Posted on 05/15/2015 1:33:19 PM PDT by Dave346
President Barack Obama's foreign policy failures have the world looking a lot like it did at the close of the Carter administration, says House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
"This is like 1979 all over again," the California Republican said Thursday on Fox News Channel.
The last time Americans were being held hostage was in 1979 in Iran; today, they are being held by the Islamic State (ISIS), McCarthy said. Russia invaded Afghanistan in 1979, and now have invaded Ukraine, he added. Before Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed in the Benghazi attacks in 2012, the last American ambassador to die in the line of duty was Adolph Dubs, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan — in 1979.
Another similarity, McCarthy said, was that in 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed the SALT II Treaty with the Soviet Union to limit nuclear weapons. Today, Congress is considering Obama's Iran nuclear deal.
People rose up against the SALT II agreement, and it was never ratified, McCarthy noted. "America rose up, led this world economically and also made the world safer," he said.
He said he expects the same to happen with the Iran deal.
McCarthy said the Camp David Gulf Cooperation Council summit on Thursday with Persian Gulf nations was a prime example of America's lost standing in the world. Most heads of state did not show up, sending other representatives, in what many considered a snub over Obama's policies.
"The king of Bahrain is at a horse show with the queen of England," McCarthy said. "So, that to me says a lot about respect, but also what this administration has done to our allies around the world.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton described the summit as a "catastrophe," telling Van Susteren that Obama's statement after the summit was worse than he had expected.
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No, it's much worse. Cater was a blooming idiot, but compared to Obama he's a Genius. Obama is just the stupidest person ever placed in that office.
Obummers legacy, if he likes it or not.
Actually, I think Obamas’ foreign policy is even worse and that is no small feat. Democrats suck in general and in foreign policy particularly.
And like Neville Chamberlin's in 1938, among others.
Was Kevin even born in 1979?
Unfortunate that he was born at all, he is a RINO pile of garbage.
What foreign policy is he against?
He supports obozos AMNESTY and he is jon boners lap dog.
Don’t trust a word he says, he wants to be president and he will lick ANYONES boots to advance his career, HE IS SCUM!!!
That’s insulting — to Carter.
And Carter is a senile, raving, not very bright anti-Semite.
Yes, one gets the proof after meeting a genetically european descended person who is culturally black.
Obama is simply continuing in the long line of ‘rats who manage to snatch foreign policy defeats from the jaws of victory - they dithered away Korea, they threw away Vietnam, and Obama abandoned a “strong, stable, and sovereign” - in his own words - Iraq.....
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