US foreign policy: Trouble abroad

The Financial Times

"Barack Obama is accused of timidity overseas, thereby raising fear and anger among allies."

 

 

"When President Barack Obama ran for re-election in 2012, he pulled off what for Democrats was a remarkable feat – he took foreign policy off the table as a campaign issue.

 

"Ever since Harry Truman was accused of “losing China”, Republicans have sought to cast their Democratic opponents as weak in the face of foreign challenges. Yet fresh from his risky but successful military operation to kill Osama bin Laden, Mr Obama side-stepped the usual assault during his re-election campaign. His challenger Mitt Romney hardly brought up foreign policy.

"Eighteen months later, the political ground is shifting rapidly beneath Mr Obama’s feet. As he prepares to give an important address on foreign policy at West Point tomorrow, the president finds himself under attack over what critics charge is a record of indecisive leadership."

So many uninformed, uninterested Obama voters must be taught in the months ahead just how our foreign policy matters to the well-being of this nation. It will not be easy, given the anti-American point of view in academia and in the journalism graduates it turns out.

...  "The months of painstaking discussion in the first term over whether to put more troops into Afghanistan have been matched in the second term by a series of reviews of Syria policy, which have each ended with Mr Obama deciding to do little."

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“ 'While the wolf is eating the sheep, there is no shepherd to come to the rescue of the pack,” former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal told the FT."

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 "Assailed by complicated crises and mounting criticism, Barack Obama still has one clear shot at leaving a substantial foreign policy legacy – the nuclear talks with Iran."

 

 Good luck with that:  Iran’s Supreme Leader: Jihad Will Continue Until America is No More

"Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, all but said on Sunday that negotiations over the country’s illicit nuclear program are over and that the Islamic Republic’s ideals include destroying America."

Is this a declaration of war or isn't it?

Mr. Ramirez’s cartoons cut to the heart of an issue like no others…

 

The White House vowed to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by year's end. That's if they agree to leave. If given the choice between surviving Taliban attacks in the Afghan mountains and surviving VA care when they get home, they like their chances in the mountains.     

President Obama explained he didn't know about the VA hospital scandal until he heard about it from reporters Monday. That's pretty much the pattern. President Obama doesn't hold press conferences to make news, he holds press conferences to find out what's in the news.   Argus Hamilton

President Obama to Unveil Foreign Policy in a Speech at the One Place Where No One Will Question Him...

The President who did this will be speaking at West Point

 

Blackfive   "The President courageously chose to give this highly anticipated speech...at West Point.

"...  Via CNN:

Eager to respond to criticism of his foreign policy approach to recent crises, from Syria to Ukraine, President Barack Obama will lay out his vision on Wednesday at the commencement at West Point for how the United States should apply force around the world...

" 'Eager to respond"???

"Bwah.

Obama commencement speech at West Point more about him than cadets   "During his commencement speech at "the Point," Obama hopes to project the strong image of a leader in-charge of the world's most powerful nation, rather than being viewed as the weak leader of a declining nation, said Mike Baker, a political strategist.

" 'There's a bit of danger in his using the West Point graduation to kickoff his new round of speeches: Wednesday's ceremony is supposed to be a celebration of the achievements of the graduating cadets, not a special occasion for Obama to bash Republicans and his predecessor George W. Bush," said Baker."

In his previous speech at the academy, Cadets at West Point were ORDERED to show enthusiasm for the President's speech.   ... "Just minutes before the president took the stage inside Eisenhower Hall, the gathered cadets were asked to respond "enthusiastically" to the speech. But it didn't help: The soldiers' reception was cool.

"One didn't have to be a cadet on Tuesday to feel a bit of nausea upon hearing Obama's speech." ... 

Just minutes before the president took the stage inside Eisenhower Hall, the gathered cadets were asked to respond "enthusiastically" to the speech. But it didn't help: The soldiers' reception was cool.

One didn't have to be a cadet on Tuesday to feel a bit of nausea upon hearing Obama's speech. It was the least truthful address that he has ever held. He spoke of responsibility, but almost every sentence smelled of party tactics. He demanded sacrifice, but he was unable to say what it was for exactly.

Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b61_1259774057&c=1#IUVfuwhjMc65TZE7.99

Read more at Full article...

The man who treated our veterans this way must be honored or else.  " 'It’s a cheap way to deal with the situation,” an angry Park Service ranger in Washington says of the harassment.
“ 'We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.' ”

9,000 Fallen Soldiers Etched into the Sand on Normandy Beach

The Fallen 9000    " It was one of the decisive moments of the Second World War... One hundred and fifty thousand allied troops storming the beaches of Normandy... But D-Day came at a terrible cost. 9,000 fell in the initial fighting... and last weekend they were remembered on one of the French beaches where they died. Joe Inwood was there to see a unique project by artists from Yorkshire - honouring the fallen."
 

