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Obama Has Lost The World
Eurasia Review ^ | December 26, 2010 | Daniel Greenfield


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After the 2010 elections, it’s not exactly news that Obama has lost America. But in a less public referendum, he also lost the world. Obama’s cocktail party tour of the world’s capitals may look impressive on a map, but is irrelevant on a policy level. In less than two years, the White House has gone from being the center of world leadership to being irrelevant, from protecting world freedom to serving as a global party planning committee.

Even the Bush Administration’s harshest critics could never have credibly claimed that George W. Bush was irrelevant. He might have been hated, pilloried and shouted about– but he couldn’t be ignored. However Obama can be safely ignored. Invited to parties, given the chance to show off his cosmopolitan sophisticated by reciting one or two words in the local lingo, read off a teleprompter, along with some cant about the need for everyone to pull together and make the world a better place, and then dismissed for the rest of the evening.

As a world leader, he makes a passable party guest. He has a broad smile, brings along his own gifts and is famous in the way that celebrities, rather than prime ministers and presidents are famous. On an invitation list, he is more Bono than Sarkozy, Leonardo DiCaprio not Putin. You don’t invite him to talk turkey, not even on Thanksgiving. He’s just one of those famous people with a passing interest in politics who gets good media attention, but who has nothing worthwhile to say.

The only countries who take Obama seriously, are the ones who have to. The leaders of Great Britain, Israel and Japan– who have tied their countries to an enduring alliance with America based on mutual interests and values, only to discover that the latest fellow to sit behind the Oval Office desk no longer shares those values and couldn’t give less of a damn about American interests. It’s no wonder that European leaders ignore him as much as possible. Or that Netanyahu visited America, while Obama was abroad. Or that Japanese politics have become dangerously unstable.

On the enemy side, the growing aggressiveness of China, North Korea, Iran, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda can all be attributed to the global consensus that no one is at home in the White House. And if no one is at home in the White House, then that’s a perfect time to slap the big boy around the yard. China is doing it economically, the rest are doing it militarily. They’re all on board with Obama’s Post-American vision of the world. But unlike him and most liberals, they have a clear understanding of what that means. The America of some years back, which actually intimidated Libyan dictator Khaddafi into giving up his nuclear program, without lifting a hand against him is long gone. So is the Cedar Revolution. Syria and Iran are back in charge in Lebanon. And in Afghanistan, the Taliban are laughing at our soft power outreach efforts.

Obama’s soft power approach emphasizes the ‘soft’ and forgets the ‘power’. It neglects even Clinton era understandings about the role of America in the world, and reverts instead to a Carter era sense of guilt that bleeds into hostility toward American interests and allies. While the rest of the world puts their own interests first, they act like a cog in some imaginary global community, turning and turning toward the distant horizon of international brotherhood. While China, Russia and most of the world walk down their backs and up their jellyfish spines, laughing all the way. And America’s allies gird themselves and prepare for the worst.

From the first, this administration has curried favor with America’s enemies by betraying and humiliating its allies. But these hideous acts of moral cowardice have not won Obama the approval of America’s enemies. Only their contempt. And a Nobel Peace Prize from a committee of elderly left wing Swedes, awarded not for any accomplishment, but for the lack thereof. For being a man without a country, a leader without a spine and a representative of America who gives no thought for the interests of that country.

Now that the Koreas stand on the brink of war, Iran continues its drive toward a nuclear bomb, Al Qaeda is going global, Hezbollah is on the verge of taking Lebanon and Mexico is on the verge of imploding– the impact of America’s absence on the global stage is all too clear. The countless cocktail parties and toasts have not changed the world. All they’ve done is highlighted the transition of the White House from world leadership to global party guest. Trip after trip has ended in photo ops and policy failures. Instead Obama is stuck dumpster diving into the futile quest for a Palestinian state, not because such an entity will make the world any better, but because it will make him look good.

Obama has no mandate at home, and he has even less of one abroad. America’s enemies do not fear him. Only our allies do. Kim Jong Il does not sit up nights worrying what Obama will do. Because the consensus in North Korea, Iran and the rest of the world is that the sea will rise, the sun will set and Obama will do nothing. Except maybe write a strongly worded letter, offset by some quiet backchannel diplomacy from his coterie of international left wing stooges reassuring the offender that, “No, Barry really isn’t mad at you. He’s just concerned. Really, really concerned.”

