Dr. Jim Garrow We shouldn’t delude ourselves. Neither China nor Russia are our friends. Both have interests that are much grander than our currently stunted national psyche can manage and neither are particularly averse to killing as many people as it takes to get what they want. In our dealings with both of them any semblance of weakness is and invitation for them to take advantage of. This will inevitably proceed until one or the other miscalculating when crossing one of the many “red lines’ this regime has drawn and then stepped back from and it will result in perhaps thousands of young Americans dying for no greater reason than Obama’s fecklessness. At this point, there is no more likely flashpoint in the world than the South China Sea. At one time I would have said we are at a critical juncture in American foreign policy. But that point was passed months if not years ago. The Obama “reset” strategy, pioneered by our post-menopausal Machiavelli, Hillary Clinton, has succeeded in emboldening our enemies and scaring the living daylights out of our friends. After watching the US piss away a hard won victory in Iraq, and likewise a winnable war in Afghanistan, alienate the EU, divide NATO, and get punked by Bashar al-Assad and various and sundry mullahs, it is hard to forgive the Chinese for thinking they can do the same. Our diplomatic, economic, and military position under Obama has been so undermined that it will take decades to return to where we were on January 19, 2009.
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 19:12:42 +0000
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