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Our Shameful Foreign Policy
Townhall.com ^ | October 2, 2015 | Erick Erickson

Posted on 10/02/2015 6:08:12 AM PDT by Kaslin

Barack Obama has made the American political left comfortable with human rights abuses. See a despot engaged in genocide in Obama's America, blame George W. Bush and move on.

In Afghanistan, American soldiers are being driven out of the military for taking action to stop Afghan soldiers from raping boys. Rape is a war crime. It is a war crime to turn a blind eye to soldiers, including allies, engaging in war crimes. Just over two weeks ago, The New York Times reported that American soldiers are being told to ignore sexual abuse of boys in Afghanistan.

Dan Quinn, a Special Forces captain, had his command taken away after saving a boy. The boy was chained to the bed of an Afghan militia commander and used as a sex slave. Quinn beat up the commander and freed the boy. The New York Times also reported on Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr., who, before he died, told his father that he and other soldiers could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys on their American base. The Obama administration's political appointees and those they put in command ordered the American soldiers to remain silent and do nothing.

In the Middle East, ISIS has systematically eradicated Christians. Some have been graphically beheaded on the shores of Libya. The Obama administration has done nothing. As ISIS expands its reach, the president has led a futile effort to train Syrian rebels, whom he wants to fight Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, and not fight ISIS.

Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, who overseas our Middle East operations, testified two weeks ago before the Senate Armed Services Committee. He said the American government had spent millions, but only trained "four or five" rebels. The White House's elementary school response was that the president never, ever really wanted to train the rebels anyway.

On September 16, 2015, after Austin's testimony, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said of the training program, "Our critics who suggest that the administration should invest more deeply in training and equipping members of the Syrian opposition, that that was the recipe for success ... that is not something this administration ever believed, but it is something that our critics will have to answer for."

Back in June of 2014, Earnest told the press of the program to train rebels: "A way to address that, in our view, is to bolster the moderate opposition, provide them additional assistance." In September of that year, Obama said, "We have a Free Syrian Army and a moderate opposition, that we have steadily been working with, that we have vetted. ... At the West Point speech I gave, I said we need to put more resources into the moderate opposition." But now they are not only running away from that plan, but they are also blaming their "critics."

Meanwhile, the Russians have sent their military to Syria. Last week, a Russian general arrived at the American embassy in Baghdad and informed the American government that Russia would start bombing ISIS within an hour. He told our embassy that our soldiers, planes, etc. needed to get out of the way. Obama and his administration are now complaining that Russia is not striking ISIS, but the four or five rebels we trained, who are probably dead now.

In fact, Russia has a radical Islam problem, too. Many Chechens have gone down to Syria to fight the Assad regime and, with their training, will return to fight the Russians more aggressively. Vladimir Putin has a real interest in fighting them in Syria.

Obama gave up the moral high ground a long time ago. He repeatedly refused to engage in the Syrian situation. He refused to deal with ISIS, considering them amateurs. The situation festered, and the Russians have taken advantage of the power vacuum left by Obama's dithering.

Our foreign policy is shameful. Our enemies are emboldened, and our soldiers are censored. Obama has allowed too many Americans to grow comfortable being quiet in the face of evil, and that evil continues to fester and spread while our president twiddles his thumbs and makes kissy face with Iran.


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1 posted on 10/02/2015 6:08:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Some day we must have tribunals for the higher ups who covered this, among other charges which meet the Nuremberg principles.


2 posted on 10/02/2015 6:16:45 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Obamacons: The degenerate and venomous issue born of intimacies between Obama and neocons.)
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All of the above, including Obama's Dumb Act when the Clintons were jerking around foreign policy, must be seen against Obama's get-rich-quick plans as the ex-president. The Chicago Obamas are practiced govt parasites---scrounging off the hard work of struggling taxpayers. The Obamas are rigging the system for the two Obama foundations money trees.

OBAMA'S ALREADY EARMARKED HIS CUT OF THE $150 BILLION IRAN DEAL The post-presidency Obamas have BIG plans.....get-rich-quick schemes ala the Clintons. Gonna cash in bigtime---through two Obama foundations (two that we know of).

Obama figures he needs two foundations to handle all the post-presidency tax-free money about to roll in.....six-figure honoraria, multi-million dollar donations, lucrative consultancies, and, untold riches from insider Mideast business deals.

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FOUNDATION ONE---OBAMA'S SISTER IS A BOARD MEMBER
OF OBAMA's PLANNED BILLION DOLLAR CHICAGO LIBRARY FOUNDATION

Maya Soetoro-Ng is President Obama’s sister and a specialist for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace. She is the co-founder of Our Public School, a non-profit that connects schools to their communities, and the co-creator of a peace education program implemented in schools and communities around Hawaii.

