The View From 1776

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President Obama campaigned on the foreign policy theme that our foreign enemies would become cooperative allies if we just talked nice to them.  So far, that has not been an effective foreign policy in dealing with Iran.

In last year’s campaign, along with Democrat/Socialist Party leaders in Congress, he urged pulling out of the “wrong war” in Iraq and aggressively pursuing Osama Bin Ladin in the “real war” in Afghanistan.  He made a stab at ramping up the war in Afghanistan, but the fair-weather war hawks in the radical left wing of liberal-progressivism are now deserting him. 

Any decision he makes will be extremely consequential for the future of the United States.  Read StratFor’s analysis.

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Obamacare is quintessential socialism, of which the overriding characteristic is forced equality of consumption, a major step in the direction of egalitarian distribution of income.

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Now that the Iranians have failed to heed his sweet talk, the president has brought out his really big cannon: a condemnatory resolution in the UN.  To the same extent that such repeated resolutions over twelve years reduced Saddam Hussein to quivering fear, the Iranian rulers are no doubt weeping and bewailing their unhappy fate at the hands of Barack the Irresolute.

In what resembles a poor imitation of a Saturday Night Live skit, Obama in effect is telling the Iranians and the world that the United States will no longer defend its allies nor its own national interests.  In line with the sensitive foreign policy advocated by Senator John Kerry (who, by the way, served in Viet Nam),  we will stand by when the Iranians attempt to wreak nuclear devastation upon Israel, having washed our hands of responsibility by referring the matter to the enforcement powers of the toothless UN (which, by the way, is ruled by Islamic and other third world terrorist regimes).

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