Liberal pundits mock the rough and ready style of conservatives like Reagan, Bush or Palin in world affairs, but what they fail to realize is that the over-educated naivete, trendy cosmopolitanism and buzzword rich approach of a Kerry or Obama come off as laughably pathetic on the world stage. Republicans might be hated, but they can’t be ignored. Democrats on the other hand are catspaws and pawns, fools who are so sure of their cleverness and determined to embrace every culture in the way that only the graduates of Ivy League institutions can, that any Third World vendor could twirl them around his fingers.

World leaders are rarely liked, but effective ones are respected. And effective world leaders don’t lead with appeasement, don’t compromise before the other side has even made an offer and negotiate on behalf of their country, rather than some intangible global consensus. They understand that they represent a country, not a popularity contest. They don’t travel abroad to be adored or be greeted with parades and gifts, but to achieve tangible results on specific issues. To do otherwise is not to be a world leader, but a celebrity who happens to have picked up a big title along the way.

To be a proper American president on the world stage, means choosing to be respected, rather than liked. Obama always chooses to be liked, rather than respected. Because respect comes from accomplishment and character, while ‘liking’ is a function of appearance and image. Aiming to be ‘liked’ is playing to Obama’s strengths. But being liked is irrelevant outside of an afterschool special. World affairs is not a networking seminar, it is a negotiation between countries who have billions of dollars and millions of lives on the line. And Obama has no idea how to play that game. Like the kid who never fit in anywhere, he’s still trying to be liked. And he’s willing to sell out American interests and allies to get the cool UN kids to like him.

Unfortunately Obama’s irrelevance is also America’s irrelevance. A Republican House of Representatives cannot do what Obama should be doing. And any attempt to show strength gets shouted down by the liberal punditocracy as treason and undermining the White House. As if anyone, anywhere could undermine Obama internationally as much as he undermines himself. The same liberals who considered Ted Kennedy’s treasonous offer of cooperation with the Soviet Union or Kerry’s trip to Latin American Marxist terrorists to be acts of courage, damn Republicans who supported allies in Ecuador and Israel as traitors. And so Obama must have a free hand to do it all on his own. To do what Kennedy or Kerry could have only dreamed of.

Obama has lost the world. He has made the country that he claims to represent into a shadow of its former strength and glory. And his irrelevance endangers American lives. Not just those of soldiers in war zones, laboring under restrictive Rules of Engagement, written so as not to offend Muslims. Not just those of Americans at risk for domestic terrorism under an Attorney General who sympathizes with terrorists, more than with Americans. But to everyone living in a world where countries like North Korea and Iran feel free to do what they want, where our economic rivals such as Russia and China advance their interests and their espionage, and where terrorists across the Muslim world grow in boldness and number because they have no one left to fear anymore. In America and around the world– Barack Hussein Obama endangers us all.


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Ouch.   Cold hard truth right there. 

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Re: "Obama Has Lost The World" - Foreign Policy of the USA is in shambles.
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2010, 09:19:13 AM »
Great article. It's not even two years into his term and yet Obama has managed to set this country farther back than any president we've ever had.

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« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2010, 09:20:29 AM »
Great article. It's not even two years into his term and yet Obama has managed to set this country farther back than any president we've ever had.

wow youve been drinkin from the same well as 3333... uh ohhhh i thought you were one of the smart ones

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« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2010, 09:23:01 AM »
Great article. It's not even two years into his term and yet Obama has managed to set this country farther back than any president we've ever had.



The world kneepad tour set the stage for the chaos we see today with iran, NK, etc. 

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« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2010, 09:24:19 AM »
wow youve been drinkin from the same well as 3333... uh ohhhh i thought you were one of the smart ones

What do you disagree with in this article?

Its true and started day 1 when Bama pissed on the Churchill Bust and got worse and worse.   

