Posted by Tina
A number of issues and articles in the news lately point to the President’s thoughtless self-serving approach to foreign policy. The President spent the week in Europe where the various heads of state seemed unwilling to engage him. Chewing gum during the D-Day commemoration was a disdainful, adolescent act that signaled disrespect for the allied forces who fought and died and indeed, for our allies in the free world. The week also revealed a President that has promoted and encouraged illegal entry into our country, a profoundly inhumane and disgraceful practice both for an America President and toward the women and children who come in desperation only to find an overwhelmed and inadequate system to greet them. His announcement, that American troops would leave Afghanistan by a specified date was delivered as thoughtlessly as the announcement that we would abandon the freed people of Iraq. A speech to the graduating class at West Point remarkably placed the nation’s military forces in the climate defense business, as he advised about their mission, “…to energize the global effort to combat climate change, a creeping national security crisis that will help shape your time in uniform.” As if to add a note of sarcasm to that sentiment the President then thoughtlessly released five of the worlds most dangerous terrorists, an act that endangers the entire world. The decision served as an endorsement of the methods and goals of the terrorist community. Obama’s second term is an exercise in complete lunacy…it’s inexplicable!
How can a such a thoughtless human being be elected twice in a nation born of the wisdom of individual liberty? What if the future of our nation, and indeed liberty itself, will consistently be placed in the hands of similarly unthinking, ideologically lunatic people? What if, to borrow phrase, this is as good as it gets?
If Melanie L. Sturm in her advised assessment of our higher education system is right, it is likely that America could see many more unthinking leaders:
Aware that wisdom comes from asking the right questions, not identifying the wrong answers, Professor Allan Bloom blasted American universities in 1987 for exacerbating youthful indiscretion.
In his seminal book, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Student, Bloom argued that students were graduating into a complex and conflict-riddled world without the insights that come from the clash of opposing viewpoints.
Thirty years hence, are the proliferating controversies plaguing America the consequence?
Real advance, Albert Einstein revealed, requires the creative imagination “to raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle.” We can’t solve problems, Einstein believed, by applying the same “thinking we used when we created them.”
Nevertheless, “tolerance enforcers” wielding assumed moral superiority and a heckler’s veto have transformed campuses into close-minded sanctuaries. Cocooned away, students are safe from potential insult, reflective thought, disagreement – and thus from real life. (emphasis mine)
The above highlighted description has been my exact experience in communicating with many of today’s so-called “educated” youth. Many more of these were on display during the equally lunatic Occupy Wall Street protest. This unhappy reality does not bode well for the future of America. Much will depend on every freedom loving individual in the coming years. Unless we create a grand awakening among the “cocooned” masses, America could find herself alone and isolated because of the lunacy that insists on coddling and appeasing the enemies of freedom while failing and insulting our friends and allies.
The price we and the allies who depend on our strength are paying is heavy. James Lewis, using photo perfect imagery of the symbolism embedded in the Bergdahl homecoming event, made a list of America’s former allies in the Middle East and elsewhere:
Here is a partial list of former allies who now hate us, knowing how Obama betrayed them.
1. Egypt
2. Israel
3. Saudi Arabia
4. Afghanistan
5. Libya and Syria
6. Ukraine and its neighbors
7. Poland (as Lech Walesa said last week)
8. Japan — which just lost vast seabed minerals to China, while the U.S. did nothing.
9. Philippines – ditto
10. South Korea – ditto
11. 236 years of American idealism, values and traditions, as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence, backed by hundreds of thousands of American military dead in cemeteries from Normandy to Hawaii.
The lunacy that drives the President’s foreign policy, both past and future, is offensive and destructive. Support of his policy is also lunacy…people are waking up and some are turning away…but the beat goes on as witnessed by the true believers in lunacy who often post here.
Here’s another good article about Obama being the commander in chief of our military. How can one lead the largest military in the world when he’s never been the head of anything before except his own household when Michelle lets him.
The news is reporting every military advisor advised him not to do the Bergdahl for five terrorist exchange. But he did it any way.
Obama’s Strange Attitude About the U.S. Military:
“Many people think President Obama’s speech at West Point was all about politics. Setting up straw men and knocking them down, the president defined himself mainly by what he wasn’t. He was not an isolationist. He was not a warmonger. Of course, no one seriously claimed he was either one. Nor are these extremes real-world strategic options.
Yes, the president’s speech was offered as a defense against his political critics. But it would be wrong to conclude that politics is the only factor driving Obama’s foreign policy. There appears to be a strategic purpose as well: Put simply, it is to limit American power and to redefine the very nature of American leadership in the world.
Prior to Obama, presidents tended to see American power as a good thing. It helped secure the peace and provide world order. It served the values of freedom and democracy by supporting allies. Whatever American presidents of the post-World War II era may have thought about particular wars, they did not doubt the goodness and necessity of American military power—both as a means of defense and as exerting a deterrent and stabilizing force for the world as a whole.
