Obama administration’s Syrian engagement policy: ‘Fruitless ingratiation with despots, disregard for human rights, and predictable (horrible) results’
That’s the way Jennifer Rubin describes Barack Obama’s approach to foreign policy - and how Syria aligns with the Obami’s overall approach: “Syria Engagement, or How America Loses Its Soul”:
Elliott Abrams, former Deputy National Security Adviser, recounts the series of unilateral gestures and offerings that the Obami have served up to Syria - from [...]
Putin Orders Obama Not to Defend America
Why do I have the awful premonition that Barack H. Obama is about to bow deeply from the waist again?
U.S. missile-defense plans are a threat to Russian national security and have slowed down progress on a new arms-control treaty with Washington, Russia’s top military officer said Tuesday.
Gen. Nikolai Makarov said that a revised U.S. plan [...]
HuffPo Columnist Laments: Why Do We Dislike the Russians?
A knotty question. I’d point to their continued support of the Iranian regime’s nuclear program, their use of energy reserves to blackmail democratic Eastern Europe, their aggressive export of high-tech weapons to thuggish regimes, disconcerting upgrades to their nuclear forces, chest-thumping assertions of their right to pre-emptively nuke potential adversaries, and — the icing on [...]
Major New Appeasement Initiative Set for Monday
Credit to the Washington Post, which reports this story with all the context necessary to demonstrate how truly cynical and pathetic this Nobel laureate-led administration is on the issue of human rights:
After lengthy debate, the Obama administration has settled on a policy toward Sudan that offers a dramatically softer approach than the president had advocated [...]
Human Rights Groups Unhappy With Nobel Laureate’s Sudan Appeasement
The Washington Post reports:
Human rights groups and lawmakers are ratcheting up pressure on the Obama administration this week over its approach to ending violence in Sudan, saying the White House and the State Department are treading too cautiously in dealing with the government in Khartoum.
A coalition of U.S.-based advocates focused on the Darfur region — [...]
Imagine There’s No Peace Prize, It’s Easy If You Try
So at the very moment that President Barack H. Obama convenes his “war council” to decide whether to accept Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s recommendation to expand operations in Afghanistan — changing to a counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy and adding 40,000 additional troops to the war effort — the Norwegian Nobel Committee announces that the president, who has [...]
