Obama the Small

Ronald Reagan famously said, "Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong." The projection of power is critical to America’s national defense. People around the world knew there was no better friend and no worst enemy. How then do we explain the Obama Doctrine?

As America’s newly elected president, Obama launches his “World Apology Tour”. He apologizes to the French (the French!) for the times “where America's shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.” Obama also promised to slash America’s nuclear arsenal so that we would have "the moral authority to say to Iran, don't develop a nuclear weapon, to say to North Korea, don't proliferate nuclear weapons."

Obama then stripped Poland of its promised missile shield, and remained silent as Russian invaded Georgia and Iran brutally suppressed the Green Movement. He later told then Russian President Medvedev to wait until after the U.S.  elections for more treaty negotiations when Obama will have more “flexibility”.

In Cairo, as part of Obama’s outreach to the Muslim world, he said the trauma from 9/11 sometimes “led us to act contrary to our ideals”.  

Obama’s justice department then investigated and threatened to prosecute the CIA interrogators who got the information that lead to SEAL operation that killed Bin Laden.

At the United Nations, Obama declared "No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed."

Obama refuses to lend any support to Iran’s Green Movement in their attempt to overthrow mullah rule.

During the Arab Spring, Obama refused to support the democratic parties in opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood, has refused to intervene in Syria, and only agreed to “lead from behind” in Libya after Gadhafi threatened to annihilate an entire city.

Obama ran from Iraq without leaving any American presence. That country has now turned towards Iran and refuses to block Iranian arms shipments to Syria.

Obama is running from Afghanistan and that country is refusing to detain Taliban insurgents.

Obama warned North Korea “will achieve nothing with provocation” and, a month later, North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile

Obama is silent as Argentina threatens the Falkland Islands and China invades disputed territories in the East China Sea.

Obama says nothing as Putin crushes democracy movements in Russia.

Obama parties in Vegas the night after our Libyan diplomat and personnel are murdered and our sovereign embassies are attacked in Libya, Egypt, and Yemen.

Secretary Clinton tells the world America “is not setting deadlines for Iran” and Obama refuses to meet with Israel’s Prime Minister as that country faces an imminent nuclear threat.

Obama refuses to negotiate with Republicans to block half a trillion dollars in cuts to defense that Obama’s own Secretary of Defense says would be a disaster.

Nor has Obama been making any friends on the world stage.

Obama told the Israelis that negotiations with the Palestinians “should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps” when Jerusalem was cut in half and Israel was only 9 miles wide at its center.

Obama rejected the Keystone pipeline and thereby forced the Canadians to sell their oil to China.

Obama stalled the free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama that were negotiated under the Bush administration and hasn’t initiated a single trade agreement of his own.

Meanwhile, Obama is one of the only American presidents in a century to not have a single major foreign policy accomplishment unless you include winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

In a dangerous world, Obama’s legacy is a diminished America. As we retreat, our enemies advance and our perils increase.

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