Obama’s Contract on America, Part 1: Defense and Foreign Policy
Author: Paul Zannucci
About the Author: Born in Boston, I lived and worked in the D.C. area for a time, but have spent most of my life in Tennessee, where I graduated from the University of Tennessee. My political philosophy could best be described as eclectic, though mostly right of center. Read more from this author
Outside of the mainstream media, much has been made about Obama’s radical associations and poor judgment. From Bill Ayers, various socialist organizations and vote rigging operations, to Raila Odinga and genocide in Kenya, Obama can be seen as on a one man mission of either abject guilelessness or overt revolution. Either way you categorize his behavior, be it stupid or evil, coming from the next President of the United States makes it exceedingly dangerous.
Nothing says naive like Obama, himself:
Obama’s misty-eyed adherence to ridiculous, peacenik ideas are both childlike and dangerous.
Now that we’ve heard Obama’s plans to carefully and systematically ruin our military, let’s look at other examples of foreign policy clumsiness and childlike understanding.
1) Obama’s mistakes in Kenya can never be forgiven. By overtly siding against the incumbent administration and campaigning with Raila Odinga, Obama helped to sow disastrous seeds in a country that is known for its habitual, revolutionary flair-ups. If you can’t find it in your heart to place any blame on Obama for the more than 600,000 dead and displaced Kenyans, then at least you should be able to agree that this was a monumental act of blind ignorance. Just because Odinga is a hero of the modern left, much like Che Guevara, doesn’t mean that you don’t review the consequences of your actions before traveling to a country and speaking your mind. No other American politician endorsed anyone in the Kenyan race, either implied or otherwise, for a very good reason.
2) Obama’s initial reaction, which he has since lied about, to the Russia-Georgia conflict would have been disastrous coming from a US President. By hopping into the discussion without reviewing the situation, Obama once again inadvertantly endorsed violence by spreading the blame for the conflict between the two parties. This sort of moral fuzziness coming from a US President could literally cause vast strife around the world.
Somewhat in Obama’s defense, Russia wasn’t paying any attention to him anyway, much as they won’t once he becomes President.
3) Obama’s willingness to validate people such as Odinga (who had a long history of violence prior to their meetings) and Ahmadinejad weakens the US stance against terrorism and emboldens those within radical Islam to feel a just cause for continued efforts. Obama’s pandering statements about getting bin Laden through unilateral action against Pakistan are merely election cycle rantings, and his spoken desire to go hard after Afghanistan are in complete opposition to his years of anti-war stances. Which side of Obama should you believe?
4) Obama’s desires to bring us into the good graces of the worldwide community by subjugating ourselves to the UN Security Council are preposterous. With Libya as President and Russia as a permanent veto member along with China, very little in the cause of good can be done through this channel. What would we do if Russia started retaking all its lost territories? Bring up resolutions only to have them vetoed by Russia themselves?
And, no, under Chapter VI of the charter, Russia couldn’t veto a resolution calling for it to move its forces out of an aggression, but it could veto any resolution of force against itself, which is essentially the same thing given that Russia has little care for international concerns.
And the goal of the left is not to make the Security Council more responsive, but to open it up to more and more interests, including permanent status for various questionable Islamic countries. It will soon be that the only people able to act on the world stage will be those countries like Russia and Iran who could not care less.
Does Obama sound like a great new deal for America and the world? Only our enemies likely think so.
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“Does Obama sound like a great new deal for America and the world? Only our enemies likely think so.”
Respectfully, I’d imagine that our enemies do think so.
But, then, perhaps, some might reconsider if they examine Obama’s HUTA economics proposals–especially raising taxes in economic times, which will have negative impact on capitalism, which will then be passed on to other countries.
But your piece was about defense and foreign policy.
Clearly, Obama has behaved as if he’s already president. Though it won’t happen, he should be prosecuted from violations of the Logan Act. Iraq. Kenya.
And in Kenya, supporting someone who is hostile to Christians? I’ve said it many times before; I say it again: Barack Hussein Obama is, at best, a PCINO, a Protestant Christian in name only. The Bible itself says that Hell’s demons know the Bible well. Well, in this case, I’m guessing they know more about Christ than Obama, though they really do not like the proverbial ending of the book.
BTW: I agree that there’s much blood already on Obama’s hands.
Makes you wonder, though: Is his heartlessness against his ancestors, even relatives — perhaps some deep-seated gotcha to his father who abandoned him? — how would he be to Americans, especially Christians and whites, with whom he seems to have such a burr up his elite, urban, metrosexual saddle?
As for his validation of monsters such as the Kenyan and Iranian: You wonder if he understands how he’s undermining our position with Islam, radical or not?
Does he care, really?
Again, is this his Marxist mentor speaking through him? Is this Jeremiah Wright and TUCC acting out through him? What?
He’s a very dangerous man, perhaps one of, if not the most, dangerous contemporary political figure in America.
Makes Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Walter Mondale, George McGovern, even Hillary Clinton, look like schoolkids.
Pour it on, Paul.
I really think Americans are going to wake up to who Obama is before the election. I really do, if I had to put up money, I would put it on McCain winning. Obama still cant close the deal, I believe turnout will be low despite the hype, and that McCain will be elected. This is how I’m going to feel until proven otherwise. great post as always, you have a really terrific site. One of the easiest sites to navigate out there.