James Earl Obama
Tags: Loser Watch.
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Yep:
Why did things go south for Carter so fast? Because America’s enemies had taken measure of the man during his first, change-filled year in office. They saw weaknesses they could exploit. In the second year, they made their move.
In Year One, Carter invested all the international prestige of his presidency in diplomacy and image-making. His energy was dedicated almost exclusively to “making nice” on the world stage. It’s what drove his actions in the Israeli-Egyptian peace process, at strategic-arms limitation talks and in negotiating the Panama Canal Treaty.
It was a perpetual exercise in “soft power.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Except …
While Obama and co might think they are living in a post-modern world where everything can be deconstructed in to meaninglessness, the rest of the world lives in reality where power matters. In fact, for the leaders of Russia, Iran, China and Syria, the only thing which matters is power. Even supposing the left wing narrative is right (ie, that what we’re dealing with is blowback from our previous policy errors and crimes), it doesn’t change the fact that enemy leaders simply don’t care one way or the other about it. They only care about their power, and getting more of it – and in the global competition for Tyrant of the Year, wrecking US policy is always a sure winner.
They don’t care that Obama is black. They don’t care that Obama is cool. They don’t care that Obama speaks fluent liberalese. They are delighted we are essentially telegraphing that we won’t use force to get our way. They are thrilled to find that Obama is willing to give up strong positions on the theory that by so doing we’ll make the tyrants willing to work with us for the common good. And they are now crafting their plans with all this in mind.
And that means we’re in for a bad couple years. Welcome back, Carter.
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14 Responses to “James Earl Obama”
Caucus of Corruption
I am so worried that the world will get the same idea about Obama as they did about Carter, with the same or worse outcomes. With the way things are going, Iran will get nukes sooner rather than later, and if the Isrealis actually listen to Obama, they will wait to long to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities out of existence.
Welcome back Carter…lol!
Well, not really lol–I don’t recognize my country anymore…
Oh, that James Earl. At first I thought you were referring to this one for some reason.
As for Carter, he had both successes and failures. His decisions to largely withdraw from South Korea and to cut the DoD’s budget were not tremendously intelligent. Nothing Obama has done is comparable: the DoD’s budget is set to increase by $660 billion, and far from withdrawing military forces, he’s increased the number of military units engaging in actual combat in neutral countries (i.e Pakistan). His biggest failure was of course Iran, but that was one occasion where he actually did use military force, with infamous results, and thus does not exactly mesh with your criticism of Obama.
Now consider his successes. He saved Israel. While the Arab-Israeli conflict has continued to drag on, Israel’s existence is not threatened by ragtag terrorists and homemade rockets. If Israel ever falls, it will be to a modern army capturing territory. Since the Camp David Accords, Israel has not been invaded a single time, and none of its neighbors show any sign of wanting to do so in the foreseeable future. Notably, Egypt itself is now something of a co-belligerent with Israel, helping to maintain Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
And that was not Carter’s only foreign policy success. While his official response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was to take out his frustration on the US Olympic team, he secretly authorized Operation Cyclone, which funded and armed the Afghan Mujahideen, enabling them not only to survive but also to kick some serious Russian zaditsa. The USSR’s continuing war in Afghanistan was, of course, one of the main factors in its eventual collapse.
Keef
Well, not really lol–I don’t recognize my country anymore…
I wake up every day and think the same thing.
You ought to try and run a small business as I do. EVERYTHING we do is regulated, licensed, inspected, dictated.
Usually by some little turd bureaucrat who couldnt make it in the real world.
Couple that with the marxist zer0 we have I dont see much of a future before us.
I had a friend tell me rears ago, we were 10-15 years behind the soviets when they collapsed.
It appears he was correct it wont be pertty.
Breaking: We now know the reason why Obama’s been taking so long to come to a decision on Afghanistan. I myself am not quite sure how to react to this.
SA
Breaking: We now know the reason why Obama’s been taking so long to come to a decision on Afghanistan. I myself am not quite sure how to react to this.</I.
because one lone low level guy resigned?
NO
it is because the empty suit has no clue to what he is doing or how to do it.
He has surrounded him self with local chicago thugs, marxists, tax cheats and criminals. No one in his admin has foreign policy or even management skills.
This jack ass is more worried about waging a war of words against Rush and Fox news while Afghanistan is crashing down around his ankles, the NK and Iranians are peeing on his shoes and he is out campaigning or playing golf.
SA,
The problem is that the Obama administration truly does not believe ANY war is justified. They seem to want the US to become just one more part of a world government, preferably a more socialist one.
