The Obama doctrine of appeasing our enemies, alienating our allies, and delegating our national security to the international community may have won Obama a Nobel Peace Prize, but it has made the world a more volatile and dangerous place. The administration has turned its back on the decades-old-post-World War II system of alliances that previous presidents, Republicans and Democrats alike, built and nurtured. The result has been chaos. Today our allies look at America and the future of America and the future of U.S. foreign policy as a proverbial jump ball, with unprecedented uncertainty about where America will stand. Israel is a paticularly striking example of what is wrong with President Obama's approach to foreign policy.
Exactly how has Obama undermined post-World-War II alliances? President Bush was famous for his go it alone approach. The countries that either would not commit resources or pulled out of the Iraq war was staggering.
"The burdens of this century can not fall on our soldiers alone," Obama said at West Point. "Our adversaries would like to see America sap it's strength by overextending it's power."
Anyone who is sane would know that Bush didn't spend 8 years attempting to build friendships with the international community. The United States staunchest ally Britain rejected Tony Blair's commitment to Iraq and thew him out of power. Kendall Myers worked at the State Department during the Bush years. Myers said the Bush administration's relationship with Europe was "disappearing before our eyes."
Myers described how Bush showed no respect for Blair's commitment to the invasion of Iraq.
"It was a done deal from the beginning, it was a one-sided relationship that was entered into with open eyes... There was nothing, no sense of payback,no sense of reciprocity."
Is that Rubio's idea of maintaining friendships?
Bush and Blair had a private meeting on January 31, 2003. Bush and Blair agreed Iraq would be invaded; regardless on whether weapons of mass destruction were found or a second United Nations resoltion. Despite several leaked Downing Street Memos and historical facts: Rubio believes Iraq was invaded to promote democracy.
America doesn't invade Iraq because it wants to turn Iraq into a colony. America isn't going into Afghanistan because it wants to make Afghanistan a colony. America by and large, sends its young men and women off to die on foreign battlefields almost for other people's freedom and for freedom around the world.
Rubio's lack of knowledge of history is staggering. The United States didn't invade Afghanistan to turn the nation into a democracy. The Afghanistan war was a response to the al-Qaeda attacks on September 11, 2001. The Iraq war was sold on the danger of Saddam Hussein posssessing (nonexisting) weapons of mass destruction. If there is any doubt that Rubio has an allergic reaction to history then this quote should convince you otherwise.
America is pretty much the only military power in human history that has not used his power to conquer land and grow it's terrotory.
Is Rubio aware that the United States took land from Native American Indians and Mexico? I sincerely hope Rubio is aware that the ancestors weren't born in America.
In Rubio's speech to Republican Jewish Coalition; he stated his support of the naval blockade. The Israelis goverment's latest ploy will not punish Hamas or Hezbollah. All that will be accomplish is starving the Palistinian population. In 2000, the Vatican warned of hunger in the occupied terrotories. A 2008 photo essay showed long lines at the few Palistinian-owned bakeries. The blockade is only making the situation worse and helping the standing of Hamas with the Palistinian people. But the goal of the Israeli government isn't to win the Palistinian people over.
Rubio can't equate that not letting civilians starve isn't supporting terrorism. The international community isn't protesting the blockade because they don't want Israel to defend herself. The international outcry is because the Israeli government is attempting to starve people to death. More likely, Rubio doesn't know the reasoning behind the blockade. Rubio was clueless about the U.S. military not wanting offshore drilling off the coast of Florida. If Rubio isn't aware of what is going on in his home state then don't expect him to study up on Israel.
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