 

"British artists Jamie, accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of those who died during the D-Day beach landings at Arromanches on June 6th, 1944 during WWII. The original team consisted of 60 volunteers, but as word spread nearly 500 additional local residents arrived to help with the temporary installation that lasted only a few hours before being washed away by the tide.
Hat tip to Walt Stier; Santa Maria, CA

The rusting hulks you see are from the "Mulberry" harbor built after D Day to offload ships. It was destroyed in a terrible storm at that time.

Visualize Arromanches as it must have looked on June 6th, 1944:

Bear in mind that all those dead were not just at Arromanches, but at the numerous landing sites shown below.

Memorial Day, 2014

May 31, 2010   Rolling Thunder - A Marine's Vigil

 Two more Marines show up to salute bikers  

 

Memorial Day Tribute to D-Day: June 6, 1944    "This video is dedicated to those who fought, died, and suffered on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. But it does not diminish the thanks we give to those who have fought in all wars to preserve what is good and just in this world. To them we owe our gratitude."

In this video: The song, "Primo Victoria," written and composed by the band, Sabaton

[Watch] Clueless Americans Don’t Know Why We Celebrate Memorial Day

Contrast our veterans with these untermenschen below:

World War II graves smashed in Libya     ... "One man can be heard saying: "This is a grave of a Christian," as he uprooted a stone headstone from the ground.
"Another voice in the footage says of the people buried in the cemetery: "These are dogs"." ...
More here.

Code Pink calls marines war criminals  Video.  Listen to these Democrats speak: "What the hell were we doing in Hawaii, anyway?"
That's what these people said and they are taken seriously by liberals in congress, academia and the media. And they dare blame the right for the animosity in our political climate. 

Prepare To Fall In Love With Senator Ron Johnson

Chicks on the Right   "You HAVE to see how Sen. Ron Johnson responds to Sen. Rockefeller's unwarranted charge of racism. You'll want to stand up and scream BRAVO."
 

 

Ron Johnson Goes Off On Dem: 'God Help You For Implying I'm A Racist'  ... "Johnson, speaking at the hearing, accused Rockefeller of "playing the race card."

 

" 'My opposition to health care has nothing to do with the race of President Obama," Johnson said. "I objected to this because it's an assault on our freedom. ... I found it very offensive that you would basically imply that I'm a racist because I oppose this health care law."

 

"'You're evidently satisfied with a lot of people not having health insurance," Rockefeller responded." ...

"Our son didn't murder those people in Isla Vista, guns did!"

Thomas Lifson  "While it is understandable, perhaps, to wish to deflect their own responsibility in having raised someone who is “suspected” of being a homicidal madman and not seeing to it that he was institutionalized, the inconvenient fact is that the first three victims were murdered by use of a knife or knives. Total gun confiscation would not have saved half of the homicide victims. And Rodger’s rampage injured other people with his car, deliberately steering into a bicyclist and a skateboarder.

 

"Quite clearly, he is “suspected” of using whatever weapons were at hand to allegedly kill and injure people in a rage."

 
Timeline of murder spree in Isla Vista

 

Remembering Victims of the Isla Vista Rampage

Isla Vista Shooting Victims Identified   "GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — A gunman went on a rampage Friday night near the University of California, Santa Barbara that left seven people dead, including him. Here are the stories of the six victims, who were all students at the university."

UCSB Rampage Killer Amassed His Arsenal All Over The Southland

Here is much more about this murderer than you probably care to know

Apparently this is how PC-approved "settled science" becomes "settled" (UPDATED)

 A Heated Debate: Are Climate Scientists Being Forced to Toe the Line?

 

"After joining a controversial lobby group critical of climate change, meteorologist Lennart Bengtsson claims he was shunned by colleagues, leading him to quit. Some scientists complain pressure to conform to consensus opinion has become a serious hindrance in the field."

 

"The scientist said colleagues placed so much pressure on him after joining GWPF that he withdrew from the group out of fear for his own health. Bengtsson added that his treatment had been reminiscent of the persecution of suspected Communists in the United States during the era of McCarthyism in the 1950s."

 

I suggest to you that the term, "flat-earthers" should best be applied to the man-caused global warming advocates. That the earth was flat was "settled science" back in the day as was the theory that the sun moved around the earth. Only courageous scientists such as Dr. Bengtsson dare challenge the financially advantageous position that the global warmists live off of.

This is the price scientists such as Lennart Bengtsson have to pay:

But Bengtsson insists that even close colleagues shunned him. He says that one research partner, apparently fearing damage to his reputation, withdrew from a study they had been conducting together. Bengtsson added no further details other than to state that the incident had been hurtful.

http://ozziesaffa.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-stupid-do-they-think-we-are.html

UPDATE: Where Did ’97 Percent’ Global Warming Consensus Figure Come From?  “ 'It is astonishing that any journal could have published a paper claiming a 97% climate consensus when on the authors’ own analysis the true consensus was well below 1%,” said Dr. David Legates, a geology professor at the University of Delaware and the study’s lead author."
A politician who agrees with those PC flat-earthers pronounces the "proper" point of view:

 Kerry Says--Wrongly--Some Temps This Week Broke ‘Every Record That’s Ever Been Seen’

"Secretary of State John Kerry told an audience in Mexico on Wednesday that temperatures in Europe and in Vietnam were “unprecedented” and broke “every record that’s ever been seen.” However, although it was hot that day, he was off the mark."

