There are many administration claims that I shake my head when I hear, but this one is perhaps the worst. It is a complete and utter fallacy to proclaim President Obama’s foreign policy has been even remotely successful. This is just freestyle off the top of my head, but consider:
Iran has slaughtered the freedom movement; is now almost in possession of a nuclear weapon, and is now in possession of Top Secret drone technology. China is test launching ICBM’s from the coastal area of Los Angeles and has formed an alliance with Russia and Euro-asia, not to mention contracts with Canada for energy resources. Vladimir Putin openly mocks and belittles President Obama in front of Global Allies. Al-Qaeda is surging in the middle east: Yemen is gone, Egypt is under the control of the Muslim Brotherhood, Libya is controlled by radical Islamists and the al-Qaeda flag flies atop the courthouses in Tripoli and Benghazi. North Africa is in terroristic turmoil. Israel is isolated. Turkey has done a 180 degree turn back to radical Islam. al shabbab has sent operatives from North Africa into the United States via Mexico. Obama mocks Netanyahu openly in France to Sarkozy, and France coincidently elects a Socialist. North Korea is test firing Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, and has openly engaged heavy artillery fire against South Korea our ally, who we just signed a trade agreement with. Coptic Christians are being killed in Egypt. Afghanistan’s President calls our troops on their soil the scourge upon their nation. Pakistan has become openly hostile to the West and radical Islamists now make decisions. Chile and Brazil are drilling in the Gulf of Mexico while we refuse to explore and actually ban our own U.S interest companies to drill. The EU has openly laughed in the face of Timothy Geithner as he attempted to influence European budget reform. Thousands of tons of chemical and biological weapons are missing from Egypt, Libya and Syria. At least 20,000 surface to air missiles are now in the hands of AQNA and AQAP. 300 US Marines were sent to Uganda to capture “General Kony” of the Lords Resistance Army, for what? – um, err, FAIL. I could go on……. but I think you get the point…..
WASHINGTON DC – President Obama trumpeted his foreign policy record on Monday, telling a convention of veterans that his administration has spearheaded a “new era of American leadership” that has made the U.S. “safer and stronger and more respected in the world.”
“Because we’re leading around the world, people have a new attitude toward America,” Obama told the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno, Nevada.
“There’s more confidence in our leadership. We see it everywhere we go.”
Obama ran down a list of his foreign policy accomplishments and he called out Republicans for criticizing his stewardship of the military.
“Some said that bringing our troops home from Iraq was a mistake,” Obama said. “Well when you’re a commander-in-chief, you owe the troops a plan; you owe the country a plan,” he added, dinging Republican nominee Mitt Romney, whom Obama says lacks a detailed military strategy. (read more)
I’m serious, deadly serious. We, as a nation, are openly mocked now, totally belittled by countries that are pissants in comparison. “Respect”? Seriously? Consider who is in charge of this most excellent and “respected” foreign policy….. lest we forget Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the 300 pages of Wikileak documents FROM HER that belittled 100 nations and specifically their national leadership. Hello? Remember her apology tour? Yeah, respect… uh huh… keep spinning that crap….
Or Susan Rice, US Ambassador to the United Nations, who was in South Africa at a Bovine Fart conference for Global Warming (I’m not kidding look it up) when the UN National Security Council was deciding what to do about Kadaffi and Libya – Hence the International Criminal Court Charges that dragged on the Libyan quagmire. Or Senior Foreign Policy maker Samantha Powers, wife of Cass Sunstein, who is an affirmed anti-Israeli bigot and known anti Semite who relished openly the uprising of Islamist Justice Mustafa Abdel Jalil.
These are the baffoons we support…..