15 posts tagged “foreign policy”
A negotiating team from Iran has agreed in principle to ship nuclear fuel to Russia for enrichment. The reasoning is if the nuclear fuel is in Russia then Iran would not have enough nuclear fuel to enrich to a weapons grade nuclear warhead of some sort.
The Iranian negotiating to could not give formal approval of the deal because it has to hear from the divine Shi’ite Ayatollah, I mean the leadership of the Iranian government.
Here is the thing. Iran has been rattling sabers with a ‘hands off’ attitude about their nuclear program to concerned governments (primarily Israel followed by the USA with some lesser concerns from appeasers like the UK, France and Germany). At every moment Iran needed to stall for time to reach a nuclear goal, the Mullah dominated government would express an interest at negotiation. Each negotiation was a smoke screen for all negotiation with Iran NEVER amounted to any substance.
Here is the other thing. Russia would be the guarantor of how much enriched nuclear fuel would be sent back to Iran for peaceful energy purposes. Does anyone see a snag in this logic?
Russia has been sending assassinators to the West to kill people of interest to the Russian image.
One example is the Litvinenko radiation poisoning murder carried out on British soil.
Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned by Dioxin. Yushchenko believes there is a Russian connection to the poisoning that occurred during a Ukrainian Presidential campaign he eventually won.
Russia has been belligerent to its neighbors, former members of the Soviet empire and Western governments.
Russia invades its neighbor and former Soviet Republic Georgia and steals land and continues to this day to make Georgia’s life miserable. Georgia was an American ally as part of the coalition of the willing.
Russia has been provoking British air space with military flyers. Not only once but several times.
The so-called new Russia has even been testing the USA ala Cold War style. The Russian excuse is American involvement in nations formerly controlled by the old Soviet Empire. Russia is actually in the beginnings of beginning global hegemonic rivalries that was supposed to have been resolved with the fall of Soviet Communism and the rise of democratic experiments in Eastern Europe. Naturally many of these nations formerly under the domination of the old Bear Claw would be drawn to the successful institutions that have brought prosperity to America. Nationalist egotism is again beginning to threaten global peace with Russia and emerging power China showing a desire for regional hegemony.
President Barack Hussein Obama’s handling of foreign policy is playing directly into the nationalistic fervor of Russian dreams of empire. BHO more than likely feels his election mandate was to handle foreign policy less assertively than the Republican Administrations of Reagan, Bush I and Bush II. It appears BHO believes that weakening American hegemony by taking the blame for all that riles our allies and rivals alike is the path to offsetting emerging Russian nationalism.
What are nations like Russia, China and Iran to think after BHO’s first whirlwind European tour of apologizing for American intrusions that benefitted American interests while policing Western government fears. It sounds a bit like hubris but who have the Europeans turned to in the 20th century for self-preservation during devastating wars and threats of Communist despotism? That nation is the USA. Two World Wars and the existence of NATO to counter the potential aggression of Soviet Imperialist days is the evidence. American might allowed Western economies to grow and actually become competitive to the American economy as a result of American global policing.
BHO’s appeasement policy could actually provoke another global conflict with such acts as scraping Europe’s Missile Defense Shield program at Russia’s command, the policy of no pre-conditions in Iranian negotiations and forcing a threat to Israel’s existence by producing an independent Palestinian State who’s only goal is the annihilation of non-Muslim Israel.
So Iran’s nuclear negotiating team secures a plan to send nuclear fuel to Russia for enrichment. There is no doubt this will add to the myth of Messiahood to BHO’s persona. Keeping in mind the Iranian government has not actually said, “We got a deal.” Does anyone really believe Iran will stop cruising down the path of becoming a nuclear power?
JRH 10/22/09
Gary H. Johnson, Jr. has contributed a number of articles relating to the influence of Fareed Zakaria: Here, Here and Here.
Johnson has more on the Newsweek’s Islamic mouthpiece.
JRH 10/21/09
Gary H. Johnson, Jr. has sent an exclusive to SlantRight.com that I am certain will make it in some form to his AfPak Reader.
The theme of the essay is a “New Realism.” The foreign policy concept is supposed to be middle ground between allowing everything including the kitchen sink without preconditions and Right Wing Realism. The former uses Jimmy – Hamas – Carter as an example. The latter uses Neoconservatives as an example.
The New Realism’s (A Conservative’s View) primary advocates seem to be Dennis Ross (Profile from Left oriented Right Web) and Robert Baer. Johnson’s essay is kind of a critique of an article written in the Washington Post by Fareed Zakaria.
I’ll probably have to read Johnson’s essay a few times in an attempt to digest all the implications of the New Realism. Upon first glance (well maybe second glance) Zakaria appears to be a proponent of the New Realism.
