April 30, 2009

THE OBAMA DOCTRINE

By RALPH PETERS

AFTER a mere 100 days, the “Obama Doctrine” for our foreign and security policies has emerged. And it’s terrifying.

The combination of dizzying naivete, dislike of our allies, disdain for our military, distrust of our intelligence services and distaste for our own country promises the worst foreign policy of our lifetimes.

That includes President Jimmy Carter’s abysmal record of failure.

The core tenets of the Obama Doctrine to date would make a charter member of the Weather Underground cheer:

We’re to blame. If there are problems anywhere, they’re America’s fault. This central conviction of leftist ideology appears to have soaked so thoroughly into our president’s consciousness during his lengthy friendships with extremists that it’s now second nature to him.

Problems can be negotiated away. From Somali pirates to Moscow’s belligerency, Obama and his Cabinet see a good chat as the best response to a challenge. Our president got to the Oval Office by talking, not doing, and his faith in his powers of persuasion is unlimited.

An acquaintance who may have our government’s best grasp of the Russians shakes his head at the tone in Washington. The current mantra: “We have to get over our Cold War thinking.” Great — except that it’s the Russians who’ve revived Cold War hostility.

The Taliban devours Pakistan, and we want to talk. President Hugo Chavez destroys Venezuela’s democracy, and we want to talk. Iran pursues nuclear weapons with refreshed enthusiasm . . . and we want to talk.

Problems that can’t be talked out can be bought off. Pakistan, a nuke-armed state of 170 million Muslims seething with anti-Americanism stirred up by our “friends,” faces a crack-up as its once-monolithic military splinters. Obama’s answer? Send billions of dollars that will disappear and weapons that may soon be used against our troops.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thinks the solution to piracy is a generous program to rebuild Somalia. (Been there, done that.) She’d also like to hand Hamas a billion bucks.

The “Las Vegas law” applies: You can buy sex but not enduring love. We can’t defeat terror with welfare checks.

Islamist terrorism doesn’t exist. The term’s even been banned from government departments. As Muslim extremists slaughter innocent victims by the thousands, we’re assured Islam’s a “religion of peace” that contributed profoundly to our country’s development. (Huh?)

It’s as if 9/11 never happened. The “nonterrorists” drenching the greater Middle East in blood and threatening us as loudly as they can are just victims of our aggression. It’s all our fault.

Terrorists do exist, though — among our returning veterans and amid those Americans who don’t subscribe to MoveOn.org’s revulsion at our country.

Israel’s the obstacle to Middle East peace. Palestinians are all victims. Hamas consists of struggling community activists. The terrorists are in the Israeli military.

Our nukes threaten world peace and we need to get rid of them. Other states only maintain or seek nuclear arsenals because we worry them. If we can get down to zero nukes, peace will reign on earth.

Forget that only our nuclear weapons prevented World War III and that they still deter potential enemies. Just get rid of them, OK?

Our military is dangerous. Beyond Obama’s cynically choreographed appearances with our troops, he and his coterie clearly disdain military advice and uniformed service. The administration views our troops as primitive creatures who must be collared and leashed, not as part of any solutions.

Our intelligence services are even more dangerous than our military. The administration’s already begun to gut our intelligence capabilities. Carter at least pretended to study the problem. Obama’s plunging straight in with the demoralization of our shadow warriors.

It’s only torture if we do it.

Blame President George W. Bush. Should the Obama Doctrine lead to new terror attacks (sorry, Janet: I meant “man-caused disasters”) or to foreign-policy humiliations, it won’t be Obama’s fault, but Bush’s.

We’re becoming a third-world country, succumbing to a sickening (in both senses of the word) culture of blame. And that culture is fostered by breathtaking ignorance.

We now have a president who doesn’t know that Pakistan was founded as a democracy, a secretary of state who thinks we created the Taliban, a head of the Department of Homeland Security who doesn’t believe Islamist terrorists exist and a vice president who claims FDR gave televised speeches during the Depression.

If Bush had made such gaffes, the media would’ve mocked him. But Obama and his entourage excite orgasmic forgiveness among journalists. Which brings us to the Obama Doctrine’s final tenet:

Our media sluts will portray defeat as victory.

Ralph Peters is Fox News’ strategic analyst.

