Obama Enraging Enemies And Alienating Allies

Start Thinking Right ^ | May 27, 2009 | Michael Eden

[Michael Eden]

Remember how the left kept screeching that Bush had alienated our allies and enraged our enemies? Remember how they said that Barack Obama would make the world love us again? Well, the Democrats get to wear their soiled underwear over their own heads, now. Because now we get to see on a nearly daily basis just how truly full of pure partisan garbage they have been for years.

N. Korea Says It Conducted 2nd Nuclear Test

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea announced Monday that it successfully carried out a second underground nuclear test, less than two months after launching a rocket widely believed to be a test of its long-range missile technology.

North Korea, incensed by U.N. Security Council condemnation of its April 5 rocket launch, had warned last month that it would restart it rogue nuclear program, conduct a second atomic test as a follow-up to its first one in 2006, and carry out long-range missile tests.

And North Korea just test-fired a missile. "The Yonhap news agency report Monday comes just hours after the communist nation declared that it successfully conducted a nuclear test."

And what is North Korea saying today?

N. Korea threatens to attack US, S. Korea warships

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea threatened military action Wednesday against U.S. and South Korean warships plying the waters near the Koreas' disputed maritime border, raising the specter of a naval clash just days after the regime's underground nuclear test.

Pyongyang, reacting angrily to Seoul's decision to join an international program to intercept ships suspected of aiding nuclear proliferation, called the move tantamount to a declaration of war.

But, but, but we've got OBAMA now. And the world is supposed to be wonderful again. Maybe Kim Jong-Il hasn't heard that we've got Obama now?!?!

Obama did his "no preconditions appeasement offer" to Iran. And Iran responded by testing ballistic missiles in what is widely regarded as an open act of contempt and defiance of the United States.

We learned in March of this year that Iran can make 50 nukes with the material they've produced so far.

Iranian forces recently crossed into Iraq to launch attacks on Iraqi Kurds. In open defiance of the United States.

Obama wants to dialogue ad infinitum while "Iran vows to continue [it's] nuclear program."

And how is Obama responding to this Iranian resolve? Headline: "U.S. may cede to Iran's nuclear ambitions."

Israel - an alienated ally of the United States - is well aware that it has been betrayed by Barack Obama. And when Israel attacks Iran's nuclear program - and it will - that will be a crisis that Barack Obama will have caused due to his own weakness and lack of resolve.

And the whole planet will erupt into "enraged enemies" and "alienated allies."

As an additional plus of Obama's weakness, the net result of an Iranian nuclear program will be that Sunni Muslim countries - who have worried over Shiite Iran's nuclear ambitions - will develop their own nuclear weapons programs.

I've been SAYING that an Obama administration would allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons ALL ALONG. Back in April of last year, in urging support for McCain over either Obama or Clinton, I wrote:

A President John McCain can assure the Iranians, “We attacked Iraq when we believed they represented a threat to us, and we will do the same to you. You seriously might want to rethink your plans.” A President John McCain can say to Sunni Arab states such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, “We have stood by Iraq even when it was difficult, and we will do the same for you. You don’t need those weapons; the United States will be there for you.”

And Obama, who can't say ANY of that, is already blinking.

But let's leave the unpleasant future that will be caused by Barack Obama and continue our present tour of enraged enemies and alienated allies under his current rule.

Russia just warned Ukraine and Georgia (remember Obama's pathetic and appeasing message to Russia following its invasion of Georgia?) over moving toward the West by joing NATO. They won't stand for it. And they clearly aren't even the least bit afraid of any American response.

Russia took Obama's measure back in August 8, 2008. And they know his response will be to shrink back and conceal himself behind meaningless "citizen of the world"-speak that will enable Russia to do whatever it wants.

CNN reported on April 30th that "Terror attacks have spiked dramatically in Afghanistan and Pakistan."

And, goodness gracious, Pakistan and its 100 nuclear weapons are in very real danger of falling into the hands of the Taliban. A top adviser to the US Central Command has warned of the very real possibility of Pakistan collapsing within six months.

Well, that aint good. Wasn't Obama supposed to make all our problems go away as he overcame all of Bush's evilness with his magnificent wonderfulness?

Obama failed to win any support from European allies in Afghanistan, something he and his liberal allies repeatedly criticized Bush for failing to deliver as they promised that they would. The U.S. in Afghanistan is as much on its own as it ever was under Bush.

And so, while Obama sits atop the throne, the "security situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating" under his rule. The U.N. says "Human rights in Afghanistan are worsening, marked by setbacks for women, attacks on freedoms and seeming impunity for perpetrators."

Obama has called for the same sort of surge strategy in Afghanistan (see also here) that he himself personally demonized Bush for pursuing in Iraq.

Reporters in Iraq note "a dramatic increase in spectacular attacks against Iraqi civilians and increasing attacks against occupation forces" by al-Qaeda.

We are facing a growing problem with pirates off the coast of Africa. And Obama is facing a particularly significant threat from Sudan and its dictator, Omar al-Bashir.