Now here is the foundation of the New Realism in foreign policy: The acceptance of Iran as a Middle Eastern hegemon while using a combination of Saudi clout, European economic strength and American power in a carrot and stick scenario to counteract Middle Eastern Iranian hegemony. It sounds like a new Cold War scenario in which the West tries to fence in the Iranian National Agenda with both overt and covert agents. Russia and China will play the switch and bait game to placate their National Interests meaning sometimes supporting the West and sometimes supporting Iran. For Russia and China the bait and switch of support will be founded upon that which benefits the respective the global sub-hegemonic powers (i.e. assuming that America is still THE global hegemon).
Below is Johnson’s very loaded with geopolitical information essay.
JRH 9/29/09
Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold has written a book that should provide insights on how to deal with Iran and its unstated quest for nuclear weapons. The book is entitled, “The Rise of Nuclear Iran.”
Here is an excerpt of a review from the Human Events Book Service (link above):
In The Rise of Nuclear Iran, Gold traces the U.S.'s past failures to deal with Iran and explains why diplomacy alone will continue to backfire -- no matter who is president or which party is in power. Gold details how virtually every recent American administration has at some point reached out to Iran, but none of them ever succeeded in compelling the mullahs to make the slightest change in their unremittingly hostile behavior. Now, with the specter of a nuclear-armed Iran haunting the world, it is all the more urgent that these mistakes must not be repeated. Gold shows why -- and what the free world must do instead to protect itself from the maniacal Islamic regime in Tehran.
Dore Gold points out that a diplomatic solution or at least the kind of diplomatic solution that has been pursued is disastrously impotent to prevent Iran’s nuclear quest to evolve into a State possessing Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) including inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBM).
Emily Belz writing for WorldMag.com gleans the essence of Gold’s call for a new strategy in an article entitled, “Feeling Alone.”
Included beyond the criticism Democratic Party and GOP Presidents over the years, is the stark fact that the MSM fails to report effectively on. The usurper of Iranian elections President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an extreme Shi’ite Twelver. Part of his theological beliefs is that global chaos is given a little push. The Hidden Imam (aka the 12th Imam and the Mahdi) will hasten his return to force planet earth to embrace Islam or die.
JRH 9/2/09
President Barack Hussein Obama has learned a practice from Palestinian terrorists who control the media of PA and Hamastan. That practice is telling the West one thing while telling their terror supporting constituents another. The former is smooth talking of peace and the latter is vile hatred toward Jews and America followed by promises of the destruction of Israel.
In BHO’s case he tells the American voters that America stands behind Israel out one side of his mouth and tells Israel it must aid in creating a Palestinian State that is devoted to the destruction of Israel from the other side of his mouth.
One of the great tragedies of America is that even American Jews buy into the crooked speech patterns of BHO concerning Israel.
As I write this the West Bank is having its Sixth Fatah General Conference. Look for the Western Media to cherry pick news that portrays Palestinian terrorists as making significant steps of peace and any delay of such is Israel’s fault.
The part the Western Media will ignore or at least be less privy to is the internal agenda that will encourage the destruction of Israel and no doubt make an attempt to address the corrupted rift between Fatah’s terrorists and Hamas’ terrorists.
Read an excellent analysis of the Sixth Fatah General Congress by Pinhas Inbari. The analysis points out this hypocrisy that is maintained by Islamic terrorists which is a kind of a taqiyya strategy of deceiving the kafir while pumping up the Muslim cadres.
JRH 8/6/09
Victor Davis Hanson analyzes President Barack Hussein Obama’s foreign policy. Basically Hanson senses that BHO is sending a wrong message to allies and enemies alike.
BHO’s lack of forthright condemnation of Mullah repression had all kinds of consequences. It may have emboldened the Mullahs to execute extreme prejudice on its own citizens. The lack of initial condemnation certainly will irritate and possibly extinguish continued backbone to Iranian protestors. Since no early condemnation proceeded, BHO failed to bank on serious real sanctions that might have been used against Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons.
Hanson goes on to excoriate BHO over inconsistencies with Israel’s Netanyahu, Afghanistan’s Karzai, Honduras’ expulsion of a Marxist President and so on.
JHR 7/3/09
I read a Caroline Glick article in the Jerusalem Post that is nearly a week old. Although my reading was a bit untimely, Glick hits the nail on the head and must be read several times so American voters comprehend the damage done to America by Mr. “Yes We Can.”
