President Obama's Failing Foreign Policy - Granite Grok

President Obama’s Failing Foreign Policy

Claims that President Obama’s foreign policy is successful can only be explained by pure partisanship or by criteria putting the interests of others ahead of those of our country and our citizens.

We credit President Obama for killing Osama and other al Qaeda leaders.  Obama outlawed enhanced interrogations that led to Osama.  The attack was delayed almost a year after Osama’s location was known.  Obama prepared to blame  someone else if the raid failed.  Obama’s quick crowing about Osama’s death destroyed the value of the intelligence that the raid gathered.  But, Osama is dead.  Congratulations. 

And, President Obama successfully implemented the Bush plan for leaving Iraq.  Congratulations. 

But, doesn’t killing innocents via drone strikes and maintaining Guantanamo create more terrorists than they eliminate like Senator Obama, and others, said under Bush?          

Despite nearly twice as many American deaths in Obama’s 43 months as under Bush and President Obama’s withdrawal date announcement, we seem no closer to achieving a stable independent Afghanistan.                

Has the “Arab Spring”, that President Obama so aggressively supported in countries with more pro-American governments, improved the stability and peacefulness of the Middle East or safety for Americans?  No.  The Muslim Brotherhood that the administration described as peaceful and secular has shown itself to be an anti-American radical group dedicated to Sharia, a Muslim Caliphate, oppression of non-Muslims, and the destruction of Israel. 

President Obama’s administration cannot tell us if Egypt is an ally or not.  It was an ally before Obama supported the Arab Spring. 

Despite the approach of 9/11, the August 30th announcement of 9/11 protests at the American embassy, and the September 10 reports in Arab and US media of planned attacks on the embassy, the Embassies were not put on heightened security.  In Egypt the guards weren’t given live ammunition and the Embassy was overrun by people chanting, “Obama, we are all Osamas”.  People that Obama helped “liberate” Libya killed our ambassador and three other Americans, perhaps with weapons that Obama supplied them. 

Has President Obama delivered on his naïve, arrogant statement that “Muslim hostilities will cease the day I am inaugurated?” No.               

President Obama has no time for our strongest ally in the Middle East although Israel is facing the biggest threat ever to its existence, threats from a nuclear armed Iran.  President Obama has affronted our most faithful ally, Great Britain, withdrawn anti-missile support from European allies, and made all our traditional allies, countries with which we share the most values, wonder about our country’s dedication to our historic alliances. 

On the other hand President Obama has cozied up to countries that want to reduce American security, prosperity, freedoms, and influence in the world.  Would Russia, Venezuela, Iran, etc., support us, if needed, to help protect our values, prosperity, and freedoms or would they take advantage of our weakness?         

What does it suggest to you when President Obama says, “Tell Vladimir (Putin) that I’ll have more flexibility after my re-election?”  Why won’t President Obama say what he intends to do?  President Obama would tell us if it was good for us.       

President Obama reads great speeches from a teleprompter, but his foreign policy is dangerous; it has strengthened our enemies, weakened our nation, and made the world a much more dangerous place for our country, our citizens, and our allies. 

Only if you want the American people to be poorer, less safe, and much less free can you consider President Obama’s foreign policy successful.  And, President Obama’s promise to Vladimir means his policies will be even more damaging to Americans in a second term. 

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