and because there are so many Arab and Muslim states, whereas there is only a single democracy in the Middle East, the sheer numbers worked against Israel. Another problem: Israel was, and remains, one of the few nations in that part of the world that wasn’t sitting atop an ocean of oil.

There is also the fact that the State Department tends to be populated with anti-Semitic graduates of the Ivy League, whose blue-blooded ancestors have had trouble accepting Jews for at least a couple of hundred years.

Although you will often hear these elitists claiming they have nothing against Jews personally, but merely oppose Israel’s policies, they’re lying through their teeth. Otherwise, how is it you never hear them say they have nothing against Arabs or Muslims, but merely oppose, say, Saudi Arabia’s policies.

They will also rant against the influence that the so-called Jewish lobby has over U.S. foreign policy. Although it is nowhere as powerful as they claim, thank heaven that Israel — one of our few remaining allies in the world — has a few friends in high places; otherwise, the likes of Eisenhower, Carter and Obama, would have sold Israel down the river long before now.

Eisenhower had first-hand knowledge of the fact that the Arabs and Muslims had aligned with the Nazis during WWII, but just as Obama and Kerry understood that Iran would nuke us off the face of the earth if they could, some of our commanders-in-chief are notoriously eager to forgive and forget when it comes to the villains of the Middle East.

Perhaps a lot will change once Trump finally frees us from our dependence on foreign oil, but it would help if once he starts draining the swamp, he doesn’t forget to hose down “Foggy Bottom,” a rather descriptive nickname for the U.S. State Department.