Posted on 02/02/2009 10:36:28 AM PST by yoe
In the realm of foreign affairs, the first ten days of Barack Obama's administration were a disaster. It's hard to believe that even a foreign policy neophyte like Obama could blunder so badly, on so many fronts, in such a short time. We spent the better part of an hour of today's radio show talking about Obama's serial missteps, which I wrote about here, here and here. If I get time, I'll try to podcast that hour.
Among other things, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the mullahs are beating Obama like a drum. Obama's misguided criticisms of America's policies toward Muslim countries, broadcast throughout the Arab world in his interview with the al Arabiya television network, were music to the mullahs' ears. Ahmadinejad, who unlike Obama is no babe in the woods, says that he would be willing to consider an improvement in relations with the U.S. if Obama will apologize for America's many offenses against Iran. Actually, this demand is quite reasonable: how can Obama refuse after his own public condemnation of his country's past policies?
Oh, just one more thing: Ahmadinejad also wants "fundamental changes" in American foreign policy before he will be willing to engage with our new President. Obama was foolish enough to say that he would be willing to meet with Ahmadinejad without preconditions, apparently failing to understand, in his inexperience, that Ahmadinejad would not be so open-minded.
The Iranians continue to pile on the insults. Now government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham (is ridiculing) Obama's willingness to talk with Iran's leaders as a sign of weakness:
US President Barack Obama's offer to talk to Iran shows that America's policy of "domination" has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday. "This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed," Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.
"Negotiation is secondary, the main issue is that there is no way but for (the United States) to change," he added.
The mullahs do not share Obama's naive confidence in the efficacy of talk.
All of this is occurring as (Iran hosts terrorist Samir Kantar) as an honored guest on the 30th anniversary of that country's Islamic revolution. (That would be the golden era of American-Muslim relations, "20 or 30 years ago," to which Obama says he longs to return!) Kantar's name is not widely recognized in the West, but he is viewed by some in the Muslim world as a hero as a result of a terrorist attack in which he murdered five Israelis, most notoriously by smashing a four-year-old girl's head with a rifle butt. Here, the "hero" Kantar addresses a group in Tehran:
Kantar has publicly praised Iran's ongoing patronage of Middle Eastern terrorism, making a mockery of Obama's painfully stupid reference in his al Arabiya interview to Iran's "support of terrorist organizations in the past." As though they had stopped!
So far, the mullahs are making Obama look like a fool. Unfortunately, that hasn't been very difficult.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.....
Maybe he does.
HOW APPROPO: Neophyte:
Definitions of neophyte on the Web:
* a plant that is found in an area where it had not been recorded previously
* newcomer: any new participant in some activity
* catechumen: a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* Neophyte: The Journey Begins, Neophyte: Koplio’s Story, and Neophyte: The Spirit Master are a series of three action role-playing computer games created by Alien Software, and produced by Minor Insight as freeware demos for the never-released Neophyte computer game.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neophyte_(series)
* Neophyte (Simon Hall) is a fictional mutant super villain in the Marvel Comics universe and a member of the Acolytes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neophyte_(comics)
* In the fictional Warhammer 40,000 setting of Games Workshop, the Space Marines are elite soldiers modified through gene therapy, surgical modifications, and hypnotic indoctrination to be superhumans capable of defeating alien forces that vastly outnumber them. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neophyte_(Warhammer_40,000)
* Neophyte is an influential and well-known hardcore, or gabber, group formed in 1992 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neophyte_(band)
* A beginner; A novice (recent convert), a new convert or proselyte; A name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics ...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neophyte
* A member of the last line to cross in the local chapter of a NPHC or cultural-based organization.
www.vanderbilt.edu/greek_life/glossary.php
* One who is initiated at the Easter Vigil. The term comes from the Greek word meaning new plant, as in a new sprout on a limb/branch.
sacredheartemmett.com/frames/rcia/RCIA_Terminology.html
* A beginner or convert
thebestnotes.com/booknotes/Da_Vinci_Code/Da_Vinci_Code29.html
* New member of a community, someone who has not yet been initiated.
