Posted on 03/06/2014 7:23:32 PM PST by rightwingerpatriot
One of the most important facets of foreign policy has come to light during the recent Ukraine crisis: perception of strength. On one side, we have Vladimir Putin, who has taken great pains to show himself as a rugged alpha male. He has photo-ops where he's shown swimming in freezing rivers, hunting game, and riding bare-chested across the Russian plains. I can't wait for the picture to come out of him wrestling a bear and then putting the bear into a figure-four. On the other side of the manly spectrum, we have Barack Obama. We see Obama throwing a pitch delicately, wearing mom jeans, and riding around on a bike wearing a ridiculous looking safety helmet. The Obama wimp factor is having a profound effect.
Every talking head on tv endlessly speaks about how Putin is a bully, and they are partly right. Putin is more than a bully though. He's a thug that has a vision, and that vision is to reconstitute the old Soviet Union. Putin is ruthless, vicious, and has blood on his hands. There's no doubt he got his hands dirty when he was part of the KGB. With that being said, we have to realize that thugs or tyrants will lever love the United States. However, you can make them fear us and respect us, and this is where the Obama wimp factor gets in the way.
Putin has no fear over what Obama will do. Obama has shown that he will shy away from any real conflict that can get messy. He ignored the pleas of Iranians who were being shot at in the streets of Tehran. He refused to send military aid to Benghazi even as our ambassador was being murdered by Islamic terrorists. Obama won't even stand up to hard questioning by the news media, as he essentially limits his question-and-answer sessions to such hard-hitting news outlets like The View. Obama is great for using government bureaucracies to harass conservatives, but to actually make a stand against an international foe? Not hardly. Just look at his so-called "red line" in Syria that amounted to nothing.
Thugs don't respect reason or diplomacy. They only respect someone who hits harder and more often than they do. In Libya, Gaddafi supported terrorism for years, but once 9/11 happened and he knew that the full fist of America was going to hit those responsible, he was among the first to be on the phone, telling Bush that it wasn't Libya and offering to give up their activities and divulge intelligence. That's what power can earn you on the international stage. Liberals have this strange fallacy that if you like everyone, then they'll just like you right back. The reality is that evil people will see that as weakness and it will actually further fuel their desire to bring America low. Every time we scrape down on bended knee so as not to offend radical Muslims, we show them that we're wimps and are ripe for the picking.
That's why the Crimea will be lost to Putin forever. He knows we're not going to do anything. Putin has Obama pegged as someone who talks a mean game but folds the moment you pull a knife. This Obama wimp factor will embolden our enemies for the rest of his presidency. The state-run media in Russia is constantly showing images of Obama being a wimp. Like it or not, Putin is an alpha male facing off against the metrosexual beta male of Obama. We are screwed.
I’m about to wake the house up laughing at this little photo montage. Its 4am in Nancy Pelosi;s backwater swampland. Even she would have a giggle about this.
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