Thursday, December 8, 2011

Obama Foreign Policy in A Brief: The President as (a) Turkey

Yid With Lid   "On October 5, 1938, Winston Churchill said in the House of Commons, regarding the Munich agreement in which Britain and France forced Czechoslovakia to cede the strategic Sudetenland to Germany, leading a few months later to that country’s extinction and a year later to World War Two:

“I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget but which must nevertheless be stated, namely, that we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat….”
Viscountess Astor ( perhaps the equivalent of Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich) shouted, “Nonsense!”

"People ask me: How can U.S. government officials believe such silly and wrong things about the Middle East? Let’s go behind the scenes for a case study of how this works." ....
"Yes, that’s it. Turkey’s Islamist regime, not the United States, is taking leadership and setting the example. It’s leading in an anti-American direction and setting a bad example. American interests are being trashed; American allies are in despair.
"Now multiply this example by a few hundred times and you have Obama foreign policy."  Barry Rubin.
Emphasis added.

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