Sunday, March 28, 2010

Obama and the policy of betrayal

So, let's consider the Obama foreign policy promises: hire him, and other countries would start working with us because they like him better; hire him, and China and Russia would work with him rather than dumb-down everything being tried; hire him, and he'd talk to dictators as in Iran, and they'd all back down and stop doing the bad things. Hire him, and our alliances would be stronger and more robust...

Now, one year later, we have a clear vision of the reality of Barack Obama:
-- we reneged on the promise to deploy antimissile defenses in Poland and Czech, telling the press BEFORE telling our allies in those two countries and without any advance notice to them;
-- we have systematically destroyed the relationships with our traditional allies, starting with the insults to the British (now too many to count, DVDs and returned gifts and disrespecting their traditions and on and on), insults FROM the French about how "naive" and "stupid" Obama is, with the same from Germany. We've labelled Israel the chief enemy to peace in the Middle East, despite their having literally given everything they'd been asked to give twice in the past, only to have the Palestinians then up the ante once again -- despite being on the receiving end of actual violence; despite being surrounded by countries and the Palestinians who have said flatly that Israel didn't have the right to exist. We've exchanged gifts with Chavez and kow-towed to the Russians and Chinese ... and Chavez continues his crackdown on anyone who disagrees with him and on centralizing his dictatorship; and Russia continues to work with Iran, as does China, while both force us from the promise of "forceful sanctions" against Iran to the pathetic "we'll settle for what the Russians are offering" (aka more of the same weak, incomplete, and utterly useless sanctions, on par with past sanctions and "condemnations" from the UN).
Hm... let's see. Our traditional allies -- England, France, Israel, and (in the past 50 years) Germany, Czech, Poland, we've actively insulted them, ignored them while betraying them and reneging on our commitments to them. Our enemies -- the President bows to them, exchanges gifts with them, and has budged NOT ONE of them to change their course. He has, however, managed to remain silent for weeks while the people in Iran rose up and tried to overthrow the dictators who rule them.
Anyone who thought Obama would be anything BUT an appeaser has more than enough evidence now that Appeasement is now the rule of the land, as far as foreign policy is concerned. Literally, appeasement, even to the point of betraying, ignoring, and insulting our allies, if that's what the bad guys insist on.
God help this country make it to 2012, when it can hire someone else who isn't an appeasement-type, who cares more about having the respect of foreign leaders instead of their "liking" him/her. Someone who will stand up for the values and ideals that made this country what it is and has been -- rather than someone who goes abroad and gives speeches insulting this country, demeaning its contributions, and literally lying to inflate the contributions of our enemies (specifically, Islam had nothing to do with the creation of mathematics, Mister Obama, who made the claim while in Egypt -- the ancient Babylonians might have something to say, like, um, try looking up the history you're citing, Mr. Obama, so you can do it accurately?).

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