Posted by Ted Belman @ 12:55 pm | 15 Comments »

15 Responses to THE OBAMA DOCTRINE

  1. yonaton says:

    HIS DOMESTIC AGENDA IS AS DESTRUCTIVE AS HIS FOREIGN

    It seems the Hashem has given Obama to America as a “gift” in reward for America’s service to the World in attempting to destroy Israel. There’s nothing America can do, short of repentance, and who knows if even that will help at this late stage, though I am hopeful.

    What Jews have to remember is that Israel will not be destroyed, but will eventually be exalted over our enemies. Most Americans are in the category of friends, so I only hope they take comfort in the fact that Hashem doesn’t abandon the righteous of any land, even when that land’s guardian angle is demoted, as America’s seems to have been.

    The few righteous CAN and WILL triumph over the multitude of the wicked. Righteous American gentiles MUST remember that! The Rebbe talks here about America’s greatness, to which she can and must return to fulfill her destiny.

    Please G-d that will happen, and with a minimum of suffering for all.

  2. BlandOatmeal says:

    Why is it, that White, Protestant AMERICANS are being called to repentance, when most White Protestant Americans voted against Obama? It’s the Jews, Blacks and Catholics who put him in office. Why are we getting scapegoated for something the Jews and others have done to us? This is like 1939 in reverse! If it weren’t for American Jews, including Orthodox ones like Rahm Emanual, continually fanning the flames, our government probably wouldn’t care three shakes of a rat’s tail about Israel, and would leave them alone. As for the Iranisans, if it weren’t for the Jews here, we would have bombed the hell out of them by now. Jews are continually trying to foist their moral values on us — abortion, gay marriage, marijuana smoking, you name it: Things which over 85% of American Jews support. They don’t like American traditions, but are ever trying to overturn what my ancestors built over the past 400 years. I wish they would all go to Israel, and fight their civil war there instead of dragging us into the conflict. I love the Jews, but they’re not happy with me or my ways, so I pray God bless and keep them — SOMEWHERE ELSE!

  3. Shy Guy says:

    This is like 1939 in reverse!

    Comment by BlandOatmeal — May 1, 2009 @ 3:37 am

    Actually, scum comments like yours make it sound like 1939 without any inversion.

    May I call you Little Adolph?

  4. yamit82 says:

    Oat

    Watch out he will now proclaim Big Adolf as one of his relatives along with the queen of England and “Chief whats a matter w you”! Who eats raw human hearts for breakfast. In the minds and writings of the Haters, it is the Jew who is responsible for all the problems. He created all the other enemies of the American way of life, and “look at all the Jewish names of Leftists and un-Americans.” He is responsible for blacks and subversives and the Left. He is the architect of American defeats in the world. Behind every bad man is the Jew, and he must be eliminated lest America go under. Oat do I have you pegged or what?

    What we Jews need is a lot more of Oats kind of loving.

    I wish they would all go to Israel, and fight their civil war there instead of dragging us into the conflict. I love the Jews, but they’re not happy with me or my ways, so I pray God bless and keep them — SOMEWHERE ELSE!

    I hope your wish becomes a reality. Sock it to them!

  5. rongrand says:

    I love the Jews

    Are you sure?

    What civil war?

  6. Jewish Defamers of Israel

    In an otherwise excellent interview in JTA, Deborah Lipstadt fails to address the worst antisemitism found among Jews themselves; Deborah Lipstadt fails to address how Jews have failed to learn the lessons of the Holocaust, as is glaringly evident by the pope’s imminent visit to Israel and by the mass deception the Israeli government engaged in to collaborate with the Vatican against Jerusalem. Nothing new under the sun.

    Jerusalem’s Betrayal and Rape
    The treacherous Vatican – Israel collaboration has sold out the Jews and backstabbed Jerusalem

  7. Righteous American gentiles MUST remember that! – Yonaton

    Apparently too many Jews remain blind to Joseph who stands before them, have forgotten that there are Twelve Tribes of Israel, and Joseph isn’t Jewish!

    Too many Jews refuse to follow Judaism and choose to remain in a self-imposed exile, far away from the Jewish Homeland, and undermine what’s left of our biblical heritage, our Judeo-Christian foundation.

    Israel and Judah Must Get House in Order Before King Messiah Arrives

  8. It seems the Hashem has given Obama to America as a “gift” in reward for America’s service to the World in attempting to destroy Israel. -Yonaton

    Truly it was a BLACK DAY in America when Obama won and we lost. The Gentile president usurper, Soetoro/Obama, is a curse upon our White Israelite country for our idolatry and immorality (Deuteronomy 28:43), part of which includes aiding and abetting those treacherous UNJews in Israel who betray Jerusalem and collaborate with the Vatican, as brought out in Holocaust Hypocrisy!

