Posted by
Catmman on Sunday, September 27, 2009 1:09:40 PM
When dealing with Iran.
Video:
Question: What if the "solution to the problem" with Iran
is 'victory'?
This belies
a fundamental problem with Obama's foreign policy philosophy:
President Obama said: “No nation can or should try to dominate another nation.”
Pardon me? Did a professional speechwriter write that?
Or did you outsource it to a starry-eyed runner-up in the Miss America
pageant? Whether or not any nation “should try” to dominate another,
they certainly “can,” and do so with effortless ease, all over the
planet and throughout human history.
And how about this passage?
“I have been in office for just nine months — though some days it seems
a lot longer. I am well aware of the expectations that accompany my
presidency around the world. These expectations are not about me.
Rather, they are rooted, I believe, in a discontent with a status quo
that has allowed us to be increasingly defined by our
differences . . . ”
Forget the first part: That’s just his
usual narcissistic “But enough about me, let’s talk about what the
world thinks of me” shtick. But the second is dangerous in its cowardly
evasiveness: For better or worse, we are defined by our differences —
and, if Barack Obama doesn’t understand that when he’s at the podium
addressing a room filled with representatives of Iran, Sudan, Saudi
Arabia, North Korea, Venezuela, and other unlovely polities, the TV
audience certainly did when Colonel Qaddafi took to the podium
immediately afterwards. They’re both heads of state of sovereign
nations. But, if you’re on an Indian Ocean island when the next tsunami
hits, try calling Libya instead of the United States and sees where it
gets you.
Darn right.
This philosophy is rampant on the Left. Its the same philosophy that encourages schools to give all kids trophies for playing a 'good game'. The concept that 'victory' is now a dirty word permeates Obama's foreign policy. Ironically, it is tossed about his domestic agenda with abandon. Obama and his acolytes take every opportunity to bash opposition to his policies with the "
I won" mantra.
When it comes to ramming health care 'reform', cap and trade (tax), economic stimulus and industry nationalization down the throats of the American citizenry, 'victory' is an imperative.
When it comes to keeping the most destructive weapons ever devised by man out of the hands of insane, radical Islamist dictators, 'victory' is defined by continuing to let these nutjobs cornhole the world.
Brilliant.