Obama's Perverse Foreign Policy

Screw over our allies and mollify our enemies, this sums up the Obama doctrine. If you are an ally of America, whether it be Israel, the former Soviet block nations of Poland, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Ukraine etc., America under Barack Hussein Obama cannot be trusted or relied upon and you may even be treated in a hostile manner. On the other hand enemies are treated with the utmost respect.

Our World: Avoiding an American ambush

Caroline Glick - Jul 06, 2009
The Jerusalem Post


It works out that US President Barack Obama is a man of heartfelt, long-held principles. It also works out that his principles are divorced from reality and unresponsive to any facts that contradict them.

This much was made clear by a New York Times report on Sunday which discussed a recently "rediscovered" 1983 article Obama published in a student magazine on the subject of nuclear disarmament when he was an undergraduate at Columbia University.

Obama`s article, "Breaking the war mentality," was ostensibly a feature story showcasing two student organizations that advocated a freeze in the US`s nuclear arsenal. But the young Obama didn`t hesitate to use his platform to make his own, even more radical views known to his readers. As he put it: "The narrow focus of the Freeze movement, as well as academic discussion of first- versus second-strike capabilities, suit the military-industrial interests, as they continue adding to their billion-dollar erector sets."

Citing a Rastafarian reggae musician as his foreign policy authority, Obama ruminated, "When Peter Tosh sings that `everybody`s asking for peace, but nobody`s asking for justice,` one is forced to wonder whether disarmament or arms control issues, severed from economic and political issues, might be another instance of focusing on the symptoms of a problem, instead of the disease itself."

As one of the freeze advocates explained gently, contending with "the disease itself" was an unachievable goal since "you`re not going to get rid of the military in the near future."

THERE IS NOTHING shocking about Obama`s embrace of radical politics as a college student. Particularly at Columbia, adopting such positions was the most conformist move a student could make. What is disturbing is that these views have endured over time, although they were overtaken by events 20 years ago.

Just six years after Obama penned his little manifesto, the Iron Curtain came crashing down. The Soviet empire fell not because radicals like Obama called for the US to destroy its nuclear arsenal, it fell because president Ronald Reagan ignored them and vastly expanded the US`s nuclear arsenal while deploying short-range nuclear warheads in Europe and launching the US`s missile defense program while renouncing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

On Monday Obama arrived in Moscow for a round of disarmament talks with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. According to most accounts, while in Moscow Obama plans to abandon US allies Ukraine and Georgia and agree to deep cuts in US missile defense programs. In exchange, Moscow is expected to consider joining Washington in cutting back on its nuclear arsenal just as the likes of Iran and North Korea build up theirs.

Of course, even if Russia doesn`t agree to scale back its nuclear arsenal, Obama has already ensured that the US will slash the size of its own by refusing to fund its modernization. In short, Obama is working to implement the precise policy he laid out as an unoriginal student conformist 26 years ago.

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