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Bring Back Our Foreign Policy – The West’s enemies are getting ever bolder, ever more savage with their provocations. They realize that at worst they’ll be chided with silly hash tag campaigns on Twitter
Klaus Rohrich / Canada Free Press
Whether the You Tube beheading of American journalist James Foley by ISIS terrorists was a brilliant stroke of propaganda or a tactical blunder sure to backfire, is really quite irrelevant. Of much greater relevance is the fact that ISIS is a construct of American government policy that has left a huge vacuum in the balance of power around the world and specifically the Middle East.
When Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped 276 Nigerian schoolgirls in April to be used as chattel and sold into slavery, America’s response more or less was the hash tag campaign on Twitter to “#BringBackOurGirls.” Initiated by Rep. Lois Frankel (D) Florida, the campaign gained momentum when First Lady Michelle Obama added her now famous picture to the Twittersphere.
If the only response America can muster is a “tsk-tsk” by the president’s wife, then it’s a small wonder that those who consider America the enemy are throwing ever-bigger chips into the pot.
The Russians are carving off large tracts of Ukraine because they are 100% sure that America under Barack Obama will do absolutely nothing to stop them.
The Chinese are raising tensions with their neighbors to ever higher levels because they realize that America does not have the will to protect its own interests, much less the interests of its allies.
Iran is developing nuclear weapons and is rewarded by the Obama Administration with lifted sanctions for renewed “negotiations.” What’s to negotiate and will it make a difference when Tel Aviv or Haifa ends up as radioactive heap of molten glass?
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