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| Ralph Peters on Obama: ‘Most Disastrous Foreign Policy President of My Lifetime' |
| 2016-11-22 |
| [Free Beacon] Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters said Monday night that President Obama has been the worst foreign policy president of his lifetime. Peters is 64 years old. Fox News host Eric Bolling asked Peters about the Iran nuclear deal and what Obama would do to stop President-elect Donald Trump from ending it when he takes office in January. "President Obama, and speaking without hyperbole, has been the most disastrous foreign policy president of my lifetime or yours, Eric, and now he’s not thinking this through," Peters said. "He’s so desperate, so fervently crazed to preserve this inept nuke deal with Iran, that again he’s not thinking it through," Peters continued. "He’s trying to box Trump in." Peters went on to say that Obama’s poor policies with Iran will leave Trump no other option down the road than to use military force. He believes Obama is wasting the peaceful options that the United States once had to effectively deal with Iran. "Military option is all Obama is leaving the next president, and with the Iranians running wild across the Middle East, destructive in every country‐Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen, and elsewhere, in Lebanon, in Gaza‐we have no options left but to pull triggers, and that’s sad," Peters said. "What a legacy." He added that it is too late to reinstitute sanctions on Iran in order to apply non-military pressure. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #16 JohnQC, good points, but Ruby Ridge was on Bush not Clinton. |
| Posted by: rammer 2016-11-22 23:12 |
| #15 Hear, hear, RJ |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-11-22 17:10 |
| #14 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/07/ralph_peters_im_voting_for_hillary_clinton.html |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-11-22 15:42 |
| #13 Col Peters supported Hillary who promised an extension of Obama's policies so it's hard to take him seriously. Posted by rjschwarz I believe you may be thinking of some other colonel. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-11-22 14:35 |
| #12 Col Peters supported Hillary who promised an extension of Obama's policies so it's hard to take him seriously. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-11-22 14:23 |
| #11 Not to mention Serbia, JQC |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-11-22 13:16 |
| #10 In my heart of hearts, Jimmy Carter will always be Worst President Ever. I will concede First Female President to Obama, though. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2016-11-22 12:40 |
| #9 Hear, hear! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-11-22 12:34 |
| #8 Despite what the MSM says to the contrary, Clinton wasn't such great shakes as a POTUS. His ineptitude led to the financial collapse and 911. Also there was Mogadishu, Rwanda, Waco and Ruby Ridge and Hillary Care. He didn't take out Bin Laden when he had the chance. And there was PeckerGate. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-11-22 12:05 |
| #7 Carter and Obama were dithering, blithering incompetents. LBJ was powerful, forceful, determined and for a long time a lot of people actually believed him. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-11-22 11:07 |
| #6 LBJ killed a helluva lot more people than Obama and Carter combined. Perhaps off topic but his domestic policy, his so called Great Society, was a disaster that we are still living with. Slimy mother fucker. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-11-22 10:58 |
| #5 It's a toss-up. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-11-22 09:57 |
| #4 I would have to vote for Carter as the most disastrous. He didn't back the Shah, lost Iran, apologized to the Ayatollah, picked a fight with the Soviets in Afghanistan by supporting the very same AQ idiots we are fighting now... Carter was the liberal incompetent genesis for most of what is troubling us now. Not that Obama is any better...Carter was worse. |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2016-11-22 09:35 |
| #3 Grom, IMO Peters is correct - Obama has been a worse foreign policy President than even Carter & Johnson, whose failures were large but not broad-based, like Obama's. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2016-11-22 09:24 |
| #2 It doesn't help to keep committing to more and more entangling 'alliances'. You can only divert or distract chaos in the long run at great expense, but you can not stop it from playing out. Choose wisely and within your resources. He who tries to defend everything, defends nothing. There would be less disasters if there had been less commitments in the first place. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-11-22 06:24 |
| #1 What about LBJ & Carter? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-11-22 03:50 |