Ah...that was the Captain actually , Bill.
Posted on 09/26/2009 4:20:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
It may be time to start channeling Noah and begin building an ark. The world is a huge mess, and it's getting worse every day. Iran is on track to develop nuclear weapons, but global warming may incinerate us first. The Israeli-Palestinian hate fest rolls on, and Afghanistan is falling apart. Drug criminals have overrun Mexico, and Third World poverty is as horrific as ever. I think things are OK in Finland.
This week President Obama implored the United Nations to do something, anything, to combat terrorism and global warming. The president was blunt: "Consider the course that we are on if we fail to confront the status quo: extremists sowing terror in pockets of the world; protracted conflicts that grind on and on; genocide and mass atrocities; more and more nations with nuclear weapons; melting ice caps and ravaged populations; persistent poverty and pandemic disease. I say this not to sow fear, but to state a fact: The magnitude of our challenges has yet to be met by the measure of our action."
The response from France was to indicate it would no longer support tough sanctions against Iran.
So what we have here, with apologies to Cool Hand Luke, is a failure to communicate. But is that Obama's fault? He laid it out there clearly: The nations of the world must unite against evil and begin problem solving.
The response from China is that it will "look into" its massive pollution problem.
The hard truth is that the USA can't force nations to do the right thing. We can't force the Afghans to fight for their country against the brutal Taliban. We can't force India to adopt cleaner energy policies. We can't even persuade Russia to cooperate against Iranian nuclear ambitions.
Obama must try, but there does not seem to be a plan B. It will be a miracle if tough sanctions are applied against Iran, and even if they are, there's no guarantee the crazy mullahs will end their nuke program. Therefore, Israel will most likely attack them and a huge war will break out. Of course, the Muslim world will blame America.
It must be tough for Obama to sleep at night knowing the world is such a malevolent place.
The Bush administration basically did what it wanted to do without world approval. That made President Bush deeply unpopular, but it also caused bad people to fear him. The signature achievement of the Bush years was a ruthless campaign against terrorists. And it worked. Al-Qaida was decimated, and no further foreign terror reached American soil.
Now we have a kinder, gentler president who is desperately trying to build world cooperation to solve problems. But President Obama is getting hammered. Europe doesn't help much in Afghanistan, China and Russia actually help Iran, and North Korea can pretty much do crazy things all day long. It's enough to give Uncle Sam a facial tic.
There is big trouble brewing overseas. How much wood does it take to construct that ark?
Wow, all this apocalyptic/messianic chatter. Another thread mentions "Mideast apocalypse."
I'm wondering if this is how a cockroach feels before an earthquake.
Now we have a kinder, gentler president who is desperately trying to build world cooperation to solve problems. But President Obama is getting hammered.Seems that no country wants to hang with the idiot Obamam.
Seems that no country wants to hang with the idiot Obamam.
Why would they want to get involved with HIM? He can’t be trusted. At any moment they would be under the bus with all the other Obama discards.
They do not want to fingered for extermination when the dipship in the people's house pulls out and leaves them to hang alone. Can you say V.I.E.T.N.A.M?
I'm so sick of this "cowboy diplomacy" - "go it alone" - "unilateral" BS!
President Bush formed a coalition of nearly 50 countries -- that is NOT a go it alone position.
Just because there were some that felt without Germany, France, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, N. Korea and China does not mean we were without allies.
I suppose those same morons felt the 57 muslim nations should have joined the coalition as well, huh?
Bump
You know them...they are the ones that love that "unpopular" President Bush.
Have a great time. I wished I could join you, and say hello from me
Months ago, Oreilly said he would be a ‘paul revere’....I think the signal is pretty clear.
It’s coming down to the Light of the world against the darkness...
It will be horrid, but the Light wins.
You can count me as a “Bush Lover”. His administration at
least maintained the status quo in the Middle East. However,
He should have gone into Iran at the same time He went into
Iraq. As it stands, The Iranians are going to cross into
Iraq raising hell for years to come.
We had a wonderful time. It was great to put faces with the posts and have intelligent, factual conversation about the last 8 years.
You are next! ;*)
Global Warming....what a freaking joke! Beware of anyone who thinks they are bigger than GOD and control Climate...idiocy.
The status quo??? Are you kidding me?
The Taliban is decimated and no longer have the Afghans in chains. Sure they have a long way to go, but they cannot be expected to emerge from the stone age in a few short years.
Saddam Hussein is dead along with his reign of terror.
Iraqis are living in more freedom than we currently are enjoying.
Al-Qaeda's operations have been severely impaired and they have scattered, along with the taliban and no longer have open terrorist training camps.
That does not sound like the status quo to me.
He should have gone into Iran at the same time He went into Iraq.
Yeah, that would have worked. 23% of the SINate and more than 30% of the House voted against the Iraq War. Go back and look up the stink the commies were creating over Iraq and tell me you think he could have gone into Iran at the same time.
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