Obama’s remarks also appear to be something of a snub to British Prime Minister David Cameron, coming just a month after the two leaders engaged in an orgy of mutual admiration during Cameron’s state visit to the US – although you won’t hear the star-struck Cameron say as much.
It’s no surprise to see Obama appearing to side with an aspiring South American dictator rather than a friend and ally who’s committed to democracy and the rule of law; after all, if you’re happy to sell your own country down the river to a hostile rival, as the president suggested in his overheard remarks on missile defence to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, then throwing an ostensible ally under the bus isn’t going to give you too many sleepless nights. The only question is to what extent his position is dictated by the need to appeal to Hispanic voters in the upcoming election campaign, and how much it’s a product of his anti-imperialist, liberation theology-infused worldview.
While Obama’s stance is predictable, it should be noted that Republican support for Britain over the Falklands isn’t a given. As this account by John O’Sullivan, based on recently released documents, recalls, when Argentina invaded in 1982 the Reagan administration was initially divided over how to respond, with “Latinistas” including Jeane Kirkpatrick and Alexander Haig backing Argentina, and Reagan himself initially favouring a negotiated settlement. However, when war became inevitable the US threw its support behind Britain, providing intelligence and the latest version of the Sidewinder air-to-air missile, which claimed several Argentinian aircraft.
As Britain and Argentina mark the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war, it would be reassuring to hear Mitt Romney come out on the campaign trail, or in a foreign policy debate, in support of British sovereignty, and make clear which side America would take in the event of hostilities during a Romney presidency. It might help to dissuade Argentina from doing something reckless, and more pressingly it would provide another clear distinction between Romney and the dictator-coddling Obama who, not for the first time, has shown disloyalty to an ally bordering on treachery.
It’s also of a piece with his hostility toward Great Britain. Like daddy, like junior…
Treacherous. That’s the word I’ve been looking for to describe Obama. He is the most treacherous, back-stabbing president America has ever had, and I feel sure there more than a few heads of state would breathe a sigh of relief if he were defeated in November.
I agree. Treacherous is right. As a matter of fact, given the choice between Obama and the British, I’d almost be willing to consider petitioning the Crown to take us back. Tell ‘em it was all just a big mistake.
But that’s just me.
Actually, Obama IS performing in the same pattern as the British tried to do in the early 1800′s.
This should cause him acute Apoplexia, since he hates the British so much.
What’s not for Obama to love about the Peronists? The have nationalized (stolen) all citizens’ 401ks, defaulted on their debt, jailed economists for reporting actual inflation, and Kirchner is now nationalizing (stealing) a Spanish owned oil company. I think Obama is seriously jealous.
The only good news in the whole mess that is Argentina, they can’t afford a modern military. Thanks to the socialists, they don’t have the industry, cash, or international credit necessary to even replace their Falklands War combat losses – much less upgrade to modern equipment.
In a few years, a night satellite photo of Chile and Argentina will be Korea – except the dark half will be on the right.
It’s not love of Argentina, but more disdain for UK and other old colonial powers. I’m surprised the Administration hasn’t come out with a more forceful statement favoring Argentinian takeover of the Falklands.
Wasn’t there a flap some years ago about a politician who said he needed to improve his Latin before going to Latin America? Maybe that was actually sound advice!
Well, actually our brilliant president was close to that when he talked about the “Austrian” language when he was there a while ago.
“It would provide another clear distinction between Romney and the dictator-coddling Obama who, not for the first time, has shown disloyalty to an ally bordering on treachery.”
You should know by now that Obama has some serious, and I mean serious, issues with England. From the time he almost threw the bust of Winston Churchill out of the White House, to when he gave those crummy “gifts” to the Queen and to the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown, this guy really has no love for England. Probably goes back to what happened to his father in Kenya and the whole colonial thing. So why a smart guy like Prime Minister David Cameron does not feel that Obama holds anything but contempt for England is beyond me. Maybe it was because Obama bought him a hot dog during the basketball game they saw together. I guess flattery for British Prime Ministers comes cheap these days.
But the Falklands are British and they should stay British. With the troops and aircraft that are stationed there now, I doubt that Argentina would try to re-take the Islands. And even if they wanted to, Argentina does not have the navy or the manpower to do it. So let Kirchner stamp her little high-heeled feet. It still won’t get her the islands back.
Liberty, can’t argue with most of your points.
I’ve wondered about Cameron, too. However, GB is at odds with the EU over a wide range of issues and he’s facing internal political challenges. Perhaps he’s merely trying to make the best of a difficult situation.
