Reality of foreign policy

January 30, 2009

I ran across an interesting article by SIR CHRISTOPHER MEYER (Ambassador to Washington, 1997-2003) about nationalism and ethnic tribalism in today's world. Ethnic tribalism is a good term - especially in regards to the tribes of savages in the Arab world. How it must be faced head on and not with kumbaya barryism.

That is the brilliance of Madame Secretary Clinton - she has no such illusions, is well-educated in the history of warring factions, particularly as regards India/Pakistan/Afghanistan and Israel, and she is reality-based, result-oriented and experience-driven. In other words - her foreign policy experience is more than the "having tea with ambassadors" that the mindless chanters fell for. Add to that her awareness that women will be the ones to bring peace and prosperity to their oppressed lands not the human detonators and hate-filled evildoers.

And contrary to her homeland - in which she was First Lady of Arkansas for 10 years, First Lady of the United States for 8 years, Senator from New York for 8 years, presidential candidate and now Secretary of State - she is well-beloved and respected around the world - as is her husband. It's insane to read that sentence and realize that barry supporters actually said out loud that barry had more political experience. And she is presently more well known and more respected than barry around the world and only time will tell if that changes.

If the American press continues to treat her so inhumanely while she is trying to repair our standing in the world by implementing "barry's" policy, it will show once and for all they are out to destroy her as a woman - a useless cause. Is there a tougher woman, let alone politician, out there? It will prove they have no regard for barry's "judgment". And it will prove their castration anxiety is more important than their futures, their children's futures, our nation's future since it rests on her success.

Does anyone still believe barry has any idea or enough knowledge or experience to actually dictate foreign policy? He picked Biden just to get elected and look what has already happened. It seems he 's just another crazy old uncle who says things barry doesn't agree with. How fortunate it was that wardrobegate was more fascinating than his prediction of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

President barry can't even get a stimulus package passed when he has an unheard of approval rating. Perhaps had he spent a little more time in the senate instead of campaigning, or refrained from trashing a true American hero by throwing around "POW Card" and accusations of racism, or actually reached across the aisle instead of proposing it, or had enough respect not to personally attack our former president - a Republican - he might have generated a little more good will. An experienced proven politician would have known that.

Madame Secretary entered the race fully-footed in reality, having visited at least 50 more countries and 2 continents more than barry. But the cult of personality chose an untested politician, a man with no past, a man who did not have the economy in his top three issues as of April 1st 2008,a man who has never made a stand on anything - to be president and commander in chief during an unprecedented time of crisis.

What has he done other than give mini-speeches and answer softly lobs?

He just admitted the reality of the presidency having descended on him. It dawned on him when he went to get his daily press adulation and realized they actually have some idea of how to do their job.And who was it who knew the realities of the presidency going in having lived side by side with it for eight years? Historians are going to wonder what was in the nation's water supply.

Anyway. Here's an excerpt from MEYER's article in the UK Times (highlight added):

Globalisation and interdependence were supposed to have swept aside these ancient feuds and rivalries. Theories of the postmodern state now abound. Tony Blair preached how national interest would be trumped by the spread of "global values". This is self-evident rubbish. For here is the paradox of the modern world. Money, people, culture, business and electronic information cross porous frontiers in ever-increasing volume. But as national boundaries dissolve in cyberspace, so everywhere the sense of nationhood and national interest strengthens.

...It is useless to say that nationalism and ethnic tribalism have no place in the international relations of the 21st century. If anything the spread of Western-style democracy has amplified their appeal and resonance. The supreme fallacy in foreign policy is to take the world as we would wish it to be and not as it actually is.

Joe the Sellout

December 10, 2008

Turns out he's just like any other person seeking their 15 seconds of shame. Joe the Plumber thinks it's ok to come out and trash Sen John McCain. This makes me very angry. Besides the fact that Sen McCain is a war hero - which no one can even begin to understand unless they were held captive and beaten and made a selfless choice to remain with his fellow Americans - and without Sen McCain he would not be criticizing him and making money off him. How much in taxes will he pay on his get rich scheme? He's just trying to make people buy his book. And he's trying to set himself up with Palin's wing of the Party.

