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2015-01-30 Home Front: WoT

Obama's 'Leading from Behind' has U.S in full retreat

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Posted by Hupineger Glomomp0029 2015-01-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 As I've said times before, ITS "GOOD OWG GLOBALISM".

Unfortunately, it remains highly dubious or questionable iff the US can effec maintain or protect its "Sole" Superpower credibility by "leading from behind" - THE "GREAT GAME" WOULD ARGUE SUCH IS A VERY DANGEROUS FALLACY OR DELUSION, ESPEC WHEN DEALING WID POWERFUL OR POTENT RANKS N-O-T IN THE KNOW.

Again, the US = POTUS Obama hasn't even started wid CHINA in East Asia + WESTPAC.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-01-30 01:00|| 2015-01-30 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 See WASHINGTON FREE BEACON > OBAMA WON'T ARM UKRAINE AS PUTIN SEIZES [more] GROUND.

The Bammer doing a "Red Line" = Libya, Mubarak, Syria, Crimea = "Ukraine I", + Iraq on "Ukraine II"???

SOUTH CHINA SEA = GUAM-CNMI-WESTPAC, or at least the CNMI, aka Soviet-era attacking "Where the US/US-NATO are NOT"???

The CNMI is not Guam's = WORLDNEWS.com's "Camel Rock", but it means the same iff one lives here.

* TOPIX, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PENTAGON WARNS OF CHINESE ARMS DOMINANCE | WASHINGTON FREE BEACON.

* TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > [American Thinker] MORE EVIDENCE CHINA IS PREPARING TO ATTACK JAPAN | MORE SIGNS CHINA IS PREPARING TO ATTACK JAPAN.

On-going PLA-centric buildup, construction on Nanji Isles near Taiwan can only be for purposes of war agz Japan andor Taiwan???

* TOPIX > [Stars-n-Stripes] CHINA'S MAN-MADE ISLANDS HEIGHTEN CONCERNS OF TERRITORIAL CONTROL.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Reuters] US WOULD WELCOME JAPAN AIR PATROLS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-01-30 01:18|| 2015-01-30 01:18|| Front Page Top

#3 In the military, and in aircraft safety, every defeat or accident is studied, so that it can be avoided in the future. The army conducts courts martial to do this. If you fail, you are replaced.
Somehow, this is not true in the State Department. The abject failure of Libyan policy has led to no public discussion, and no change of policy or of leadership, or even public acknowledgement of failure. This is a prescription for disaster.

Posted by Grins Snese4215 2015-01-30 01:27|| 2015-01-30 01:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe the state department does not see Libya as a failure.

Posted by Airandee 2015-01-30 07:02|| 2015-01-30 07:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Champ was in charge. Therefore there can be no failure.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-01-30 13:06|| 2015-01-30 13:06|| Front Page Top

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