Foreign Policy Failure
Americans are quickly learning that Obama’s policy of bending knee to ruthless dictators and sucking up to every two-bit clown with a couple of tanks and a captive population is a recipe for disaster.
Dictators are like schoolyard bullies. They don’t respond to reason, they respond only to force or credible threats of force.
Micheal Goodwin laid out just the failures of one week in a recent New York Post column:
Washington weak as the world turns on America
The score last week was distressing. America got its butt kicked all over the globe.
The French said no more soldiers for Afghanistan.
The Brits will send only a measly 500.
Pakistan is exploding.
The UN Human Rights Council approved its outrageous report of the Gaza war, accusing Israel of war crimes.
The Russians, after jerking us around on sanctions against Iran, said nyet.
The Chinese didn’t bother to jerk us around, saying no without hesitation.
We have only ourselves to blame for much of this mess. President Obama is dithering on our commitment to Afghanistan, we didn’t try very hard to protect Israel’s right of self-defense at the UN, and our position on Iran remains maddeningly muddled.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton added to the confusion in an interview with ABC News. After saying, “We remain committed to preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons power,” she said sanctions would signal “a result of the diplomatic track failing. So we are committed to the diplomatic track.”
Clinton, who in last year’s campaign promised to “obliterate” Iran if it used nuclear weapons, now says she retains “a small space for doubt” that Iran is actually trying to get nukes. Incredible.
And Neville Chamberlain said Herr Hitler wanted peace.
Obama and his leftist allies are quickly dismantling the Pax Americana which has kept the world in a relative state of peace since 1946. The end results can only be global chaos, hundreds of millions of deaths, and destruction of the global economy which has benefited so many people.
This is the change which the American people voted for, but we won’t be paying the price for their error alone — the whole world will pay the price with us.
