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September 23, 2009

'Worst foreign policy ever'

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According to this Washington Times editorial, Obama is tripping all over the world stage and his most successful policies thus far have been his selective killings - not exactly a program he can build on:

Tomorrow, President Obama will chair a special nuclear-disarmament meeting by the United Nations Security Council. The White House bills this as a historic first, but it is typical of Mr. Obama's emphasis on style over substance. He will appear before the body with the weakest foreign-policy record of any new U.S. president in recent memory. An around-the-world tour of international hot spots shows that for all the president's lofty rhetoric, he can point to precious few accomplishments.

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The Telegraph agrees with the Washington Times assessment, and says it's not hard to see why a standing ovation awaits Barack Obama when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly today - the UN loves Obama because he is weak:

Obama's popularity at the UN boils down essentially to his willingness to downplay American global power. He is the first American president who has made an art form out of apologizing for the United States, which he has done on numerous occasions on foreign soil, from Strasbourg to Cairo. The Obama mantra appears to be - ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do to atone for your country. This is a message that goes down very well in a world that is still seething with anti-Americanism.

It is natural that much of the UN will embrace an American president who declines to offer strong American leadership. A president who engages dictators like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez will naturally gain respect from the leaders of the more than 100 members of the United Nations who are currently designated as "partly free" or "not free" by respected watchdog Freedom House.

Gharles Krauthammer charges that President Obama's foreign policy is "beyond weak" and "embarrassing":

And leave it to Newt Gingrich to come up with the ultimate insult: "Obama weak like Carter."

in accusing Obama of softness, Gingrich threw in painful blow for Democrats -- a comparison to Jimmy Carter.

"This administration is opposed to looking for oil in America, but bows to the Saudi king, embraces the Venezuelan dictator, I think it's a very unhealthy strategy for us," Gingrich said on Fox News Channel. "I think there is something fundamentally wrong with weakness in America, and then playing to placate dictators."

"This does look a lot like Jimmy Carter," Gingrich added. "Carter tried weakness and the world got tougher and tougher because the predators, the aggressors, the anti-Americans, the dictators, when they sense weakness, they all start pushing ahead."

On NBC's "Today" show, Gingich warned, "Everywhere in Latin America, enemies of America are going to use the picture of Chavez smiling and being with the president as proof that Chavez is now legitimate that he is acceptable."

Perhaps we can best sum up Barack Obama's foreign policy with the recent report that one of his foreign policy advisors, Zbigniew Brzezinski, is calling for the US to shoot down Israeli jets.

... In a little noticed interview with the Daily Beast (presumably little noticed because serious people don't read the Daily Beast), Zbigniew Brzezinski suggests that Barack Obama do more than just refuse to support an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear sites -- the American president must give the order to shoot down Israeli aircraft as they cross Iraqi airspace ...

When a president chooses to surround himself with advisers that suggest he shoot down the aircraft of our biggest ally in the Middle East, while it acts to protect itself and the free world from Iranian nuclear weapons, that pretty much says it all.

Posted by Abdul at September 23, 2009 8:47 AM

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