Clearly, our enemies haven't become our friends. Not even a little bit. In fact, they are more hostile and more aggressive than ever. Not that the propagandist media that spent years writing about how Bush creating unrest all over the world would ever point that out.

How about our friends and allies? Surely they love us more, now that Obama is president. Surely the days of alienation are over, right? RIGHT?

Not so much.

You remember me telling you that the EU isn't giving Obama any help in Afghanistan? Well, they're not giving Obama any help in closing down Gitmo, either. As much as they like to rail against America for the evils of Gitmo, they won't take their own people back which would enable us to close it down. Just like they wouldn't under Bush. And the same countries that won't take their Gitmo detainees are using our other terrorist detention facility in Bagram as their reason.

That's not very helpful. I feel alienation.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy basically thinks Obama is a turd, calling his policies “'utterly immature' and comprised of 'formulations empty of all content.'” That rather sounds like a heaping dose of alienation talking, to me.

The EU president called Obama's stimulus spending "the road to hell." Mirek Topolanek further said that President Barack Obama's massive stimulus package and banking bailout "will undermine the stability of the global financial market." The ABC News article already cited reports on "simmering European differences with Washington."

Doesn't that kind of sound like "alienation"? Doesn't it?

Obama had previously ignited fear of a trade war with Europe with his "buy American" policy. The EU trade commissioner warned Obama that Europe would fight back. Obama also ignited the threat of a trade war with our third largest trade partner, Mexico, after he tried to renege on a trade deal in order to reward US unions.

Obama also inspired a great deal of British outrage toward America when he casually snubbed Prime Minister Gordon Brown and insulted our greatest ally.

Obama then proceeded to insult and undermine our relationship with our second greatest ally, Israel, with an inexcusable gesture of cold indifference for a top Israeli general.

Perhaps liberals believe that Obama's disgrace America tour was a step in the right direction. I think he made a fool out of himself and undermined the prestige and respect of the once-great United States of America.

Russia and China have similarly sounded, well, VERY ALIENATED toward Obama and his policies.

Russia has warned Obama about what they view as his ruinous socialist policies.

Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin has said the US should take a lesson from the pages of Russian history and not exercise “excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state’s omnipotence”.

“In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute,” Putin said during a speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.”

Luo Ping, Director-general for the China Banking Regulatory Commission, is on record saying, "We want some kind of a guarantee that your money is going to be worth something if you keep spending so much over there and devalue not only your currency but the currencies throughout the world." He went on to say, "We hate you guys. Once you start issuing $1 trillion, $2 trillion, or more dollars, we know the dollar is going to depreciate."

And, yeah. Don't think I didn't notice from the above link that the mainstream media truly doesn't want us to know what China thinks about the ruinous course we are pursuing under Obama.

And all the while, we're warned that "an economic storm with China is still coming for Obama." In other words, in terms of alienation with China, you aint seen nothin' yet.

Pardon me for pointing this out, but I'm just not feeling the love.

The same propaganda machine that undercut and undermined President Bush at every imaginable turn is going well out of its way to avoid reporting on just how much damage Barack Obama has done on the international front. They who routinely blamed Bush for everything won't blame Obama for anything.

Whether liberals are honest about it or not, Obama has been a gigantic dud in terms of the glorious promise of overcoming all the bitterness in the world that Bush supposedly created. For one thing, Obama hasn't actually "overcome" anything of the sort; for another, he has created a great deal of international bitterness all by himself.

[ETL]

"In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute,” Putin said during a speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.”

"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'
http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html

[DonaldC]

Obama - building a better Bush legacy one day at a time.

[knarf]

And a stronger 2nd Ammendment coalition

[Vaduz]

It never fails democrats can’t do anything right obama is the posterchild of proof.

[madamemayhem]

wow the way that hope and change is working just takes my breath away.

[ETL]

"Russia took Obama's measure back in August 8, 2008. And they know his response will be to shrink back and conceal himself behind meaningless 'citizen of the world'-speak that will enable Russia to do whatever it wants."

Russian nuclear bombers in Cuba?
July 23, 2008

The media has been abuzz today at the prospect of Russian nuclear bombers being stationed in Cuba if the US goes ahead with plans for missile defense bases in Eastern Europe.

The story has riled the US enough that a US general has been wheeled out to tell the world’s press that any Russian attempt to build another nuclear base in Cuba would cross US “red line”.

The story broke earlier this week, when Russian newspaper Izvestia quoted an un-named source from within the Russian military. He told the Russian daily:

“While they are deploying the missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, our strategic bombers will already be landing in Cuba.”

The quote hasn’t been independently confirmed, but the Russian Defense Ministry added fuel to the fire when they refused to comment on the story.

