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The Wages of Appeasement
National Review ^ | December 16, 2011 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 12/16/2011 11:00:50 AM PST by Enchante

Obama’s two major foreign-policy initiatives have utterly failed.

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For his exertions, Obama earned (a) continued lethal Iranian assistance to guerrillas killing Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, (b) a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador by blowing up a Washington restaurant, (c) the announcement just this week by a member of parliament of Iranian naval exercises to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, (d) undoubted Chinese and Russian access to a captured U.S. drone for the copying and countering of its high-tech secrets.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; middleeast; obama; russia
I know some will want to just bash on Krauthammer, but kindly focus upon the facts and arguments here:

he explains succinctly (what we all know) how badly Obama has failed at foreign policy.

Although presidential election campaigns tend to be "it's the economy, stupid" it is important to try to 'educate' the US media and public about exactly why the Obama/Hillary 'engagement' foreign policy has been such a bad joke with some of the world's worst actors.

1 posted on 12/16/2011 11:00:56 AM PST by Enchante
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To: Enchante

Clear explanations for why the Obama/Hillary/Biden foreign policy team has been all about:

1) harming our friends, and

2) benefiting our enemies

Exactly the opposite of what effective, competent, and yes MORAL foreign policy should be for the USA.


2 posted on 12/16/2011 11:02:51 AM PST by Enchante
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To: Enchante

Charles assumes that Obama didn’t want his policies to fail. If Obama is a Muslim sympathizer, then his policies are a success to him, if not to the US.


3 posted on 12/16/2011 12:35:58 PM PST by expat2
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To: Enchante; All

The average American hasn’t a clue how much of our tax money Obama has sent down Muslim sh*t holes while he threatens to cut medicare and withold senior’s social security checks!

BILLIONS FOR JIHAD!

Obamas 2009 Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Pandemic Flu was revised and passed by the full committee.
It gives billions http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/05/1...
of U.S. taxpayer dollars to countries and entities that support Sharia law and/or harbor, hide and support those who want to destroy the U.S. and our allies.
Read the summary from David Obeys office that was quietly released last week with nary a word from any media.

$3.6 billion, matching the request, to expand and improve capabilities of the Afghan security forces

$400 million, as requested, to build the counterinsurgency capabilities of the Pakistani security forces

Afghanistan:$1.52 billion,$86 million above the request

West Bank and Gaza:$665 million in bilateral economic, humanitarian, and security assistance for the West Bank and Gaza

Jordan:$250 million,$250 million above the request, including $100 million for economic and $150 million for security assistance

Egypt:$360 million,$310 million above the request, including $50 million for economic assistance,$50 million for border security, and $260 million for security assistance

Pakistan:$1.9 billion,$591 million above the request

Iraq:$968 million,$336 million above the request

Oversight:$20 million,$13 million above the request, to expand oversight capacity of the State Department, USAID, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan to review programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq
Lebanon:$74 million

International Food Assistance:$500 million,$200 million above the request, for PL 480 international food assistance to alleviate suffering during the global economic crisis

Refugee Assistance:$343 million,$50 million above the request, including humanitarian assistance for Gaza. Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency programs in the West Bank and Gaza is limited to $119 million (Note: Gaza = Hamas)

Disaster Assistance:$200 million to avert famines and provide life-saving assistance during natural disasters and for internally displaced people around the world, including Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, the Middle East and South Asia

Peacekeeping:$837 million for United Nations
peacekeeping operations, including an expanded mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a new mission in Chad and the Central African Republic

Department of Justice:$17 million, matching the request, for counter-terrorism activities and to provide training and assistance for the Iraqi criminal justice system
Obama gives your tax dollars to rebuild Muslim mosques around the world
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/... #

ACCORDING TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL GIVE AWAY NEARLY $6 MILLION OF AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS TO RESTORE 63 HISTORIC AND CULTURAL SITES, INCLUDING ISLAMIC MOSQUES AND MINARETS, IN 55 NATIONS. See the State Department document here.
http://exchanges.state.gov/media/pdfs/office-...

And THAT’S just the tip of the iceberg.
THIS will blow your mind!!

http://gbk.eads.usaidallnet.gov/
They should have 2010 up, but they don’t. That’s where you’ll find Obama’s largesse towards Muslim countries really go off the charts.
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http://www.foreignassistance.gov/DataView.aspx

charts:

http://gbk.eads.usaidallnet.gov/data/fast-facts.html

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THIS IS BUT THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG!!


4 posted on 12/16/2011 1:12:52 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Enchante
For what it's worth, someone needs to remind Secretary Clinton the American people Iran declared war on US awhile back.

resident Obama and his Secretary Clinton are publicly clinging to a role defined by Chamberlain for what?

Does kumbayah still have an attentive audience on the domestic front? Or are they maintaining their artificial olive branch stand as a pretense for dismantling US?

It's an obvious answer for the likes of me. Especially when one considers this that emerged from Atlas Shrugs yesterday.

5 posted on 12/16/2011 2:48:31 PM PST by MurrietaMadman
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To: Enchante
As Rudyard Kipling wrote, once you pay the Danegeld, you'll never get rid of the Dane.
6 posted on 12/19/2011 10:41:05 AM PST by JoeFromSidney (New book: RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY. A primer on armed revolt. Available form Amazon.)
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