Posted on 09/14/2013 6:13:21 AM PDT by Innovative
In the Syrian rubble of Barack Obama’s foreign policy lies a moment of opportunity for conservatives. It is a moment for building a muscular foreign policy based on a recognition of good and evil; on an unapologetic conviction that the United States stands firmly on the right side of that ledger because it stands for the liberty and equal dignity of every human being; and, therefore, on an unwavering commitment to have our interventions guided solely by American national interests.
It is a Ronald Reagan moment. Now, all we need is a Ronald Reagan. For now, we have only pretenders, split into two camps.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Definitely worth reading the entire article.
Russia has Russian soldiers on their border.
No gay pride marches in their army.
13% flat tax, no capital gains tax.
Now the answer is becoming clear: freedom and the American dream are available in Russia. Not here.
Who would have thought it?
Russia - the “new America”.... what we used to be.
A great quote from the article:
“Like Communism, Islamic supremacism threatens America and the West comprehensively — it attacks both forcibly and culturally; it pressures without and infiltrates within. A conservative national-security policy would respond in kind. “
Cultural Marxism always leads to economic Marxism.
“Today, the enemy is Islamic supremacism, which inevitably reigns whenever Islam is imposed as a governing system. We must abandon the notion that this Islam is a religion.”
Obama’s policy has been flawed and rotten at its core. He gambled that the al Qaeda dominated rebels would overthrow Assad and dislodge the Iranians from their forward Syrian bases. He ignored not only their inherent evil nature but the horrific anti Christian atrocities these lowlifes were committing. The result has been a strategic disaster. Iran has located mobile short range ballistic missiles in Syria which prevent Israel from attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities without suffering a devastating counterattack. Thanks to Obama’s ineptness, the Iranians will have their nuclear weapons within a year.
In the Syrian rubble of Barack Obama’s foreign policy lies a moment of opportunity for conservatives. It is a moment for building a muscular foreign policy based on a recognition of good and evil; on an unapologetic conviction that the United States stands firmly on the right side of that ledger because it stands for the liberty and equal dignity of every human being; and, therefore, on an unwavering commitment to have our interventions guided solely by American national interests. It is a Ronald Reagan moment. Now, all we need is a Ronald Reagan. For now, we have only pretenders, split into two camps.
Antoher interesting one:
Obama Falls Right Into Putin’s Trap (Moscow Times)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3066711/posts
What makes you think it’s ineptness...
All I know is that despite the swooning over the article I can’t see that it really has a point other than what we already know. Assad, Iran, and the islamists are bad and we should oppose them by some vague means.
Personally I think Reagan would stay out of it and let the muslims kill each other while offering a strong defense of Israel in the event of an attack.
The alliance of Islamists and the left here and abroad has drawn my attention for some time. A marriage of convenience for certain, since they couldn't coexist peacefully long were they ever did defeat a more or less free America and like-minded states. Islamists, as their primitive nature dictates, cannot prosper in advanced, structured societies and no doubt their apparent allies know this which makes them nothing more than a bloody implement of the left.
And McCarthy's right about the Left's/Islamists' subversion strategy from within their targets. Just examine Obama's mentors, advisers, appointees and on it goes.
Islamic supremacism "threatens America and the West comprehensively," so the U.S. foreign/military policy in the Middle East since 1990 has been built around a strategy of removing dictators who have been the strongest regional defense against radical Islam for decades?
ROFL.
Islam’s war against civilization is FAR from over.
I agree...
I’m tired of all this hand wringing about every place else but what is happening at home in the USA...
It just seems to me that we’re being distracted from serious domestic issues with a lot of key jangling in the mideast. It reminds of Hugo Chavez screaming about evil America as a means of distracting the people from their domestic problems.
I’m tired of these pundits and columnists...
Nobody talks about the real issues... everything is some kind of duplicitous distraction...
I just buy more ammo...
Republican leadership appoints Barney Frank to head the RNC.
Right. It is just getting started.
But in the vice presidential debate last year, VP Biden said it was not possible for Iran to have nuclear weapons... what a schmuck...
New world order cr@p.
Promotes secular humanism.
If we agree that Islam and Sharia law can’t be the foundation for any nation’s legal system - then the same would follow for Christianity. New world order does not want the Bible to be the foundation of our laws. New world order wants to determine our laws themselves, with no limits on what they can impose.
Ergo, secular humanism. Religion out, new world order in.
Democracy really means manipulated elections to impose slavery.
