Posted on 09/22/2019 5:35:55 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Critics of the Trump administration’s foreign policy have forgotten the mistakes and misjudgments of its predecessor
midst the daily foibles, inanities, Twitter meltdowns and rhetorical outrages of the Donald Trump presidency, it is sometimes difficult to comprehend just how systematically and conclusively his predecessor’s worldview has been discredited. When Barack Obama swore the oath of office just over a decade ago, he entered the White House with a deep conviction that many of the world’s problems were chiefly the consequence of American hubris. What followed was an agenda that prioritised the lowering of tensions with traditional American antagonists over the concerns of traditional American allies.
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This was the constant, tediously narcissistic background music of the Obama presidency—that his youth and personal sympathy for those who perceive themselves to be the victims of American global hegemony somehow obviated the forces of history and ideology and culture, never mind what other nations perceived to be in their national interest. The Obamians’ determinist view of history could not recognise that the Cuban communists lock up independent journalists because the stale doctrine of Marxist-Leninism demands it; that Iran pledges “Death to Israel” because it sincerely seeks it, that the men in the Kremlin acquire actual glory from the serial humiliations they inflict upon Russia’s smaller neighbours; and that these phenomena derive from cultures and ideologies that will not be attenuated by American apologies and appeasement.
(Excerpt) Read more at standpointmag.co.uk ...
Love the tweets and feeling connected to what/how this President thinks.
A man who kicks Lying Leftists in the collective nuts every other day?
I’ll take him!
Trump says whatever in the hell is on his mind he is the most transparent POTUS ever!!! The tweets are GREAT, I LOVE THEM we always know exactly what is going on with him!!! FAKE news comes out and we all know to wait for Trump’s tweets to come out for the truth!!!
Presidents ‘in the future’ would be compared to Abraham Lincoln.
Presidents in the future would be compared to Ronald Reagan.
Presidents in the post-DJT future, will be compared to Donald J. Trump.
No president in the future will want to be compared to Obama or to Bill Clinton or to Jimmy Carter.
GOPe swampy cretins hate his tweets.
Pretty good piece except for lines like this:
“”””Donald Trump has indeed made a mess of many things; his needlessly alienating allies and total abdication of America’s moral standing chief among them.””””
I guess I must have missed where Trump totally abdicated America’s moral standing.
Just like in the years immediately after the American revolution, there will be a cleansing...
Allies? As in globalists, RINOs, and socialists? Abdiction of moral standing? Like you mean he hasn't wasted American treasure on another global military adventure to enrich Dick Cheney's friends?
Like what does Trump stand for? American citizens and taxpayers? But they are a basket of deplorables.
IMHO, that is identical to saying "Stalin was a pretty good leader except for..." or "Pretty good dog poop except for..."
Never heard or saw a "pretty good piece" of excrement...
I love the Tweets.
It’s wonderful to have a President who talks like a FReeper! LOL!
Sounds like something Kristol or some other neocon might write. Who is this Kerchif guy?
Kerchick.
I find it amusing.
When Barack Obama swore the oath of office just over a decade ago, in direct violation of the Constitution, BOTH parties clapped like trained seals.
For all of its chaos, unprofessionalism and disgraceful mistreatment of allies—perhaps the most important American asset in successfully handling the long-term challenge of great power competition—the Trump administration should at least be credited with recognising that the United States actually has adversaries, that the basis of these antagonistic relationships arises more from the nature of our adversaries’ regimes rather than anything the United States has done, and that these adversaries should be confronted, not conciliated.
The tweets bypass the filter of the Fake Stream News.
NEWS FLASH! Trump only one who is NOT melting down. That is all.
According to the Enemedia cretins, high moral standing is achieved by...
1) Supporting the global “climate” hoax
2) Abolishing your own borders in favor of unlimited “migration”
3) Draconian gun control
4) Giving up your sovereignty to transnational organizations
They can take their moral standing and ram it up their (snouts).
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