Obama The Appeaser?

Forbes ^ | 02.26.09 | Claudia Rosett

[Ooh-Ah]

President Obama's broad scheme for foreign policy has been something of a puzzle, short on specifics and long on talk about forging alliances, extending hands and "engaging."

In his first address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening, Obama offered a further hint--repeating the gist of the argument with which, as one of his first acts in office, he ordered the closing of Guantanamo Bay: "Living our values doesn't make us weaker. It makes us safer, and it makes us stronger."

So far, there's not much reason to feel safer. If anything, the world seems to be getting less safe, at speed. On Wednesday, just hours after Obama delivered his speech, Iran began its first test-run of the nuclear reactor built with Russian help at Bushehr.

Barring forcible intervention of some kind, it's highly likely Iran will fire up this reactor in earnest later this year--and start cranking out, on an industrial scale, spent fuel that can be processed into plutonium for nuclear bombs. That's in addition to Iran's uranium enrichment, another route along which Iran, according to U.N. officials, has now traveled far enough to have the makings of a bomb.

The Bushehr test run follows a month, post-Inauguration, in which Iran has launched a satellite, underscoring its interest in long-range missile capability. North Korea in short order announced its aim to soon do the same. Russia has been flexing its muscles in its continuing bid to reassert hegemony in what Moscow considers the "near abroad."

Pakistan released from house arrest the godfather of its nuclear program and chief broker-dealer of its proliferation networks, A.Q. Khan. The International Atomic Energy Agency released a report confirming the finding last year of unexplained "uranium particles" at the site of Syria's secret nuclear reactor.

[originalbuckeye]

Zero will appease us out of existence. But isn't that what the Left wants? I mean, after all, we are sooooo evil!

[originalbuckeye]

Zero will appease us out of existence. But isn't that what the Left wants? I mean, after all, we are sooooo evil!

[johnnycap]

Are we witnessing slow motion treason? How will history deal with Obama when all is known about his true intentions?

[Semper Mark]

“How will history deal with Obama when all is known about
his true intentions?”

Hopefully with extreme prejudice!

[thirst4truth]

What about Clinton? What happened when Clinton committed treasonous acts by selling top nuclear secrets, super computers, and rocket launching capabilities to China for campaign cash? Nothing, nothing happened to him and his wife is now our Sec of state for God’s sake!!

[RipSawyer]

“Are we witnessing slow motion treason?”
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I spoke to old John, the third grade dropout down at the sawmill and he said, “Hit don’t seem none too slow to me, more like lightnin’ treason, I speck.”