Posted on 11/24/2010 10:36:55 AM PST by Schnucki
President Bush may not have not have won the Nobel Peace Prize and was hugely unpopular at the dictator-friendly United Nations, but he was mightily feared by America’s enemies. Many a tyrant shuddered after US tanks rolled into Baghdad and removed one of the most odious psychopaths on the face of the earth from power. Even the supposedly unbeatable al-Qaeda wilted in the face of the surge in Iraq, suffering huge losses and humiliation at the hands of US forces.
George W. Bush believed in American exceptionalism and wasn’t afraid to show it. He also believed that human rights and the spread of liberty and freedom across the world really mattered, and would be an integral part of American foreign policy.
It is frankly hard to decipher what the current US administration believes in with regard to its foreign policy, except the language of appeasement and a belief in American decline as a global power. With the exception of Afghanistan, where the brilliant General Petraeus has recently been wiping the floor with the Taliban, the Obama administration is floundering in a sea of confusion on the world stage. And even in Afghanistan, military successes on the battlefield are being undermined by a destructive, artificial exit strategy set in path by the White House, which hands the long-term advantage to the enemy.
The latest provocation by North Korea, with artillery fired at the South and the killing of two South Korean marines, comes at a time when American leadership has gone AWOL on the world stage, and the White House looks weaker than it has been in decades. It is hardly surprising that America’s enemies look increasingly bullish in the face of a president who makes Jimmy Carter look like General Patton.
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Obambi
pwned...
Future POTUS candidates regardless of party will all be united by one thing:
They will ALL run like hell away from Obama on every issue.
No. He is just conducting himself consistent with his stupid sophomoric pathetic academic belief that American arrogance is the root of all the worlds problems. He's an idiot.
The United States remains the world’s only superpower, but its status is being dramatically undercut by a striking lack of leadership in Washington. The Obama administration’s “smart power” approach has been anything but
In Obama's defense, he did spend a full 20 minutes yesterday speaking with his top national security advisors. And 18 hours after North Korea attacked one of our allies, he took the time to give the South Korean President a call.
/sarc
They have to peel his ears back and massage his ego before he is ready for another speech reading.
This is one of Nile’s best. Well done, Mr. Gardiner. It’s very necessary for these hard things to be said.
Like many Americans, I truly appreciated the strong friendship and help of Britain after 9/11, including into two wars. Although I don’t agree with Tony Blair’s Labour politics, I have nothing but admiration and respect for him and the personal political cost he was willing to pay to do what he thought was right, including standing truly “shoulder to shoulder” with us as our greatest ally, in the most special relationship history has ever known.
It’s extremely disheartening that today, not even a decade after 9/11, it is the American president who is disrespecting and undermining our relationship with Britain. It is the American president who is squandering the essential common understanding that Blair, a liberal, and George W. Bush, a conservative, nevertheless forged on how the world must fight anti-modern, anti-liberty evil.
I don’t hear much from David Cameron, nor do I see, really, how he could make a path to this White House where he could have the influence for good and right that Tony Blair had. Blair’s influence, in part, was empowered by the fact that Bush respected him, respected the alliance, respected history, and was open to, indeed courted, Blair’s input and help. As did many ordinary Americans.
I often miss George W. Bush these days. Funny, I also miss Tony Blair.
Donald Trump was interviewed on Fox & Friends this morning. When he wasn’t trashing GWB, he was attacking South Korea for expecting our help after they just embarrassed Obama at the summit. It does sound like Trump plans to run in 2012...which could guarantee Obama a second term.
Where is the cowboy when we need him.
Military Pegs Hourly Air Force One Cost at $181G, as Obama Sets Travel Record
Published November 24, 2010 | FoxNews.com
The average American could buy a house for the amount of money it takes to run Air Force One every hour.
The U.S. military has provided an updated estimate on that cost, first published by a taxpayer watchdog group and confirmed by FoxNews.com, and the number is staggering — $181,757 per hour. That’s the price tag for shuttling around President Obama, who, as it turns out, has spent more days abroad in his first two years than any other president.
Care to elaborate on that? No one in their right mind would ever vote for Trump as a serious candidate...in either party's primary. The chance of an Obama vs Trump general election are zilch...
I don't see the attraction of Trump as President of the United States but there must be people out there who are responding positively to the possibility.
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