Most presidents use their second term to create a foreign policy legacy. A positive one, but this is the hope and change president, so....
But....but.........he does have a "foreign policy legacy"!!!!
Here:
1. "(CNSNews.com) – White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Monday the Obama administration’s foreign policies in a number of areas have enhanced the world’s “tranquility” – a word that raised eyebrows as
reporters pointed to situations in Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Ukraine and the South China Sea."WH We ve Substantially Improved the Tranquility of the Global Community CNS News
2. [August 18, 2011].... [Obama} called Thursday for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign, after months of his violent crackdown on protesters. The rhetorical escalation was backed by
new U.S. sanctions designed to undermine Assad’sability to finance his military operation..... culminated
months of calibrateddiplomacythat has included three rounds of sanctionsand a gradual policy shift toward regime change in a nation long at odds with U.S. policy in the Middle East."
Assad must go Obama says - The Washington Post
3.
"Russia 'to reopen Cold WarCuban listening post used to spy on America' Moscow-based daily Kommersant claimed
Russia and Cuba have struck a deal'in principle' after President Vladimir Putin visited the island last week.
Citing several sources within Russian authorities, the respected daily wrote: 'The agreements were finalised while President Vladimir Putin visited Havana last Friday."
Russia 'to reopen Cold War Cuban listening post'
And Obama sucks up to the Cuban communists...and gets nothing for it.
4. When the Egyptian people declined to be governed by
the 7th century savages, the Muslim Brotherhood,Obama had a fit:
"The U.S. government has decided privately to act as if the military takeover of Egypt was a coup, temporarily
suspending most forms of military aid,despite deciding not to announce publicly a coup determination one way or the other, according to a leading U.S. senator.
In the latest example of its poorly understood Egypt policy, the Obama administrationhas decided to temporarily
suspend the disbursement of most direct military aid, the delivery of weapons to the Egyptian military, and some forms of economic aid to the Egyptiangovernmentwhile it conducts a broad review of the relationship."
Senator: Obama Administration Secretly Suspended Military Aid to Egypt - The Daily Beast
a. Did Obama do any of those things when Iranian protesters cried out for American support????
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Iranian Green Movement..... numerous other people who have ostensibly been either killed or arrested since the election.
[122]The government has issued very little official information on who has been killed or arrested (except Neda Agha-Soltan, whose video circulated quickly on the Internet). Hospitals were prohibited from registering the dead bodies or injured people, as a medical student at Rasoul-Akram hospital witnessed on the night of 15 June: "Nine people died at our hospital and another 28 had gunshot wounds... [the government] removed the dead bodies on back of trucks,.."
2009 Iranian presidential election protests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Obama sat on his 'wrong side of history.'
5. Underestimated the "Islamic State, ...ISIS" "The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if
a jayvee teamputs on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,”
Obama told the New Yorker, referring to ISIS.
“I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.”
Obama is responsible for any success ISIS has been able to amass.
He cleared the field for them, misjudged ISIS, and has been remiss in confronting them.
Here, his side of that history....
6. Obama made another huge mistake in
refusing to negotiate an agreement to leave US troops in Iraq.
This is the source of the problem with ISIS: they're there because we weren't.
"Obama's 2012 Debate Boast: I Didn't Want to Leave Any Troops in Iraq
Obama then denied that he ever supported a status of forces agreement that would have left troops in Iraq:
MR. ROMNEY: [W]ith regards to Iraq, you and I agreed, I believe, that there should have been a status of forces agreement. Did you —
PRESIDENT OBAMA:That's not true.
MR. ROMNEY:Oh, you didn't — you didn't want a status of forces agreement?
PRESIDENT OBAMA:No, but what I — what I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down. That certainly would not help us in the Middle East.
"Here's one thing I've learned as commander in chief," Obama said at the end of the exchange. "You've got to be clear, both to our allies and our enemies, about where you stand and what you mean
Obama s 2012 Debate Boast I Didn t Want to Leave Any Troops in Iraq The Weekly Standard
a. "This month, Colin Kahl, the senior Pentagon official in charge of Iraq policy at the time, explained why the White House insisted on Iraq’s parliament approving the changes to the SOFA.
He wrote in
Politico Magazinethat in 2011 Iraq’s prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, “told U.S. negotiators that he was willing to sign an executive memorandum of understanding that included these legal protections.
Yet this time around, Obama is willing to accept an agreement from Iraq’s foreign ministry on U.S. forces in Iraq without a vote of Iraq’s parliament. “We believe we need a separate set of assurances from the Iraqis,” one senior U.S. defense official told The Daily Beast on Sunday. This official said this would likely be an agreement or exchange of diplomatic notes from the Iraq’s foreign ministry. “We basically need a piece of paper from them,” another U.S. official involved in the negotiations told The Daily Beast. The official didn’t explain why the parliamentary vote, so crucial three years ago, was no longer needed.”
Obama Does a U-Turn on Immunity for U.S. Troops in Iraq - The Daily Beast
Obama rejected it.
7. “
Obama is the weakest of U.S. presidents,he had humiliating defeats in the region. Under him the Islamic awakening happened,” Younesi
saidin a Farsi language interview with Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency. “
Americans witnessed their greatest defeats in Obama’s era: Terrorism expanded, [the] U.S. had huge defeats under Obama [and] that is why they want to compromise with Iran,” Younesi said.
