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Nightmare Presidency (India waking up to Obama's naivete)
The Pioneer ^ | 9/28/09 | The Pioneer Edit Desk

Posted on 09/28/2009 6:16:35 AM PDT by teddyballgame

In the eight months he has been in office, Mr Obama has snubbed India more than once. He has sent repeated signals that New Delhi is not integral to his Asian security architecture. Partly as a result of his country’s economic crisis, he has bent over backwards to accommodate China. His open advocacy of protectionism has been most visibly targeted at outsourcing of technology jobs to India. He headlined anti-trade legislation by saying it would punish those who created jobs in Bangalore rather than Buffalo, a special mention that was extraordinarily impolitic and did not go unnoticed in India. In contrast, the tariff war against Chinese tyres has not been posited in such stark bilateral terms. This past week, the Obama team reversed a decade of American nuclear pragmatism and went back to an outdated non-proliferation agenda that should have died, really, in the 1990s. Once more, India has been asked to give up its nuclear weapons and sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as a second-tier power. Most alarmingly, Mr Obama has swung wildly on Afghanistan-Pakistan (AfPak). At various points his diplomats and Generals have said different things. Yet, in all this the overarching political message has been missing.

There has been a remarkable absence of clarity on Mr Obama’s strategic goals.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailypioneer.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: india
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Featruing the money lines,"He is completely out of his depth and will probably leave behind a dangerous and unsure legacy. India could have done without this neophyte."
1 posted on 09/28/2009 6:16:35 AM PDT by teddyballgame
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To: teddyballgame

Aren’t they right!

What a shame that this narcissistic empty suit is president!


2 posted on 09/28/2009 6:19:05 AM PDT by Michel12
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To: teddyballgame

ROFL...The rest of the world (well, the part that MATTERS) is waking up to Obama’s weakness much as America herself is doing...


3 posted on 09/28/2009 6:20:26 AM PDT by RockinRight (9/12/09 - the day the sh*t hit the fan)
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To: teddyballgame

Insult your friends, cultivate your enemies.

The Obama foreign policy mirrors his comtempt for America.


4 posted on 09/28/2009 6:20:46 AM PDT by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
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To: teddyballgame

India is fighting islamic terrorism within their own borders. I bet Zero doesn’t like that one bit.


5 posted on 09/28/2009 6:24:48 AM PDT by bergmeid
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To: teddyballgame

But. The. Entire. World. WANTED. Dear Leader.

They. Got. Him.


6 posted on 09/28/2009 6:25:46 AM PDT by Happyinmygarden (Yes, actually, I have pretty much seen and heard it all before...)
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To: bergmeid

India seems to be saying, “I am not knowing why you would elect such a man. He is not wanting to help us. You guy. “


7 posted on 09/28/2009 6:27:30 AM PDT by teddyballgame
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To: teddyballgame

The UK, Aussie and India press have Zero’s numberbut good.
Only our state run media synchophants are willing to appear as utter fools on a daily basis in their parallel-universe approach to reporting.


8 posted on 09/28/2009 6:27:41 AM PDT by rod1
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To: RockinRight

“ROFL...The rest of the world (well, the part that MATTERS) is waking up to Obama’s weakness much as America herself is doing...”

I’d like to agree with you about America waking up. I don’t see it. Those who are “waking up” are the ones who didn’t want him in the first place.


9 posted on 09/28/2009 6:30:23 AM PDT by brownsfan (The screen name is a misnomer. Cleveland is STILL without a PRO team.)
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To: rod1

Actually I would amend my prior statement placing parallel universes in a slight negative light.

I actually could learn more about our country’s state from watching the TV show, Fringe, with its parallel universes than I could from following the NY Times, WA PO, LA Times and Ms. Coutic, Jeopardy Whiz-Blitz and their ilk.


10 posted on 09/28/2009 6:31:10 AM PDT by rod1
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To: teddyballgame

But....but....he photographs so well!


11 posted on 09/28/2009 6:33:45 AM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: teddyballgame

WOW...This is a scathing article. Truth is gaining.


12 posted on 09/28/2009 6:34:12 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: teddyballgame
India could have done without this neophyte."

Make that everyone could have done without little bammie. Perhaps if he went back to Chicago or where ever and grow up, get'a job, etc...

13 posted on 09/28/2009 6:35:28 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Happyinmygarden

America. Is. Running. Low. On. Punctuation. Please. Conserve. Periods.


14 posted on 09/28/2009 6:36:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: teddyballgame
Nice to see that the paper Kipling wrote for back in the 1880s is still alive and kicking.

It was known as a conservative paper then and apparently still is.

The comments at the site are interesting. Lots of Americans saying in effect, "We're sorry," and except for one conspiratorial loon, a bunch of Indians agreeing.

15 posted on 09/28/2009 6:40:57 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: Lazamataz

Please. With all of those pauses, it takes me all day to read the sentence.

This is series.


16 posted on 09/28/2009 6:43:57 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ein Volk, Ein Riech, Ein Ein.)
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To: Vermont Lt
Please. With all of those pauses, it takes me all day to read the sentence.

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17 posted on 09/28/2009 6:49:36 AM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: teddyballgame
It is a mistake to believe obama is making “mistakes” rather than doing what he is doing on purpose with deliberate intent, just like it is a mistake to believe obama’s motivations and goals are the same as other Americans’ or even those of past Presidents other than Carter.
18 posted on 09/28/2009 6:49:39 AM PDT by GBA
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To: GBA

I agree. This is all intentional...AND a huge mistake. I’ve always said that his foreign policy scares me more than his domestic agenda, which says a lot!


19 posted on 09/28/2009 6:52:08 AM PDT by teddyballgame
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To: denydenydeny
The Obama administration:

Contemptuous and disdainful towards America's friends; weak and craven towards America's enemies; rapacious and oppressive towards America's citizens.

And we're only through a little more than the first eight months. Things are going to get worse.

20 posted on 09/28/2009 6:57:58 AM PDT by Cheburashka (Stephen Decatur: you want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
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