A Comment About

Barack Obama’s Pardon, Prostrate, and Plead Foreign Policy

April 24, 2009 - 12:00 am - by John Hawkins
Jack
2009-04-23 23:35:23

I would love to have someone answer this (clearly not Hawkins…he has no ideas as his article showed…his answer was “just don’t talk to ppl…they’ll cave”). Everyone claims that compromise is the death knell of this country, however no one wants to give another option. They also ignore that Nixon per history “opened the door” to China, Reagan shook hands with two USSR leaders, and HW Bush also spent several visits to China. We gave chem/bio weapons to Iraq during Republican administrations (because we were arming them against the Iranians) and we gave support to Afghanistan (under Reagan) to fight the Russians…and the people we supported became the Taliban.

No one here will admit to any of this (although its in the history of the world) and I’ll be called all sorts of names, but even if everything I have said is wrong, what’s your plan?

Seriously. What is your plan…pick your country. Why didn’t Bush do what your plan was? Why does not talking to anyone not work, and why are you willing to sit by and do “sanctions” that you ridicule if they come from the UN but which you think will work if they come from the U.S. alone? Why do you think that Russia and China will stop earning millions in dealing with Iran just because you don’t like it?

I’ll go first. NK had inspectors and seals and cameras in exchange for 2 cold water nuclear plants (thanks to Clinton). I was recently told that the success of the Bush era was that we “slowed” Iran’s production. If slowing a country down was the goal, Bush’s policy sped up the production of NK’s nuke program by giving them the latitude to kick out the inspectors and go full bore. NK was doing things covertly sure, but once he labelled them the Axis of Evil, they had no reason to go slow….they knew we couldn’t back up our harsh words so they built nukes. They knew we couldn’t do anything about it, and Bush agreed. So Bush said Iran getting nukes was unacceptable…but what did he do? Slow it down? Not that I’ve seen.

Seriously, try to not call me names and actually have a solution….prove you are smart, don’t just say you are. I’m a little tired of you guys calling me names and still not even approximating an idea. If you have an idea, say it, we’ll talk. Calling me names (and not even well-thought out ones) might make you giddy, but at the end of the day, proves you have no idea what to do. So please, call me a name…it just means you have no idea what to do….

That said, call me names. It just means you don’t have ideas. Which honestly makes me giggle :)

Jack