Nero fiddles while Rome burns, perhaps not 100% historically
accurate but it is a by word for heartless and callous behavior from a leader
in a time of crisis. Perhaps the phrase needs an update, Obama tangoed as
Brussels burned. Perhaps nothing in the long
Obama nightmare shows the ineptitude of the Obama foreign policy as did his
recent foray into Cuba/central America. He loves despots, he undermines freedom
advocates, he blames America for the entire world’s problems, terrorism isn’t a
big deal and he has a very high tolerance for the suffering of others. Let’s look at President Obama’s foreign policy
and how the two remaining Republican hopefuls react.
Policy point 1, Love of despots:
President Obama once said “I’m not a dictator,” but I have
no doubt he wishes he could be. He has cultivated positive relations with such
dictators as Rual Castro, yet alienates traditional allies such as Israel and
England time and again. While his embracing of Castro is telling his support of
the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is damning. He actively supported one of the
worst extremist groups rise to power then openly condemned their removal. His support
of a nuclear deal that will lead to Iranian nuclear weapons though is the worst
example. Iran already a threat to the world through its
support of terror would become the greatest threat to our firmest ally in the Middle
East, Israel.
Cruz from his campaign
website: Two terms of the disastrous Obama-Clinton foreign policy have had one
useful effect: we now know what the world starts to look like without America.
The next president will have to start on day one rebuilding what they have
tried to tear down. A truly conservative foreign policy would have three simple
principles:
To preserve our
country we need to exert leadership on the global stage, not withdraw from it.
We need to fiercely
defend our allies and interests.
And we need to judge
each challenge through the simple test of what is best for America. Because what is best for America is best for
the world.
On day one, a
President Cruz will immediately repeal every word of President Obama’s
dangerous Iran deal and will prioritize American national security interests in
every instance.
Trump from his nothing on foreign policy except
renegotiating deals with China, and bombing Isis he has however made it clear
that he thinks the Iran deal is a poor one but prefers to fix it rather than
abandon it: “[that] ... Because I’m a deal person. And when I make deals ... I
will police that deal. You know, I’ve taken over some bad contracts. I buy
contracts where people screwed up, and they have bad contracts. But I’m really
good at looking at a contract and finding things within a contract that, even
if they’re bad, I would police that contract so tough that they don’t have a
chance. ... And the problem is, by the time I got in there, they will have
already received the $150 billion.”
Point #2 Undermines freedom’s advocates:
Pres. Obama said, “What I've said to the Cuban government
is, if . . . we're seeing some progress in the liberty and freedom and
possibilities of ordinary Cubans, I'd love to use a visit as a way of
highlighting that progress, " What Obama did was to go to Cuba and offer
Cuba millions in American investment without one single concession on human
rights, and all the evidence proving that the oppression of the Cuban people
worsening. This is a pattern that began early while chaos was spreading over
the middle east Obama ignored the democracy movement in Iran that may have made
overthrown one of the most evil and dangerous regimes in the modern history of
the world.
Cruz reaction: “For decades, leftists and Hollywood liberals
have made the pilgrimage to Cuba to pay homage to Fidel Castro and Raúl
Castro,” Cruz said. “It’s very chic, it’s very chichi for leftists to celebrate
vicious communist dictators.”
If elected president, Cruz vowed he would visit Cuba too,
though under different circumstances.
“I cannot wait as president to visit Cuba,” he said. “But
when I visit Cuba, it will be a free Cuba. It will be a Cuba without Raúl
Castro, without Fidel Castro. And I can’t wait to celebrate with the people of
Cuba 90 miles off America’s shore.”
Trump was more concerned about the personal insult payed the
pres. By Castro Wow, President Obama just landed in Cuba, a big deal, and Raul
Castro wasn't even there to greet him. He greeted Pope and others. No respect
Point # 3 Blaming America:
Many many quotes from Obama imply or directly say, he blames
the US for the world’s prblems but with the emphasis on Cuba I’ll pull just one
line from that speech: I know these issues are sensitive, especially coming
from an American President. Before 1959,
some Americans saw Cuba as something to exploit, ignored poverty, enabled
corruption. And since 1959, we’ve been
shadow-boxers in this battle of geopolitics and personalities. I know the history, but I refuse to be
trapped by it. I’ve made it clear that the United States has neither the
capacity, nor the intention to impose change on Cuba. What changes come will depend upon the Cuban
people. We will not impose our political
or economic system on you.“
How do you impose freedom? How do you force people into self-determination,
compel people to exercise free markets? This
has been a recurring theme in liberalism, at its core is the belief that
America is nothing special, that the great experiment in freedom is the moral
equivalent of a great experiment in Marxism or Maoism or Sharia. In the end
Obama sees an equivalency between American governance and Communist oppression,
and always looking back Obama sees the hand of America as the root cause of the
issues not the communist oppressors who lied to gain American support than seized
power and instituted their totalitarian regime.
A Cruz quote directed at Russia: “Autocrats have reason to
fear when Americans focus on our principles, and focus on exceptionalism,
because it’s been American exceptionalism that stood up to the Nazis, stopped
the murder from the Nazis And it was American exceptionalism that stood up to
the Soviet Union and freed hundreds of millions from behind the Iron
Curtin. So Putin is right to be
concerned about American exceptionalism.”
Trump: “we’re not a strong country anymore. We will have so
much winning if I get elected, that you may get bored with winning.”
Time and space fail but next time we’ll look at the last two
points, since the issue of terrorism deserves its own post.
Until then, keep on the firing line!
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