The Cost of American Indifference

[Geee]

National Review:

The Obama administration often either denies any responsibility for the current global chaos or claims that it erupted spontaneously. Yet most of the mess was caused by, or made worse by, growing U.S. indifference and paralysis.

 

Over the last five and a half years, America has had lots of clear choices, but the administration usually took the path of least short-term trouble, which has ensured long-term hardship.

 

There was no need to “reset” the relatively mild punishments that the George W. Bush administration had accorded Vladimir Putin’s Russia for invading Georgia in 2008. By unilaterally normalizing relations with Russia and trashing Bush, Barack Obama and then–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton only green-lighted further Russian aggression, which has since spread to Crimea and Ukraine.

 

 

There was no need for Obama, almost immediately upon assuming office, to distance the U.S. from Israel by criticizing Israel’s policies and warming to its enemies, such as Hamas and the authoritarian Turkish prime minister Recep Erdogan.

[Valin]

@Geee

 

I hope Pat Buchanan, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Ron/Rand Paul, and their ilk are enjoying this. This is what happens when America pulls back from the world.

[Cyber_Liberty]

While I agree with you about Pat Buchanan et al being wrong as a general proposition, I don't think any of them appreciates the manner in which Obama has chosen to pull away from the world. The only reason Obama pulled away from traditional friends was to pull closer to our traditional enemies.

 

Personally, I was infuriated by the whole stupid "Reset Button" dance (no, not because it was really an "overcharge" button. Let that go). It was a shining example of how everything in the known universe was going to be blamed on Bush...a harbinger of wonders to come. I so wanted to slap that stupid grin off Hillary's face.

[Geee]

While I agree with you about Pat Buchanan et al being wrong as a general proposition, I don't think any of them appreciates the manner in which Obama has chosen to pull away from the world. The only reason Obama pulled away from traditional friends was to pull closer to our traditional enemies.

 

Personally, I was infuriated by the whole stupid "Reset Button" dance (no, not because it was really an "overcharge" button. Let that go). It was a shining example of how everything in the known universe was going to be blamed on Bush...a harbinger of wonders to come. I so wanted to slap that stupid grin off Hillary's face.

WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE!!!!!!!!

[Cyber_Liberty]

LOL, @Geee

[Valin]

[Draggingtree]

Has Hillary Ever Been Right?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN • August 29, 2014, 12:00 AM

 

Sen. Rand Paul raises an interesting question: When has Hillary Clinton ever been right on foreign policy?

 

The valkyrie of the Democratic Party says she urged President Obama to do more to aid Syrian rebels years ago. And last summer, she supported air strikes on Bashar Assad’s regime. Had we followed her advice and crippled Assad’s army, ISIS might be in Damascus today, butchering Christians and Alawites and aiding the Islamic State in Iraq in overrunning Baghdad. But if the folly of attacking Assad’s army and weakening its resistance to ISIS terrorists is apparent to everyone this summer, why were Clinton, Obama and Secretary of State Kerry oblivious to this reality just a year ago?

 

Consider the rest of Hillary’s record. Her most crucial decision as Senator came in 2002 when she voted to invade Iraq.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/buchanan/has-hillary-ever-been-right/