Posted on 06/17/2009 7:31:27 AM PDT by Jbny
It’s still very early in the Obama administration, but a pattern is beginning to emerge in how the president deals with foreign nations. And it isn’t a very pretty one.
Thus far, it seems that the guiding principle of this administration is summed up in a single, concise phrase: “Treat your enemies like friends, and your friends like enemies.” It’s doubtful the plan was envisioned as such, but that is the impression they’re giving so far.
Others here have already discussed at length how the Obama administration is dealing with Israel, so no recap is necessary — but the statements made thus far on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict do fit quite nicely into the theme.
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Also known as the Jimmy Carter Doctrine.
“Treat your enemies like friends, and your friends like enemies.”
Nope, he is just showing where his loyalties lie.
The new “Obama Doctrine” is entirely in character for the anti-American, communist, Islamofascist that Obama is.
Thayer missed the point. obam treats his friends like friends and his enemies like enemies. Those just don't happen to be the same categories as our country's friends and our country's enemies. obama hates America and loves dictators who also hate America. obama despises freedom and thus despises Israel and other country's that stand up for freedom. It's all about obama, not about our national interest.
“It’s still very early in the Obama administration, but a pattern is beginning to emerge in how the president deals with foreign nations. And it isn’t a very pretty one.”
Understatement!!!
Obie-the-one has no doctrine....only an agenda. That agenda is to destroy the U.S. and spread chaos throughout the earth.
Basically, it’s the Carter doctrine without the unctuous smile.
The Obama Doctrine - offer milk and cookies to belligerents. If unsuccessful, talk sternly to them. If that fails, utter something about being concerned, then issue a strongly-worded letter. Run to UN with tail between legs. Repeat as necessary.
The muslim call to prayer; a principle marker for the 0 “administration”.
Nothing accidental about it. Communists and Muslims are his personal friends, and the free societies of the Christian West are his enemies.
Unfortunately that includes the U.S. as well as England and Canada.
One of the responses notes that this behavior doesn’t seem to have hurt the admiration that Europeans feel for him. Americans, too. Some people enjoy being kicked and abused by a minority messiah. Political correctness says they should just sit there and take it. So they do.
Personally I waiting for the stories flowing out of Iran about how disappointed the students and the other rioters are with the lack of support form Obama. We won’t see those stories in the NYT or MSNBC but I do believe that they will not be long in coming. The people of Iran fully expected Obama, the man from Hope & Change, to side with them against the dictators in Iran. It’s not to be and the disappointment of Iran’s people with Obama and the U.S. will be universal.
Obana Doctrine: Don’t meddle in the affairs of Iran or North Korea, just in one’s own citizens’ lives in every way one can.
When he became president, Jimmy Carter fully supported and enforced the Church Amendment. The sorts of people who consort with -- and, more importantly, get cozy with -- the leaders of terrorist organizations are not normally choir boys. Church moved the legislature to PROHIBIT any US funds going to these potential informants. Since it can take upwards of 20 years for these guys to move close enough to the top to be seriously valuable, we had virtually NO humintel on bin Laden's plans for 9-11!
While there are still Church-like imbeciles (Reid, Pelosi, et come to mind) at the levers of power here, I THINK the law has been changed.
While the NSA wiretaps and eavesdrops on US citizens HERE, isn't it comforting to know that in just 15 or 20 years we may be able to thwart a plan hatched THERE for some future 9-11 with information gathered THERE.
Now our guys are required to MERANDIZE enemy combatants NOT wearing uniforms and displaying NO recognizable military patches, etc., etc., all of which, de facto, removes them from the protections afforded under the Geneva Convention. In past conflicts, the Geneva Convention permits the capturing forces to shoot these guys on the spot. Of course, any trooper caught doing that would be up on charges in the morning.
Anybody else see a pattern here?
The morons now “leading” (and I use that term very loosely) the United States have finally achieved something I thought impossible: They’ve tied BOTH our hands behind our backs. They will get MILLIONS of us KILLED before they are removed from office – hopefully in 2010 and 12.
“Whom God would destroy, He first makes mad.”
Apattern is beginning to emerge in how the president deals with foreign nations,cover eyes and suck thumb.
That’s Jimmah Carter to you. :)
LMAO good one!
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