Say Anything Blog

This article describes to the core the the rot within the State Department and the Obama administration and his internal thrust.  Liberals (to some degree accurately) accuse Bush of neglecting Afghanistan in deference to Iraq.

I don’t see this as being entirely ingenuous on their part, because it only seems that the criticism gets directed at a Republican president. But when a Democratic President who is frankly neglecting both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars is in office, some how that’s because the war has magically become “unwinnable”, and oh yeah, all of a sudden they were saying that all along, and not just that Bush was neglecting Afghanistan.

But it seems that Obama has done a better job of demasculinizing the US as a global power better than any president since that Jimmy Carter:

SAN DIEGO—Less than a year into the job, President Obama seems ambivalent about America’s role as the world’s one great superpower. Nor is he enamored of the majestic idea—advanced by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and others—that the United States is the world’s one “indispensable nation.”

At the same time, we know that Obama can get passionate about domestic issues that matter to him personally. We’ve heard him during the health care debate talk about how his own cancer-stricken mother hassled with insurance companies before she died. He also seems to have made education reform a top priority; he wrote in his memoir about how he’d seen the public schools up-close during his time as a community organizer in Chicago and how he came away frustrated.

But when it comes to foreign policy, Obama is uncomfortable with leading other nations, as U.S. presidents are expected to do. He thinks there is nothing special about America’s role in the world. As he told the U.N. General Assembly, “no world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed.” Solving the world’s problems, Obama said, “cannot solely be America’s endeavor.”

It seems we have a president more interested in getting in kerfuffles with the political opposition—and winning—than he is in the very much more real world problem of serious enemies of the free world itself.  Sometimes I think neither Obama nor his political allies at home realize there are people who hate us, and hate us simply because we are, and that no amount of kind rhetoric will ever change that.