Posted on 04/23/2010 11:19:12 AM PDT by Elkiejg
James Corum is Dean of the Baltic Defense College in Estonia. He has taught in American and British staff colleges and was a Lt. Col. in the U.S. Army Reserve. In the Telegraph, he critiques the Obama administration's latest foreign policy mis-steps:
Last week was a really bad week for nations that are friends and allies of America. Three nations that have long been close friends and allies of America received humiliating treatment from the Obama administration.
The first, of course, was Israel. We have written extensively about that. Corum notes: "Thanks to Obama, we have a nuclear proliferation summit in which Israel, a nuclear power, is pushed away - but where Liberia shows up." The other instances of administration perversity have received less publicity. First, Poland:
It is hard to imagine how Poland's treatment by Obama could have been worse. It was a week of shock and grief for the Poles - a close NATO ally that has sent large forces to fight alongside America in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama used the Iceland eruption as an excuse to cancel his trip to the funeral of Poland's president and top leaders killed in the air crash. But those of us who live in Eastern Europe know that Cracow Airport was open and Obama could have flown in there. A president who respected true friends and sacrifices in blood would have made a serious gesture. Not Obama - he took off to play golf and did not bother to take a few minutes to sign the consolation book at the Polish Embassy on the way to the course.
Next, Honduras:
Finally, the US Ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens, insulted America's closest ally in Central America by called the Honduran Congress' removal of President Zelaya last year a "coup d'etat." (Llorens' letter to Wall Street Journal, April 14). Now Honduras is a genuine democracy and the removal of Zelaya was done lawfully and with the support of the majority of the Honduran Congress. The removal was no coup - it was an appropriate act to stop an out of control president who tried to overthrow the constitution by grabbing an illegal second term. America should thank the Honduran Congress for preventing an ally of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez from turning Honduras into a Venezuela-light dictatorship.
Corum's judgment on President Obama is harsh:
Alienating three close allies in one week is quite a trick, even for a president as inept in foreign policy as Barack Obama. However, it fits a pattern. President Obama has never shown any understanding for the basic rules of foreign policy which include cultivating allies, avoiding unnecessary friction, and doing one's homework. These things happen because Obama is fundamentally uninterested in foreign policy.
I think that's right, but it's actually a bit worse than that. Not only is Obama mostly uninterested in foreign policy, but his instincts are bad because at bottom, he doesn't believe in advancing America's interests. Moreover, perhaps because of his own jaundiced view of American history, he seems to be instinctively contemptuous of people and nations that are pro-American. The results of Obama's foreign policy are therefore worse than could be obtained through sheer laziness or disinterest.
Yes, what he is doing is criminal.
And all points in one direction: he hates America, he hates freedom for us lowly citizens since he knows better, and he hates anything America does to defend the free world.
Why?
He is a red diaper baby, Marxist from birth:
our national nightmare
I think after 9 years with Frank Marshall Davis, the guy with the 601 page FBI file, that Obummer was a full fledged red diaper baby.
Ask Dr John Drew PhD who knew him well .....
Even his grandpa had a FBI file !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBGBszZ2Qw0
http://www.wor710.com/pages/6350883
http://www.breitbart.tv/the-b-cast-interview-was-obama-a-committed-marxist-in-college/
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/13/marxist-obama-why-the-media-has-been-silent/
We now know the full details of Barry’s Occidental years. He arrived at Occidental at 19 a full fledged Marxist. He was an avowed and committed Marxist.
He looked forward to the revolution when the Marxists would overthrow our government.
His love for Marxism was unusually strong .
He was in passionate agreement with the most radical Marxist Leninist professors.
The full interview is devastating. Take a look.
Most Democrats these days are disciples of Saul Alinsky, the American version of Karl Marx much as Rules for Radicals is the American version of the Communist Manifesto.
This is where BHO and Co. are as well. Alinsky community agitators all the way. Thrown in ACORN, the SEIU, Rev. Wright, Liberation Theology as well into this motley mix of home grown radicalism. Don’t forget Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Van Jones, Anita Dunn, Eric Holder, and Cass Sunstein and Bertha Lewis and Andy Stern.
Do not ascribe to malice/conspiracy what can be ascribed to incompetence.
However, in this case I believe that we can do both.
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