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Tag Archives: Foreign Policy
Obama’s True Legacy; the Untieable Knot
There will be a veritable cornucopia of commentary regarding the President’s legacy; some will find favor, many will not. Still with 14 or so months remaining there’s insufficient time and more likely no interest in altering the course. Like many Presidents before him each Administration recorded seminal moments forever altering the image of the Office, its scope and the consequence.
Posted in Poli-Philos
Tagged climate change, Foreign Policy, President Obama, separation of powers
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Russian Tit For Tat
In an attempt to belie internal political struggles Putin continues to manage Russia’s resurgent geo-political footprint. For the American public, this should serve as a reminder of how volatile and how quickly the world stage can fracture when U.S. Foreign Policy is micro-managed by political apparatchiks with servile intent.
It is true that the U.S. has, by favoring global hegemony, given-up on developing and refining its internal strengths giving way in one form or another to military confrontation which of course is clearly not in the best interests of the American people. The fact remains that Obama’s policy of Negotiated-Disengagement is creating an exponential threat; by ignoring the effect of the vacuum he’s creating he’s equally ignorant of the invitation he’s extending.
Congress: Suffering Fools
National policy should be the domain of the whole of the U.S.; argued and articulated within the confines of the American public and the wagering of their elected officials. To telegraph or appeal, directly, internal policy disputes to an adversary are not a display of strength but a peevish display of weakness.
The only characterization describing the condition of mind consuming 47 U.S. Senators (all Republicans), at the moment, is brazen stupidity. All they needed to have done was educate the public of the risks and dangers (factually and without hyperbole), urge them to express their concerns to their elected officials and sit back and watch the Administration create yet another Foreign Policy failure. Now, along with the entire U.S. Administration and the negotiating team, all they’ve done is elevate the level of shame and further destroy the Influence Capital of the U.S. Ensuring that the U.S. will be forced into a military confrontation with Iran and even worse, a surrogate battle with Russia; suffering fools.
Where the U.K. had only one Neville Chamberlain the American people have a great majority of 435 Members of Congress leading a National Death-March meanwhile the Administration simulates their notion of National Stewardship no different than a group of community organizers fighting over a federal grant. Their failure; your price!
The following are a select group of responses to questions/comments received after the original article was published. We believe you will find them of interest.
#1: What if? Now there is one scenario that needs considering: The entire scheme is merely an effort to draw Iran into a false euphoria; pull them into a battle in Iraq and on into Syria in an effort to expose their military chain of command and hopefully draw ISIS into Iran.
Yes, I know it may seem extreme, but one rule never to be broken when analyzing foreign policy, is to avoid at all costs, filtering a perspective thru your own regime of thought. No one, not Russia, China, E.U. or Middle-East States want to see Iran nuclear so then why has it been so difficult to obtain a Global Consensus on prohibiting that from occurring? Here’s why; the Threat of a Nuclear-Armed Iran is a far more effective form of leverage than the bomb itself.
Curtis C. Greco, Founder
Obama, State Department Idles at Short-Sighted Pace
The President is being hammered for his no-policy Foreign Policy stance. Some suggest his leading from behind describes his ponderously inept stasis however, the reality is somewhat different. The President believes his skill-set is far superior, as if he were Oz (behind the emerald curtain) dossing at will the global conscience into his vision of submission.
It has long been known that the current Middle-East quagmire originates circa the first Iran-Iraq war. As a surrogate battle-front for West vs. East interest with Iranians Islamic Regime (in reality more of military style Junta) being backed chiefly by Russia (then the U.S.S.R.) and the Chinese. The U.S. opted for a policy of containment and later, with the fall of the Soviet Regime, continued the policy believing that the very same or similar policy approach levied against Russia would eventually suffocate the Iranian Junta as well.
The Politics of Foreign Policy: Will Ukraine Admit NATO?-Part 6/6
Russia hasn’t forgotten the price and burden of direct Middle-East engagement. However Russia, unlike U.S. due to its long-standing relationship with Israel, has the luxury of poking and probing from the flanks of U.S. interests and it is doing so with the help of Syria and Iran.