President Obama's Dangerously Naive Foreign Policy
Will Malven
4/06/2009
Even as our fearless leader was pontificating to a spellbound audience of Euro-wimps of a world without nuclear weapons, North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-il demonstrated once again how naive and utopian such fantasies are.
Obama was guaranteed rave reviews from his audience. Remember, Europe was the center of the surrender-at-all-costs Unilateralist movement of the early 1980's. Massive protest were held in Britain, Germany and throughout Europe by those foolish enough to believe that if the West was only nice enough and abandoned its nuclear arsenal, the former Soviet Union would reform its ambitions of global conquest and begin playing nicely.
These same "useful idiots" (a Soviet term for the Leftist agitators in the West) howled in anguish as President Ronald Reagan took a tough stance against Soviet aggression, by accurately labeling the former regime "the Evil Empire" and persisted in his expressed desire for the Strategic Defense Initiative. History proved the placators wrong and Mr. Reagan right.
President Barack Hussein Obama is simply another of those "useful idiots" suffering from the (apparently congenital) delusion with which all Liberals appear to be afflicted; the fantasy that if one is only nice enough-docile enough-the enemies of freedom and liberty will "see the error of their ways" and cease their aggressive and provocative behavior and join the "world community."
He made such a comment in his speech this weekend when he confirmed his belief that he just can't believe that the North Korean government wishes to remain isolated from the rest of the world...what, fifty years of history isn't enough for our Empty Suit in Chief?
I'm not certain at which point naïveté descends into the realm of stupidity, but I suggest that in the face of 5 decades of North Korean intransigence, President Obama and his coterie of Liberal advisors and admirers are treading dangerously close to that line if they haven't already crossed it.
Look people, this lesson should have been learned by those harboring these appeaser sentiments long ago. Certainly Britain should have learned the lesson no later than in 1939 with Neville Chamberlain's "Peace for our time" debacle.
The North Korean regime is, with this capability of launching long range missiles, now a "clear and present danger" to every nation on the North Pacific Rim. Sunday former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich made very clear the threat such a capability, in combination with North Korea's possession of nuclear warheads, poses.
"EMP" or electro-magnetic pulse and the threat it poses to any modern society is not some imaginary concept dreamed up by an ivory-towered university professor, it is proven science and a very real side effect of any nuclear detonation. Such a detonation off of the West Coast of the United States or over Japan or South Korea would have devastating consequences to the national security and the economy of the targeted nation.
All electrical power generation machinery would be permanently knocked out and have to be replaced. All computers and computer dependent equipment-vehicles, hospital equipment, aviation facilities-virtually all electrical equipment-would cease to operate instantly. Planes would fall from the sky and the society would be instantly transported back into a state of existence comparable to the mid 19th century.
The resulting societal chaos would be devastating. The expense and the time required to repair the damage and for society to recover, if ever, would be unprecedented.
Europeans are fools if they believe they are safe from such an eventuality. Iran could just as easily accomplish the same thing in Europe (with a commensurate return to the Dark Ages) or the Middle East (ending all petroleum exports for a decade or more).
Standing by passively hoping that diplomacy will somehow bring these rogue nations around to "reason" and engender a desire by these regimes to "rejoin the community of nations" is so naive and dangerous that its mere contemplation should be grounds for removal from authority.
The flaw in this vision of world peace, or of a community of nations all working in harmony is that it misreads human nature. Man is not some noble creature simply awaiting the opportunity to prove his worth, he is a base and ignoble beast who requires laws (and consequences for disobeying) them to enable him to live in harmonious communities. The leaders of these "rogue nations" will not turn aside from their territorial and political aspirations simply because someone like President Barack Obama asks them to nicely, they require an incentive.
As has been proven throughout history, aggressive powers only respond to strength. In the face of concerted diplomatic efforts, we have seen North Korea progress from a murderous dictatorship which posed a threat only to its own populations and its immediate neighbors with its large but entirely conventional military might to a fully capable nuclear power in possession of several nuclear warheads.
In the Middle East, Iran has progressed...in spite of intense diplomatic and economic pressure from Western democracies...from a rogue nation with aspirations of becoming a nuclear power to a nation standing on the brink of achieving that dream.
All the while, both of these nations have been cajoled, bribed, and browbeat by well intentioned but hopelessly outclassed diplomats seeking to "bring them into the community of nations." They don't want to be a part of the community of nations; they wish to dominate the community of nations, or at least those within their spheres of influence.
The correct response...the only response to these regimes is a military response similar to that which Mr. Gingrich suggested Sunday morning. When a rogue nation threatens to launch a missile, take it out. Every time they make an aggressive move, it must be met with superior and insurmountable force. History has proven this time and again. Bullies respond to kindness with contempt and the respond to force with respect and surrender.
How many times must the world endure this same scenario before people learn this lesson? President Obama's solution to hostile regimes will only guarantee that they continue to pursue objectives which are counter to America's best interests and eventually lead to a larger more costly response in the end.
The longer these enemies of freedom are allowed to blossum with only token diplomatic opposition, the more costly will be the result.
This is not "rocket science;" it is the clear lesson of history.
