Posted on 03/19/2010 5:23:38 AM PDT by SJackson
Funny, President Obama was supposed to be against an arrogant foreign policy. Remember his speech in Strasbourg last spring? There had been instances, he told the European students, “where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.” Those days are over, he assured them.
Leave aside the question of whether this characterization of past American arrogance was justified. President Obama now has a year of foreign policy under his belt, and in that time he has managed to snub the British prime minister, alienate the president of France, insult the nation of Honduras when it successfully defended its young democracy from a Chávez wannabe, and undercut the people of the Czech Republic and Poland by tossing aside a hard-won agreement to build a missile-defense shield.
But in no case has his own arrogance been more transparent than in his treatment of Israel. It didn’t begin with the recent spat over housing units in Jerusalem. In formulating his policy on the region, the president could have focused his energy on the problem of a terror regime racing toward acquisition of nuclear bombs. He could have noted the civil war raging between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA). He might have addressed the venomous anti-Semitism and race hatred offered as daily fare in Palestinian media and textbooks.
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Murdering your citizens in the street.......no problem.
Building homes for your citizens..........an outrage.
Actually the citizens build their own homes, the uproar is over the government issuing permits allowing Jews to live there.
If anybody has the right to be arrogant, it is the United States of America. We kicked the Germans’ @$$ twice in the last century, the Japs once and forced the Soviet Union to implode. Then we put two of them back on their feet in better shape than they were before they initiated hostilities.
No nation on earth has ever had so much power and abused it less.
IOW the maoist is all for apartheid.
This administration is perfectly willing to let foreign policy slide off the back of the range. Its ONLY objective is to turn the USA into a MARXIST nation. They have no interest in anything outside our borders. That has been aptly demonstrated for the last year.
Remember his speech in Strasbourg last spring? There had been instances, he told the European students, "where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive."Thanks SJackson.
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