Posted on 02/28/2011 11:09:18 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
.....Just a few years ago the United States was genuinely feared on the world stage, and dictatorial regimes, strategic adversaries and state sponsors of terror treaded carefully in the face of the world’s most powerful nation. Now Washington appears weak, rudderless and frequently confused in its approach. From Tehran to Tripoli, the Obama administration has been pathetically slow to lead, and afraid to condemn acts of state-sponsored repression and violence. When protesters took to the streets to demonstrate against the Islamist dictatorship in Iran in 2009, the brutal repression that greeted them was hardly a blip on Barack Obama’s teleprompter screen,...
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It has also become abundantly clear that the Obama team attaches little importance to human rights issues, and in contrast to the previous administration has not pursued a freedom agenda in the Middle East and elsewhere. It places far greater value upon engagement with hostile regimes, even if they are carrying out gross human rights abuses, in the mistaken belief that appeasement enhances security. This has been the case with Iran, Russia and North Korea for example. This administration has also been all too willing to sacrifice US leadership in deference to supranational institutions such as the United Nations, whose track record in standing up to dictatorships has been virtually non-existent.
The White House’s painful navel-gazing on Libya last week, with even the French adopting a far tougher stance, is cause for grave concern. The Obama administration’s timid approach to foreign policy is the last thing the world needs at a time of mounting turmoil in the Middle East, including the growing threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, and Islamist militancy on the rise from Egypt to Yemen. US leadership is now needed more than ever, but has embarrassingly gone AWOL on the world stage.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
America is a muzzled tiger. There is a difference.
True. Muzzled, not paper.
But to the dictators, muzzled appears the same as paper.
Meekly worded citations?
Their greatest fear is a sternly worded press release in all caps.
Articulate? LOL! Ask the teleprompter what it things about that.
Clean? Does that mean he has no past therefore no record which to attack/defend?
We are now a Paper-Tiger
FOX News running with two new Pirate Highjackings
Somali Pirates Seize Danish Tacht With 7 Aboard (including children)
And Greek-Owned Vessel With 23 on board
Obama is a punk, there is no doubt of that.
But after seeing the way Bush was treated when he stood up for America and the way liberals attacked him for it, I can halfway understand how those who follow him would feel.
Liberal and Educated Americans haven’t the stomach for war./
They feel they can talk to dictators.They may be educated,but they are stupid. The only thing Muslims and dictators understand is force.
It told me all I need to know.
CheezLouise look at those guns! Apparently the msm kudos led to her continuing to pump them up because those gunboats look bigger than 90% of the men out there.
To take a tough stand against evil-doers would mean Bush was right. That Obama cannot abide.
The only ones who fear Obama are Americans.
Does it never occur to them that there’s a fine line between talking to dictators and collaborating with them?
One guy, Rove ,made a prediction last Nov. He said, believe it or not, foreign policy could also be a huge reason voters fear putting the faux CIC-CEO back in office. As the weeks, months roll on by, that predictions looks pretty good. He may be the weakest foreign policy Prez we have had since....Carter. He was not respected either. What is bothersome is Obama is so alien to our own values and security interests. Yet, the libs will still vote for him and we know so many, too many, minority lemmings will without even realizing how horrid his security policies or lack thereof, are for all Americans. Even dumbed down liberals.
Short answer? ONLY if they are besieged by Muslims who want to overthrow them.
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