The next potus has a lot of work to do. The executive orders will be easy just put them in a shredder. The hard stuff will be to replace all the political left personnel in all dept...
Restoring America’s Greatness Abroad, Part 1
A post-Obama foreign policy.
March 24, 2016
Kenneth R. Timmerman
For the seven disastrous years of the Obama administration, it’s become easier to be a mullah building nuclear weapons in Iran than a Jew building an apartment in his capital, Jerusalem.
To get us to this point – a complete reversal of America’s long-standing and hard-won alliances – took more than just words from Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry. It took seven years of policy changes.
America 2016 is a very different model year from America 2008. Obama didn’t just redesign the hood, change the fenders, or swap out the 350 hp V8 for an electric motor that thumps like a washing machine (or a Prius trying to accelerate).
He fired the design team, retooled the assembly plant, and tried re-writing the laws of physics.
The result is the dangerously misguided Iran nuclear deal, an obsessive fixation on Israeli “settlements” (ie, apartment complexes and dormitory communities outside of Jerusalem), and an exhausted and dispirited military led by Obama-generals who have sissified the corps and sought to break its warrior spirit.
The next president can turn this around, but it will take more than just words. Because the damage has gone deep.
Here is an area where Americans of all stripes have overwhelming confidence in Donald Trump. Who better to walk into the State Department, gather round its panty-hosed, Democrat-donor diplomats, and quietly say: You’re fired.
I can already hear the Party of Permanent Government screaming, you can’t do that. Yes, he can. Watch him.
The next president needs to do the same thing in the military, and fire the new generation of politically correct generals bred and promoted under Obama to make America a follower nation, not a leader.
No more leading from behind. It just isn’t the American way.
Through their disastrous give-all, get-nothing deal with Iran, Obama and John Kerry have made war with Iran inevitable. This is a war we do not need and could have avoided.
Iran is not America’s enemy: our enemy is the Islamic, cleric-led fascist regime that has been murdering Americans for the past 35 years in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and yes, even Libya. To think that $150 billion of goodies will suddenly turn the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and its Quds Force goons into pussy-cats is truly delusional.
Want to know why ISIS is so powerful today? Because Obama walked away from Iraq, handing that country over to Iran, whose leaders saw a perfect opportunity for expanding their control over the region. Iran’s clerical leaders are many things, but they are not stupid.
Just as the Soviet Union did decades ago, the Iranians threw a match onto their neighbor’s house, then asked if he would like their fire engines to put out the fire.
(Yes, there is extensive evidence that both Iran and Turkey helped ISIS get started, although both now pretend to oppose it. If they truly opposed it, ISIS would be toast by now).
So what should the next president do about the Islamic State of Iran?
Announce today that you will rip up the Iran deal on the first day of office, and tell our European allies not to be so eager to extend tens of billions of euros worth of export credit to companies seeking to rebuild Iran’s crumbling infrastructure, because they’re gonna lose money, big time.
Ripping up the deal is just the first step. It’s bumper-sticker policy, and several candidates have already used it.
It must be accompanied by a robust, well-thought out plan for rebuilding our alliances so that together, after 36 years of putzing around, the freedom-loving countries of the world finally help the people of Iran to overthrow their tyrants.
(For the detailed brief on how we do this, see me. Just one hint: it doesn’t involve U.S. military force).
ISIS is a historical anomaly that never would have happened without Obama. ISIS is what you get when America leads from behind.
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All of this can be changed, some of it overnight, by a president who puts American interests and America’s values first.
Restoring America’s Greatness Abroad, Part 1