wolf.zirbs.garschagen.at/node/10
* an individual who is aware of only the Conscious mind, but has had an initial glimpse of a band outside of the Conscious mind. ...
www.mudrashram.com/glossarypage.html
* In the early church, a recently baptized Christian.
www.religionfacts.com/christianity/glossary.htm
* a beginner or novice - Two points there for the young neophyte.
www.nbagauntlet.com/the-clyde-frazier-dictionary/
* A newly baptized person who is in the final period of Christian initiation, mystagogy.
www.saintraphael.org/MinistriesPage/FaithFormationPage/RCIA/rcia_glossary.htm
* a mission Indian newly converted to the Catholic faith.
www.laokay.com/halac/Glossary.htm
* Student aspiring to become a Wytch (The name neophyte is the only one not capitalized in all cases, except to begin a sentence, and even as a name for a particular person).
www.atheistlloyd.com/subweb/glossary.html
* One who is uninitiated into a coven but is currently studying and working toward initiation.
bol.sapphiremoon.info/glossary.php
* marks an intermediary step between Dedication and Initiation, and indicates both a level of facility with Blue Star practice and theory, and a willingness to take on increased responsibilty within the tradition. ...
www.experiencefestival.com/a/Blue_Star_Wicca/id/1934760
* meaning “newly planted”. A neophyte is an apprentice with the Chimes, who tries out for the group and is accepted on the basis of his singing ability. He then spends time with the group, getting to know the actives, calling and meeting alumni, and learning our many songs. ...
georgetownchimes.org/glossary.php
Stay tuned for further stoopiditry.
“It’s hard to believe that even a foreign policy neophyte like Obama could blunder so badly, on so many fronts, in such a short time”
No it isn’t.
And he's not even including cutting our military budget by 10%, trying to stop development of virtually every new weapons system, promising to stop militarization of space (however you define that), trying to stop SDI, closing GITMO with absolutely no PLAN to follow, ending torture, making the first call from the Oval Office to the leader of the Palestinians and giving the first TV interview to an Arab TV station.
Not bad for Hussein's first 10 days of total capitulation!!!
Not bad at all.
Well, he can’t be all that bad.......
Colin Powell and John McCain endosed him.
Remember this President couldn’t function without a Telepromptor....
Now This “Sock-Puppet” has to work without a Safety Net...
and He is a Bumbling Failure...
Just as Predicted...
the Moron Voters who elected Him did so, JUST Because He claimed to be Black....
Now he will sign Legislation rammed through His Office by the Communist Pelosi....
Say Good bye to Jobs, and America....
We deserve just what we get.......the comming Thug-ocracy.
We spent five years making absolutely sure the Islamic world knew for certain we did not view this as a war between Islam and the United States. Obama wasn’t in office 24 hours before he took concrete steps to make sure the Islamic world thought we were at war with it. And further, he characterized our actions as misguided, severely flawed.
Like I have been saying, we have a ten year old’s intellect at the helm.
'discontinuing the use of the insulting term WAR ON TERROR' (which is no longer allowed by Hussein).
apropos
Pronunciation:
\ˌa-prə-ˈpō, ˈa-prə-ˌ\
Function:
adverb
Etymology:
French à propos, literally, to the purpose
Date:
1668
1 : at an opportune time : seasonably 2 : by way of interjection or further comment : with regard to the present topic
We are deeply, utterly, massively, totally, penetratingly, and completely SCREWED.
But, all is well in HopieChangieland because the Mutt is in charge!
from someone named HUSSEIN,,,
who attended a muslim grade school for two years (the most formidable years of your life) in a country with the largest muslim population in the world?
“...So far, the mullahs are making Obama look like a fool. Unfortunately, that hasn’t been very difficult.”
Truth is terse. Well done.
'Aid-and-Comfort' to our enemies during time of war--with his repeated calls for a pullout before the job was done,,,
and that ENCOURAGEMENT certainly helped to prolong the war--causing many more American casualties.
He is out of his tree.
Don’t worry, this will all be whitewashed by the media. 0bama can’t fail; too many people have t-shirts invested in this clusterf**k.
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