The world grows more and more dangerous around us with our allies splitting from a cowardly America and this President concerns himself with rainbow lighting, Confederate flags and importing Democrats
. . . "That’s a total reversal of one of the Cold War’s major coups, when, almost overnight, the Soviet-dependent Egyptian army turned to US-made planes and tanks in the late 1970s.
"Cairo also switched allegiances. After Washington brokered an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, the most populous Arab country turned into a trusted American ally.
"And now we’re beginning to see a reversal. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi suspects that the United States no longer has his back, so he’s turning east.
"At least Sisi has some memories of being part of the Soviet bloc. The Saudis don’t.
"Riyadh has depended on American protection for more than half a century, returning the favor by guaranteeing relative stability in global energy markets (except for a spell during the Carter years).
"Yet now the Saudis, too, are seeking Russia’s friendship." . . . Via Jammie Wearing Fools
Is there nobody in media, politics and academia that is sick of this man's nimcompoopery?
Obama on ISIS: “Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they are defeated by better ideas” . . . "This is the sort of thing you say when you’re trying to break it to people that victory in the new war won’t come soon, and may not come ever. It’s the foreign policy equivalent of another of Obama’s favorite sayings, the old leftist bromide about being on “the wrong side of history”: The enemy’s backwardness is plain and our moral superiority is obvious, so ultimate triumph is assured even in the teeth of immediate defeat. All I could think of while watching this was those photos you see online sometimes of Afghanistan or Iran circa 1960, with all the women in blouses and skirts, and photos of the same two countries today, with women in head coverings or even full burqas. Better ideas don’t always win. Especially if they’re defended by weak leadership.". . .
"However superior our ideas might be, O’s strategy, like it or not, is to run out the clock until 2017 and leave it to the next poor schmuck to figure something out with ISIS."
And this feckless man will make speeches ridiculing the next administration, blaming him - or her - for ruining the stable climate he "passed on".
We saw how Obama has treated President Bush all these years and can predict the man's future actions by his well-documented character. TD
. . . "That’s a total reversal of one of the Cold War’s major coups, when, almost overnight, the Soviet-dependent Egyptian army turned to US-made planes and tanks in the late 1970s.
"Cairo also switched allegiances. After Washington brokered an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, the most populous Arab country turned into a trusted American ally.
"And now we’re beginning to see a reversal. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi suspects that the United States no longer has his back, so he’s turning east.
"At least Sisi has some memories of being part of the Soviet bloc. The Saudis don’t.
"Riyadh has depended on American protection for more than half a century, returning the favor by guaranteeing relative stability in global energy markets (except for a spell during the Carter years).
"Yet now the Saudis, too, are seeking Russia’s friendship." . . . Via Jammie Wearing Fools
Is there nobody in media, politics and academia that is sick of this man's nimcompoopery?
Obama on ISIS: “Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they are defeated by better ideas” . . . "This is the sort of thing you say when you’re trying to break it to people that victory in the new war won’t come soon, and may not come ever. It’s the foreign policy equivalent of another of Obama’s favorite sayings, the old leftist bromide about being on “the wrong side of history”: The enemy’s backwardness is plain and our moral superiority is obvious, so ultimate triumph is assured even in the teeth of immediate defeat. All I could think of while watching this was those photos you see online sometimes of Afghanistan or Iran circa 1960, with all the women in blouses and skirts, and photos of the same two countries today, with women in head coverings or even full burqas. Better ideas don’t always win. Especially if they’re defended by weak leadership.". . .
"However superior our ideas might be, O’s strategy, like it or not, is to run out the clock until 2017 and leave it to the next poor schmuck to figure something out with ISIS."
And this feckless man will make speeches ridiculing the next administration, blaming him - or her - for ruining the stable climate he "passed on".
We saw how Obama has treated President Bush all these years and can predict the man's future actions by his well-documented character. TD
