Victor Davis Hanson lists some possibilities:
So as the U.S. completes its metamorphosis into a much larger version of the EU, we should expect to see something of the following:
Karzai or Allawi will look more to Iran, which will soon become the regional and nuclear hegemon of the Middle East.
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics had better mend fences with Russia.
The EU should finally start on that much-ballyhooed all-European response force.
Taiwan, the Philippines, and South Korea should strengthen ties with China.
Buffer states in South America had better make amends with a dictatorial, armed, and aggressive Chavez.
Israel should accept that the U.S. no longer will provide support for it at the UN, chide the Arab states to cool their anti-Israeli proclamations, remind the Europeans not to overdo their popular anti-Israeli rhetoric, or warn radical Palestinians not to start another intifada. (In other words, it’s open season to say or do anything one wishes with Israel.)
As for bankrupt, wannabe national defaulters, don’t worry — we are rapidly catching up, and have neither the credibility nor the desire to lecture you about artificial constructs like “debt,” “bonds,” “trust,” and other archaic financial euphemisms manipulated to protect the international capital of an overseer class.
Sowing a new crop takes a while, but the sprouting has begun and the bitter, 1979-like harvests will soon be upon us.
Which sounds about right – welcome back, Carter, indeed.
The one error we conservatives must not fall in to is to think of this as some sort of deliberate attempt by Obama to wreck the United States or run the world up on the rocks. It does risk both these things, but that doesn’t mean it is what Obama intends.
Always keep in mind just what sort of person Obama is – the product of elite, liberal education. Because of this, Obama believes that the source of conflict is not in evil men doing wicked things, but in misunderstandings – mostly on our part. If we would just reach out to our enemies – who are not really enemies, just misunderstood people – then we can usher in a new era of peace and cooperation.
Don’t get hung up on how monumentally stupid such a world view is – liberals have a way of completely insulating themselves from reality. It doesn’t matter what actually happens – to this day, Jimmy Carter doesn’t believe he was an utter failure as President. If anything was wrong, it was with us – people too stupid to see what a wonderful job he was doing. Iran could nuke Tel Aviv and Obama simply will not admit that his policies have failed – he’d blame Bush and pledge to press for Iran to not nuke Tel Aviv a second time, all the while asserting that the key to peace is nuclear disarmament and adherence to the non-proliferation treaty.
Our task – as patriots – is to back our President up in whatever firm policies he does undertake (thus our strong support for the campaign in Afghanistan) and for the rest of it, just pray that nothing really bad happens while Obama is in office. This is part of the price of defeat, fellow conservatives – we lost in 2008, and part of what we’re going to have to endure is a foreign policy completely divorced from reality.
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