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The real news is that already notorious photo: the president of Brazil, our largest ally in Latin America, and the prime minister of Turkey, for more than half a century the Muslim anchor of NATO, raising hands together with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the most virulently anti-American leader in the world.
That picture -- a defiant, triumphant take-that-Uncle-Sam -- is a crushing verdict on the Obama foreign policy. It demonstrates how rising powers, traditional American allies, having watched this administration in action, have decided that there's no cost in lining up with America's enemies and no profit in lining up with a U.S. president given to apologies and appeasement.
They've watched President Obama's humiliating attempts to appease Iran, as every rejected overture is met with abjectly renewed U.S. negotiating offers. American acquiescence reached such a point that the president was late, hesitant and flaccid in expressing even rhetorical support for democracy demonstrators who were being brutally suppressed and whose call for regime change offered the potential for the most significant U.S. strategic advance in the region in 30 years.
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This is not just an America in decline. This is an America in retreat -- accepting, ratifying and declaring its decline, and inviting rising powers to fill the vacuum.
Nor is this retreat by inadvertence. This is retreat by design and, indeed, on principle. It's the perfect fulfillment of Obama's adopted Third World narrative of American misdeeds, disrespect and domination from which he has come to redeem us and the world. Hence his foundational declaration at the U.N. General Assembly last September that "No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation" (guess who's been the dominant nation for the last two decades?) and his dismissal of any "world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another." (NATO? The West?)
What else can be said? He has put our country on more dangerous footing that we have ever had in my lifetime.
That way, every time there is a conflict we can spend our money and send our soldiers in there to die.
Any nearly as powerful country who doesn't listen, we can nuke them back to the stone age...screw diplomacy.
Do you understand that government's primary role is to protect its citizens?
If that means we have enough strength to make other countries count the cost and weigh the risk before making an attack, then the government has done its job.
Right now, there is low cost and low risk to support our enemies and make an attack. Are you OK that enemies find it easier to try and set off bombs in our country? I'm not.
It's job is to do what is necessary to ensure our protection - defense or offense.
So to make up a story about WMD's justifies an invasion of a country ?
And then when none are to be found change your story to "we have to save the people" ?
Proactive defense. No, not OK. Who gets to decide the potential enemy ?
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A duplicate thread attempting to substitute opinion for fact.
Get over it. nations have continually aligned themselves with scumbags if they derive benefit from it.
IF you really want to whine about asinine foreign policy, Bush negotiating with the known sponsor of the mass murder of Americans, Moammar Kadafi, would be a great place to start.
That way, every time there is a conflict we can spend our money and send our soldiers in there to die.
Any nearly as powerful country who doesn't listen, we can nuke them back to the stone age...screw diplomacy.
Wow, way to sensationalize and overstate reality. LOL, has the US EVER 'nuked' any country back into the stone age?
So according to liberal philosophy, we should strive to the lowest common denominator? Got it.
Isn't it the libs who continually love to point out when another country takes the lead in ______ (fill in the blank).
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