HUGGING FOES, HURTING FRIENDS
The combination of dizzying naivete, dislike of our allies, disdain for our military, distrust of our intelligence services and distaste for our own country promises the worst foreign policy of our lifetimes... [snip]
We're to blame. If there are problems anywhere, they're America's fault.
This central conviction of leftist ideology appears to have soaked so thoroughly into our president's consciousness during his lengthy friendships with extremists that it's now second nature to him.
Problems can be negotiated away.
From Somali pirates to Moscow's belligerency, Obama and his Cabinet see a good chat as the best response to a challenge. Our president got to the Oval Office by talking, not doing, and his faith in his powers of persuasion is unlimited.
"We have to get over our Cold War thinking."
Great -- except that it's the Russians who've revived Cold War hostility.
Problems that can't be talked out can be bought off.
In Pakistan, send billions of dollars that will disappear and weapons that may soon be used against our troops. The solution to piracy? A generous program to rebuild Somalia. Hamas? Hand them a billion bucks.
Israel's the obstacle to Middle East peace.
Palestinians are all victims. Hamas consists of struggling community activists. The terrorists are in the Israeli military.
Islamist terrorism doesn't exist.
The term's even been banned from government departments. As Muslim extremists slaughter innocent victims by the thousands, we're assured Islam's a "religion of peace".
Our nukes threaten world peace and we need to get rid of them.
Other states only maintain or seek nuclear arsenals because we worry them. If we can get down to zero nukes, peace will reign on earth... [snip]
We now have a president who doesn't know that Pakistan was founded as a democracy, a secretary of state who thinks we created the Taliban, a head of the Department of Homeland Security who doesn't believe Islamist terrorists exist and a vice president who claims FDR gave televised speeches during the Depression.
If Bush had made such gaffes, the media would've mocked him. But Obama and his entourage excite orgasmic forgiveness among journalists. Which brings us to the Obama Doctrine's final tenet:
Our media sluts will portray defeat as victory.
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