He's supposedly pissed about Sen McCain's reasoning for the bailout. As if Sen McCain had much of a choice in that situation. He was chatting up misogynist Glenn Beck, who received not a single sanction for his cowardly comments about Sen Clinton: Does she shave? "It" cried. Seems Joe the Sellout is in good company.

JOHN SEWER, AP

Joe: I was angry. In fact, I wanted to get off the bus after I talked to him.

Then why in the hell didn't he? FAME and MONEY. He sold his soul - his words are meaningless. Here's the truth:

...he didn't say exactly what set him off, hinting that would be in his book that is due out this month. He said the only reason he didn't get off the McCain bandwagon was "because the thought of Barack Obama becoming president scares me even more."

And here's his motivation. Another cliche: infatuation.

He had only praise for her, calling Palin the real deal. "It disgusts me on how often they try to bash her just for her sincerity. She really wants to work for America.

And he's feeling the fading glow of the spotlight and wants more.

Didn't his music deal go through?

Obama camp "McCain using POW card"

This is what barry refers to when he says McCain is using the POW card. Really classy and patriotic eh?


courtesy of AP


courtesy of involiate1950

"...McCain's suffering, which obviously was his own fault."

I read this letter on Salon.com. It was in Camille Paglia's column titled, "Nobody's dummy: Liberals underestimate Sarah Palin's vitality and -- yes -- smarts at their own peril."

I cannot speak to these words. Read and decide how they make you feel as an American, especially: "Therefore it is entirely illogical to make such a statement or to concede that I, or any American, owe any special thanks to Mr. McCain for his suffering, which obviously was his own fault."

"Would you care to justify your view that "Americans owe every heroic, wounded veteran an incalculable debt of gratitude"? I am sorry that John McCain spent years in prison. But I am even sorrier that the U.S. ever went into Vietnam. I am an American, and I do not feel that I owe Mr. McCain "an incalculable debt of gratitude" for his participation in that stupid, unnecessary war. If he willingly went to a war which was unjust and uncalled for to begin with, then I, as a American, definitely do not owe him a debt of gratitude. In such a case, a resistance to such an unjust war would rather be the act of patriotism for which we should be grateful.

I remind you that the USA was not attacked by Vietnam, neither did I nor the rest of Americans consider them our enemy, nor did the Vietnamese present any threat at all to the United States. Therefore it is entirely illogical to make such a statement or to concede that I, or any American, owe any special thanks to Mr. McCain for his suffering, which obviously was his own fault. There is nothing worse than a "blind patriot," so why aren't we allowed to say so? If we do, we may very well lessen the possibility of such folly in the future. Insofar as it involves him becoming president, his own decision certainly calls into serious question his political judgment then, as now."

Rhandi Rhodes: "McCain was well-treated actually."

September 8, 2008

Rhandi Rhodes says on her radio show on NOVA M that McCain was "well-treated" in Vietnam. McCain as you know was held captive by the North Vietnamese for six years during the Vietnam War. See below for her wonderful words on Geraldine Ferraro and Sen Clinton, for which she was fired from Air America. (Mark Green the most rabid messiah mancrusher and Rachel Maddow) She now works for NOVA M.

Here's audio/video from

RHODES: Of course he (McCain) became very friendly with the Vietnamese. They called him the Prince. He was well treated actually. And he was well treated because he traded these propaganda interviews for good treatment. So look it's a horrible story anyway you cut it, anyway you look at it, any way you you you deal with it. But, it's not the story Fred Thompson told. Nor is it the story Rudy Giuliani told. Nor is it the story Sarah Palin told. Nor is it the story anybody. Cindy McCain knew to limit herself to 'I think what my husband did in Vietnam was heroic' because she knows the truth too.

Was she sanctioned? And if it were about Obama she was cackling about? Just another fan of the man above the fray.