THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XI, Issue # 180, August 27, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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AMERICA'S INTERNATIONAL STANDING FOUNDERS UNDER OBAMA
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE REAL EFFECT THAT THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY IS HAVING ON AMERICA'S STANDING AMONG THE SOVEREIGN
NATION-STATES OF THE WORLD: AMERICA'S LOSS OF RESPECT FROM FOREIGN STATES -- AMERICA'S LOSS OF
SIGNIFICANT SWAY WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD -- AMERICA'S RETREAT INTO A WEAKER & MORE VULNERABLE
POSITION -- BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA UNDERMINING AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY & INTERNATIONAL STANDING --
PRESIDENT OBAMA FOLLOWING IN THE PATH OF PREVIOUS WEAK & INCOMPETENT PRESIDENTS, SUCH AS JAMES EARL
CARTER & WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON -- OBAMA'S EFFORTS TO WEAKEN THE U.S. ARMED FORCES & INTELLIGENCE
AGENCIES -- EMBOLDENING FOREIGN REGIMES & INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENTS HOSTILE TO THE U.S.A. -- CREATING
WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY ENTICING AMERICA' ENEMIES TO STRIKE
FULL STORY:
Once again, a dosage of reality is needed to properly assess the real effect
that Barack Hussein Obama is having on America’s standing among the sovereign nation-states of the
world. And, as usual, the truth is far less glowing than the Liberal media
enclave would have us believe.
Americans are incessantly told that those other sovereign states are currently much
happier with Obama's leadership of the U.S.A. and feel less threatened by the U.S.A. under the headship of an
avowed Leftist like Obama. While such an appraisal is quite believable, it
does not follow that this translates into an elevated respect from those
foreign states. In fact, the historical truth is completely to the contrary.
America and its leaders ignore this to the imminent peril of our nation.
When all of the platitudes of burgeoning “international good will” are
stripped away, sovereign states ultimately function as competitors. Few cases of
genuine international altruism exist, and the overwhelming majority of
international relations are pursued by each nation-state from the perspective of
its own best interests.
A fiscally and diplomatically weak, but sustainable, America poses the least
risk of exerting influence on other nations, and is thus much more appealing
to them than when it is strong and purposeful. Under the Obama
administration, America has lost significant sway with the rest of the
world, which is just fine with every foreign entity that seeks to gain
dominance and power. As long as the United States, with its rampant
consumerism, can continue to enable the world’s economic engine on terms
dictated by the other nations, they can reap monetary benefits from America, while
ignoring and even deriding its values and interests.
However, this cycle cannot continue indefinitely. During every previous
period in which the United States retreated into such a weak and vulnerable
position, its enemies eventually recognized the moment as their opportunity
to strike a blow against this nation. And that pattern is currently being
repeated with disturbing predictability.
From the earliest days of Jimmy Carter’s single 1977-1981 term as President,
it became glaringly obvious that the criminally naive Georgia peanut farmer,
despite having served as Governor of Georgia, was completely lacking in the necessary
moral and philosophical convictions or spine to function effectively as U.S. President and stand against any foreign
adversary. Carter backed down in the face of Soviet expansionism in Cuba and,
at one time or another, had pandered to virtually every dictatorial regime on
the planet.
As a result, Iran’s Islamist “revolutionaries,” spoiling for an opportunity
to saber rattle in front of the world on the heels of their ouster of the
Shah, were emboldened to attack the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in November of
1979, holding its staff as hostages for well over a year and humiliating
this nation for the impotence of its responses the entire time.
Likewise, though the 9-11 attacks were carried out in the early days of the
George Bush administration, plans for the event were formulated during the
tenure of President Bill Clinton. And, as a telling precursor, Usama bin Laden
pulled off several smaller but escalating assaults throughout the 1990s.
Clinton’s deplorable and embarrassing conduct as U.S. Chief Executive, along with
the dangerously reckless games he openly allowed Cabinet appointees and
their underlings to play with America’s security, created a “window of
opportunity” that enticed America’s enemies to strike.
Now, with Barack Obama regularly displaying his contempt for real America,
accompanied by his efforts to weaken its intelligence apparatus and its
military, alarming signs of similar brewing storms are on display. The
former rise and fall of Libyan ruler Muammar Qaddafi, and most significantly
his current resurgence as one of America’s most outspoken and active
antagonists, are stunning examples that can not long be ignored by America
and the West without eventually reaping dire consequences.
Once a raging anti-American terrorist leader and instigator, Qaddafi made no
attempt to hide his support and involvement in several attacks against the
West during the 1980s, such as the 1986 bombing of a German discotheque in
which 220 people were killed, including two Americans. Yet Qaddafi lost much
of his enthusiasm for those murderous exploits after President Ronald Reagan
authorized a massive air strike against the Libyan capitol of Tripoli, which
yielded direct hits on Qaddafi’s own residence.
In the wake of that event, the Libyan ruler generally retreated from the
world scene, completely losing his previous zeal to wreak death and
destruction through terrorist activity. Qaddafi’s seeming regression into
passivity appeared absolute on the heels of America’s capture of Iraqi
tyrant Saddam Hussein in late 2003. Shortly afterwards, Qaddafi brokered a
deal with the Americans whereby he promised to abandon his program of
developing a nuclear bomb in return for the promise of non-interference by
the Americans.
Despite rampant media derision, the “Bush Doctrine” of categorizing other
nations as either allies or enemies of America, had been a stunning success.
But, now, it is being undone.
In response to Scotland’s outrageous release of Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi,
the Lockerbie bomber who, in 1988, planted a bomb aboard Pan Am Flight 103
killing 270 people, Barack Obama insipidly offered a statement of
disagreement, and an admonition to Libya not to treat al-Megrahi’s return to
that country as a major event. But having eroded the status of America to
that of a “paper tiger,” Obama was apparently unaware that his own office
would be similarly diminished.
Despite Obama’s pleas to the contrary, upon al-Megrahi’s arrival in Libya,
the Lockerbie bomber was given a “hero’s welcome” with Qaddafi a major
player in the event. Obama’s version of America no longer rates or receives
respect from Libya or the rest of the world. Yet, according to the Liberal
media, we are to be encouraged that those nations “like” this rendition of
America much better than when it was a true world super power.
Qaddafi, once thoroughly defanged by the magnitude of Western might, now
aspires to take his place beside Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He has clearly
lost his fear of America’s resolve or its capabilities to preserve and
protect itself. As the Obama agenda rolls forward, expect more of the same
contempt, with increasing ferocity, from other regional despots throughout
the world.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Christopher G. Adamo has been active in Wyoming politics for many years and
is a managing partner in Best American Buy (www.bestamericanbuy.com), an
e-commerce business that markets American made products including the
incomparable Abigail Adams Bedspread Set from Bates Mills. Contact
information for Chris Adamo, and his archives, can be found at
www.chrisadamo.com
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