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See No Evil: Obama’s Foreign Policy
Family Security Matters ^ | 10 April 2008 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 04/10/2008 12:19:48 PM PDT by K-oneTexas

See No Evil: Obama’s Foreign Policy by Ben Shapiro

On Tuesday morning, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that Iran was busily installing 6,000 new centrifuges for development of nuclear material. Further, Ahmadinejad stated, Iran would begin testing a new type of centrifuge that works five times faster than ordinary centrifuges.

On Tuesday afternoon, Democrat presidential front-runner Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., declared that the U.S. should engage in a "diplomatic surge" in Iraq. In particular, he said, America should embrace talks with Iran. "I do not believe we are going to be able to stabilize the situation without that," Obama told Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker. "I continue to believe that the original decision to go into Iraq was a massive strategic blunder, that the two problems you pointed out – al Qaeda in Iraq and increased Iranian influence in the region – are a direct result of that original decision."

Never mind the unbelievable arrogance of a foreign policy boob like Barack Obama, lecturing the two most knowledgeable on-the-ground figures in Iraq on the best military strategy for Iraq.

Barack Obama's scariest characteristic isn't his ego, though its sheer size threatens to shift the globe out of orbit.

Obama's scariest characteristic is his puerile belief that everything can be solved by talking with dictators.

He seems to believe there's nothing to be lost by sitting across the table from murderers, thugs, Holocaust deniers and genocidal maniacs. "I will meet not just with our friends but with our enemies, not just with those we agree with but those we don't," he blustered in February.

Obama, more than any politician of the past 50 years, should understand the power of words and gestures – his entire campaign is based on them. Yet, he doesn't seem to understand the simple truth that America's enemies see negotiation as a sign of weakness.

Evil leaders always see negotiations without preconditions as surrender. Neville Chamberlain's shilly-shallying at Munich emboldened Hitler. Yitzhak Rabin's agreement to the Oslo Accords encouraged Yasser Arafat. April Glaspie's statement to Saddam Hussein that "We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait" gave Hussein the green light to touch off the first Gulf War.

Obama likes to compare himself to Ronald Reagan. Reagan, Obama says, negotiated with the USSR. Naturally, Obama neglects to mention that Reagan only negotiated with the USSR after placing missiles in Europe, funding Star Wars, joking about bombing the Soviets and calling the USSR an "evil empire." Obama's meetings would be more like an Oprah interview than a Reagan negotiation.

It's not surprising Obama is willing to have coffee with those who hate America. After all, he allowed an America-hater to preside over his wedding. He sat in the pews while his spiritual mentor railed against Israel. He's used to Ahmadinejad-like rhetoric – he went to a church full of it for two decades.

Obama has no problem chatting with the world's bloodiest butchers or sitting in racist churches because he "understands" everyone. Back in November, I wrote that Obama was running as "The Man Who Understands."

"I know, I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless," he writes in Dreams From My Father. That understanding leads him to excuse Islamic terrorism as a function of poverty; it leads him to compare black teens on the South Side of Chicago to Jihadis in Indonesia. It leads him to excuse scumbag preachers and to kowtow to sadistic tyrants.

There's clearly one thing Barack Obama doesn't understand: the nature of evil. That's why he continues to coddle evil men in both his personal life and his politics.

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FamilySecurityMatters.org contributing editor Ben Shapiro is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School. He is also the author of the recently published "Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future" as well as the national best seller "Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth." He practices law in Los Angeles.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; issues; obama

1 posted on 04/10/2008 12:19:48 PM PDT by K-oneTexas
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To: K-oneTexas

A “Diplomatic Surge” is a very naive way of looking at our foreign policy problems. Not “issues”, but problems.

Iran respects one thing: Ordnance on target.

Anything short of that will not affect the mullahs one iota. Period.

Mr. Obama is fool.


2 posted on 04/10/2008 12:23:45 PM PDT by RexBeach
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To: K-oneTexas

Many should be wondering if this man is even fit to be a citizen of the United States of America.


3 posted on 04/10/2008 12:25:18 PM PDT by Finop (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.)
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To: Finop

Many should be wondering if this man is even fit to be a citizen of the United States of America.
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Well, I for one have gotten the jump on you on that one. I think he is fit to herd goats in the middle east. Maybe.


4 posted on 04/10/2008 3:28:55 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Does anyone still believe this is a free country?)
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