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Never has the US appeared so untrustworthy, destructive, irrelevant and impotent
Jewish World Review ^ | 8/23/2013 | Carolyne B. Glick
Full title: Never since America’s founding has the US appeared so untrustworthy, destructive, irrelevant and impotent.
Aside from the carnage in Benghazi, the most enduring image from Hillary Clinton’s tenure as US Secretary of State was the fake remote control she brought with her to Moscow in 2009 with the word “Reset” in misspelled Russian embossed on it.
Clinton’s gimmick was meant to show that under President Barack Obama, American foreign policy would be fundamentally transformed. Since Obama and Clinton blamed much of the world’s troubles on the misdeeds of their country, under their stewardship of US foreign policy, the US would reset everything. Around the globe, all bets were off.
Five years later we realize that Clinton’s embarrassing gesture was not a gimmick, but a dead serious pledge. Throughout the world, the Obama administration has radically altered America’s policies.
And disaster has followed. Never since America’s establishment has the US has appeared so untrustworthy, destructive, irrelevant and impotent.
Consider Syria. Wednesday was the one year anniversary of Obama’s pledge that the US would seek the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime if Assad used chemical weapons against his opponents.
Wednesday, Assad’s forces used chemical weapons against civilians around Damascus. According to opposition forces, well over a thousand people were murdered.
>>SNIP<<
Clinton’s reset button was played up as a gimmick. But it was a solemn oath. And it was fulfilled. And as a result, the world is a much more violent and dangerous place. The US and its allies are more threatened. The US’s enemies from Moscow to Tehran to Venezuela are emboldened.
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<...”Throughout the world, the Obama administration has radically altered America’s policies...And disaster has followed...... Never since America’s establishment has the US appeared so untrustworthy, destructive, irrelevant and impotent”....>
Well now....does make a true statement doesn’t it...