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“I will stand
with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
–Barack Obama in his book, Audacity of Hope. How
President Obama’s Foreign Policy is Failing Do you remember one of the
very first things President Obama did as president was personally deliver
apologetic speeches in and to Israel’s neighbors in the Middle East? And do
you remember last spring (2011) when President Obama attacked Libya’s Muammar Qadhaffi with our
military and without congressional authorization? General Colin Powell said about
invading Iraq and toppling Saddam "if you break it, you own it."
This motto, adopted from Pottery Barn, has come back to haunt President Obama
in his Middle East policy. The primary responsibility lies with President
Obama in this sphere too. President Obama's deceptive narrative and naiveté is on display
throughout the Middle East events. The Obama Doctrine has
done nothing to keep America safe, free and prosperous in a dangerous world. In June 2009 President Obama called for a 'new beginning between the United States and Muslims.'
(Pete Souza / The White House via Corbis) What is unfolding in the Middle East
has the makings of the most perfect storm in American foreign policy since
1979. You may recall what happened then. Another Islamist revolution. Another
attack on a U.S. Embassy. Another Democrat in the White House. This is what Jimmy Carter said in a speech on Feb. 7,
1980, as the Iranian hostage crisis entered its third month: “I have been struck ... by the human
and moral values which Americans as a people share with Islam. We share,
first and foremost, a deep faith in the one Supreme Being. We are all
commanded by him to faith, compassion, and justice. We have a common respect
and reverence for law ... On the basis of both values and interests, the
natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship
... We have the deepest respect and reverence for Islam.” Remind you of anything? Try this: “I’ve
come here ... to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims
around the world, one based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and one
based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be
in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles—principles
of justice and progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings ...
Let there be no doubt: Islam is a part of America.” That was from a speech given by President Obama in Cairo on June 4, 2009. Funny how small a
difference 30 years make. Same old pious hopes for respect, reverence for
law, and tolerance. And, in return, the same disrespect, illegality, and
intolerance. The embassy in Tehran then, the consulate in Benghazi now. Here’s
what happens to American presidents who look to be loved in the Middle East. In 2008, the year Obama won the presidency
with his pledge to end George W. Bush’s wars, 75
percent of Egyptians had an
unfavorable opinion of the United States. Today it’s 79
percent. Four years ago, that was the percentage of Jordanians
with a negative view of the U.S. Now it’s 86
percent. “It is much safer to be feared than
loved,”
Machiavelli teaches us. Today America is neither. Consider the wider
ramifications of the Middle Eastern crisis. Revolutions have succeeded, with
halfhearted American support, in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. Among the
beneficiaries have been staunch anti-American organizations like the Muslim
Brotherhood. The United States continues to give Egypt more than $1 billion a
year in aid, roughly the price of the two attack submarines the Egyptians are
buying from Germany. The country was once America’s ally. In September (2012) the
president conceded it is now neither our enemy nor our friend. America’s
most dependable ally in the region is Israel. Repeatedly this year Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pleaded with Obama to draw a “red line” on Iran’s nuclear program rather than give a “red light” to preventive military action. In
September (2012) the White House declined even to meet with Netanyahu when he
visited the United States later that month. Even Haaretz (no fan of
Bibi) regards this as a mistake. Maybe you think George Bush’s invasion of Iraq was a worse
mistake, though it gave that country democracy, showed Arabs that dictators
can be toppled, and turned an enemy into a potential ally. But consider the
consequences of this president’s decision to pull out of Iraq. In
July (2012), at least 100 Iraqis perished in a wave of bombings and shootings
by al Qaeda in Iraq, which aims to overthrow the Shia-led government of Nuri
al-Maliki. In September (2012) the country’s Sunni vice president was sentenced
to death. Meanwhile, Kurdistan is acting like an independent state (or,
rather, a satellite of Turkey). Iraq is falling apart. As for Syria, while Obama fiddles, its cities burn in a
civil war that could soon eclipse Lebanon’s in the 1980s. The president who was once a foreign-policy neophyte now
makes much of his experience. That claim depends heavily on a program of
targeted assassination that liberals would have denounced if it had been
pursued by his predecessor. –Niall
Ferguson, PhD. [Source]
Libya What
the President
and his Administration said—or did not say—since September 11, 2012 on
terrorism has become a matter of deep fascination. But at the heart of the
blame-shifting and lawyerly language over the meaning of terrorism
are questions about intelligence, security, and policy failure in the Middle
East. The
fact that al-Qaeda is in fact alive and getting a foothold in Libya should
not have been news to the Administration. Details can be found in a new
report from the Library
of Congress. This report was completed in August, and the Library of
Congress concluded that al-Qaeda has grown in strength in Libya as well as in
other Arab countries. The CIA reported to Washington
within 24 hours of the Libyan consulate attack that “that
there was evidence it was carried out by militants, not a spontaneous mob,”
AP reports. "The problem
the United States is facing is not the obscure and vile 'Innocence of
Muslims' video, but a Commander in Chief whose policies
and priorities are derelict and dangerous." -Spero News editor and former
US diplomat Martin Barillas Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad invoked the U.S. debt in
questioning America’s continued legitimacy, asking how a country with $16 trillion in debt could “remain a world power.” Understand Barack Obama’s Early Years Evaluate President Obama’s Agenda Socialism, “An Intermediate Stage”
A communist revolution is a proletarian revolution inspired by the
ideas of Marxism that aims to replace capitalism with communism, typically
with socialism (state-run means of production) as an intermediate stage. The
idea that a proletarian revolution is needed is a cornerstone of Marxism;
Marxists believe that the workers of the world must unite and free themselves
from capitalist oppression to create a world run by and for the working
class. Thus, in the Marxist view, proletarian revolutions need to happen in
countries all over the world. [Source] Understand Our Need for Government and its Real Nature Understand Socialism's Real Nature See Separation of Church and State Understand Islam’s Real Nature Understand the Same Sex Sexuality Movement’s Real Nature See “Are We Causing Global Warming?” Be strongly encouraged to view an Overview of America, its economic and political principles; what has worked, what has not worked, and why. And this video interview of Dr. Thomas Sowell can sum it up well. See the 21-fold Plan of God |
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