Long Live Our American Republic!!!!
4/06/2009
Even as our fearless leader was pontificating to a spellbound audience of Euro-wimps of a world without nuclear weapons, North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-il demonstrated once again how naive and utopian such fantasies are.
Obama was guaranteed rave reviews from his audience. Remember, Europe was the center of the surrender-at-all-costs Unilateralist movement of the early 1980's. Massive protest were held in Britain, Germany and throughout Europe by those foolish enough to believe that if the West was only nice enough and abandoned its nuclear arsenal, the former Soviet Union would reform its ambitions of global conquest and begin playing nicely.
These same "useful idiots" (a Soviet term for the Leftist agitators in the West) howled in anguish as President Ronald Reagan took a tough stance against Soviet aggression, by accurately labeling the former regime "the Evil Empire" and persisted in his expressed desire for the Strategic Defense Initiative. History proved the placators wrong and Mr. Reagan right.
President Barack Hussein Obama is simply another of those "useful idiots" suffering from the (apparently congenital) delusion with which all Liberals appear to be afflicted; the fantasy that if one is only nice enough-docile enough-the enemies of freedom and liberty will "see the error of their ways" and cease their aggressive and provocative behavior and join the "world community."
He made such a comment in his speech this weekend when he confirmed his belief that he just can't believe that the North Korean government wishes to remain isolated from the rest of the world...what, fifty years of history isn't enough for our Empty Suit in Chief?
I'm not certain at which point naïveté descends into the realm of stupidity, but I suggest that in the face of 5 decades of North Korean intransigence, President Obama and his coterie of Liberal advisors and admirers are treading dangerously close to that line if they haven't already crossed it.
Look people, this lesson should have been learned by those harboring these appeaser sentiments long ago. Certainly Britain should have learned the lesson no later than in 1939 with Neville Chamberlain's "Peace for our time" debacle.
The North Korean regime is, with this capability of launching long range missiles, now a "clear and present danger" to every nation on the North Pacific Rim. Sunday former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich made very clear the threat such a capability, in combination with North Korea's possession of nuclear warheads, poses.
"EMP" or electro-magnetic pulse and the threat it poses to any modern society is not some imaginary concept dreamed up by an ivory-towered university professor, it is proven science and a very real side effect of any nuclear detonation. Such a detonation off of the West Coast of the United States or over Japan or South Korea would have devastating consequences to the national security and the economy of the targeted nation.
All electrical power generation machinery would be permanently knocked out and have to be replaced. All computers and computer dependent equipment-vehicles, hospital equipment, aviation facilities-virtually all electrical equipment-would cease to operate instantly. Planes would fall from the sky and the society would be instantly transported back into a state of existence comparable to the mid 19th century.
The resulting societal chaos would be devastating. The expense and the time required to repair the damage and for society to recover, if ever, would be unprecedented.
Europeans are fools if they believe they are safe from such an eventuality. Iran could just as easily accomplish the same thing in Europe (with a commensurate return to the Dark Ages) or the Middle East (ending all petroleum exports for a decade or more).
Standing by passively hoping that diplomacy will somehow bring these rogue nations around to "reason" and engender a desire by these regimes to "rejoin the community of nations" is so naive and dangerous that its mere contemplation should be grounds for removal from authority.
The flaw in this vision of world peace, or of a community of nations all working in harmony is that it misreads human nature. Man is not some noble creature simply awaiting the opportunity to prove his worth, he is a base and ignoble beast who requires laws (and consequences for disobeying) them to enable him to live in harmonious communities. The leaders of these "rogue nations" will not turn aside from their territorial and political aspirations simply because someone like President Barack Obama asks them to nicely, they require an incentive.
As has been proven throughout history, aggressive powers only respond to strength. In the face of concerted diplomatic efforts, we have seen North Korea progress from a murderous dictatorship which posed a threat only to its own populations and its immediate neighbors with its large but entirely conventional military might to a fully capable nuclear power in possession of several nuclear warheads.
In the Middle East, Iran has progressed...in spite of intense diplomatic and economic pressure from Western democracies...from a rogue nation with aspirations of becoming a nuclear power to a nation standing on the brink of achieving that dream.
All the while, both of these nations have been cajoled, bribed, and browbeat by well intentioned but hopelessly outclassed diplomats seeking to "bring them into the community of nations." They don't want to be a part of the community of nations; they wish to dominate the community of nations, or at least those within their spheres of influence.
The correct response...the only response to these regimes is a military response similar to that which Mr. Gingrich suggested Sunday morning. When a rogue nation threatens to launch a missile, take it out. Every time they make an aggressive move, it must be met with superior and insurmountable force. History has proven this time and again. Bullies respond to kindness with contempt and the respond to force with respect and surrender.
How many times must the world endure this same scenario before people learn this lesson? President Obama's solution to hostile regimes will only guarantee that they continue to pursue objectives which are counter to America's best interests and eventually lead to a larger more costly response in the end.
The longer these enemies of freedom are allowed to blossum with only token diplomatic opposition, the more costly will be the result.
This is not "rocket science;" it is the clear lesson of history.
Long Live Our American Republic!!!!
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