Posted by
KsReaganite on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:32:05 AM
Too often it seems that Democratic presidents confuse form with substance when it comes to international relations and end up spurning our allies to curry favor with those who despise us, all in the name of ‘democracy’. Sounds less like a measured foreign policy approach made by professionals and more like the Model UN conferences I frequented in college where elaborately (but often bizarrely) dressed twenty something sorority loudmouths spent hours trying to impress upon the rest of us the theoretical glories of international engagement, global initiatives, and disarmament..blah, blah, blah.
The cost of Democratic foreign policymakers acting like over-idealistic college kids out of control in an out of town conference has often been disastrous. Harry Truman’s desire to see a friendly Soviet Union led the United States to condone the post WW II the rape and pillage of Eastern and Central Europe that made Attila the Hun sound almost humane. Jimmy Carter stood silent as Ayatollah Khomeini’s theocracy pushed aside our ally the Shah of Iran n 1979; Carter further disgraced America when, buckling under the threats of the ayatollahs, he didn’t allow the dying Shah to be hospitalized in the United States. Bill Clinton, too afraid to challenge the appeasement mentality of the French and the British, allowed Serbs to visit genocide on Bosniaks and Croats in the 1990s while using the United States military to help the Serbs in disarming the victims. Not to be outdone, Barack Obama is putting tremendous pressure on the legitimate government of our ally Honduras to let the absconding fugitive Zelaya become president of that country again.
Time and again the Democratic foreign policy wonks have let down our allies and disgraced our values thus endangering our standing in the world and compromising our long term national interests.
Can we really blame a Turkey or Israel someday asking, ‘can I trust the United States to stand by me?’