Posted on 06/05/2008 3:58:24 AM PDT by Nony
Barack Obama's willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea "without preconditions" is a naive and dangerous approach to dealing with the hard men who run pariah states. It will be an important and legitimate issue for policy debate during the remainder of the presidential campaign.
Consider his facile observations about President Kennedy's first meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in Vienna in 1961. Obama saw it as a meeting that helped win the Cold War, when in fact it was an embarrassment for the American side. The inexperienced Kennedy performed so poorly that Khrushchev may well have been encouraged to position Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962, thus precipitating one of the Cold War's most dangerous crises.
Such realities should cause Obama to become more circumspect, minimizing his off-the-cuff observations about history, grand strategy and diplomacy. In fact, he has done exactly the opposite, exhibiting so many gaps in his knowledge and understanding of world affairs that they have not yet received the attention they deserve. He consistently reveals failings in foreign policy that are far more serious than even his critics had previously imagined.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
FOX NEWS.com (AP): Chicago - "POLITICAL FUNDRAISER TONY REZKO FOUND GUILTY ON 16 COUNTS IN CORRUPTION TRIAL" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A prominent fundraiser for Sen. Barack Obama and Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted Wednesday of fraud and money laundering after a high-profile federal trial provided an unusually detailed glimpse of the pay-to-play politics that has made Illinois infamous.") (June 4, 2008)
The LA Times did a hit piece on Barry’s foreign policy?! What’s up with that?
Soon after President Obama is inaugurated, he will be tested by America's enemies around the globe to see what he is made of.
They will find nothing inside that empty suit and the consequences for America won't be pretty.
B.O. HUSSEIN is a dirty, corrupt, menacing, racist FIEND with not an ounce of moral gray matter between thos gargantuan, flapping in the wind, dumbo Ears. Outside of that, he is still a Terrible Candidate for anything more important than POTHOLE FOREMAN. He’d probably smoke all the “POT” anyway after the COKE was gone.
John Bolton for VP!
DEY RACISS! Oh, it's John Bolton. HE RACISS! Bush's klan man!
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Evidently, the only country in Hussein's mind that's a true threat to the world is the USA. If elected, he'll do something about it.
Barack Hussein Obama is the apex of the hate-America, domestic enemy in this country. His election as president would be the greatest coup any enemy has ever scored against this country and could easily lead to the worsty, horrific disaster in our nation's history.
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