“Yes We Can” really means subvert America so much that the most powerful nation in the world becomes a Second Rate power forced to accept Western Leftist multiculturalism. This is a multiculturalism that will dissolve E Pluribus Unum into an identity that divides the nation into factions of race, religion and atheists that will pull the American Heritage into a Black Hole effectively ending the experiment of the American Revolution and the Founding Fathers. Darkness will envelope the light which united thirteen colonies into 50 United States.
JRH 4/12/09
Well it looks like President Obama has learned from one of President Bush’s mistakes. BHO is appointing (political rumor mill – not official) Charles Freeman Jr. as the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC). The NIC is the group of spooks responsible for writing a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) to allegedly provide an unbiased report on the collected data of America’s Intelligence agencies.
The mistake President Bush made is that he failed to appoint Intelligence leadership that was inline with the Bush Agenda; thus a hostile Intelligence community often leaked classified information to the press meant to embarrass the President or stall a Presidential strategy.
BHO choice of Charles Freeman Jr. is a choice for President Obama’s world view a Foreign Affairs agenda.
According to Gabriel Schoenfeld, Freeman is completely pro-Arab and pro-Palestinian. You know the guys that are so anti-Semitic that Middle Eastern Public Media and Schools actually propagandize racial hatred toward Jews.
Also according to Schoenfeld, Freeman is completely in the tank as a Sinophile. For example Freeman has openly been an apologist for the Communist Chinese massacre of Tiananmen Square protesters for democratic reforms in China.
The lesson that President Obama has learned is that if you have an agenda make sure you have like-minded leadership in the government bureaucracies to move the Administration forward with the least resistance.
Expect to read or hear Obama Administration news demonizing Israel’s decisions at self-preservation as oppression to the Arabs that call themselves Palestinians.
Expect to read or hear Obama Administration news that China is not as great a human rights violator as perceived and the Chinese government’s efforts to literally persecute Chinese Christians with intimidation, violence and torture to be China’s business and the business of the Obama Administration that claims torture will not be practiced by Americans. Hello! What Obama has labeled torture of the last seven and half years by America’s military or Intelligence is laughable compared to the REAL torture the Chinese government does to its own citizens to mold thought and ideology of the Chinese Communist nation.
The hypocrite BHO is merely doing the very things he vilified Bush with except BHO is utilizing Leftist obfuscation to attain a Leftist and Secular Humanist American transformation. BHO is using a crisis in which he and (then) fellow Senators actually laid the foundation. Bush’s complicity in America’s financial crisis is in not publicly battling fringe Democrats about coercing banks to allow poor people to accept bad paper loans.
BHO is the man that American centrists joined Leftists to place in the Office of President merely because the Dems ingeniously made the War on Terrorism unpopular and placing the blame of bad decisions squarely on President Bush.
The only bad decision Bush made was caving into Arab-loving U.S. bureaucrats who felt battling Islamic terrorists was to great a risk to alienate Islamic States (some monarchies and some dictatorships – NO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICS. This forced Bush to scale back on his Bush Agenda (implanting Western style democracies and eliminating transnational Islamic terrorists). In effect this decision to dilute the Bush Agenda led to a failure to vigorously fight for victory in Iraq and Afghanistan for fear of the perceptions of the indigenous population. In fact the Iraq surge proved that a more aggressive agenda to hunt Islamic terrorists upped the confidence level of the indigenous population toward the American military. The confidence in turn caused an “Awakening” in which the general Islamic population began to NOT support the ugly neighborhood Islamic terrorists.
With the likes of Freeman heading up the NIC, it signifies the undoing the benefits of the Iraq Surge, a lack of support for the only real Western style democracy in the Middle East and a surge of Islamic terrorism sponsored Twelfth Imam crazed Muslims from Iran.
JRH 2/26/09
I just finished reading an awesome analytical editorial of how Barack Hussein Obama is actually placing Americans at risk by redefining Bush’s methods to keep America terrorist free for a little over the last seven years since 2001.
The place to go is RationalLiberty.com.
JRH 1/27/09
Caroline Glick’s analysis in her piece “The perils ahead” writes about President Elect Obama’s public pre-election portrayal as a centrist on foreign policy was merely a political gimmick not to lose votes.
Glick senses that foreign policy advisors that were an embarrassment during the campaign and jettisoned publicly have been privately working full speed ahead to prepare a Slanted LEFT foreign policy.
This means making deals with Syria and Iran that if implemented will undoubted bring peace to the Middle East; however at the cost of a Second Holocaust of all the Jewish lives in a butchered Israel.
This is yet another example that associations matter!
Read Glick’s piece which is a picture of an Obama Administration selling Israel via the advice Robert Malley, Zbigniew Brzezinski and sky and even current Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
JRH 11/14/08