    Apparently Hashem will permit the German-Jesuit jackboot to stomp Jerusalem, due in large part to self-righteous religious Jews and due to liberal Jews who have helped destroy British-Israel and Judah (Meir Kahane warned of the liberal Establishment).

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  15. yamit82 says:

    #7

    You never answered as to why you didn’t pull off the blowing up of the abominations on our Temple Mount?

    You could have made history and helped to bring the ultimate redemption closer. What happened? Chicken out?

    Yeshayahu- Isaiah – Chapter 11

    Chapter 11
    1. And a shoot shall spring forth from the stem of Jesse, and a twig shall sprout from his roots. ?.
    2. And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and heroism, a spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord. How can a G-d be afraid of himself? ?.
    3. And he shall be animated by the fear of the Lord, and neither with the sight of his eyes shall he judge, nor with the hearing of his ears shall he chastise. ?.
    4. And he shall judge the poor justly, and he shall chastise with equity the humble of the earth, and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips he shall put the wicked to death. ?.
    5. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faith the girdle of his loins. ?.
    6. And a wolf shall live with a lamb, and a leopard shall lie with a kid; and a calf and a lion cub and a fatling [shall lie] together, and a small child shall lead them. ?.
    7. And a cow and a bear shall graze together, their children shall lie; and a lion, like cattle, shall eat straw. ?.
    8. And an infant shall play over the hole of an old snake and over the eyeball of an adder, a weaned child shall stretch forth his hand. ?.
    9. They shall neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mount, for the land shall be full of knowledge of the Lord as water covers the sea bed. ?.
    10. And it shall come to pass on that day, that the root of Jesse, which stands as a banner for peoples, to him shall the nations inquire, and his peace shall be [with] honor. ?.
    11. And it shall come to pass that on that day, the Lord shall continue to apply His hand a second time to acquire the rest of His people, that will remain from Assyria and from Egypt and from Pathros and from Cush and from Elam and from Sumeria and from Hamath and from the islands of the sea. ??.
    12. And He shall raise a banner to the nations, and He shall gather the lost of Israel, and the scattered ones of Judah He shall gather from the four corners of the earth. ??.
    13. And the envy of Ephraim shall cease, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, nor shall Judah vex Ephraim. ??.
    14. And they shall fly of one accord against the Philistines in the west, together they shall plunder the children of the East; upon Edom Rome =Christianity=America) and Moab shall they stretch forth their hand, and the children of Ammon shall obey them. ??.
    15. And the Lord shall dry up the tongue of the Egyptian Sea, and He shall lift His hand over the river with the strength of His wind, and He shall beat it into seven streams, and He shall lead [the exiles] with shoes. ??.
    16. And there shall be a highway for the remnant of His people who remain from Assyria, as there was for Israel on the day they went up from the land of Egypt.

    This describes the Messiah. Your G-d on a stick has not during his mythical lifetime fulfilled any of the above criteria. Therefore even if he ever did exist he is not THE MESSIAH! Now you will of course say that all these he will do when he returns, which is a Sophist BS argument as my dead Grandmother could also be a potential Messiah.

    Our Sages stated that the mitzvah of living in the Land of Israel is equal to all of the commandments of the Torah combined.
    **********

    Regardless of the Ramban or the Rambam, why do Jews resist the return to Zion? Why do Jews turn their back on the Promised Land of Israel? Why don’t they yearn to return and GO? Why demand the Messiah do for you what you can do for yourself? If you so despise the Jewish Homeland, how can you expect non-Jews to hold it in high esteem?

    Most Jews stayed in Egypt (80%), Most Jews stayed in Babylon, few returned with Ezra. Most of Europe’s Jews stayed in Europe rather than leave on the first boat to Palestine. Most American Jews have , are or will assimilate completely within1-2 generations. The religious are the worst as they know better and still refuse to abandon the exile. Special Judgment is in store for them They are the real defilers of Judaism in their hypocrisy.
    But then what it to you Goy? Joseph is a Jewish as I am and if he could return to life today would kick your sorry ass for your slanderous use of his good name Goy! American Jewry will go the way of those in Egypt of Europe in either case as Jews they are a dead item or will be soon enough. We already have here more than half of all the worlds Jews so we don’t need the rest for prophesy to be completed in our own time. All of the prerequisites are in place except those that will be shortly.