 

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« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2010, 09:24:28 AM »
Obama's White House is Falling Down
Daniel Greenfield: Obama's Plan to Destroy Israel - Israel Insider
Obama Has Lost The World - Sultan Knish a blog by Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield: "Obama's Jerusalem Apartheid" - IsraelitKan
The Left's War on the Economy
Obama's Global Failure

These are some of Greenfields Other works..lol
he drinks the 3333 kool aid too

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« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2010, 09:24:57 AM »
wow youve been drinkin from the same well as 3333... uh ohhhh i thought you were one of the smart ones

Drinking what? Realism kool-aid? Fact of the matter is that this guy has about as much clout on the world stage as I or you do. This country has turned into a laughing stock. And where has his brilliant foreign policy gotten us? Enlighten me because I can't think of one accomplishment. He did a great job getting rebuked at the G20 a few weeks ago. Made us look real good.

UN maps of Afghanistan released today show that, despite Obama's lies that the situation is improving, it has actually gotten worse in areas that were once considered decent over the last year. Looks like that "winning the hearts and minds of psychotic mass murderers" strategy is paying off.



The world kneepad tour set the stage for the chaos we see today with iran, NK, etc.  

But far-leftists tell me that America is the enemy and that if we change our country they'll play nice. After all, they're just misunderstood and looking for someone to set an example.  ::) ::)

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« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2010, 09:25:36 AM »


The world kneepad tour set the stage for the chaos we see today with iran, NK, etc. 

because lil kim didnt set off missles while Bush was in the whitehouse huh?.. fuckin idiot

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« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2010, 09:26:34 AM »
because lil kim didnt set off missles while Bush was in the whitehouse huh?.. fuckin idiot

Why do you rationalize Obama's failures by comparing him to Bush? Wasn't Bush the worst president ever?


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« Reply #9 on: December 27, 2010, 09:36:53 AM »
Why do you rationalize Obama's failures by comparing him to Bush? Wasn't Bush the worst president ever?


Im not.. i go post by post.. and 333 said that Obama set the stage for NK wildin out.. but i just said they were wilding out before Obama took office. But since Obama is in office.. its his fault now..

You said Obama is the worst President ever.. but its just not adding up. Now 3333 is gonna go with his buckshot approach and list about 17 things in which some are repeats and opinions and others are of no consequence

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« Reply #10 on: December 27, 2010, 09:40:06 AM »
North Korea never shelled South Korean territory or sunk a South Korean ship while Bush was president. The best story 240 could muster is some embellished tale about them launching missiles at California.


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« Reply #11 on: December 27, 2010, 09:41:32 AM »
North Korea never shelled South Korean territory or sunk a South Korean ship while Bush was president.

Who was president of USA when NKorea set off a nuke?

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« Reply #12 on: December 27, 2010, 09:43:51 AM »
so sweep it under the rug because when he did it during Bush's term it wasnt that bad? do you hear yourself?..3333 said " set the stage" if any stage setting was done it was under Bushs term.. see im not gonna let off the cuff statements or bullshit sly remarks slide.. you better be able to back your shit up with me..

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« Reply #13 on: December 27, 2010, 09:44:41 AM »
North Korea never shelled South Korean territory or sunk a South Korean ship while Bush was president. The best story 240 could muster is some embellished tale about them launching missiles at California.
LMFAO you beat me to it...

add that to the nat enq cover he took as truth about palin cheating on her husband and her son being bristols

LOL man him and straw man could have a pretty good competition for the stupidest things ever said on the getbig politics board

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« Reply #14 on: December 27, 2010, 09:45:13 AM »
Who was president of USA when NKorea set off a nuke?


that dont matter because it wasnt aimed at South Korea.. am i right BF.. cmon man i swear i thought you were one of the smart ones.. ok disagree with Obama on things.. thats fine.. i Disagree as well.. but the bullshit.. cmon you are better than that.. i expect that out of 3333.. the dumbshit.. but not you

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« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2010, 09:45:27 AM »
Who was president of USA when NKorea set off a nuke?

How's North Korea's nuke program doing now? I believe they just uncovered a recently built plant and there were wikileaks cables about the ever-growing list of nuke and other weapons tech they've been selling to anyone with the cash, all without any repercussions whatsoever.