Obama sees it otherwise. At West Point he was careful to give a nod to the traditional view that military power is the “backbone” of American leadership. But as with almost all statements about America’s role in the world, he had reservations, particularly with respect to things military. “Military action cannot be the only—or even primary—component of our leadership in every instance,” he said. “Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.”
Continued..
http://dailysignal.com/2014/06/07/obamas-indispensable-america/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
Borrowing a recent exclamation, “Ick!”
Dewey I’m sure repeating the political nonsense that the wars waged under Bush were “fake” provides some sense of enjoyment for you but it makes you look like an idiot. Read and learn:
It was spectacularly more partisan supported than was Obama’s healthcare law which had zero Republican support.
“GOP has failed on foreign policy as well. Many years of the USA interfering in the middle east?”
Bull$#!*! Since the cold war the efforts by Republican presidents have not been without error (what war/diplomacy always goes well?)…but they have furthered the advance of liberty and human rights! Democrat involvement has had the exact opposite effect! Any suggestion to the contrary is based on prejudice, leftist propaganda and/or ignorance.
“America has taken many years to get here and the WAR Mongers are the cause!”
More Bull$#!*. Radical left operatives and activists have brought us to this low page in our history with their big government ideas and their fake efforts at peace that end in chaos and greater tyranny.
America is not a war mongering nation. We are liberators and would have greater success if the idiot leftists didn’t hold such sway to propagandize for their fake idea of peace!
Tell me Dewey is there a shred of evidence that peace has been brought through the efforts of the very radical Obama, Hillary, Pelosi, Reid and company? Hell no! Just the opposite.
“Face it our military has become a for profit menace.”
Only in the hands of an incompetent boob!
Our military is the finest in the world. The military is necessary for the protection of the various states. It represents the one mandate for the federal government authorized by the Constitution. Greater power was supposed to be vested in the states but all those progressive Democrats (and corrupt republican rinos) have brought us to this out of control and overly controlling big government.
“Cheney?”
You don’t know anything about Dick Cheney. He is one of the good guys…a very ethical and thoughtful man who served our nation well through many administrations. As long as you get your information only from adolescent radicals and hard core progressives you will believe such tripe. It’s a shame but it’s the political reality we live in since the radical left grabbed control of the Democrat Party with it’s Saul Alinsky brand of personal destruction used as a means of winning politically.
“He needs to be banned.”
He’s retired and living in Wyoming. What are you a bigot and tyrant…or just nuts?
Wake up!
“Iraq’s noncompliance with the conditions of the 1991 ceasefire agreement, including interference with U.N. weapons inspectors.”
The UN weapons inspectors were doing their job and asked for more time before the U.S. invasion. Bush refused.
“Iraq “continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability” and “actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability” posed a “threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region.””
We now know this wasn’t true.
“Iraq’s “brutal repression of its civilian population.””
I’ll give you this one, but if we went to war with every nation that brutally repressed its population, we would never not be at war.
“Iraq’s “capability and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction against other nations and its own people”.”
Again, true, but happened years before the second Gulf war.
“Iraq’s hostility towards the United States as demonstrated by the 1993 assassination attempt on former President George H. W. Bush and firing on coalition aircraft enforcing the no-fly zones following the 1991 Gulf War.”
Again, not a justification for invasion in 2003.
“Members of al-Qaeda, an organization bearing responsibility for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known to be in Iraq.”
We now know that this was not true.
“The efforts by the Congress and the President to fight terrorists, and those who aided or harbored them.”
Iraq was not harboring members of Al Qaeda at this time.
“The governments in Turkey, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia feared Saddam and wanted him removed from power.”
…And?
Thanks for proving Dewey’s point that the justifications for the Iraq War were ass garbage.
Putin flexing his muscles at Obama by flying bombers off of north Calif. and Alaska coast.
Russian Bombers Fly Within 50 Miles of California Coast
U.S. F-22, F-15 jets intercept four Bear H bombers near Alaska, Northern California:
“Four Russian strategic bombers triggered U.S. air defense systems while conducting practice bombing runs near Alaska this week, with two of the Tu-95 Bear H aircraft coming within 50 miles of the California coast, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) confirmed Wednesday.
“Putin is doing this specifically to try to taunt the U.S. and exercise, at least in the reported world, some sort of saber-rattling, muscle-flexing kind of nonsense,” Conaway said in an interview. “Truth of the matter is we would have squashed either one of those [bombers] like baby seals.”
“It’s a provocation and it’s unnecessary. But it fits in with [Putin’s] macho kind of saber-rattling,” he said, adding that he expects Russia will carry out more of these kinds of incidents in the future.
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a former Alaska commander for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, said he does not remember a case of Russian strategic bombers coming that close to the U.S. coast.”
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-bombers-fly-within-50-miles-of-california-coast/