A post-Obama foreign policy

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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

 

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(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).

Jesus. A bipartisan Sunni Shia 'terror group', eh?

Ffs.

 

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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.

Planet Delusion.

 

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Anti-Americanism is the Foreign Policy of Fools
But Anti-Americanism is the only foreign policy that the American Left needs.
May 13, 2016
Daniel Greenfield

The New York Times profile of Ben Rhodes, Obama’s foreign policy guru, had plenty of shocking moments from his attempt to cover up Iran’s abduction of US sailors to his blatant gloating over the stupidity of the journalists whom he manipulated into spreading his lies in support of the Iran deal.

But the larger revelation is also simpler. Ben Rhodes knows next to nothing about foreign policy. He has no idea whether Iran will get nukes and couldn’t care less whether it’s moderate or not. He’s a failed fiction writer whose goal is “radically reorienting American policy in the Middle East in order to make the prospect of American involvement in the region’s future wars a lot less likely”.

That’s another way of describing a foreign policy built on isolationism.

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This problem did not begin yesterday.

Senator Ted Kennedy’s infamous letter to the Soviet leadership was seen as treasonous. But as a practical matter it revealed that an aspiring president had no interest in the USSR except to use it in a domestic battle against Reagan. Democrats had similarly supported and then turned against the Iraq War over domestic politics. Not only had they backed the removal of Saddam Hussein in the past, but Obama’s regime change in Libya showed that they did not believe any of their own critiques of regime change or unilateral intervention. Their foreign policy was based entirely on a domestic agenda.

Earlier generations of Democrats did have a comprehensive foreign policy based on ideas. It might be wrong, but it did exist. The Clinton-Kerry generation was very interested in talking about foreign policy, but viewed it purely in terms of opposing the Vietnam War as a critique of American power.

They had no other ideas to offer and it showed.

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And a Clinton was behind both.

Hillary Clinton took the Secretary of State position to build up credibility for a presidential run. The invasion of Libya was a platform to take her to the White House. Libya did not matter to her. While the State Department blew through fortunes to finance her self-promotion, the Benghazi mission lacked basic security. Even the Jihadists who were hired on to provide security weren’t getting paid.

And that led to the murder of four Americans.

It’s a short distance from Ted Kennedy trying to figure out how he could use Soviet officials to undermine Reagan and become president to Hillary Clinton seeing regime change in Libya as a campaign commercial right down to the punchy media-friendly slogan, “We came, We saw, He died.”

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Anti-Americanism is the foreign policy of fools. It’s not smart power. It’s ignorance and prejudice with a dictionary.