Salute’s last blog post..Who You Going Call?

“Europe” did not “work” with us because they said GW Bush was a “cowboy” but this was not the real reason. Now, after Obama’s visit their and the essentially non-existent results he took home it will be interesting to see what their new excuse will be.

And all the truth in the world won’t stop the leftists from rewriting history (and not just in textbooks, mind you.)

Imagine my surprise to learn I had remembered it wrong all along: that terrorism committed in the name of Allah never existed before President Bush (unless they’re losing an argument and need to play the Beirut card) and that President Bush alienated our good friends the art-loving, historic statue preserving, artifact guardians the Taliban of Afghanistan?

I can’t decide if I should send my teen to college with a tinfoil hat or stick to my first instinct which is to bolt the doors shut to keep her away from their poison.

Furthermore, Reagan acted “unilaterally” by placing MX nuclear missiles in Europe which forced the hands of the Soviet Union into true negotiations for a reduction in nuclear missiles. At the time the world screamed that “Raygun” was going to lead us all to WW3. It didn’t happen. Had he been “touchy feely” with them and not walked out of the 1986 Reykjavik summit because the Soviets wanted us to give up SDI he would not have demonstrated his seriousness. The Soviets, unable to compete economically, fell within 3 years. That is called dealing from strength.

Carter, on the other hand, made the following statements:
“Certainly we have no desire or ability to intrude massive forces into Iran or any other country . . .”

“This is something that we have no intention of ever doing in another country. We’ve tried this once in Vietnam. It didn’t work, as you well know.”

Carter also wrote to the Soviet Union’s leader:

of America’s and the Soviet Union’s “common efforts towards formation of a more peaceful, just and humane world,” adding, “I hope that our countries can cooperate more closely in order to promote the development, better diet and more substantive life” of the world’s poor.

The Soviet Union, in Afghanistan, made landmines look like children’s toys. That’s how naive Carter was.

The Soviet Union promptly invaded Afghanistan leading to a war that drew in the United States, enabled the Taliban to take hold once the U.S.S.R. left, then allowed Osama bin Laden to set up camp there.

That’s where “touchy feely” got us.

And I find it curious you ignore the central part of the article… the words of Osama bin Laden where he clearly says:

“Clinton appeared in front of the whole world threatening and promising revenge , but these threats were merely a preparation for withdrawal.”

al Qaeda then launched no fewer than 5 terrorist attacks against this country after Clinton’s pull out of troops in Somalia.

It is too early to tell how things go with Obama but, if history is any guide, it is not going to be a good ride.

And Obama’s trip to Europe produced nothing in hand, just more promises of things that had already been promised.