Posted on 12/27/2016 7:00:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
For eight years, President Barack Obama’s foreign policy doctrine has been rooted in a belief that while the United States can take action around the world on its own, it rarely should.
“Multilateralism regulates hubris,” Obama declared.
His successor, President-elect Donald Trump, has derided some of the same international partnerships Obama and his recent predecessors have promoted, raising the prospect that the Republican’s “America First” agenda might well mean an America more willing to act alone.
“The United Nations has such great potential but right now it is just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time,” Trump tweeted days after the UN Security Council approved a resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Both Israel and Trump called on the U.S. to use its veto power to block the measure, but the Obama administration instead abstained.
Trump’s criticism of the United Nations is shared by some in his party, including a handful of GOP lawmakers who have called for Congress to withhold funding for the body following the settlements vote.
Some of Trump’s other positions have drawn swift rebuke from Republicans, particularly his criticism of NATO during the presidential campaign and his suggestion that the U.S. might not defend partners that don’t fulfill financial obligations to the longstanding U.S.-European military alliance.
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Obama may have mouthed “multiculturism” but I got the impression that he was simply for Black culture with maybe a little Islam thrown in.
I was just in Walmart this evening in San Antonio and waiting at the deli section next to me was a woman dressed head to toe. All I could see was her eyes.
Same thing happened to me. In a small town. At out local pediatrician. Surreal.
Ah, you’re probably lucky.
WTF is it with multiculturalism??!!
Where has it succeeded wonderfully?
Hutus and Tutsis? Bosnia? America? Western Europe? Japanese and Chinese?
Where the #### has it succeeded?!?!
Here’s a big ####ing shock. People like to be around their own for the most part.
Grew up on an Island full of Italians. Big shock, I married an Italian girl, who’s also half Spanish from Spain. So I did my multi cultural part.
I would have married most any other ethnic European girl.
I didn’t want to marry into a foreign culture.
Sue me
President gormless seemed to feel he was president of the world, rather than President of the United States.
He’s an egomaniac with a G*d complex.
If you’re not 100% ethnocentric (pro Western civilization) you’re an idiot.
an extremely rare sight even here in NYC until the past few months. Suddenly i can’t take a trip on the train to or from work without seeing at least one.
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