Absence of key U.S. allies at summit amplifies doubts about Obama’s foreign policy

The Daily Caller ^ | April 12, 2010 | Jon Ward

[Kaslin]

President Obama is holding one of the biggest global summits ever on U.S. soil starting Monday, but for all the hoopla, the event will be missing America’s strongest allies.

As remarkable as it is, the fact that neither British Prime Minister Gordon Brown nor Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are attending President Obama’s nuclear security summit in Washington Monday and Tuesday is not altogether surprising.

Relations with both countries — Israel in particular — have grown strained under Obama. Combined with Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s recent defiance of the administration, questions are growing about the president’s ability to maintain important relationships.

“It is a curious state of affairs when relations with our major democratic allies are all wobbly at once,” said Michael Green, a former foreign policy adviser to President George W. Bush, who also listed Japan and South Korea as traditional allies whose relationships with the U.S. have frayed under Obama.

“And one has to ask why righting these key alliances has not received more attention,” he said.

[Nam Vet]

The moronic mulatto is undermining America with every policy he undertakes. He may be a moron, but even a moron has a 50-50 chance of making a right choice.

Make no mistake, every harmful move for America is calculated and designed to weaken us. There is no other explanation.

Nam Vet

[cake_crumb]

“A lot is made of a little, instead of trying to step back and see the forest instead of the trees,” she said

We see the forest just FINE thank you, and there's smoke rising in the distance. The PROBLEM is that almost nothing has been made of issues that mean a lot.

[thethirddegree]

I guess the WH gift shop ran out of DVDs.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Our allies don’t like or trust the punk in the White House.

[sportutegrl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgdTymCZowU

Obama’s idea of an ‘ally’.

[highlander_UW]

At least Iran, Cuba, Russia and Venezuela still LOVE us.

Even that's not true. Iran asked if Obama was "retarded" and Venezuela said something about the stench of hell being with Obama as well. Although I'm sure both of those regimes like Obama better than Bush.

[gogogodzilla]

No, they don’t. However, Obama still loves them.