Posted on 03/15/2017 6:10:32 AM PDT by artichokegrower
President Trump is already turning the world upside down in international diplomatic circles by taking a markedly different approach to global politics than his predecessor.
(Excerpt) Read more at ijr.com ...
This is good, for the future of Afghanistan."
And for America and for the world.
“I’ve personally met with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago and the president has had two phone conversations with President Ghani [The president of Afghanistan]. One call was after he won the election and one after [Trump] became president. Before the calls, we were advised to keep conversations short because, we were told, Trump will not be interested in the details of the call and does not have a long attention span, so it would be pointless to have a long call.
However, we were pleasantly surprised at how much time President Trump spent asking very informed questions. The first time the presidents spoke, the questions Trump asked impressed us. “How can you win in this fight [against terrorism]?” he asked. “What do you need to become financially independent?” and “How can American business invest in Afghanistan? How can we develop businesses and mining in your country?”
Trump would listen intently after each question, often asking follow-ups. Trump’s second call with our president was even longer than the first. Asking these types of questions for our country is something the Obama administration never did. The Obama administration was the most academic administration we have ever had to deal with but the Trump administration has been the most thoughtful and intelligent.
Trump continually asked “How can you win? What does Afghanistan need to win?” in reference to our fight with terrorism. Trump wants to win. Sincerely. All the Obama administration wanted to do was not lose.
The Obama administration was hesitant with us. The enemy could sense that. When the Obama administration announced its plans to pull troops out of the region, they announced the exact date they would do it. All our enemies had to do was wait [Obama] out. They knew the date they had to hang on until — which gave them the will to fight. They used that time to recruit and build up resources.
To bring real reform, we must be able to defeat enemies outside our country and inside. We must overthrow the Afghan warlords who are profiteering off the war. Every time we tried to remove one of them from power, [Secretary John] Kerry would say “no” because it would potentially make it unstable and require more troops be brought in. The entire Obama administration was too cautious, but Kerry was the most cautious. Perhaps the Obama administration was fatigued by the time we assumed power. [President Ghani assumed power in September of 2014.] But Trump is very different from Obama in this way.
This is good, for the future of Afghanistan.”
The warning about keeping the conversation short and light on details was no doubt from our trusty diplomats from Foggy Bottom.
The rats nest that is being fumigated.
Such low class National Inquirer style headlines ... good grief ...
“Academic” must be code for arrogant or having their head up their can.
I remember repeatedly posting, and I observed others doing the same, that telling folks your schedule to depart was actually helping your enemy by letting him know how long he had to hold out.
I also wonder who told them Trump would be uninterested / inattentive? I’m guessing it would be some careerist at Foggy Bottoms who has hopefully been terminated from any involvement in State.
As for Obama and company not wanting to lose, that may not be accurate. It seems possible that they really couldn’t understand that everyone cannot win and were simply busy proving that they were nice and tolerant to our enemies the whole time.
... assuming, of course, that Obama wasn’t in the tank for Islamist and was in to win for them ... something that also is sadly likely.
Truer words were never spoken regarding the feckless POS that was BHO.
Annoying click-bait style headline.
IMHO, Obama saw the U.S. Presidency as a mere stepping stone to a bigger and more global catbird seat. Ergo, it follows that he would spend his terms as POTUS doing all he could to weaken this country as well as our allies with a view to dragging all of them down to one dead level of mediocrity so that they might be precluded from posing much of a threat to his more global ambitions.
Interestingly, the word in the street was that Obama is seeking to eventually become Secretary General to the UN.
Newsflash: Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he will do everything in his power to prevent this from happening.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/01/11/report-claims-obama-wants-to-be-u-n-secretary-general-opposed-by-netanyahu/
Not to be cynical, but Hillary's losing the November presidential election may have quashed Obama's plans more effectively than Netanyahu ever could have......and may be one of the reasons why Obama is being "demoted" by his handlers back to his old occupation of community organizing
Well no shit! I can sum up Obama’s “foreign policy” in two words: “America sucks!”
I thought the Secretary General couldn’t come from a permanent Security Council country. Perhaps Bammy is waiting for the right time to admit he’s Kenya-born and thus eligible for the SG post ... in his feeble mind that would be the ultimate middle finger to the United States.
Can you just imagine Hillary Clinton as POTUS and Bammy as Secretary General of the UN????
Can you just imagine Hillary Clinton as POTUS and Bammy as Secretary General of the UN????
Sorry about the double post due to malfunction. :-)
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