In a democracy, if a “majority” wants individual rights taken away - the government then enforces their wishes.
Theoretically, in the US Constitutional Republic, our secular humanist Constitution at least lists a few rights that are supposed to be observed, well, as long as they are not amended out of the Constitution. But as we see, over the long haul new world order has successfully imposed debt and tax slavery on Americans, and has completely eradicated any semblance of Biblical morality from laws in the United States.
That was the goal all along.
Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qada work for new world order, as does the European and US governments.
The US - like every other nation - has zero right to topple Assad.
Yet OUR Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qada has been trying to do just that. I say OUR because when US officials speak, other nations know that they speak on behalf of new world order. And in behind-the-scenes discussions, when high level new world order operatives speak, Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qada know that NWO has the US government at its disposal. The US government pretends to oppose MB and Al Qada. In truth, however, high-level muslim leaders (both those with ties to terrorism, muslim governments or both) move comfortably in the leadership of society in both the US and the UK. There are international organizations that are well respected in the US and UK and Europe that are filled with people with ties to high-level terror organizations.
NWO, don’t forget, is the same team that provided financing to both the Russian revolution and the Nazi regime, even to the extent of donations to personal accounts of leaders so they could operate and succesfully take over their respective nations.
The effort of the “rebels” in the Syrian revolution has cost billions - billions with a b - so far. That means it has the backing and blessing of high-level, powerful people, who have billions at their disposal.
NWO’s Saudi and Qatari vassals know that if they don’t do NWO’s bidding their royal families will be the next ones ousted by a revolt. And if they cooperate with NWO, they can continue raking in the billions and living like, well, kings.
Thanks.
Rather than say "strategy of removing dictators" you should say Idealism. Or, in addition to a foreign policy based on the US's self interest, our foreign policy should also include action for Idealistic reasons. Idealistic reasons would include humanitarianism, nation building, spreading democracy, to include removing oppressive dictators even if that dictator tamped down muslim fundamentalism.
Keep in mind that it was Bibi Netanyahu who, in 1996, while serving his first term, gave a speech to Congress in which he urged the US to democratize the Mideast. And the first ones we democratized were the Palestinians, which gave rise to power by Hamas.
When we say Idealists we are talking about NeoCon Republicans and Liberal Interventionist Democrats. Individually or collectively. But the Liberal Interventionists are multilateralists and the NeoCons are Unilateralists.
Thru GHW Bush, the Realists controlled US foreign policy so GHW Bush didn't remove a dictator, he drove him out. At that time, the NeoCons, led by the top NeoCon working for GHW Bush, Dick Cheney, wanted Bush to go on to Bagdad and remove Saddam. Bush, Powell, Baker, Scowcroft, Rice said no.
Then Clinton took over and the Liberal Interventionists rose to power and Idealism took over. A very good example is that GHW Bush sent the Marines to Somalia on a purely humanitarian mission and Clinton/Interventionists shifted the mission to nation building, which led to Black Hawk Down. No different from when the NeoCons convinced Reagan to send the Marines to Beirut. Many don't recall that Clinton retained Realist Colin Powell as Joint Chief, but he resigned because of his conflicts with the Liberal Interventionist Hawk, Madeline Albright. No different from when Powell left GW Bush over his conflicts with the NeoCons/Cheney.
GW Bush campaigned on a Realist foreign policy, but put the NeoCons in charge.
That damn Obama keeps shifting between the Realists and the Interventionists. After Obama finally consented to intervening in Libya, Bill Kristol proclaimed Obama to be a "Born Again NeoCon".
Then Obama threw the Syria monkey wrench into the GOP and started another GOP war. The Republican Realists have shifted from "all in or all out" to maybe we can put a foot or knee in but we won't go in waist deep. Or as they used to say: Neck deep in the big muddy, and the damn fool said to march on.
Or perhaps we can blame it all on President Wilson and the Peace to End All Peace, bite the bullet, and reconfigure the entire Mideast and north Africa.
This is a great article!
That will only be true while there are still semi-capitalist competitors with serious muscle, which is down to basically the USA and nobody else.
The minute we cease to be a viable counterweight in military and economic terms, Russia will go directly to Communism. No passing “go”, no collecting 200 rubles. Their leaders and apparatchiks and the hordes of ex-communist spies and secret police are itching to make a comeback from the Cold War.
And if they truly get their chance, you’ll no more be able to pursue the American dream in Russia than you’ll be able to eat ice cream in hell.
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