Obama is J Carter ON CRACK. As advertised.
J Carter is CERTAINLY responsible for the existence of the Islamic Republic of Iran and ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED AS A CAUSE OF THIS SINCE 1979. He is the RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUAL.
What will be Mr. Obama's enduring legacy?
Lord knows how long this will ALL TAKE TO FIX.
UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Telegraph UK:
American neutrality on the Falklands is a symptom of US foreign policy drift
The Bush administration got a lot of things wrong - but at least they usually had some idea of who America's adversaries were and who America's friends were. For example, Bush's policy of maintaining the special relationship with Britain was a simple recognition of the close bonds of alliance, friendship and interests that the British and Americans have had since World War I.
In contrast, Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are apparently clueless about some of the most basic aspects of foreign policy: supporting one's friends and fencing in one's adversaries. The declaration of neutrality on the issue of the sovereignty of the Falklands issued by the US State Department is clear proof of the uselessness of the Obama administration.
In the grand scheme of things it makes little sense for America to give moral support to the Kirchner government in Argentina. Kirchner is no friend of the US and Kirchner's government is in deep domestic trouble for its gross mismanagement of the economy and its attempts to suppress the press criticism of the regime at home. One has to wonder what benefit America gets out of hurting Britain on this issue. Perhaps Obama thinks that the more Leftist Latin American regimes will somehow approve of the US. If that is the case, he is truly mistaken, as most Latin American nations dislike the Argentineans, and have little sympathy for the mess Argentina got into over the Falklands.
But this mess is just typical of the drift in US foreign policy - if one can say that it even HAS a coherent foreign policy these days. As I said, at the core of the problem is a simple inability to recognise and support our friends over adversaries. In his first year in office Obama made numerous apologies for America's past to the Third World, he effusively greeted the Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, he bowed low to the Saudi ruler, and called for a "reset" of relations with Russia - all the while implying that America was at fault for all these problems. At the same time he rudely undermined the security of America's Eastern European allies by cancelling the ballistic missile defence with no notice and no prior discussion, he failed to push for a free trade agreement with Colombia - America's strongest ally in South America - and he supported Chavez's allies when they tried (luckily unsuccessfully) to unseat a democratic and pro-US government in Honduras.
A big part of the problem is a Secretary of State who is a lightweight as far as foreign policy is concerned. Obama brought Hillary Clinton into the cabinet for domestic policy considerations. He needed to put Mrs Clinton - and her husband - under tight control.
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The Telegraph writer states: "Perhaps Obama thinks that the more Leftist Latin America regimes will somehow approve of the US. If that is the case, he is truly mistaken, as most Latin American nations dislike the Argentineans, and have little sympathy for the mess Argentina got into over the Falklands."
ReplyDeleteBut this is contradicted by the CNN article that Epa linked, titled "Neighbors rally to support Argentina over Falklands", where it's stated that Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile all support the Argies illegal claim on the Falklands.
Let's face facts, the average Latin American man-on-the-street and his government wholeheartedly support the Argies on this one. Essentially because they're anti-Anglo, anti-Yanqui, anti-Western and anti-white. Just like Obama!
So build that wall along the US-Mexico border, stop Latin immigration, and deport every last illegal alien already here. Latin Americans, unlike Muslims, may not be our sworn enemies. But, like the Obama administration, they're sure not our friends.