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FOUNDATION TWO---OBAMA's KENYAN HALF-BROTHER HEADS
THE MUSLIM FOUNDATION--named for their father. Obama Foundation Two was fast-tracked for tax-exemption by Lois Lerner.

Kenya-resident, Malik Obama in Muslim dress, holds up
photo of his half brother Obama in Muslim dress (left),
taken during Obama's earlier visit.

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US TAXPAYERS PAY NOW---Obama collects later.

Obama's federal outlays (that we know of).:

<><> $150 billion to Muslim Iran in the nuclear deal,

<><> $2 billion funding to Malik's organization---the Muslim Brotherhood,

<><> $50 million to Malik/Barack's tax-exempt foundation in the form of a grant to Kenya.

<><> While the Muslim Brotherhood was in charge in Egypt, Obama (and Hillary) showered them w/ praise.....and billions of US dollars in aid, arms, tanks and planes.

<><> Obama gave $90 million US tax dollars to wealthy oil-rich Muslim African Muslim countries.

<><> the billions missing from the Obamacare scam.

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OBAMA'S MUSLIM FOUNDATION--named for his father

BACKSTORY---The Barack H. Obama Foundation (BHOF) is run by Malik (in Kenya)---to honor Malik and Obama's late dad. It was fast-tracked by Lois Lerner for IRS tax-exempt status.

The BHOF is based at a Virginia UPS store, according to its website. The organization’s IRS filings list another Virginia address that is actually a drug rehab center where the foundation does not appear ever to have been based.

As first reported by The Daily Caller, the foundation was speedily approved for IRS exemption by Lois Lerner, the self-same IRS senior official at the center of the targeting of conservative organizations that have waited over two years to receive tax exempt status. The IRS thoughtfully gave the Obama Foundation retroactive fund-raising status.......which it stupidly never applied for.

To get tax-exempt status, the foundation cooked-up a mission statement: “to provide people everywhere with resources to uplift their welfare and living standards in memory of dad---Barack H. Obama: in the region of his birth, Kenya, and beyond.” Its guiding principle is “the inherent belief that no one can truly enjoy the riches he has reaped if his neighbor suffers....."We seek to elevate the human condition so that everyone can live in dignity and truly enjoy having one another as neighbors.”

(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)

Despite raising more than $250,000, the alleged charity doesn’t seem to have done much. Its website claims the organization has built a madrassa and was building an imam’s house as well as some “proposed latrines,” but there is no other evidence that the nonprofit was working to “mitigate social-shortcomings in areas of education and literacy, health and well-being, poverty, and lack of community infrastructure in such basic needs such as water, electricity, shelter and sustenance,” as the site says.

Alton Ray Baysden, a former Dept of State employee, allegedly a registered Republican, who helped start the Barack H Obama foundation, declined to comment before seeing copies of a reporter’s passport and govt ID, along with a description of the article’s “motivation” and “slant.”

Repeated reporters' phone calls went to the organization’s voicemail and were not returned.

3 posted on 10/02/2015 6:17:55 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Kaslin

Once you accept that Obama’s foreign policy is rooted in the establishment of an Islamic caliphate in the Middle East, everything he’s done falls into place.


4 posted on 10/02/2015 6:18:57 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: Kaslin
Obama's 2015 Foreign Policy


Obama's 2013 Foreign Policy


5 posted on 10/02/2015 6:24:32 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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To: Liz
That perpetual smirk on Obama's face tells the tale. Just to illustrate the point .....the 6000 strong Somali invasion in lily-white Maine is a huge joke on Americans by the WH ding-a-ling and assorted others.

OBAMA'S LAUGHING UP HIS SLEEVE---Seems the mayor in Lewiston, Maine asked Somali Muslim immigrants to become Americans and adopt American values, as all immigrants did. The parasitic Muslim Somalis (all on public assistance) reply by demanding his resignation.

Now, wait a sec..... let's be tolerant and compassionate (/snix).

The fact is Muslims are too stupid to adapt. They take the easy way out....forcing Non-Muslims to adapt to their intellectually vacuous mindset. They are a cult of dumbells.

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Mainers better get on the stick---this Muslim absurdity cannot go unchallenged.....b/c it is tantamount to the overthrow of the US govt. These ignoramus Muslims are being aided and abetted in overthrowing the US govt by the Muslim ding-a-ling in the WH.

6 posted on 10/02/2015 6:32:35 AM PDT by Liz
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