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Subject:
Its Just As Anyone Might Have Predicted Of Liberal Foreign Policy
CJH
10/17/2009 2:19:06 PM
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What is most striking about liberals in government is their predictability.
Here is another mess in the making for the next Republican (as with Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan and Bush, Jr) to clean up.
Eisenhower had to get us out of Truman's war in Korea. Nixon had to get us out of Johnson's war in Vietnam. Reagan had to restore our allies' confidence in our ability to provide them their security. And Bush had to clean up the Al Qaeda situation which had gotten out of control under Clinton.
You have to hand it to the Dems though. They are shrewd enough to conceive of the idea of hamstringing successive Republican administrations by forcing them to waste all their imagination and abilities on just returning the nation's affairs to managebility.
That way, the Dems are always offering hope and change while the Republicans are always stuck with offering the undoing of damage done.
Nice work if you can get it.
Debacle in Moscow
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What's come from Obama holding his tongue while Iranian demonstrators were being shot and from his recognizing the legitimacy of a thug regime illegitimately returned to power in a fraudulent election? Iran cracks down even more mercilessly on the opposition and races ahead with its nuclear program.
What's come from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton taking human rights off the table on a visit to China and from Obama's shameful refusal to see the Dalai Lama (a postponement, we are told)? China hasn't moved an inch on North Korea, Iran or human rights. Indeed, it's pushing with Russia to dethrone the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
What's come from the new-respect-for-Muslims Cairo speech and the unprecedented pressure on Israel for a total settlement freeze? "The settlement push backfired," reports The Post, and Arab-Israeli peace prospects have "arguably regressed."
And what's come from Obama's single most dramatic foreign policy stroke -- the sudden abrogation of missile defense arrangements with Poland and the Czech Republic that Russia had virulently opposed? For the East Europeans it was a crushing blow, a gratuitous restoration of Russian influence over a region that thought it had regained independence under American protection.
But maybe not gratuitous. Surely we got something in return for selling out our friends. Some brilliant secret trade-off to get strong Russian support for stopping Iran from going nuclear before it's too late? Just wait and see, said administration officials, who then gleefully played up an oblique statement by President Dmitry Medvedev a week later as vindication of the missile defense betrayal.
The Russian statement was so equivocal that such a claim seemed a ridiculous stretch at the time. Well, Clinton went to Moscow this week to nail down the deal. What did she get?
"Russia Not Budging on Iran Sanctions; Clinton Unable to Sway Counterpart." Such was The Post headline's succinct summary of the debacle.
Note how thoroughly Clinton was rebuffed. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared that "threats, sanctions and threats of pressure" are "counterproductive." Note: It's not just sanctions that are worse than useless, but even the threat of mere pressure.
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