Posted on 05/20/2008 5:21:36 PM PDT by enough_idiocy
By expressing a readiness to meet with Cuba's Raul Castro, and also to meet with personally with the heads of Iran, Syria, and North Korea, Senator Obama seems to be promising that one of the changes his Presidency would bring is a greater willingness to engage in person with controversial foreign heads of state. Accordingly, there is another head of state with whom Obama should also promise to be willing to meet in person: Taiwan's new President Ma Ying-Jeou.
Unlike some of the other foreign leaders whom Obama has said he would meet, Ma won a legitimate, free election, is very friendly towards the United States, is not working on a nuclear weapons program, does not militarily threaten the U.S. or its allies, and does not sponsor international terrorism. A fortiori, the case for a meeting with Ma is much stronger than the case for a meeting with Castro et al.
Ever since the Carter administration broke diplomatic relations with Taiwan, the U.S. State Department has imposed a policy against personal meetings (or even phone calls!) between high-ranking officials of the United States and Taiwan.
An Obama-Ma meeting would infuriate the Chinese Communist dictatorship. However, such a meeting might help allay concerns that President Obama would be easily coerced by dictatorships, or that he might be weak in supporting U.S. allies. In any case, given that Obama has answered whether he would be willing to meet with Raul Castro, it would be reasonable for him to state whether he will meet with Ma Ying-Jeou
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Maybe Obama can become a time traveller and kowtow and kiss ass with Hitler, Stalin, Attilla the Hun, and Vlad the Impaler.
Pressing him on this puts him in a difficult position - challenge his boy Carter’s policy and treat good leaders the same as bad ones, or reveal the ridiculousness of his position.
President Ma Ying-Jeou (aka Mark Ma), is too smart for Obama. How do I know? I was a classmate of Mark’s in the 1971 Seminar for Sino-American Youth at Chengchi University.
He was not only smart, but a genuinely nice person who cared for his country. He values freedom, unlike Obama who won’t support US efforts to preserve it in other countries.
Glad to see that he has become their leader.
For a story on this subject, see my column “Mark and Me” at www.thenewdominion.com. Search for it by title name or my name, Max Friedman.
Awesome video:
The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
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