With the ongoing collapse of
Iraq, the endgame for the worst foreign policy in American history has
begun.
It is no
less than astonishing to glance over the foreign policy errors made by
the Obama administration since 2009.
● The deliberate alienation
of the UK. Thanks to direct and malicious efforts made by President
Obama personally (the Churchill bust, Region 1 DVDs), the oldest and
most fruitful alliance of the modern age entered into its frostiest
period since the Civil War... in the midst of a civilizational conflict
in which the Anglosphere comprised the sole serious opposition.
● The deliberate undermining of Israel. Again, a loyal and steady ally
was cut off for no rational reason. In this case, a country to which
the U.S., as the chief representative of the West, owes an
unquestionable moral debt. I guess O was listening to all thoseJeremiah
Wright sermons after all.
The United States is the instrument to
bring this about. The one element holding us back, the Western left,
has under Obama put up their last dollar and watched it be snatched
away. The left is bankrupt in every conceivable sense. It’s time to
drag them away from the table and out of the game. J.R. Dunn
● The dismissal of India.
Though generally overlooked, this marks a crucial blow against a future
alliance promising profound benefits. The Bush administration put
particular effort into widening relations with Asia’s largest
democracy. Obama allowed this to collapse, evidently as an insult
directed at George W. Bush.
● The abandonment of Africa. Again, Bush did yeoman’s work in reviving
American involvement in Africa, an effort that generated praise even
from his political enemies. As with India, our first African-heritage
president dropped this without even a second glance.
● A back of the hand to Central Europe. Both Poland (the ABM system)
and the Czech Republic (Early warning and control for the same system)
had the rug pulled out from under them by Obama. Not a smart way to
treat our most steady allies on the continent.
● The Russian “reset.” A goofy, ill-informed, and badly-executed
reversal of post Cold War policy evidently designed to assure the
Russians that we feel bad about 1989 and won’t do it again. Repaid with
invasions of Georgia and Ukraine.
● The North African apocalypse. Someday, somebody is going to
drill down to the bottom of this episode and reveal exactly what was
going on; contemporary media is too busy attacking the tea parties. It
appears that this was the result of a scheme to “liberate” the
Mediterranean littoral states, a mixture of U.S. allies and neutralized
dictatorships, and transform them into mass democracies under the
rubric of the “Arab Spring.” The “democrats” all seemed to be
associates of the Moslem Brotherhood and Al Qaeda, the liberation a
cataclysm that threatened to spread across the Islamic world. Obama, as
is his custom, dropped all involvement and walked away. Thank Allah for
the Egyptians.
● The demolition of Syria. A direct result of the “Arab Spring”
strategy, the Syrian collapse piled one humiliation after another on
the administration in the form of Benghazi and arms for al Qaeda.
Almost unnoticed, the people of Syria are suffering a humanitarian
catastrophe fully the equivalent of Rwanda and the Balkans in the '90s.
Obama is handling it with same dynamism that Clinton did back then.
● The failure to back the “Green Revolution” in Iran. This is
something of a mystery -- why undercut an uprising that promised to
remove a active threat in the form of theocratic Iran and then two
years later embark on something as foolish as the Arab Spring? Perhaps
Valerie Jarrett’s future memoirs will enlighten us.
● Refusal to address the Iranian nuclear threat. See above.
● The collapse of Iraq. This is undoubtedly another case where Obama
was intent on throwing away a Bush success. Fumbling the Status of
Forces agreement and dropping all attempts to influence the Maliki
government, the administration stood aloof while Noor al-Maliki,
essentially a primitive tribal leader in a fancy suit, deliberately
trashed the laboriously (not to mention bloodily) established postwar
status quo. The smartest man of his epoch somehow couldn’t foresee how
this was going to work out.
● The China Seas confrontation. The administration has allowed the
Chinese to get away with their “blue territory” scam at direct cost to
our closest allies in the region with minimal response. I guess that
“swing toward the Pacific” is still in mid-motion.
● The rape of Ukraine. The sole reason Putin hasn’t seized the rest of
Ukraine must be that he can’t believe what he’s being allowed to get
away with. For all the reaction from the White House, he could reoccupy
Ukraine, the Asian republics, Alaska, and then move on to Canada with
no serious worries.
That’s a good solid dozen. We could go on, of course .....
Looking at the record laid out like this, it’s easy to understand the
more hysterical types who insist that it’s all part of a plan, that
Obama is a super Bond villain set on bringing Western civilization down
in ruins. But in fact, it’s all a result of long-term leftist ideas,
chief among them, in the case of foreign policy, that A) the United
States is the source of the world’s ills, and B) Remove American
influence and the world will soon revert to a humanist, collectivist
modus vivendi.
[...]
What
can be done? Very little, at this point. To consider otherwise is
to assume that this crew of losers -- Obama, Hagel, Rice, Power, and a
cast of thousands -- can somehow undo what they set in motion through
their own stupidity and self-delusion in the first place. (This is to
assume that you can attract Obama’s attention without calling
airstrikes against every golf course on the planet). With the coming
collapse of Iraq, the avalanche is in motion and cannot be stopped. The
best strategy is to ride it out and prepare to pick up the pieces.
A wise man (that being Calvin Coolidge) once stated that “if ya see ten
troubles comin’ down the road, you can be sure nine will run into a
ditch before they get to ya.” This is simple truth. Not all these
disasters will play out completely.
[....]
This elitist, murderous, and imbecilic ideology needs to be laid in its
grave. The world stands on the verge of a new renaissance, based on
incredible technological breakthroughs and a mature understanding of
the human condition. The United States is the instrument to bring this
about. The one element holding us back, the Western left, has under
Obama put up their last dollar and watched it be snatched away. The
left is bankrupt in every conceivable sense. It’s time to drag them
away from the table and out of the game.
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IT ALL AMERICAN
THINKER - skoonj