Reading list: life under liberalism

Victor Davis Hanson; The Obama Administration’s Ethics Problem 
Mr. Hanson lists case after case of this administration's poor character, then concludes with this:
 ... "The common denominator?

"In all of these cases, politics trumped ethics. Because Obama professed that he was on the side of the proverbial people, administrators assumed that they had a blank check to do or say what they wished without much media audit. The mystery is not whether some administration officials were incompetent or unethical or both, but whether there are any left who are not."

Huge Ukip British victory sends message of hope to North American Patriots

 

"The message?

“ 'Dave and Ed just don’t get it: By branding Ukip racists they’re damning millions of decent Britains”-Stephen Glover, Daily Mail, May 22, 2014.

"Obama comrade, Prime Minister David Cameron, Labour Leader Ed Miliband and Liberal Leader Nick Clegg threw everything but the proverbial kitchen sink at Ukip trying to impact their voter turnout by branding them “racists”.

"But supposedly low information voters in Britain didn’t buy the Party propaganda."

Redistribution masquerading as reparations 

 ... "There is a complete disconnect between cause and effect — anyone with a particular skin color is presumed to be a victim of policies even from generations earlier. It’s a simplistic and non-evidentiary approach which generalizes anecdotes and ignores the myriad of factors that influence success or failure in life.

"Rather, this is a societal redistribution, in which the not actually guilty pay, and the not actually injured get compensated, via the power of government to redistribute wealth.
It’s just redistribution with a different justification."

MSNBC, of course.

A Performance Review; The president needs a lot of improvement.

Fred Barnes  "The public’s judgment of President Obama is that his performance in office is not so great. Nearly every opinion poll shows that more Americans disapprove of how he’s doing his job than approve. Sometimes the gap between disapprove and approve is more than 10 percentage points.

"But public opinion isn’t the only way to assess a president’s effectiveness. In 2000, Fred Greenstein, a scholar of the presidency at Princeton, came up with six “qualities that bear on presidential performance.” While they are subjective measures open to disagreement, they’re nonideological, nonpartisan, and they offer a useful way to judge presidents.

 

"So the question is: Does Obama exhibit the qualities Greenstein says are important for any president? Let’s look at the six:" ...   Full article...

Sen. Corker: White House Meeting About Obama’s Foreign Policy ‘One Of The Most Bizarre I’ve Attended’

CBS DC

 

... "Another senator who attended the meeting said Obama’s advisers refused to provide lawmakers with answers about whether the president plans to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the war formally concludes later this year or about the Pentagon’s efforts to find nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian school girls.

"Unsatisfied, some of the lawmakers started to leave one by one before the meeting had finished....

"The meetings, which have been taking place both at the White House and on Capitol Hill, come as Obama prepares for a speech Wednesday at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he is expected to try to answer critics who say he has surrendered America’s global leadership and faltered on problems in the Middle East, Russia, China and beyond." ...
 

Obama, Benghazi, and that 3 AM phone call

During The Benghazi Attack, The White House Called… YouTube     ... "The memo suggests that even as the attack was still underway — and before the CIA began the process of compiling talking points on its analysis of what happened — the White House believed it was in retaliation for a controversial video." ... Was this that three AM phone call we discussed in 2008?

US Hero Waited 20 Hrs. on Benghazi Rooftop While Obama Called YouTube & Went Campaigning "Diplomatic security agent David Ubben, like former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, ran into the Special Mission Compound (SMC) to help save US officials under siege in Benghazi. Ubben was struck by a mortar round that killed Woods and Doherty. His leg was shredded. Ubben was forced to wait twenty hours before a plane was sent to pick him up.

"While Ubben was waiting for help with a shredded leg the Obama White House called YouTube and the president flew off to campaign in Las Vegas."

 

 

More e-mails…another thorn in Obama’s side   "And so the clouds of Benghazi gather yet again over the White House as e-mails have surfaced showing that Barack HUSSEIN Obama…this most traitorous of men…contacted YouTube about the infamous ‘Innocence of Muslims’ video while the attacks at Benghazi were ongoing. This is serious stuff folks as it shows that while Obama did NOT send troops to help our people under attack at the mission…saying there was NOT enough time to save them (and how did he know the time frame while the attack was ongoing unless he helped plan it)…but he did have time to call YouTube and lay the foundation for the LIE that the attack was caused by said video. "

"And these e-mails unequivocally prove that the video accusations did NOT come from the CIA as Obama and his minions claimed…as they came BEFORE the CIA even began comprising their own talking points on what they believed happened that night"....

http://netrightdaily.com/2014/05/cartoon-mad-lib/

Dangerous Times: Benghazi Means Betrayal   "Obama has known about  ‘Eid butchery since he attended Muslim school in Jakarta from age six to ten. Al Qaida simply applies animal butchery to human children and other innocents, if they refuse to convert to Islam."