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| The Patriot Post |
Posted on 10/12/2009 2:07:55 PM PDT by nutsonthebus
Your chance to choose. Vote YES, NO or WHO CARES?
Yes, Obama wants to collect all your IP addresses and which URLs you use so that his ‘people’ can ‘visit’ you and try to convince you he deserves it.
I’m not unhappy about it. I’m not happy about it either. Actually, I am quite indifferent. Shrug it off people. Time to get on with more important business.
At the site I posted this under comments.
Greg Lewis in American Thinker presents an uncharitable picture of Obama etal as displaying classic beta male behavior. The alpha male dog approaches directly, while the beta male displays acquiescent gestures signaling uncompromising submission. Lewis sees submissiveness in offering conciliatory gestures to Sudanese leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir, in sending John Kerry to meet Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, in bowing to King Abdullah, in airy discussions with Hugo Chavez and David Ortega, and in generally ridiculing U.S. past actions whenever he appears on an international stage.
Of course these actions are constructive within the worldview continually vetted by liberal constituencies and confirmed with the Nobel Peace Prize. Here the best approaches to diplomacy reside within modern game theory for which John Nash and others received Nobel prizes. Supposedly we simply talk to these people and they realize the brilliance of Western conflict resolution.
For Obama to regard this award as a call to action, he must pursue actions, which gave the United States a well-deserved reputation for abandoning allies, ignoring the suffering of others, and failing to respond to significant attacks. During the Cold War a few examples were crises in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Guatemala, Cuba, and Lebanon. More recently our apathetic boredom impacted Somalia, Rwanda, Uganda, and Sudan.
Unfortunately aspiring totalitarians grasp and retain their power through defeating others on playing fields ruled by human cunning allied with animal brutality. For them an internal/external continuum exists where politics is war without bloodshed, and war is politics with bloodshed. Why abandon such proven strategies, especially when a potential opponent exhibits behaviors they disregarded in their rise to dominion?
Aspiring totalitarians such as Muslims of the Salafi/Wahhabi heresy take great encouragement from our failure to defend the sovereignty of our Iranian embassy, and our subsequent lethargic responses to 15 major terrorist attacks under four presidents. They are well acquainted with our affection for debating elegant foreign policy models until we find meanings for necessity, proportional response, multi-lateralism, and exit strategy, which shelter us from meaningful confrontation with an empty, self-congratulatory righteousness. Obama now has further impetus to walk an all too familiar road, assuring potential allies we will turn a blind eye, agonize over their losses from afar, or cut and run.
Effective diplomacy against emerging opponents will be methodical, covert, multi-faceted, and predictably lethal. Westerners must abandon concepts of war and diplomacy as mutually exclusive. Any resort to war must be managed and not become a bewildering, tragic consequence of shattering attacks induced by failed diplomacy descending into appeasement. Without such a strategy, we can never hope to attract allies interested in human freedom.
Yes he deserved it because the Peace Prize is a joke.
Where’s the selection for “do you think BO is a euro meat puppet?”
It is obvious: Hussein Obama GOT the award because he was America’s first BLACK President.
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