Yes, Obama seems to hate Churchill, perhaps because Churchill spoke so bluntly about Islam:
“No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.” (The River War)
“The fact that in Modhammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property either as a child, a wife, or a concubine must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.” (The River War)
“… to fight this current war to victory requires understanding and accepting the similarities between the Nazis and the Arab-Islamic terrorist armies.” (Written in response to Himmler’s endorsement of the alliance between Hitler and the Muslim Brotherhood)
Were Obama president in 1944, the citizens of a certain large town in Nebraska would have been shocked to see a huge invasion fleet foundering on the vast Plains, vainly searching for Omaha Beach.
Sheesh.
Obama is just leaking words … carelessly. He doesn’t have a clue … as in clueless. This is a non-story because any Argentinian with half a brain would know how futile it would be to reignite the Falklands “controversy”. Obama is now officially drunk on his own perceived power and charisma. Following him around and making comments about his comments only serves to feed the monster.
I have no idea who Mike McNally is but why the bending over backwards to portray Obama as meaning well even if his words hint at something less than nice? Obama is your enemy, Mr. McNally. If you are of the West and share its values he is your enemy. If you are white he is your enemy. If you are even mildly attached to liberty under the rule of law he is your enemy. Wake the blank up!
Obama and Clinton have made such a hash of our international relations and credibility it is laughable when the uninformed speak glowingly of our policy. The Falklands screw up is just the latest in a long series of disasters. Here’s a partial list:
-Attempting to woo Mullahs and failing to support Greens in Iran.
-”Reset button” diplomacy with Russia
-Ending theater missile defense with Poland and the Chk republic.
-President bows alot in Saudi Arabia and Japan.
-Failure to either fully surge or withdraw from Afghanistan
-Failure to extend status of forces agreement with Iraq
-Discarding 30 year relationship with Mubarak for “democracy”
-Fast and Furious, US planted guns being used to kill US and Mexican citizens
-Keystone pipeline refusal
-Engagement with North Korea
This President and his hapless Secretary of State are hopelessly out of touch with reality in international affairs. They repeatedly show themselves untrustworthy, a very bad reputation to have in the world of soveriegn states.
Though Argentina might not attack by itself, with Chavez of Venezuela supporting their leader they may feel bold enough (especially if Chavez provides material support, or even troops (with a few Cubans thrown in)).
Pandering to American Hispanics by buddying up to Argentina? YGBSM
There is a definite hierarchy for Latinos in the US, and South Americans are on the bottom.
The President misspoke, while trying to tweak the nose of the British. Period full stop.
Argentina absolutely got their butts stomped by the Brits in 1982. With the British buildup in the South Atlantic since, Argentina would be completely foolish to try anything by force.
The Won is a panderer, and was just doing what he does best.
What is it about deference to idiot nations that start AND lose wars? Like the Arab World, Mexico, etc.
The stupidest part of this, as far as I’m concerned, is the part that everyone seems to ignore: Great Britain wouldn’t be giving the Falklands “back” to Argentina. Argentina never occupied them, posessed them, owned them, or anything like that, ever. The British were the first nation to formally claim them, Spain being uninterested. The first (semi-)permanent occupants were American whaling crews who wintered there in between whaling seasons, on voyages that would take several years to fill the tanks in a whaling vessel with oil. Argentina’s claim to the islands rests solely on the fact that they’re *close* to Argentina, and far from Great Britain. By that logic we should give up all our Pacific Island posessions, including Hawaii, and Alaska also.
But then again, Argentina isn’t trying to make a logical case. They’re trying to convince world leaders, our President first among them, and World leaders are essentially immune to logic.
There are many similarities to Palestine too that other NON existent now and that never in the past existed. A country that people like Obambi and Left Wing moonbats with absolutely no logical ability whatsoever somehow seem to think can be ‘occupied’ and that you can be a “refugee” from.
This pro-Argentine stance (that’s what it is) on the Falklands is not only about protecting a fellow leftist government; it is about getting revenge on the British for slights against Soetoro’s Kenyan ancestors.
The funny part about that is that we heard so much about how President George W. Bush allegedly invaded Iraq to settle scores for his father, yet when Barry Soetoro actually does play out old family grudges in his foreign policy the MSM doesn’t make a peep.
Perhaps Argentina will take this as a signal to invade the Maldives. That’s a very long trek fro the Argentinian Navy, but hey . . .
I would probably support that, the Maldives are a horrible Islamo-Fascist country.
Barack Hussein Obama Will Win Re-Election (Part Two)
Part One of this very mini series examined some reasons why Barack Hussein Obama is virtually guaranteed to win his re-election bid.
