Why Obama's "Friends" Policy Doesn't Work
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Cuba news ticker: let freedom (not) ring.
Democrats, Obama specifically when he was running for president, thought the U.S. should have more of a touchy-feeling policy towards what President G.W. Bush called the “axis of evil” a scary term for Liberals because it brought up that whole good and evil thing. Obama was going to change this entire tone thing and, in the process, make new friends with people like the leaders of Iran, North Korea, and Cuba:
On his first trip overseas, Mr. Obama referred to Mr. Bush’s foreign policy and said the United States has “shown arrogance” and been “dismissive, even derisive.” He said decisions of the past had “lowered our standing in the world.”
So Obama has tried to be more open, friendly, kind, nice, etc. He invited Iranain officials to embassies on July 4th to enjoy our Independence Day until they suppressed the election results and shot and jailed protestors. Whoops. Just the other day a news ticker on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana, Cuba was shut off because the messages it displayed (you know things like you live in a dictatorship, etc.) were too upsetting for the poor Cuban government. Since we don’t want to upset dictators it’s better that we keep that whole “freedom thing” under wraps.
Obama’s overtures with North Korea haven’t gone so well, either. They shot off a couple of missiles, said they were working on new nukes, and basically told Obama to pound sand. Mr. Obama also tried to become pals with Venezulan strongman Huge Chavez but unfortunately a new study by the Government Accountability Office shows that Chavez’s government is corrupt and fueled by drug money. Whoops!
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Now we have reports that the situation in Iran is much worse:
Some prisoners say they watched fellow detainees being beaten to death by guards in overcrowded, stinking holding pens. Others say they had their fingernails ripped off or were forced to lick filthy toilet bowls.
The accounts of prison abuse in Iran’s postelection crackdown — relayed by relatives and on opposition Web sites — have set off growing outrage among Iranians, including some prominent conservatives. More bruised corpses have been returned to families in recent days, and some hospital officials have told human rights workers that they have seen evidence that well over 100 protesters have died since the vote.
We shouldn’t be talking rocket science here (or even healthcare reform). These are dictatorships run by corrupt strongmen who care only for furthering their agendas. These people don’t care about the rule of law or what the people over whom they rule want… it’s about staying in power. For President Obama to think about things any differently shows complete ignorance as to human nature and reality.
By criticizing the former administration and talking about his new tone Obama makes a big mistake… he hitches his success to what the dictators in other countries do… If the dictators invite him for coffee and hamburgers he is vindicated… if they tell him to shove it and continue doing evil Obama looks foolish. Now, which choice do you think a dictator who hates America will take?
The only way to stop a bully is to call him what he is to his face and not back down. Making “friends” and playing nice hasn’t done anything positive for America. Maybe it’s time for some of that “arrogance” Obama mocked?
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07:51
it still thoroughly disturbs me that obama is too chickensh@#t to speak out against the human rights violations in the above countries and china, but immediately draws his political sidearm when he doesn’t have all the facts in a mistaken identity in new england.
10:29
What? Another leftist is learning that his rhetoric sounds great but doesn’t hold up in the real world? Seriously?
Imagine that!
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11:30
New word: arrognorance.
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18:14
It’s like Jimmy Carter all over again… only worse
18:15
Funny you should say that… check out the video clip a few posts up!
08:46
Calling countries the Axis of Evil didn’t help much either.
North Korea, Iran – still not on good terms with the U.S, even though George W. Bush was hard on them.
Brian Anderson´s last blog ..Bill Clinton heads to North Korea
09:17
The point isn’t to be on good terms with them it is to get results. Granted, North Korea wasn’t the biggest success story but nobody’s been able to do anything with them in over half a century. As for Iran, well, I bet they’re happy Obama’s in office.
12:18
What results did Bush get with by labeling them the Axis of Evil?
If you get on good terms, maybe you start seeing results. If you stay on bad terms, how many positive results will you see?
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12:22
The “label” got no results, the motivation behind it did as much as is possible under a theocracy.
It let Iran know clearly how the U.S. viewed them, several Iranians intelligence agents were captured in Iraq, for example, and this was reported. Sanctions, and tougher talk on their nuclear ambitions than we’ve seen from Obama. Iran is pretty open about what they’re going to do regarding nukes… much more so than under Bush.
High level diplomatic talks were also off limits. How do you think North Korea feels after shooting off missiles and telling the U.S. to go stuff itself and now it has a former U.S. president visiting? It’s called kowtowing and for all of his flaws, G.W. Bush didn’t do that because it rewards bad behavior.
Dictators around the world “endorsed” Obama which should tell you something.
21:20
Something positive happened today by being friendly it seemed. Thoughts?
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21:24
N. Korea grabbed to Americans who may or may not have done anything wrong and held them for “ransom” until their demands were met… in this case big time recognition and a photo op with a former U.S. president. The history of N. Korea is to do something dramatic, beg for attention, get thrown a bone, then do it all over again.