Liberal critics derided President Bush for engaging in cowboy diplomacy, or “going alone.” Those same critics neglect to notice that Obama is employing a more dubious strategy than Bush. Obama has pursued a confused and aimless foreign policy based on the idea that he can personally sway foreign heads of state with his charisma. Unfortunately for our nation his “follow me because I’m charismatic” policy has proven to be devastatingly ineffective. Obama alienates our friends and appears cowardly by appeasing our enemies.
Obama was elected promising to improve the standing of America in the world; he has failed miserably. In September, Obama agreed to Russian demands and abandoned the Eastern European missile shield. This alienated allies Poland and the Czech Republic, who had risked much to participate in the shield, only to see Obama turn his back on them. This move signaled other countries that America does not stick by her agreements. Obama showed he will abandon America’s friends when it is politically expedient.
Obama further caved to Russia by signing a nuclear agreement that could have been written by Putin himself. Obama gave the Russians everything they wanted without negotiating any significant benefits in return. The Russians agreed to a downsizing in their nuclear arsenal, but that downsizing was going to occur anyway. On all the important issues, including tactical nuclear weapons, missile defense, and verification Obama made serious blunders.
With this treaty as a backdrop Obama called a nuclear summit. Two of our closest allies skipped the event. Then Obama earned complaints from the foreign press because the whole event was essentially held in secret. Aside from agreeing on certain platitudes, the summit accomplished nothing.
In an attempt to further appease Putin, Obama refused to meet with Mikheil Saakashvili, the president of Georgia. This is embarrassing given that Georgia, as one of our most loyal allies, has contributed the most troops per capita in both Afghanistan and Iraq. In contrast, Obama met individually with the leaders of Ukraine, Turkey and Armenia, all nations friendly with Moscow. This is just another example of Obama seemingly punishing allies and rewarding enemies.
Neither Gordon Brown nor Benjamin Netanyahu attended the nuclear summit. According to Nile Gardiner of the London Telegraph, Obama treats both these allies with “sneering contempt.” Obama offended the British out of a sheer lack of manners; remember the DVD set and the iPod for the Queen? His administration also sided against Great Britain in the dispute over the Falkland Islands. The British worry Obama has abandoned the longstanding “special relationship” between the U.S. and the U.K.
Obama offended Netanyahu by spitefully seeking to bully the prime minister, according to Israeli sources. At their most recent meeting in D.C., Obama presented Netanyahu with a list of 13 demands. When the Israeli prime minister stalled, Obama stated he was going to have dinner with his family and wheeled around and left the room. This sort of rudeness is unprecedented when directed towards a close ally.
After the contentious meeting, the U.S. announced that Obama may outline his own roadmap to peace in the Middle East which would require that Israel cease building settlements in Eastern Jerusalem. Talk about going alone; Obama unilaterally is demanding new internal housing policies in another sovereign nation.
The Obama and Bush administrations are essentially polar opposites with dramatically different results. Bush believed that it is better to be feared than loved. Obama is pursuing a policy based on the idea that he would rather be loved. The results have been abysmal. The crowning achievement of Bush’s foreign policy, besides keeping us safe for eight years, was when Moammar Gadhafi abandoned his nuclear ambitions and agreed to open his country to inspectors after we had invaded Iraq to enforce years of U.N. resolutions. Progress was achieved through strength.
What has Obama achieved? China has refused to make concessions regarding its monetary policy, or move to put pressure on Iran. Ahmadinejad continues mocking Obama and the international community by pushing forward with Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Obama has yet to get any new commitments for new troops in Afghanistan. Obama’s position of negotiating through weakness is damaging the credibility of our once great nation.
By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, Expose Obama
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Barack Insane Obama is a human wrecking ball. You can deftly analyze his grievous and idiotic polcies – domestic or foreign – all day long and make a good logical case that they are ineffectual at best and dangerous at worst. However, that is not where the analysis should end. Obama is the elephant in the room who is the source and cause for all of the mistaken policies and blunders we are witnessing daily. We need to talk about this elephant and make a decision regarding what to do about him. Otherwise we might as well shut up and go on about our business, unless our business is to sell newspapers and columns. He provides journalists and columnists plenty of fodder for their professions. As for the rest of us, he produces loathing and disgust, besides wrecking our lives with his socalist agenda. HE IS THE PROBLEM and we can't wait until 2012 to deal with him – if we're still around to do so. This man is a DICTATOR. Why can't someone say that!
OH NO not another bow. Hey thick head………..no more bowing!!!
Men's minds are confounded. We have the means to legally remove these imposters and nobody will even talk about it. A young lady in my congressman's office hung up the phone when I brought up the subject. Will things hold together until November? Fireballs, earthquakes, and today a gigantic solar eruption. Is God speaking to us? There is nothing good and decent in today's world, only remnants of bygone days. Biblical predictions seem to be on the verge of fulfillment.
"Barrack Insane Obama." It fits. Actually I don't think it would be too far fetched to say that he is mentally disturbed or ill, certainly narcissistic to the extreme, possibly as a result of his consumption of mind altering drugs, cocaine and marijuana, during his formative teen and later collegiate years by his own admission. In any case he is demonstrably behaving as a little dictator only because he senses that he can with impunity. And that would appear to be entirely the result of his claim to being African-American though the latter half of that hyphenation is dubioust. His advancement through his collegiate years may well have been largely the result of affirmative action. We are witnessing the convolution of political correctness run amuck and unparalleled reverse discrimination in this country and the world for that matter because of this one little man who appeared from out of nowhere and who remains still essentially an unknown. He is without question inept in terms of statesmanship and leadership and is making America into a laughing stock with our enemies who will continue to take advantage of every opportunity to milk what they correctly perceive as a weak man for everything that will enhance their position from a foreign policy and military standpoint while weakening ours. It is a given that you can always negotiate from a position of weakness. Obama has unnecessarily confirmed that. Our allies have to be wondering what America can and will do if their security should be threatened. They must know by now the answer: NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, except for cowtowing to the presumed aggressor. The world has become far more dangerous and ripe for armageddon than at any time in its history all the result of this one little obscure man, who is most likely illegally occupying the office of POTUS, and who does not now nor I suspect has ever had the best interest of the United States of America at heart. The hatred for this country he had drummed into his brain during his upbringing and later on from the likes of Davis, Ayers, Salinsky, Farahkan, Wright, et al is deeply embedded in his narrow and racially motivated marxist mindset. We could not have placed ourselves in greater peril if we had tried when we elected a Kenyan, Barrack Obama, as POTUS. He is far better suited to head the governments of Kenya or Zimbabwe. May God help us for we and our allies are now most assuredly walking in the valley of the shadow of death as a result of choosing this man as our president along with electing a democrat controlled congress that seems unable to do anything but worship at his feet as if he were God himself. He gives every impression of believing that he is further confirming what I suspect is an adverse mental component to his personality and character. If you sat every Sunday in the former "Reverend" Wright's sanctuary for 20 years, could you expect any less? Tis the audacity of deceit which can lead to defeat in every respect.
All of the leaders in the federal government have broken their oath to uphold the rule of law(Constitution on these United States.) What power do our people have to remove them from office. When criminals are in power it is time to throw them into the people's jail; since elections are for the law abiding; these thugs do not abide by the law!
Just do not censor it!