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Year 5 of BO’s Foreign Policy Ineptitude: The Price of Appeasement & Tolerance in the Middle East
“A universal peace … is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.” –James Madison (1792)
Mark Alexander * The Patriot Post
History of the World 101: Tyranny does not leave vacant the void created by appeasement and tolerance.
In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain addressed his countrymen infamously insisting that signing the Munich Agreement and adopting a policy of appeasement and tolerance toward Adolf Hitler would provide “peace for our time.”
Seventy years and some very hard lessons later, candidate Barack Hussein Obama promised another “peace for our time,” adopting Chamberlain’s foreign policy and insisting he could mollify our radical Islamist foes and “reset” our relationship with Middle Eastern states by resolving the conflict between Western democracy and Islamic fascism. Recall, too, that he did so to great applause from his legions of mesmerized supporters.
Regarding the post-9/11 Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, and the larger War on Terror, Obama promised, “Let me be as clear as I can be. I intend to end this war. My first day in office I will bring the Joint Chiefs of Staff in and I will give them a new mission and that is to end this war — responsibly, deliberately, but decisively.”
Of course, the only way to end a just war “responsibly, deliberately, but decisively” is through victory.
Obama based his foreign policy expertise with Islamists on little more than a grossly naïve assertion: “I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.”
At that time, it was abundantly clear to anyone who could think beyond the cadence of Obama’s rhetoric that he was a national security neophyte. Little has changed since then.
A few months after his first election, Obama departed on his now-infamous Middle East Apology Tour, with the objective of appeasing the world’s most dangerous fascist movement since the Third Reich — Islamists occupying the borderless nation of “Jihadistan” — one that is singularly devoted to the destruction of Western democracy, and one that seeks the imposition of a worldwide caliphate and Shariah law.
Obama’s National Security Adviser, Denis McDonough, insisted that Obama was uniquely qualified to satiate the threat of Islamist regimes, noting, “the president himself experienced Islam on three continents before … you know, growing up in Indonesia, having a Muslim father — obviously Muslim Americans are a key part of Illinois and Chicago.”
Well, “community organizer” to the rescue!
Obama insisted a key part of his policy toward Islamist states was the need to re-educate Americans about the “religion of peace,” stating, “I think that in the United States and the West generally, we have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam. And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
There are indeed about 2.5 million Muslims in the U.S., but Obama’s “largest Muslim countries” calculus neglected the fact that there are 205 million Muslims in Indonesia, 180 million in Pakistan, 175 million in India, 80 million in Egypt, 74 million in Iran, 32 million in Iraq, 30 million in Afghanistan, 25 million in Yemen and 20 million in Syria, and a billion Muslims in other countries around the world.
continue article at The Patriot Post:
The most dangerous nation in the middle east hands down is Israel. Israel has a holy terrorism that a lot of people don’t know about. Check out these links John:
/war-and-conflict/2013/08/jewish-yinon-zionism-is-a-false-religious-and-imperial-plan-for-the-middle-east-2447968.html
and:
http://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/essays/rokach.html#FOREWORD
I am disappointed in you John. You are a neocon even though you won’t come here and say it. And you are wanting a Republican to take down Assad, which is why you post all the lame articles you post about Obama.
John, you need to realize that America is tired of fighting Israel’s wars. Got it?