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| Peters: America the weak |
| 2008-10-20 |
| IF Sen. Barack Obama is elected president, our re public will survive, but our international strategy and some of our allies may not. His first year in office would conjure globe-spanning challenges as our enemies piled on to exploit his weakness. Add in Sen. Joe Biden - with his track record of calling every major foreign-policy crisis wrong for 35 years - as vice president and de facto secretary of State, and we'd face a formula for strategic disaster. Where would the avalanche of confrontations come from? * Al Qaeda. Pandering to his extreme base, Obama has projected an image of being soft on terror. Toss in his promise to abandon Iraq, and you can be sure that al Qaeda will pull out all the stops to kill as many Americans as possible - in Iraq, Afghanistan and, if they can, here at home - hoping that America will throw away the victories our troops bought with their blood. * Pakistan. As this nuclear-armed country of 170 million anti-American Muslims grows more fragile by the day, the save-the-Taliban elements in the Pakistani intelligence services and body politic will avoid taking serious action against "their" terrorists (while theatrically annoying Taliban elements they can't control). The Pakistanis think Obama would lose Afghanistan - and they believe they can reap the subsequent whirlwind. * Iran. Got nukes? If the Iranians are as far along with their nuclear program as some reports insist, expect a mushroom cloud above an Iranian test range next year. Even without nukes, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would try the new administration's temper in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf. * Israel. In the Middle East, Obama's election would be read as the end of staunch US support for Israel. Backed by Syria and Iran, Hezbollah would provoke another, far-bloodier war with Israel. Lebanon would disintegrate. * Saudi Arabia. Post-9/11 attention to poisonous Saudi proselytizing forced the kingdom to be more discreet in fomenting terrorism and religious hatred abroad. Convinced that Obama will be more "tolerant" toward militant Islam, the Saudis would redouble their funding of bigotry and butchery-for-Allah - in the US, too. * Russia. Got Ukraine? Not for long, slabiye Amerikantsi. Russia's new czar, Vladimir Putin, intends to gobble Ukraine next year, assured that NATO will be divided and the US can be derided. Aided by the treasonous Kiev politico Yulia Timoshenko - a patriot when it suited her ambition, but now a Russian collaborator - the Kremlin is set to reclaim the most important state it still regards as its property. Overall, 2009 may see the starkest repression of freedom since Stalin seized Eastern Europe. * Georgia. Our Georgian allies should dust off their Russian dictionaries. * Venezuela. Hugo Chavez will intensify the rape of his country's hemorrhaging democracy and, despite any drop in oil revenue, he'll do all he can to export his megalomaniacal version of gun-barrel socialism. He'll seek a hug-for-the-cameras meet with President Obama as early as possible. * Bolivia. Chavez client President Evo Morales could order his military to seize control of his country's dissident eastern provinces, whose citizens resist his repression, extortion and semi-literate Leninism. President Obama would do nothing as yet another democracy toppled and bled. * North Korea. North Korea will expect a much more generous deal from the West for annulling its pursuit of nuclear weapons. And it will regard an Obama administration as a green light to cheat. * NATO. The brave young democracies of Central and Eastern Europe will be gravely discouraged, while the appeasers in Western Europe will again have the upper hand. Putin will be allowed to do what he wants. * The Kurds. An Obama administration will abandon our only true allies between Tel Aviv and Tokyo. * Democracy activists. Around the world, regressive regimes will intensify their suppression - and outright murder - of dissidents who risk their lives for freedom and justice. An Obama administration will say all the right things, but do nothing. * Women's rights. If you can't vote in US elections, sister, you're screwed. Being stoned to death or buried alive is just a cultural thing. * Journalists. American journalists who've done everything they can to elect Barack Obama can watch as regimes around the world imprison, torture and murder their foreign colleagues, confident that the US has entered an era of impotence. The crocodile tears in newsrooms will provide drought relief to the entire southeastern US. Sen. John McCain's campaign has allowed a great man to be maligned as a mere successor to George W. Bush. The truth is that an Obama administration would be a second Carter presidency - only far worse. Think Bush weakened America? Just wait. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #9 Well, Obama is so absurdly pro-abortion, that in his philosophy it's okay to kill off the American population, and "his own" black race in disproportionate numbers, to boot. After that, everything else is small potatoes. Obama's relativistic world view and his own psychology (you gotta read this) will propel him into greater and greater grabs for power and recognition. It's all so much worse than it seems. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2008-10-20 20:05 |
| #8 Remember that Carter actively betrayed our allies, with five nations being condemned to years of horror because of it. Clinton was so incredibly lazy that the only thing that happened because of him was 9-11. But judging from his buddies, Obama will probably stop at nothing short of another US civil war. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-10-20 19:23 |
| #7 Quite a list. Now add a couple Supreme Court judges and the lack of presidential veto over Congressional looniness; then try and tell me sitting this election out is a genius strategy. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-10-20 18:06 |
| #6 I agree RJ. The only thing "W" will be credited with under a Obama/Dem administration will be "war crimes." I also think we'll see Obama sending thousands of troops and or Obama Corps volunteers to Africa to ..... fix things. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-10-20 17:59 |
| #5 Steve, I think you are wrong about HIV in Africa. I think the world will suddenly notice Obama's extensive efforts there and give him credit for everything positive that was done (but ignored) under Bush. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-10-20 17:51 |
| #4 I've posted Derb's view on what Tranzi dominance will do to evolutionary research. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-10-20 17:33 |
| #3 I think Peters and Al between them have most of the list. To which I'd add: * Climate change. Expect Obama to follow the lead of the UN and the Europeans to impose a carbon tax, proceeds to be given in part to international organizations to hire more apparatchiks. * Law of the Sea. Signed, sealed, delivered to the Senate for ratification. * International Criminal Court. Ditto. * HIV assistance in Africa. To be reworked away from what has been successful in favor of a UN dominated (and therefore ineffective) approach. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-10-20 17:00 |
| #2 That's because most Mexicans will be in the US in the very near future. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2008-10-20 15:42 |
| #1 All true, although I wonder why Peters didn't mention Mexico. |
| Posted by: charger 2008-10-20 15:24 |