05-13-2015, 07:41 AM
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Obama's foreign policy: New wars, unprecedented level of terror threats & nuclear proliferation
And the co-architect of this, Hillary Clinton, is embracing this record while asking for a promotion to commander in chief.
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?Because the Obama administration is refusing to do anything to oust Bashar Assad, the Saudis are getting together with the Turks and Qataris to back some of the more fundamentalist Islamist fighters working against the Assad regime?including, it is rumored, the Nusra Front, an Al Qaeda affiliate.? He continues:
This is what happens when the Gulf states lose confidence in America: they start taking matters into their own hands and that means they will increasingly forge a pact with extreme Islamists, possibly even with ISIS, because they see the extremists as the only reliable barrier to the spread of Iranian influence.
This is a catastrophic if wholly predictable development, and it is only the beginning of the fallout from Obama?s decision to align so closely with Tehran. The next step in the Sunni pushback is, as the Saudi leadership has loudly and long signaled, for them to acquire their own nuclear weapon.
This did not suddenly come to a head. Liberal pundits and conservative foreign policy experts alike realize that the refusal of four of six Gulf heads of state to meet with President Obama was a public slap at a president who is seen as naive and unhelpful. Danielle Pletka at the American Enterprise Institute observes: ?On the one hand, the notion of any Arab leader snubbing any president of the United States is offensive. On the other, it?s hard not to see their point of view: the United States has deliberately withdrawn from the region, and insofar as it remains, the interests of our erstwhile allies ? from Israel to Saudi Arabia ? are not first and foremost in the mind of this White House.
Worse yet, Gulf countries, now engaged in what they see as a pitched battle for the future of the region, see Washington doing Iran?s bidding: helping Bashar al Assad stay in power; playing middleman to Iran as it hopes to take over Yemen via proxies; providing air cover for Iranian led militias in Iraq, and more. And while some of the suspicions of the Sunni leaders in the region are overblown, sadly, many are not.?
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Being weak leaves us friendless - The Washington Post
that's what the USA gets in return for Obama forging the way for iran to get nuke capability.
thanks Obama |
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