Not much change in international relations
For the last 8 years we were told by the left wing Democrats, the reason we were not getting co-operation from Europe and the Middle East and were getting outright hatred from some parts of the Middle East and North Korea, was all due to George W Bush. Then Along came the Messiah, Barrack Hussein Obama. He told us that he would use his silver tongue to smooth over all the problems we had with these other countries. He would admit that the U.S.A. caused most of the problems in the world, because the prior administration condemned terrorists and the countries that harbored them. He said the U.S.A. was a torture nation (We water boarded 3 High ranking terrorists and got info that saved many innocent American lives) as opposed to our enemies among the nations of the Middle East and North Korea, who only mutilate, behead, blow up and send to rat infested concentration camps innocent civilians. He vowed to close Gitmo prison where the worst of the worst terrorists were being held, and send them to nations that would not harm them. The terrorist’s own countries would torture and kill them if they were returned to them. None of our “friends” in Europe want them. He is paying Pelau two hundred million dollars to take 17 of them. What a great idea!
What about results? After his bow and scrape apology tour through Europe and the Middle East, did he get concessions? NO! Did he get Co-operation? NO! Do any of our enemies hate us less? NO! Apparently George W. Bush wasn’t the problem we were told he was and Obama is not the Messiah he says he is.
Donald J. Meyer
St. Louis County
Don
We are told by the previous administration that they got info that saved thousands of lives. They cannot give specifics but we should trust what they say. These were the same people who said that we should just trust them about their information on WMD’s. So with nothing else than their word we are suppose to trust people like Cheney about the information? Get real.
No there is no significant change in foreign relations. Bush took 8 years to screw it up but now you are proclaiming Obama a failure because he could not fix them in 5 months.
Maybe we need to reduce the Presidential term to 100 days. Evidently the right wing expects everything to be accomplished in that number of days. So if they have not accomplished it they evidently should be let go and if they have4 accomplished everything then they should move on. So we would have about 3 elections a year.
Mr. Meyer,
I agreed with your first sentence, then you lost me. When exactly did President Obama admit the U.S.A. “caused most of the problems in the world?” When exactly did he say the “U.S.A. was a torture nation?” What exactly was that “info that saved many innocent American lives?” One of us is misinformed and I don’t think its me. Ergo, your conclusion is flawed–George W. Bush (and Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, et al) was indeed the problem we were told he was and no one but those on the right refer to the President as the Messiah. Furthermore, our international image has vastly improved since the election, denying that fact will not make it so. But think positive, perhaps Dick Cheney will get his wish and we’ll be attacked again so he can make his political points. What a patriot!
I hope that we, nor anyone else, gets attacked again. But we were attacked on President Bush’s watch…we were attacked on President Clinton’s watch…we were attacked on President Reagan’s watch. It’s not OUR fault, any more than Pearl Harbor was. We need to identify the enemy…which right now seems to be Muslims who can’t stand Western nations…and take the fight to them. And if you are a Muslim who does not agree with what your co-religionists are doing in Allah’s name, it’s time for you to stand up as well. Can’t you, en masse, excommunicate them, or whatever it is you do, to deny them the sanctity of your religion?
Beg pardon, meant to say that I hope we don’t get attacked again
Bob and Commander agree 100%.
Donald,
You are lost! Obama NEVER SAID he was the MESSIAH!
Only Rightous Rush and his worshipers call him that.
You sound just like a “ditto head”.
Definition of Ditto Head: Pea brained Simpleton that needs to be told how to think. Lacks substance and the ability to think for one self.
Donald..Your watching way too much fox news and listening to hate radio. When Bush went to the Midle East shoes were thrown at him.Whem Obama went people yelled “we love you”. I call that PROGRESS.
Good grief, Hussein was given the name “The Messiah” by Oprah Winfrey; The rest of the posts are nothing other than propaganda, and Hussein pleading to be a victim. That is not worthy of a serious comment.
Here’s what happens when you have a limp wristed pansy in the White House:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_koreas_nuclear
They want to murder us and Obama Hussein wants to sit down with them and have tea. He’s not the Messiah, he’s Satan. Obama Hussein will be the death of all Americans.
Donald,
I share your frustration with the progress of US foreign policy, but I believe the problems are way beyond the personalities of either former President Bush or President Obama. It lies in the very nature of the threat we face from the global Jihadists.
The Islamic radicals who attack us here and abroad have an ideology that has as its goal the supremacy of Islam (their interpretation of it) and the imposition of Sharia (religious) law over all the earth. This ideology has its roots in the radical theology promoted in many mosques and madrassas (religious schools) around the world, and is funded by the oil-producing nations of the Persian Gulf.
Many of the European governments who opposed our military actions in Iraq did so because of lucrative economic deals with Saddam Hussein’s government, or a belief that standing aside would somehow insulate them from Jihadist attacks. Subsequent elections in Germany and France have seen pro-American leaders come to power, with accompanying improvements in relations with the US.
The Jihadists aren’t going to like us regardless of what we do, and the Europeans have slowly begun to wake up to the fact that their interests lie in opposing the radicals’ ideology and acting in concert with America to address the problem. Unfortunately, many of these same countries have depended on the US for their defense for so long, their militaries are woefully unprepared for worldwide obligations.
For US policymakers, regardless of their party affiliation, the goal must be to advance the principles of individual freedom, human rights, and respect for the rule of law. That will require standing up to the authoritarian regimes in the Middle East who control much of the region’s oil reserves. America and its allies must present an alternative ideology that emphasizes the strengths of Western civilization, and actively resist those who advance a Jihadist movement every bit as determined to conquer the world as Nazism and Communism. The radicals see themselves at war with the West and are determined to win it. Americans need to stop fighting amongst themselves and commit themselves equally to victory.
debra
As usual, you don’t know what you are talking about.
http://blog.beliefnet.com/reformedchicksblabbing/2008/10/louis-farrakhan-called-obama-t.html