The prospect of Russian nuclear forces being stationed in Cuba - which is, after all, only 90 miles from the US coast - would bring back some rather unpleasant memories for the US of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, where the Soviet Union under Nikita Kruschev launched an audacious and foolhardy bid to station nuclear missiles on the Caribbean island.

http://www.siberianlight.net/2008/07/23/russian-nuclear-bombers-cuba/
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Venezuela Set to Develop Nuclear Power With Russia
September 29, 2008
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Russia will help Venezuela develop nuclear energy — a move likely to raise U.S. concerns over increasingly close cooperation between Caracas and Moscow.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,429441,00.html
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Venezuela's Chavez welcomes Russian warships
Nov 25, 2008
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela – Russian warships arrived off Venezuela's coast Tuesday in a show of strength aimed at the United States as Moscow seeks to expand its influence in Latin America. The deployment is the first of its kind in the Caribbean since the Cold War and was timed to coincide with President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Caracas — the first ever by a Russian president.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22Venezuela%27s+Chavez+welcomes+Russian+warships%22&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2

More Yahoo search results for Russia and Venezuela connections:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu_X30pZJCJEAfCtXNyoA?p=Russia+Venezuela+bombers+tanks+arms&y=Search&fr=404_news
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From the Russian News and Information Agency:
July 27, 2006
"'I am determined to expand relations with Russia,' Chavez, known as an outspoken critic of what he calls the United States' unilateralism, told the Russian leader, adding that his determination stemmed from their shared vision of the global order.":
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060727/51913498.html
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President Obama and Venezuela dictator Hugo
Chavez at the 2009 Summit of the Americas in Trinidad

Obama, Chavez shake hands at Americas Summit:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97KK2T00&show_article=1
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Russia's Medvedev hails "comrade" Obama

Associated Foreign Press (AFP) ^ | April 2, 2009 | Anna Smolchenko

"Russia's Dmitry Medvedev hailed Barack Obama as "my new comrade" Thursday after their first face-to-face talks"

http://www.france24.com/en/20090402-russias-medvedev-hails-comrade-obama

April 1, 2009:
"Obama, Medvedev pledge new era of relations":
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090401/wl_afp/usrussiadiplomacynuclear_20090401152002

[Michael Eden]

Wouldn’t it be beyond ironic if we have a “Cuban Missile Crisis II” under Obama?

And you can bet this time America will blink rather than Russia. Because we have a Coward-in-Chief leading us now.

[Michael Eden]

The other thing your comment demonstrates is that my list - as long as it was - doesn’t even scratch the surface of being comprehensive.

Liberals promised Obama would heal the planet. He may just be the end of it.

[lowbridge]

bump

[CaribouCrossing]

That was an excellent assessment, Mr. Eden.

[Beckwith]

He’s a freakin’ amateur — surrounded by amateurs — whaddaya expect?

I predict that Obama will have a nervous breakdown from the pressure — just watch — the boy don’t have the stones for the job.

[Michael Eden]

Thank you.

My goal is to leave a record of what is going on, and to provide sources for conservatives trying to argue with the dumbed-down liberalized culture.

[Michael Eden]

Here’s another thing that’s going on as we speak under the “It’s a small world after all” leadership of his wonderfulness:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/5391720/North-Korea-abandons-truce-and-threatens-to-attack-the-South.html
Headline: “North Korea abandons truce and threatens to attack the South”

Quote:
“The statement, through North Korea’s state newswire, warned Seoul that North Korea “will no longer be bound by the armistice accord” and that the “Korean peninsula will go back to a state of war”. “

Somebody needs to get through to the North Koreans and tell them that Barry Hussein is our president now, and he’s a messiah, and the whole world loves him and adores him, and peace and happiness has returned to the world.

The lion will lay down with the lamb under Barry Messiah.

I’m sure that Kim Jong Il just hasn’t heard about Barry yet. This is all just a lack of communication.

[Michael Eden]

Oh, oh, here’s another article about how Obama is alienating an ally (not that China is worth its weight in cow crap as an “ally”):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5379285/China-warns-Federal-Reserve-over-printing-money.html

Headline: “China warns Federal Reserve over ‘printing money’:
China has warned a top member of the US Federal Reserve that it is increasingly disturbed by the Fed’s direct purchase of US Treasury bonds.”

China feels alienated, because they own so much of our debt that when we go down Titanic-like, they’ll be caught in the suction.

[genghis]

pretty clear, but a great summary of the situation.
thanks for taking the time to post

[Michael Eden]

Genghis,

Confucius say nothing is clear to a liberal. Liberal sees light when wise man sees darkness, and sees darkness when wise man sees light.

I kid you not: when I was writing this, I came across an article from some MSM-type that said Obama was well on the way to healing the world. I wish I’d kept it just because of the outrageous stupidity and naivete displayed.

Liberals are insane. For example, Michelle Obama made the list of Maxim magazine’s annual top 100 list of “hottest women in the world.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090514/en_afp/lifestyleuspoliticsobama;_ylt=Au5gMUf21xfAc6bb8onGRax0fNdF
Their ideology literally affects their visual cortex. I mean, come on: the only way that this not-particularly attractive woman could make that list is if she were actually set on fire.

[genghis]

I hope that article gets widely disseminated.
Keep writing.

[Michael Eden]

Thanks for your encouragement!

[SaraJohnson]

you guys are scaring me. Mr. Smarty Square pants is dumb as a box of rocks. This side trip into leftist kookoo land is not going to end well on so many levels for our country. This was not the time with enough leaway for Americans to have excerised a massive brain fart. That goes for the wackos who put McCain up, too.