Friday, September 25, 2009

The Post-American Era


As if his domestic policies, with healthcare, cap and trade, and czar of the day, weren’t bad enough, President Obama seems determined to wreck our foreign policy too. Since the beginning of his term, he has gone around the world bowing and scraping to third-world despots and apologizing for America’s freedom, success and wealth.

Most recently, in phase 2 of his grand plan to remake America, President Obama has begun selling out our allies. After saying that he does not want to be seen as “meddling” in the internal affairs of Iran, he has been perfectly happy to pressure Israel to give up its security to make concessions to the illegitimate Palestinians. He has also seen fit to weigh in on the side of the ousted would-be dictator Manuel Zelaya of Honduras who attempted, against the laws of his country and the ruling of their supreme court, to remain in office for another term. When he was forcibly removed from office, Hillary Clinton declared that it was a military coup. Under U.S. law, we may offer no aid to any government whose leader was toppled in a coup.

Earlier this month, President Obama announced that he was going to cut back missile defense shield in Europe. This move sells out American allies Poland and the Czech Republic to the Russians who have made no secret of their desire to regain control of former east-bloc countries. This also leaves Europe vulnerable to potential threat from a soon to be nuclear power, Iran. Representative Buck McKeon, the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee said, "I am concerned that the administration is heading down a path where it is willing to undercut our allies and cave to Russian demands on vital national security matters,"

President Obama then went to speak before the United Nations. In an interview with National Review Online, former U. S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton characterized the speech as a post-American speech by our first post-American president. It was a speech high on the personality of Barack Obama and high on multilateralism, but very short in advocating American interests.” He also said, “Overall, it was so apologetic for the actions of prior administrations, in an effort to distance Obama from them, that it became yet another symbol of American weakness in the wake of the president’s decision to abandon missile sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, and his recent manifest hesitation over what to do in Afghanistan.”

What will come next…will Obama sell out Taiwan to communist China? Will he pull out U.S. support of South Korea? Will he provide aid to Chavez in Venezuela? As you watch all of this happening, just remember what then Presidential candidate Obama said just before the election, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Is this the change you voted for?  Is it the change you expected?  Are we really seeing the beginning of the Post-American era? The choice is ours. Will we allow this government and this president to bring about the end of America as we have known it?