During the campaign of 2008, we heard all about how George W. Bush’s, “cowboy style,” of diplomacy was causing massive problems for us abroad. The world, at least in terms of the tales told by leftists, hated even the slightest mention of anything American. We no longer had any friends, and no one wanted to play with us any longer. Even though there was not a single shred of actual evidence to substantiate this ridiculous claim, a compliant and totally in the tank media repeated it so often that our diplomatic corps started chanting that annoying 7 year old’s refrain, “nobody likes me, everybody hates me.” So, here we are a scant 40 months later, and how has the new diplomatic strategy, post Hillary’s famous, and by the way not well received reset button, done? Is the world a safer place for America and our interests? Is the security of Israel stronger and in better shape today than it was in the ancient date of 2008? Is America respected around the globe suddenly? Are American interests and America’s citizens suddenly enjoying a more secure journey when traveling abroad? Did Iran respond in the manner we would have preferred to those toothless and idiotic U.N. sanctions? Did, “smart diplomacy,” which turned out to be nothing more than Barack Obama wagging his finger at foreign heads of state and later apologizing for past American leaders, all with that flair of condescension he has mastered all to well, lead to the results 52% of Americans believed they would when voting for this man? I must say that they led to the results that I expected, which is precisely the world we live in today.
Here, my gentle little snowflakes, are the results of, “smart diplomacy, the finger wagging condescension of an American President, no longer backed by a viable military he has seen fit to destroy. The article is quite lengthy, and in German, but if you open the link using Google Chrome, you will be able to translate it into English, or cut and paste it into Yahoo Babelfish. If not, I’ll summarize it for you. The Iranians have successfully tested a nuclear device. Two things to bear in mind about this test. One, they did not do it themselves. They had the North Koreans looking over their shoulders. What extent of the North Korean participation actually was, is unclear. That is different from actually detonating a bomb by themselves. This step however is a heck of a lot closer than anyone thought previously. It also represents a direct contradiction to two important pieces of liberal bilge which has been promulgated upon us in the past. One, the Iranians are clearly not developing nuclear capabilities for the purposes of supplying their country with electricity. Two, the National Intelligence Estimate which Barack Obama and Joe Biden were parroting from the roof tops in 2007 has been proven laughably wrong. Once again, these two clowns who are now our President and Vice President find themselves on the wrong side of a foreign policy issue, and dangerously so. They used this estimate during the 2008 general election campaign to argue that we needn’t worry about those rascally Iranian darlings developing a nuclear device, and that appeasement would work far better when dealing with bad guys anyhow.
A challenge for my liberal friends, (or progressives, or no labels, or what ever in the heck you call yourselves these days.) When, in the course of all of human history has appeasement worked? Has a lasting peace, ever in human history, ever been negotiated through only diplomatic means? There are three events so far which stand as the only three conditions that have led to a lasting peace. One, a decisive military victory of one side over another. Two, a huge imbalance of power which made war unpalatable for one side and a waste of time and resources for the other. Three, the free trade of goods and services across the borders in dispute. All three of these conditions are possible without a single diplomat being employed, and in fact have happened repeatedly throughout human history. While diplomacy may help to foster an environment which avoids unnecessary misunderstanding, by itself, it has never accomplished anything near the accolades claimed in the stuff of Hollywood movies or television.
This latest version of appeasement is even more egregious than most other instances. We are attempting to coerce Iran through economic sanctions, which thanks to the corruption inherent in the U.N., have never been successful. Iran has announced loudly, and often that her only goal is to eradicate Israel and kill every Jew on the planet. Team Obama insists that we must seek to understand the plight of the Iranian Street, and seek to gain knowledge of why it is that they are suffering so greatly that they would seek to attain the ultimate killing weapon. One quick perusal of their religious text, and it should be obvious to anyone beyond the age of five that yes, what they are screaming that they want to do is really what they intend on doing. Their motivation is not to improve upon their lot in life, but to actually, just like they are claiming, kill every person of Jewish faith on Earth.
Thomas Jefferson and John Jay purchased a copy of the Q’ran in 1788. After having read their copy on a return voyage from England, both men wrote forwards in this book, which became the White House copy. Unless Barack Obama has done something to deface these words, they still exist today. The forwards admonish every future President to consider the Muslim Faith America’s scariest enemy and predict that future warfare would be waged against them almost exclusively. While it can be argued that these dire predictions did not hold up to the judge of history, they did prove somewhat correct in identifying the complete incompatibility of Islam and the principles of Freedom upon which our nation was founded. When Thomas Jefferson was sworn in as President, his very first act as Commander in Chief was to declare war on the Muslims who inhabited Libya. This action was largely based on his reading and understanding of the Q’ran. He recognized that diplomacy would be a waste of time, and that more American lives would be unnecessarily forfeit should he indulge that particular course of action. The resulting lasting peace won by Thomas Jefferson’s methodology lasted until 1904. Morocco became the next flash point of Muslim terror to be waged against the United States. The assassination of an American Ambassador and the kidnapping of his family led to another non diplomatic solution enacted by Theodore Roosevelt. This action, a decisive military intervention, produced another period of Muslims leaving us alone which lasted almost another century.
The record of appeasement is also very clear. It has led, always to some very horrific results. It enables bad guys to get stronger, so that when dealing with them becomes a matter of survival and not just choice, they have improved resources, increased alliances, and have already achieved some of the more heinous parts of their objectives. Today, Iran is much closer to achieving a nuclear weapons capability, and their intentions have been spelled out since their revolution in 1978. The clock on this one is nearing an end, and we can not afford 4 more years of Smart Diplomacy. Israel certainly can not afford 4 more years of America employing, “smart diplomacy.”
Exit Questions: Why have our own media sources in this country completely ignored this ominous event? Is there anyone left in America dumb enough to believe that our Main Stream Media is objective?
Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
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