Posted on 10/13/2015 4:32:41 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
From reset to the Iran deal, Obamas mistakes are so comprehensive they almost look deliberate.
How did Vladimir Putin with his country reeling from falling oil prices, possessing only a second-rate military, in demographic free-fall, and suffering from an array of international sanctions find himself the new play-maker of the Middle East?
Putins ascendency was not foreordained. It followed a series of major U.S. miscalculations and blunders of such magnitude that it almost seems they must have been deliberate.
What exactly was our road to perdition in the Middle East?
1. Reset with Putin
When Barack Obama came into office, the outgoing Bush administration had crafted a moderate response to Putins aggression in Ossetia. The U.S. had made missile-defense agreements with the Czech Republic and Poland. Some Georgian forces were airlifted by the U.S. from Afghanistan back home. Indeed, at the time, many liberals complained that America was too soft on Putin. Perhaps. But the Obama administration entered office claiming the exact opposite, suggesting that the Bush pushback was part of a needless American-caused estrangement from Russia.
Pushing the plastic reset button was Hillary Clintons sad gesture signaling Putin and his team that Bush was gone, that a new, more receptive administration was in power and thus that relations must naturally improve. Putin was somewhat perplexed, given that he knew Russia was to blame for the new estrangement. Naturally, then, he saw the ObamaClinton reset grandstanding as more critical of Americas past behavior than of Russias present aggression a fact that fueled Putins further calculations that he could safely move into Crimea and Ukraine.
2. The Skedaddle from Iraq
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
VDH ping ...
They atent mistakes at all. It was all intentional.
Much like Hitler swore revenge on the people who "stabbed germany in the back" at the end of WW I, Obama wants to pay back america and the Eastern european allies who "stabbed the USSR in the back".
Agreed. Obama hasn’t “blundered” at all. This is all intentional.
Obama’s enduring legacy will be for ushering in the era of fag politics. Swish!
Obama is the perfect patsy for a bully like Putin. It was another good reason why any Republican would have been better than Obama.
Only 3 minutes Stunning Video the country was never supposed to see.... Secretary of State John Kerry introduces Admiral Ace Lyons to speak at a private meeting. He probably regrets doing so.
THIS VIDEO LINK PROBABLY WILL NOT LAST LONG!!!! PLEASE PASS IT ON!!
http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=51fe948515b4
The fault is not in the stars, it is in the
first Moslem fraud pRes_ _ent, who became the King
and Caliph of his submissive, hated, EXEMPT GOP.
Thanks for the ping
We all know where Osama’s loyalties lie. Putin is just taking advantage of them. Right or wrong.
Where is the gOp and why have they not put Admiral Lyons in front of cameras? Their own hands are dirty.
The article right after VDH on the NR site, by Arthur Herman, is pretty good too.
The correct title of the article is “The Road to Middle East Perdition”
obama et al are not smart enough to intentionally produce the present outcome
the only Obama goal is the total success of the liberal envisioned utopia. by never engaging in any belligerent act, the pacifist root of the anti vietnam war mindset prevails. total pacifism is all they know.
they will never “give war a chance” and never understand that peace is but the short interval between wars
they will never comprehend that war rather than peace is the natural condition. they will and infact are, being eaten alive where they sit
Please change ... but at 7:32am this morning the title was as originally posted at NR. For whatever reason, they like to change VDH article titles.
Obama, how’s that Arab Spring working out for ya?
Now, with more than 7 years experience under his belt many think he was just a novice Community Organizer from Chicago with no experience but he seemed to be so darn cool that the masses put him into office on a whim, with no hard evidence that he could do the job.
Result? Unmitigated disaster.
Now, with more than 7 years experience under his belt many think he was just a novice Community Organizer from Chicago with no experience but he seemed to be so darn cool that the masses put him into office on a whim, with no hard evidence that he could do the job.
Result? Unmitigated disaster.
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