Peace through begging

Peace through strength.

~ President Ronald Reagan

If President Reagan’s foreign policy with communist nations, Muslim dictatorships and other various evil empires like North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Libya, China and the old Soviet Union was characterized by the philosophy “Peace through strength,” then surely it can be argued that Obama’s foreign policy philosophy is “Peace through begging.”

Let’s start with the recent trips Obama’s secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, made to key countries in an effort to differentiate his policy from Bush’s foreign policy, but also to show these intractable nations, “I’m not George Bush.” What were the results?

Secretary’s Clinton’s recent trip to China was not as a representative of the leader of the free world or of the most powerful nation in the history of the world, but was, with hat-in-hand, essentially our chief diplomat begging Chinese General Secretary Hu Jintao to please buy more of America’s debt before we descend into a Great Depression. China balked and did not seem to accede to nor respect Hillary’s urgent request for economic aid.

The irony of this trip is irresistible. Recall that it was Secretary Clinton’s husband, President Bill Clinton, who essentially allowed to be stolen, sold or outright gave to China billions of dollars in sensitive nuclear technology that enabled this communist nation to take a “new” “Great Leap Forward” (1958-63) as it tried to become America’s No. 1 nuclear power rival in the world, surpassing even Russia.

Let’s look at the Middle East and the Muslim terrorist group Hamas, which rules over the Gaza Strip as a fanatical regime. Obama and Hillary want to give “the Palestinians” $900 million to rebuild Gaza. This is beyond the pale. Even the most faithful Kool-Aid drinkers of the left took pause at this astonishing announcement, for they rightly understood that Israel had just fought another bloody war with Hamas, which is still firing rockets at Israel right now.

In a BBC article on Hamas’ attacks against Israel, one writer said, “Since 2001, when the rockets were first fired, more than 8,600 have hit southern Israel, nearly 6,000 of them since Israel withdrew from Gaza in August 2005. The rockets have killed 28 people [Israelis] and injured hundreds more.”

Of course most reasonable people understand that virtually every dollar of the $900 million in foreign assistance Obama wants to give the Palestinians will go directly to the coffers of Hamas, which will then buy new and better rockets and WMDs from Egypt, Syria and Iran to terrorize our “friend and ally” Israel. The election of conservative Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s new prime minister hopefully will be an obstruction in Obama’s Hitler-like plans to reward Hamas for killing Jews.

Finally, let’s examine Obama’s policy to deal with perhaps America’s most intractable enemy – Iran. U.S. officials told us earlier this week that Obama sent a secret letter to Russia’s President Medvedev last month suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range weapons.

New York Times columnist Peter Baker wrote the following incredible statement regarding Obama’s foreign policy strategy:

The plan to build a high-tech radar facility in the Czech Republic and deploy 10 interceptor missiles in Poland – a part of the world that Russia once considered its sphere of influence – was a top priority for President George W. Bush to deter Iran in case it developed a nuclear warhead to fit atop its long-range missiles. Mr. Bush never accepted a Moscow proposal to install part of the missile defense system on its territory and jointly operate it so it could not be used against Russia.

Now the Obama administration appears to be reconsidering that idea, although it is not clear if it would want to put part of the system on Russian soil where it could be flipped on or off by Russians. Mr. Obama has been lukewarm on missile defense, saying he supports it only if it can be proved technically effective and affordable.

Obama’s peace through begging foreign policy has transmuted into peace through treachery. Not only is our president willing to be a traitor to the Czech Republic and Poland, two historical and faithful allies of America, by leaving them defenseless should Russia becomes aggressive against them again, but, to add insult to insanity, Obama is even contemplating building a missile system on Russian territory that would be jointly run with the United States, “where it [the missile defense system] could be flipped on of off by Russians.”

For a sitting president of the United States to even consider such treachery as allowing Russia veto power over the defense of our historical allies like the Czech Republic and Poland should motivate Congress to write articles of impeachment to remove Obama from the presidency immediately. This naïve and dangerous policy is truly beyond the pale. Yet Congress does not act. These 535 dolts are too busy exploring deep, profound issues like “Oh, my God, it’s Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie! May I have your autograph?” “Is Rush Limbaugh the real leader of the Republican Party?” or “The rich have a moral duty to pay more taxes” (Tim Geithner).

“Madam, we have given you a republic, if you can keep it,” was Benjamin Franklin’s prescient reply to an anonymous lady who asked him after the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1787, “Dr. Franklin, what have you given us today?” Well, America, with the ascent of the neo-Marxist Barack Obama and all of his socialist minions like Hillary Clinton, Rahm Emanuel, Joe Biden, Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, Holder, Salazar, Napolitano and a trillion dollars in new taxes and spending in six weeks, have we “kept” this sacred republic bequeathed to us by the Constitution’s framers? … No!

Vladimir Putin views Obama as Lenin viewed the legions of fools who believed in communism, referring to them as “useful idiots.” Putin couldn’t have picked a better president of America himself. Obama’s first forays into foreign policy has him clearly outclassed and in way over his head. Strongman Putin wants no less than a hegemonic revival of Lenin and Stalin’s communist empire on a global scale.

Reagan constantly exclaimed, “Peace through strength,” as the only logical, moral and pragmatic means to deal with an evil, intractable enemy like North Korea, China, Iran or Russia. Obama has seemingly taken an opposite approach based not on strength but weakness; not only with Russia, but with an even more dangerous enemy of America, Iran, whom we now know for years Russia has been surreptitiously supplying with scientists, technology and materials to build their very own nuclear weapons – WMDs Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has repeatedly promised he will use to “wipe Israel off the map.”

And now we reach the apotheosis “the enemy (Russia) of my enemy (Iran) is my friend” as America under President Obama practices foreign policy like slaves on our knees. Peace through strength? Or peace through begging? You decide which foreign policy will best serve America and her vital national interests.

 

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