Posted on 05/23/2008 9:12:25 AM PDT by STARWISE
After weeks of backtracking on his pledge to meet unconditionally with the leaders of Iran, Syria, North Korea, Venezuela, and Cuba, Sen. Barack Obama has doubled down on his dangerous foreign policy naiveté, telling the Orlando Sentinel yesterday that not only would he have no pre-conditions for the meetings, he wouldn’t even have an agenda.
Speaking of a future meeting with Venezuelan dictator, and soon to be internationally recognized terrorist supporter, Hugo Chavez, Obama said that whatever Hugo would want to talk about would be just fine with him.
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I would be willing to initiate such talks with leaders of countries adversarial to the United States. There would be a lot of preparation. The first steps would not be to pre-judge all the items on the list. […]
One of the obvious high priorities in my talks with President Hugo Chavez would be the fermentation of anti-American sentiment in Latin America, his support of FARC in Colombia and other issues he would want to talk about.
It is important to understand that ignoring these countries has not led to improved behavior on their part and it has not served our national security interests.
There needs to be a shift in foreign politics and return to traditional foreign politics that were supported by both Republicans and Democrats in the past.
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First of all, it’s difficult to determine from his words whether Sen. Obama believes that the, "fermentation of anti-American sentiment," and Chavez’s, "support of FARC in Colombia," are necessarily bad things. Obama could have said, "the disturbing fermentation of anti-American sentiment," or, "his unacceptable support of the terrorist group FARC in Colombia." But he didn’t.
Chavez certainly does not think that his behavior needs to improve. For all we know, Obama doesn’t either. He won’t pre-judge it. Rather he would reward Chavez by granting him the honor of a meeting of equals, complete with unspecified agenda items that would take Chavez’s phony complaints about U.S. imperialism at face value.
Second, if Obama holds so low an opinion of the Office of the Presidency that he would use the office to bend and scrape at the feet of thugs like Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong-Il, one wonders why he is running for it.
The most dangerous man ever to run for office.
Awesome video:
The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
When Obama becomes president, he’ll make kissy-face with all of South America’s leftist loonies and will try to destroy the few remaining normal leaders, such as Colombia’s Uribe.
Prov 14:16
One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.
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