If Obama really wanted to win, he would have endorsed the general’s recommendations and requests, and let the experts run the war. But like LBJ before him, he won’t, because to him it is not about winning a war, but winning a political point or race.
The point is that the experts themselves are now reevaluating things. This wasn’t just some low-level guy, he was the man in charge of Zabul Province, which, while its no Helmand or Qandahar, is still a pretty important place. Here’s my analysis, cross-posted (in slightly different form) at my regular haunt:
While I do not agree with Hoh’s conclusion, I do agree with most of the points he makes, as do most other experts (inasmuch as I can apply that term to myself). While I feel that resigning was the wrong thing to do with regards to him personally, it appears to have been good for the analytical community as a whole, because it is forcing people to analyze in depth his Korengal study, which was important not for its newness — we’ve known that most of the insurgency is not ideologically driven quite for some time — but for its absoluteness. If he is right about the utter lack of ideological inroads the Taliban has made in such areas, if he is right that not only the rank and file but also the local leadership has so few ties with the Taliban proper, then there are many areas where we can proceed directly to endgame. There has been talk for quite some time of eventually reaching small-scale peace agreements with local elements of the Taliban; if Hoh is correct, it is time for us to begin working on those agreements. This will do two things: free up troops for deployment in areas that really do need it, and put the Taliban in the position of enforcing their will on their erstwhile subordinates, which will go over about as well as passing out copies of Das Kapital at a TEA Party.
Speaking of the home front, this will also greatly embolden the anti-war movement. The resulting threat of US withdrawal will put tremendous pressure on Karzai (or Abdullah) to get the Afghan government’s act together. If combined with the proper leadership from folks like John Kerry (who negotiated the runoff), and perhaps also with the new tactics currently being hammered out (depending of course on what they are), this will hopefully result in satisfactory reforms. Additionally, this is an event, and will therefore absolutely enrage the Republicans. (Note that I’ve already been proven correct on this.) GOP support for the war has already been crystallizing; this should increase it to the point where the analytical community would only need to focus on one or two Democrats in the event they actually tried to force a withdrawal, so things are secure there too.
Of course, none of this may end up mattering, as the probability of Osama being captured is now higher than at any point since Tora Bora, and that would be the game-changer to end all game-changers.
Sergei,
In a long, difficult war people will come to different conclusions…but, Obama flat out lied: he said he had a new strategy ready to go months ago, and now he’s dithering about whether or not to implement it. Meanwhile, people are dying.
SA
Of course, none of this may end up mattering, as the probability of Osama being captured is now higher than at any point since Tora Bora, and that would be the game-changer to end all game-changers.
NAH not at all.
pure speculation
But doncha know, if Bush had captured OBL he would just have made a martyr out of him, resulting in the recruitment of even more America-haters.
If Obama is president when and if OBL is captured, it will “be the game-changer to end all game-changers…”
I’m trying to figure out how, as of course OBL would be brought to the US, given a cadre of Leftist attorneys, read his rights, and eventually subjected to a criminal trial, in which witnesses would have to appear to testify against him and it would be argued that he did not have his actual fingerprints on any bomb.
The American Criminal Liberties Union would have to put their defenses of NAMBLA on the back burner to defend OBL, the circus would drag on for years, the trial would be another OJ spectacle, and in the meantime Islamic terrorists would be drawn to the location where OBL is held, endangering American citizens.
Yeah, it WOULD be a game changer. On top of the United States of America admitting that OBL is the most powerful man in the universe, it would provide much entertainment and recruitment potential for years to come.
But doncha know, if Bush had captured OBL he would just have made a martyr out of him, resulting in the recruitment of even more America-haters.
If Obama is president when and if OBL is captured, it will “be the game-changer to end all game-changers…”
I’m trying to figure out how, as of course OBL would be brought to the US, given a cadre of Leftist attorneys, read his rights, and eventually subjected to a criminal trial, in which witnesses would have to appear to testify against him and it would be argued that he did not have his actual fingerprints on any bomb.
The American Criminal Liberties Union would have to put their defenses of NAMBLA on the back burner to defend OBL, the circus would drag on for years, the trial would be another OJ spectacle, and in the meantime Islamic terrorists would be drawn to the location where OBL is held, endangering American citizens.
Yeah, it WOULD be a game changer. On top of the United States of America admitting that OBL is the most powerful man in the universe, it would provide much entertainment and recruitment potential for years to come.
Amazona
I hope the Marines would find him first and he “came out shooting”
end of story.
Maybe we could have a replay of arafarts funeral where his body gets dumped out of the coffin during a frenzy of islamic “mourning”
PRICELESS!!!