Whether We Like It Or Not
I am still amazed that I can find nothing redeeming about the Obama Presidency a year and a half in.
This past weekend, Obama gave an appalling foreign policy speech in front of West Point military cadets. I guess Obama thinks when he's giving a speech in a military setting it makes him look more virile or Presidential or something (it doesn't). Judging from the "polite" applause he got from the audience, I'd say Obama is about as popular with the military as I thought - not at all.
Remember, this is the President who, at the close of his sham and shameful "Nuclear Summit", observed that America is in a leadership role "whether we like it or not ".
It is becoming quite apparent that Obama doesn't like it. Doesn't like it one bit.
This speech yesterday....Obama declared his intention to forge a "new world order", and with the United States in a clearly subordinate position. THAT'S not how you lead. You lead from the front, not cowering in the rear. And sometimes leading from the front makes you unpopular. But leading from the rear makes you look and sound weak, especially to our enemies.
Last week, Charles Krauthammer had a blistering editorial castigating Obama's dreadful foreign policy, calling it a full global retreat. Did we say appalling? Yes it is.
Why does this matter? Why should we care if Obama prefers to bow before brutal potentates rather then stand stall in the face of tyranny? For two reasons:
1) Despite Obama's claims to the contrary it is anathema to Americans to genuflect to dictators, and despots, let alone sit by contritely while millions suffer needlessly because of some F-ed up megalomaniac.
2) The perception of weakness by the United States encourages our enemies abroad, and serves to further destabilize regions of the world, if not the entire globe, because these rogue potentates have no one who is willing to challenge them besides the United States. An anecdotal example of this effect is the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in NYC. Terrorists captured since then have stated that the United States perceived tepid response to the USS Cole bombing, the Embassy bombings, and the fact that whenever deployed American military forces were bloodied, we would turn and run, lead them to believe that if they hit us hard enough, we would cave to their demands. We didn't, at least not yet. With Obama at the helm, I can't help but wonder. He's already tried to peg a time-line to anti-Taliban/terrorist operations in Afghanistan, which aides our enemies in the region while undermining our allies.
Our enemies respect and fear strength, They laugh at, mock, and exploit weakness.
The New World Order of the United States capitulating around the globe, while malignant depraved enemies rise, is not a world order I want to see. And for now, we are stuck with a President who is actively undermining his own country at every opportunity, whether we like it or not.
This past weekend, Obama gave an appalling foreign policy speech in front of West Point military cadets. I guess Obama thinks when he's giving a speech in a military setting it makes him look more virile or Presidential or something (it doesn't). Judging from the "polite" applause he got from the audience, I'd say Obama is about as popular with the military as I thought - not at all.
Remember, this is the President who, at the close of his sham and shameful "Nuclear Summit", observed that America is in a leadership role "whether we like it or not ".
It is becoming quite apparent that Obama doesn't like it. Doesn't like it one bit.
This speech yesterday....Obama declared his intention to forge a "new world order", and with the United States in a clearly subordinate position. THAT'S not how you lead. You lead from the front, not cowering in the rear. And sometimes leading from the front makes you unpopular. But leading from the rear makes you look and sound weak, especially to our enemies.
Last week, Charles Krauthammer had a blistering editorial castigating Obama's dreadful foreign policy, calling it a full global retreat. Did we say appalling? Yes it is.
Why does this matter? Why should we care if Obama prefers to bow before brutal potentates rather then stand stall in the face of tyranny? For two reasons:
1) Despite Obama's claims to the contrary it is anathema to Americans to genuflect to dictators, and despots, let alone sit by contritely while millions suffer needlessly because of some F-ed up megalomaniac.
2) The perception of weakness by the United States encourages our enemies abroad, and serves to further destabilize regions of the world, if not the entire globe, because these rogue potentates have no one who is willing to challenge them besides the United States. An anecdotal example of this effect is the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in NYC. Terrorists captured since then have stated that the United States perceived tepid response to the USS Cole bombing, the Embassy bombings, and the fact that whenever deployed American military forces were bloodied, we would turn and run, lead them to believe that if they hit us hard enough, we would cave to their demands. We didn't, at least not yet. With Obama at the helm, I can't help but wonder. He's already tried to peg a time-line to anti-Taliban/terrorist operations in Afghanistan, which aides our enemies in the region while undermining our allies.
Our enemies respect and fear strength, They laugh at, mock, and exploit weakness.
The New World Order of the United States capitulating around the globe, while malignant depraved enemies rise, is not a world order I want to see. And for now, we are stuck with a President who is actively undermining his own country at every opportunity, whether we like it or not.
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