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News › OBAMA'S TOP TEN FOREIGN POLICY BLUNDERS
1. Surrendering to Russia over Missile Defence
2. Appeasing the Mullahs of Iran
3. Ending the War on Terror
4. Announcing a Surge while Declaring an Exit
5. Apologising to France for America's "Arrogance"
6. Giving DVDs to the British Prime Minister
7. Siding with Marxists in Honduras
8. Bowing to Emperors and Kings
9. Embracing Genocidal Killers in Sudan
10. Throwing Churchill out of The White House
1. Surrendering to Russia over Missile Defence
The White House's betrayal of US allies in eastern and central Europe by
reneging on the deal to establish Third Site missile defences sent a clear
signal that Washington was more concerned about appeasing Moscow than
defending its friends. It symbolized all that is wrong with Obama's foreign
policy - including the willingness to curry favour with brutal enemies while
giving the boot to some of America's closest partners.
2. Appeasing the Mullahs of Iran
If Barack Obama makes a New Year's resolution, I hope it will be that he
stops appeasing Tehran. The White House's strategy of engagement with
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been nothing short of a
spectacular failure. While Obama has been busy emulating the European
Union's dismal Common Foreign and Security Policy and sending polite video
messages, the Mullahs and their puppets have been busy advancing their
nuclear weapons programme, enriching uranium, supplying arms to the Taliban,
capturing British sailors, test-firing long-range missiles, threatening the
annihilation of Israel, and killing pro-democracy protestors.
3. Ending the War on Terror
Not only did Barack Obama order the closure of the detention facility at
Guantanamo Bay within hours of becoming president, but he also embarked upon
ending the entire War on Terror, which was swiftly renamed an Overseas
Contingency Operation. Nearly a year later the threat from al-Qaeda remains
just as great, if not greater, but President Obama refuses to describe the
battle in terms of a global war, and balks at identifying the enemy -
Islamist terrorists. At the same time he has given the enemy a huge
propaganda victory by endlessly castigating the Bush administration for
supposedly "torturing" terrorist suspects, and apologizing for the
counter-terror strategy of the previous US government.
4. Announcing a Surge while Declaring an Exit
There can be no doubt that the three months of dithering by President Obama
over whether to deploy more forces to Afghanistan was highly damaging to the
United States, and sowed considerable uncertainty within the NATO alliance.
When Obama finally made an announcement in December to send an additional
30,000 troops to the battlefield, a huge step in the right direction, his
decision was immediately undercut by the simultaneous announcement of an
exit timetable, starting in 18 months. It is hard to imagine Churchill or
Roosevelt declaring in the middle of the Second World War that they would
fight the Nazis for another year and a half, and then start withdrawing
their forces on the grounds of cost.
5. Apologising to France for America's "Arrogance"
Barack Obama's Strasbourg speech will go down in history as one of the most
embarrassing moments ever for a US president on foreign soil. As I wrote
earlier, "The President of the most powerful nation on earth traveled to
France to deliver a grovelling, massive mea culpa for US foreign policy,
including the War on Terror. Utter humiliation for America on European soil
in front of a largely French and German audience who bitterly opposed the
liberation of Iraq - not even Jacques Chirac could have dreamt it up."
6. Giving DVDs to the British Prime Minister
I'm no fan of Gordon Brown, but the treatment of the Prime Minister at the
hands of the White House on his visit to Washington in March was an
appalling humiliation for Great Britain. The PM was received as though he
were the leader of a third world banana republic rather than America's
closest ally, denied an official press conference and even a dinner. To add
insult to injury, Brown was packed off with 25 discount DVDs ranging from
Toy Story to The Wizard of Oz, which couldn't even be played in Britain.
7. Siding with Marxists in Honduras
The Obama administration has certainly been consistent in its strategy of
cuddling up to America's enemies while kicking its friends. True to form the
White House and State Department rushed to condemn the constitutional
removal of left-wing, America-hating, Hugo-Chavez- backed despot Manuel
Zelaya from power in Honduras, and his temporary replacement with
pro-American Speaker of the House Robert Micheletti. Whatever happened to
the good old days when the United States actually fought against Marxist
tyrants in Latin America and backed anti-communists?
8. Bowing to Emperors and Kings
The last time I checked, Barack Obama was not a subject of imperial Japan,
but his bow before Emperor Akihito was a scene straight out of the 1930s. A
simple handshake with the descendent of Emperor Hirohito would have
sufficed, but the president opted for a full-blown bow when the two met in
Tokyo in November. It is one thing to pay respect to a monarch, but quite
another for an American president to prostrate himself and his nation before
a foreign leader. Needless to say, eyebrows were raised not only in America
but across Asia as well. This was far from an isolated incident. Obama did
exactly the same when he met with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the G-20
in April.
9. Embracing Genocidal Killers in Sudan
I've included this in the list because it illustrates the extraordinary
lengths to which the Obama administration will go to appease the most evil
tyrannies on the face of the earth. In October Obama extended the hand of
friendship to the brutal regime in Khartoum led by Omar Hassan al-Bashir,
responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands in Darfur, offering to
lift sanctions if there were "concrete steps in a new direction". The moral
bankruptcy of this approach was summed up by Obama's hugely controversial
special envoy to Sudan, retired Air Force Major General J. Scott Gration:
"We've got to think about giving out cookies. Kids, countries - they react
to gold stars, smiley faces, handshakes, agreements, talk, engagement."
10. Throwing Churchill out of The White House
Barack Obama's decision to throw a bust of Sir Winston Churchill out of the
Oval Office within days of taking power set the tone for his foreign policy.
It sent a clear signal that the president cared little about the
Anglo-American Special Relationship and the transatlantic alliance in
general. It spoke volumes about Obama's disdain for Britain, a nation that
he has never mentioned in a major policy speech, as well as his scorn for
the kind of powerful, assertive leadership that Churchill embodied.
Posted by WhoDaresWins on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 (16:14:01) (171 reads)
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by licensed on Thursday, December 31, 2009 (15:02:23)
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We all feel somehow connected to our past, even the past of our family too far back for us to remember. I lived in Maryland as a small child, then moved to the People's Socialist Republic of New Jersey, where I have resided ever since.Yet I feel a romantic attachment and a kindred spirit to the people of the deep south, where my father came from. Likewise, I love to celebrate my Irish heritage on my mother's side.
I think Mr. Obama cannot stop himself from felling a bitterness toward America and the white European heritage of America. It shows in all the gaffes listed in the article above. He clearly cannot stand the concept of American exceptionalism. He apologizes for what most would deem American success. And he clearly prefers to be in the company of what we would call minorities, and supports the style of government found in countries where those races and cultures prevail. He spurns white people and capitalism and success at every opportunity. And I suspect he also feels that same kindred spirit with Islamic peoples, because he is the son of a Muslim from Kenya. Simply observe who he props up and who he tears down....
NEVER FORGET OUR KIA, MIA AND POW SOLDIERS
American Deaths from other wars:
1775-1783 American Revolution 4,435
1812-1815 War of 1812 2,260
1846-1848 Mexican War 13,283
1861-1865 Civil War 558,052
1898 Spanish American War 2,446
1914-1918 World War I 116,708
1939-1945 World War II 407,316
1950-1953 Korean Conflict 33,651
1957-1975 Vietnam Conflict 58,168
1991 Gulf War 293
GULF WAR II CASUALTY
LIST POW/MIA
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." - General George S Patton
REMEMBER 9-11
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' ... If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom...crouch down and lick the hands, which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
Samuel Adams
9-11 Never Forget
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