The
criticism of Obama echoes comments made recently byotherworld leadersand even former members of the president’s own staff,
such asformer Defense Secretary Robert Gates."
Top Iranian Official: Obama is ‘The Weakest of U.S. Presidents’
8. "Shock U.S. Army admission:
Obama freed Taliban ‘psychopath’ in Bergdahl trade"The Obama administration released Fazl and four other Taliban commanders May 31 from the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in exchange for Sgt. Bergdahl,
Taliban prisoner traded for Bowe Bergdahl a dangerous psychopath: Army colonel
a. "
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9. "It would be one thing had the president brought in a successful test anywhere. But his — and Secretary of State Clinton’s — “reset” with Russia has been greeted with aggression from President Putin and his camarilla. The “pivot” to Asia has
turned into a palsied pirouette and been unmasked as cover for fading from the Middle East.
T
he redlines in Syria have been erased. Libya, Yemen, Venezuela are wrecks.Afghanistan is teetering to the Taliban, while Mr.
Obama’s withdrawalhas left Iraq at the mercy of Iran and the Islamic State."
The Obama Doctrine - The New York Sun
OMG!!!!
What a record of failure Obama has accumulated!!!!
Anyone dispute this???
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U.S.The administration claims to support the Baghdad government of Haider al-Abadi, who replaced Maliki, but it gives al-Abadi practically no support. It won’t commit ground forces or mount a serious aerial offensive and is reduced to encouraging Iran to chase ISIS into Syria.
Syria... Obama rounded up some allies to fight ISIS but has essentially
handed the war off to Iran, America’s and the West’s greatest enemy in the Middle East."
Incredulity Among Allies Greets U.S. Policy After Years of Folly - The New York Sun
Of course, Obama has handed lots more over to Iran, with whom he seems to have some unfulfilled teenage fantasy.
11. WASHINGTON—In reaching a historic agreement to restrain Iran’s nuclear program, President
BarackObamaeffectively shredded the foreign-policy playbook that had guided the U.S. for three decades....Obama also may have created a more unstable Middle East and, in the process, torn apart longtime U.S. ties with traditional alliessuch as Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Obama’s Iran Deal Breaks From Past
a.
"The president has convinced himselfthat the open-ended
appeasement of Iranwill replicate the Nixon-Kissinger triumph with China. But they made no concessions to the Chinese: They agreed that there was one China but that Taiwan would not be reunited with the mainland by force, and it has not been.
Mr.
Obama is handing Iraq to Iranas
he gives Iran a green light to nuclear weapons,at the latest in ten years, as he unblocks $150 billion that has been frozen,
without even getting a reduction in rhetorical abusefrom Tehran. Tom Friedman of the
New York Timesinfamously called it a “doctrine,” in the sense of the Stimson or Truman or Nixon doctrines.
But insipidity, irresolution, and obfuscation do not constitute a doctrine.
America’s traditional allies have
lost all respect for [Obama's] foreign-policy-making...
As the U.S. cranks up to another presidential election, and rhetoric echoes loudly around the country about “the greatest nation in human history” (certainly a fair description in many respects),
Americans should be aware of how the country is perceivedby foreigners. .... it has almost become, as President Nixon warned,
“a pitiful, helpless giant.”
Incredulity Among Allies Greets U.S. Policy After Years of Folly - The New York Sun
12. "
Ex-Guantanamo detainee now an al Qaeda leader in YemenHis personal relationship with Osama bin Laden and time in American detention make him an especially high-profile spokesman. A leaked Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO)
threat assessmentand other declassified files documented Qosi’s extensive al Qaeda dossier. In the threat assessment, dated Nov. 15, 2007, US intelligence analysts described Qosi as a “high” risk to the US and its allies."
Ex-Guantanamo detainee now an al Qaeda leader in Yemen | The Long War Journal
13. “Literally
the entire national security team recommended unanimously handling Mubarak differently than we did,”Gates said. “And the president took the advice of three junior backbenchers in terms of how to treat Mubarak.”
Obama was so avid to support the Muslim Brotherhoodin Egypt, he went against the advice of his national security team. The Egyptian people complained that he was supporting terrorism. And they were right."
Gates: Obama Went Against ‘Entire National Security Team’ on Egypt Coup | Pamela Geller
Gee....one can only wonder why this President works so assiduously to support Islamofascists......
14. "
The president supported the protestors and forced Mubarak out of power, causing the Muslim Brotherhood to soon take controlof the country with Islamist president Mohamed Morsi..... Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told Fox News that President Barack Obama ignored the advice of his “entire national security team” during the Egyptian coup in 2011 that ousted Hosni Mubarak, the country’s former president."
Gates: Obama Went Against ‘Entire National Security Team’ on Egypt Coup
15. "US-backed militia groups now fighting each other in Syria
President Barack
Obama's confused strategy in Syriameans towns are now being fought over by different US-backed groups
If anywhere can show the consequences of American foreign policy under President Barack Obama, it may be the small town of Marea, north of Aleppo.
Analysts – and
many American diplomats who have left the administration, some in disgust – say that the mess is a consequence of President Obama’s decisionto support the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad, but only half-heartedly."
US-backed militia groups now fighting each other in Syria
Can you imagine....some dopes actually admit voting for this!!!!
Really!!!!
