Is Obama’s Foreign Policy Really That Shocking?
As the President once again shows the whites of his eyes in the face of another foreign power, it occurs to me that it makes no sense to expect him to do any different. Obama has cultivated an image for himself that speaks of diversity, fair play, justice, hope and change. Pretty much the gamut of what would make most people happy and exactly what one would want to hear when selecting a political candidate. He has a gift for being able to adjust his stance ever so slightly so that he can appeal to just about every demographic at any given time. He is almost as good at it as former President Clinton, who could stop on a dime and give you fifty cents better than just about anybody. When Mr. Obama can pick the place, the time, the questions and the questioners, he’s every bit the politician he claims not to be.
So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the President bows to Saudi Kings, shakes hands with Hugo Chavez and compares the U.S. human rights record to that of the Communist Chinese. That’s the super star mentality in action; he’s working the proverbial international room, schmoozing with the other heads of state in a giant country club mixer, saying what he knows will ingratiate himself to them so that, in his mind, they will like him and not want to take advantage of him. Instead, they shake his hand and pose for pictures, then move on to the next dignitary in the room where they both chuckle to themselves about how weak the United States has gotten. Meanwhile, the waiters and staff are all secretly Al Qaeda operatives, waiting for the right moment to toss away their serving dishes and hold the place hostage.
All satire aside, Mr. Obama is not doing anything we shouldn’t expect him to do. To use a popular phrase, he is what he is. He’s a liberal Democrat politician, and I’m sorry to say that politicians of any stripe, with very few exceptions, are of a type. There is a very long succession of politicians in this country who cultivated their own versions of themselves as Obama has, who would want us to believe they are above the fray of the mob and beyond reproach but invariably we see that they either cannot live up to their promise or had no intention to in the first place and the people pay the price because of wrongheaded policy and a show of weakness when a show of force is called for.
For instance, South Korea, after a yearlong process, has officially now blamed North Korea for the torpedoing of one of their navy vessels and has banned North Korea from entering their waters, suspended trade with them and promises another attack will result in a retaliatory action from the South Koreans. To his credit, Obama has pledged a joint military exercise with South Korea, but the elephant in the room is Kim Jong Il and the fact that he’s a nut job with a nuke. Those types of men, these dictators, believe that they are the most powerful men in the world, each of them, and when they sense weakness in one of their neighbors, they waste no time in exploiting and taking them over. I don’t believe under normal circumstances North Korea would use their nukes, because they get pretty much what they want just from threatening to use them and Kim Jong Il has no desire to be ruler over a wasteland, but I also know which way the nukes will be pointing if God forbid a war does break out because our long time enemies and one time allies find us ripe for the picking.
The first and most sacred duty of the Federal government is to protect the nation from enemies foreign and domestic. Now is not the time to entertain Mexican President Philippe Calderon and allow him to insult the citizens of Arizona before congress while his citizens break laws right and left on both sides of the border; it is not the time for a sitting President to openly and publicly denigrate a sovereign state in his own country, showing the world even more instability; it is not the time to sit by and watch BP fumble with themselves while more and more oil spills unchecked into the Gulf of Mexico threatening to destabilize huge parts of the east cost and there will never be a time when a President of the United States should ever compare our country to China in civil and human rights issues either directly or through intimation. EVER.
There are plenty of examples in history of great world powers destabilizing themselves through greed, arrogance and a weak core of government led by men who want nothing more than the accolades of the mob and the wealth that comes with it. They let their countries become soft and decadent and in the end, the barbarians came swarming over the walls and set the entire country burning leaving nothing of them but relics and ruins. America has the chance to break that tradition, but we must first stop the slide down into the pit, we must first right the ship and set ourselves on an even keel or we may be the first world power in history able to visit our own memorial.
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