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Monday, July 21, 2008

Obama Doesn’t Respect Our Allies

Or, more accurately, some of our allies.  Allies that aren’t liked by his extremist, left-wing base.

If you were President of the United States, how would you treat a staunch, lonely ally committed to liberal democracy and free markets-the only such country in an increasingly anti-American region? A friend surrounded by hostile neighbors who harbor terrorists bent on its destruction, flush with oil money and weapons from the region’s maniacally anti-American and anti-Semitic dictator? A people regularly extorted through terrorist hijackings, murders and kidnappings? A country which faithfully shares invaluable intelligence with the United States regarding subversive anti-American groups and governments in the region?

Wouldn’t you back such a country, avoid propaganda victories for that country’s-and America’s-sworn enemies, and take simple steps to solidify that country’s sometimes shaky emerging economy, especially when those steps would strengthen America, too?

Not, apparently, if you are Barack Obama.

Israel? Who said anything about Israel? We’re talking about Colombia. But Obama’s disturbing attitude toward Colombia reveals how an Obama administration might worry Israel and other embattled American strategic allies.

Read the whole thing.

Comments

I did read the whole thing.
It it an opinion peace regurgitated by two Jerusaem Post editors.
Nothing new, big deal over nothing.

ellinas on July 21, 2008 at 08:35 am

It it an opinion peace regurgitated by two Jerusaem Post editors.

That doesn’t make it any less credible.


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goon on July 21, 2008 at 10:01 am
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What makes the story completely stupid, on top of lacking credibility is first the title of the is post and second the premise that because Obama has a differing opinion on a policy, means he doesn’t respect our allies.

This is complete drivel and purile crap!

Obama opposes the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which would put our ally Colombia, with an economy smaller than Sweden’s, on the same trade footing with the US as Mexico, Chile and Peru, and numerous other countries with whom the US trades freely.

There is no criticism other than that offered in this story.  For Rob to conclude that Obama doesn’t respect our ally is just stupidity on top of ignorance.

Hannitized on July 21, 2008 at 10:33 am

Colombia is surrounded by hostile Venezuela, led by FARC patron Hugo Chavez, and Ecuador and Peru, run by Chavez allies. According to the US government, Chavez, close ally of Iran, has opened his country to Hizbullah for training and recruitment, and spread oil and money around the region to support other anti-American Marxist leaders in Nicaragua and Bolivia. Chavez, of course, is on the list of dictators with whom Obama has promised to meet without preconditions during his first year as president. (Now, there’s an Obama principle.)

These are legitimate concerns.


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goon on July 21, 2008 at 10:43 am

These are legitimate concerns.
goon on July 21, 2008 at 10:43 am

For Colombia, not us.

ellinas on July 21, 2008 at 01:47 pm
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columbia? an ally? in what way?

as a member of the ‘coalition of the willing’ they sent no troops.

they are a major supplier of drugs in the usa.

they are a trade partner (some things we don’t want to trade) and nothing more.

don’t over blow thier importance just so you can slam obama.

how often have any of us talked about columbia? not until conservatives see a way to bash a progressive.

crshedd on July 21, 2008 at 03:25 pm
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