Posted on 10/03/2008 9:26:17 AM PDT by Jbny
With his first entry in an otherwise blank foreign policy ledger, Barack Obama sabotaged America’s operational relationship with Pakistan. On August 1, 2007, during a speech at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, Senator Obama said of Pakistan's border with Afghanistan:
"There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again . . . If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will."
The statement was swiftly criticized by prominent Republicans and Democrats as inept and harmful to American interests. (It was actually Senator Joe Biden who leveled the most insightful charge at Obama, saying, "The last thing you want to do is telegraph to the folks in Pakistan plans that threaten their sovereignty.")
Yet that is precisely what Senator Obama managed to do. The ham-handed bellicosity embodied in his threat put Islamabad on notice of potential border breaches nearly a year before any such manned operations began. Two days after Obama's pronouncement, Pakistanis protested, chanting anti-American slogans, holding banners that read "Death to Obama," and burning American flags in the streets.
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No wonder the world (supposedly) looks at the USA with contempt as an imperialistic aggressor.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096710/posts
“Two days after Obama’s pronouncement, Pakistanis protested, chanting anti-American slogans, holding banners that read “Death to Obama,” and burning American flags in the streets.”
Ooohhh, oooohhhh, I have an idea, why doesn’t obie go over there where they are protesting his statements and let him prove to everyone — “his smooth negotiating skills.” You know, just call everyone together, tell them how wrong they are for chanting anti-American slogans and such…and he should do this without any preconditions…yeah, that’s the ticket. You should do that obie…please…oh, but you don’t get to take your secret service protection…but, you shouldn’t need it — right.
If captured, they are taught a code of ethics and expected behavior. McCain had a grandfather and father who were steeped in service to the country and were role models.
Barry was a troubled young man struggling for an identity and mixed feelings about his father and ethnicaly different mother and grandparents. He was indoctrinated in the principles of Saul Alinsky and became a community organizer to stir up class warfare and to manage corrupt construction contracts and later on, the techniques of skimming profits as a slum lord. His spiritual advisor preached anti-American sentiments and race/class warfare in addition to redistribution of wealth. His mentors have ties to the Black Panthers, Saudi businessmen, and self-proclaimed communists and anarchists.
A week ago Friday night I watched a copy of ABC/Disney's 'Path to 9/11' (found it on the internet in Bit Torrent format). I now know why the Democrats and the Clintons have banned it. With the clear resolve of Sen John McCain for our security and "No Blink" Gov Sarah Palin on the team contrasted against the wimpy approach Barry has taken to those who hate us - sitting down with our enemies - and Joe Biden's ever-errant mouth and defective mind, it would be a landslide victory for the Republicans upon viewing this movie.
I felt physically ill after watching it, thinking about the possibility of a Democrat win in November.
Not only remembering the heroism, but irresponsible and criminal acts of those like Jamie Gorelick and Sandy Burglar and the stupidity of Madeline Albright makes me proud, sad, mad, and nauseated all at once.
There is NOTHING....NOTHING presidential about Barry. I could not contemplate Barry making decisions (with Joe) if we were attacked again under their watch. I am quite scared of who Barry would have as his cabinet members (like Ziggy), and terrified of who is in his 'kitchen cabinet', like Michelle-Amorosa or folks like Rezko, Axelrod, Raines, and Johnson.
When JFK lowered tax rates and increased revenue, Barry was pooping in his diapers. When Ronaldus Magnus lowered taxes and increased revenue, Barry was drinking, smoking dope, and trying to "collect his feces". When GWB lowered tax rates, Barry alternately says it wasn't enough or as a failure. I guess he still has not "collected his feces".
John and Barry had close contact with communists in their younger years - Barry embraced it, John left it with a different impression.
So the correct position is to say that if we know that terrorists are holed up over the border in Pakistan, planning an attack, and the Pakistanis won’t take action, we’ll do nothing?
...and now the Paki’s in the area have orders to shoot to kill any NATO that steps across the border. Thanks a bunch, Barry.
The correct position was/is to say nothing about what we’d do.
So President Bush was wrong when he said “We will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.”?
Whatever you say. You’re just being obtuse.
Either we’re going to go after terrorists wherever they’re hiding or we’re not. And if your position is that we shouldn’t say that even if it’s true, why is President Bush getting a pass for articulating a position that you’re slamming Obama for? Is it because he actually named Pakistan?
REV FATHER PAUL AKA is a good Christian man, I know him and trust him.
I guess you think I'm a big-time Bushie, and your demonstration of Bush's actions would make me re-think my disgust at Obambi's similar actions. Go fish off another pier.
Then you might want to contact him and let him know that scam artists are using his name.
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