My opinion–which I pray to God is wrong– was based on the probability of Obama conducting the dirtiest campaign in over a century, his faux-populist platform setting class against class and race against race, and plans to spend a billion dollars or more to fool the American people into giving him four more years.
However, that prediction was made not as much on those factors as on the fact Obama has locked up various constituencies that will cast their ballots for more of the same no matter what the president has done to the country to date or what else he will do before November 6th.
Most African-Americans, Jews, and homosexuals will vote for Obama seven months from now, giving him some 17% of the electorate.
So, too, will a sufficient number of Latinos and those still suffering from the malady of white guilt to give him the 270 electoral votes he needs to be “flexible” in order to accomplish his goal of changing America into a land that would have caused the Founding Fathers to retch.
In addition, many Republican conservatives will choose to shoot themselves in both feet by staying home on Election Day and thereby help re-elect the president out of pique that Mitt Romney isn’t conservative enough or because he has flip-flopped on issues almost as often as Obama.
. Latinos. Due to Obama’s policies and those of his immediate predecessor, George W. Bush, with regard to illegal immigration, hispanics in America now constitute 16.3% of the population, over 50 million people, an estimated 11 million of whom entered the United States illegally.
Regardless of which president is most responsible for the illegal influx, the reality at this point is that they are here and only an unprecedented, massive, federal deportation program will change the situation, and that’s not going to happen under any administration.
Legal or illegal, with notable exceptions Latinos are an industrious, hard-working, religious, and fundamentally conservative group, characteristics that should classify them as Republicans yet 67% voted for Obama in 2008.
The reasons for that majority are multiple and complex but boil down to the successful Democrat Party effort to make hispanics, legal and illegal, feel at home in the U.S., feel that Democrats care and will take care of them, feel they should vote for Obama because Republicans don’t make them feel at home and won’t “take care of them.”
According to a recent poll from the Democrat campaign, 73% of them will vote Obama in November, adding as many as 10 points to Obama’s tally for a total of 27%.
. White Guilt. The “white guilters” are the wild card in the coming election. They consist of Caucasians who were torn in 2008 over the long-ended horrors of slavery, felt guilty that some white guys like Thomas Jefferson owned slaves, and sought absolution for the sins of their long-dead forbears by voting for the son of Marxists.
White guilters rarely admit . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=21745.)
In 2008, Candidate Obama promised “hope” and “change.” Three plus years later, we know it was all an act, and since President Obama has no record to run on, he has resorted to using the same negative scare tactics he once claimed to be against. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvwBBjZo87g&feature=player_embedded
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The racist obama’s stance, vis’ a vis’, the Falklands is totally part of obama’s identity as a Black Klansman.
After all, the people who live on the Falkland Isle… are not “Holders People”.
1. Argentina should be thankful to us Brits for causing the demise of the Galtieri regime. Basically we brought democracy back to a nation that was a dictatorship. It wasn’t why Mrs T sent the task force (which is open to debate) but it was consequence of it.
The rumour on the web has it Obama has AIDS!
“Britain is standing shoulder to shoulder with the United States on the battlefields of Afghanistan and in the wider war against Islamist terrorism, and on countless fronts is an indispensable ally to Washington. Yet the current US president can’t even bring himself to support the right of 3,000 overwhelmingly British Falkland Islanders to continue to live under the protection of the Union Jack, 30 years after their liberation from Argentine occupation. A stance of “neutrality” is an act of cowardice by Barack Obama in the face of Latin American pressure, and another slap in the face for Britain.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100150953/barack-obama-is-still-thumbing-his-nose-at-britain-over-the-falklands/
No further comment needed …
Brits out, Dagoes out — give it back to the sheep.
Happy days.
The Dear Leader hates the British because they founded this country and wrote the Constitution that he hates. He imagines that the Argentinas of the world are morally superior. Do you know why Argentina has no Indians? It’s not because they never had any. They killed them all in one year. Nice people.
No, it didn’t provide the latest version. Various military agreements stated that it should do things like that under such circumstances, but what it actually did was provide the near obsolete versions nearing the end of their time in inventory – rather like the near obsolete Lend Lease destroyers it provided in the Second World War. Those missiles looked the same but had much less capability.
BHO just trying not to upset the his constituency? USA is becoming more and more a Spanish Speaking country these days.
In the Malvinas-Falklands dispute Obama chooses the South against the North, the third world fascist argentina against the western british democracy.Obama openly favours the debasement of the western world, in every corner of the planet ( Mideast-Europe-Asia ).Kick out BHO the marxist-muslim-mole !!