Bush had them on the verge of getting rid of their nuke program at one point. Obama hasn't come anywhere close to accomplishing that. I wonder why.

Sink a ship and kill dozens of South Korean sailors? Get a strongly worded letter of protest from Obama.
Shell South Korean territory and kill civilians? Get a strongly worded letter of protest from Obama.

No wonder they do what they want. Not much different from the Islamists taking over the world.


that dont matter because it wasnt aimed at South Korea.. am i right BF.. cmon man i swear i thought you were one of the smart ones.. ok disagree with Obama on things.. thats fine.. i Disagree as well.. but the bullshit.. cmon you are better than that.. i expect that out of 3333.. the dumbshit.. but not you

I'm looking at it from an objective standpoint. I can't for the life of me think of one major foreign policy accomplishment of Obama. The closest I can get is START but in the grand scheme of things that shit is completely useless and not the least bit relevant.



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« Reply #16 on: December 27, 2010, 09:46:59 AM »
Bush had them on the verge of getting rid of their nuke program at one point.

I remember he paid them a million barrels of oil to stop blowing shit up.

When were they on the verge of stopping, and why didn't they stop?

I agree obama is being a total wuss on it as well...

but "bush ALMOST stopped them"?  I don't remember that part...

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« Reply #17 on: December 27, 2010, 09:47:35 AM »

that dont matter because it wasnt aimed at South Korea.. am i right BF.. cmon man i swear i thought you were one of the smart ones.. ok disagree with Obama on things.. thats fine.. i Disagree as well.. but the bullshit.. cmon you are better than that.. i expect that out of 3333.. the dumbshit.. but not you

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Why do you libs tolerate Obama's failures so much?  Seriously?   

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« Reply #18 on: December 27, 2010, 09:48:30 AM »
I remember he paid them a million barrels of oil to stop blowing shit up.

When were they on the verge of stopping, and why didn't they stop?

You're still playing that "we sent them a million barrels of oil to stop firing missiles at California" card? You made a fool of yourself in the thread I started about that fairy tale of yours.

According to you and others, Bush was the worst president this country has ever seen. Why do you people insist on rationalizing Obama's failures by comparing them to Bush's?

Fact of the matter is that this is the closest to war the two Koreas have ever been.

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« Reply #19 on: December 27, 2010, 09:49:36 AM »
I remember he paid them a million barrels of oil to stop blowing shit up.

When were they on the verge of stopping, and why didn't they stop?

I agree obama is being a total wuss on it as well...

but "bush ALMOST stopped them"?  I don't remember that part...

Which Admn gave NK the nuke materials 240? 

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« Reply #20 on: December 27, 2010, 09:51:09 AM »
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Why do you libs tolerate Obama's failures so much?  Seriously?   

go play in the sand or eat clay.. big boys are talking.. you are not capable of being objective..

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« Reply #21 on: December 27, 2010, 09:51:29 AM »
Which Admn gave NK the nuke materials 240?  

probably clinton, that fat bj getting slob that so many of you 'republicans' voted for in 92.  blah.

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« Reply #22 on: December 27, 2010, 09:52:07 AM »
You're still playing that "we sent them a million barrels of oil to stop firing missiles at California" card? You made a fool of yourself in the thread I started about that fairy tale of yours.

According to you and others, Bush was the worst president this country has ever seen. Why do you people insist on rationalizing Obama's failures by comparing them to Bush's?

Fact of the matter is that this is the closest to war the two Koreas have ever been.
So thats Obamas fault?

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« Reply #24 on: December 27, 2010, 09:54:43 AM »
So thats Obamas fault?

Has he gotten North Korea to make a single concession since taking office? Bush had them dismantling a nuclear reactor at one point. Obama's managed to give them enough room to sink a ship and then shell an island for two hours later in the same year, both acts resulting in the deaths of South Korean citizens. Both acts met with nothing more than a strongly-worded letter of protest from Obama.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_North_Korean_missile_test

This was discussed in the thread I made calling 240 out. Just because a missile has the capability of reaching our shores =/= firing missiles at us.