Posted by
RME KRNL on Friday, July 03, 2009 2:27:20 PM
I recently read an article about how "concerned" President Obama is about the democratically elected Honduran president being arrested by that country's army and now being in de facto exile. And Obama should be concerned, because the more he turns this country into a banana republic, the more such similar action may be necessary against him.
But, first, let's summarize and get the Obumbler's foreign policy straight (Ha!):
(a) every time he goes overseas we find out something new about how bad our country is, for which he feels he must continue to apologize and kowtow to the Europeans, the Muslims, the Arabs, etc., etc., etc.;
(b) despite still blaming Bush for any- and everything he can think of, repeatedly and often, he's following Bush's general game plan in the no-longer-talked-about "global war on terror" -- er, I mean "overseas contingency operations" against "man-made disasters" (How awkward is that phraseology? Just trips off the tongue, right?);
(c) he, in his well-intentioned but less-than-effective cart-before-the-horse manner, has found out why Bush also wanted to close Guantanamo but couldn't find a way to do it (I know, reality, rather than just hope and change, really sucks, right, Mr. Obama?);
(d) Iran, a known terrorist sponsor state and international rogue nation in a similar league with North Korea, conducts what was obviously a sham election -- Ahmadinejad being declared the winner by a landslide before all the votes could even have been counted, winning in some districts by more than the number of voters in those districts, etc. (Was ACORN helping with the Iranian election?) -- and the Iranian people by the thousands take to the streets in protest, but because Obama still naively thinks he can talk to and negotiate with Iran's theocratic thugs, he limp-wristedly says we shouldn't "meddle" in Iranian affairs, despite America having historically always been on the side of people all over the world who wanted fairness and freedom, plus Obama gets blamed for meddling by the Iranian mullahs and monkey-man Ahmadinejad anyway;
(e) yet, Obama quickly "meddles" in Honduras' affairs by supporting its ousted president who was, yes, democratically elected, but who was also, a la Hugo Chavez, more recently attempting to become a president-for-life, perhaps just as Obama imagines himself to be one day. (Hey, Mr. President, you know, even democratically elected presidents can be righteously thrown out of office. In some South American, and other, countries, it's via a coup. Here, it's via impeachment, so don't get too far ahead of yourself.)
So, Obama apologizes to the Muslims, the Arabs, the Europeans, etc., who all graciously accept his apology but don't do much of anything differently than they've been doing for years, mainly because many of them still hate us or at least envy us and view Obama as an appeaser. (By the way, so far as the Euros go, I like to ask them which part of Europe they're from -- the part we liberated or the part whose butt we kicked. But, that's another story, like why English is the international language of diplomacy and the French, for example, aren't speaking German today.)
North Korea is kicking up more of a fuss lately than in many, many years, mainly because they see Obama as vacillating and indecisive. Chavez-istic prez-for-life syndrome seems to be spreading in South America, partly because Obama has allowed South American "strong men" to repeatedly show him up and get away with it. And Iran is brutalizing its own people so the thuggish theocrats can stay in power and keep Iran in the 7th century as much as possible, because they perceive that Obama nor the feckless U.N. have the spine to take them on head-to-head.
So, yeah, everything considered, all that (naive) Obama grandstanding foreign policy stuff sounds really nice, really makes a lot of sense to me, and seems to really be working. I feel so much safer now, still being a part of the only remaining (but perhaps currently declining) super power in the world, don'tcha know? How about you?