President Obama's Foreign Policy Failures -- A Commentary

President Barack Obama signs an Emergency Declaration for the State of Arkansas Wednesday evening, Jan. 28, 2008 in the Oval Office, and also signed a declaration for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. (White House photo by Pete Souza).

O's Foreign Failures -- New York Post

AMERICA'S enemies smell blood and it's type "O."

All new administrations stumble a bit as they seek their footing. But President Obama's foreign-policy botches have set new records for instant incompetence.

Contrary to left-wing myths, I wasn't a fan of the Bush administration. (I called for Donald Rumsfeld to get the boot in mid-2001.) But fair's fair. Despite his many faults, Bush sought to do good. Obama just wants to look good.

Vice President Dick Cheney was arrogant. Vice President Joe Biden is arrogant and stupid. Take your pick.

Don't worry about the new administration's ideology. Worry about its terrifying naivete.

Consider a sampling of the goofs O and his crew have made in just two months:

China: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (you know that gal married to the Saudi hireling) crawled to Beijing to tell the party bosses that human rights don't matter. Our "relationship" is more important than freedom and human dignity.

Beijing's response? A staged military confrontation with an unarmed US Navy vessel; continued screw-America currency cheating; a renewed crackdown on dissidents and, yesterday, a call for a new global currency to replace the dollar.

Thanks, Hill. You're a sweetheart.

Pakistan: With viral corruption throughout and Islamist fanatics sweeping half of its territory, Pakistan's coming apart. Its Dem-adored prez tries to ban opposition parties and gut the judiciary. It has nukes and seethes with hatred of America. And Islamabad controls our primary supply route into Afghanistan, using it as an extortion tool.

Obama's response? Billions in new aid for Pak pols to pocket. We'd be better off handing the money to AIG to pay out more bonuses.

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My Comment: I am not a fan of Ralph Peters, especially on issues of foreign affairs. His fault .... he tries to summarize in a few paragraphs issues that truly deserve a deeper analysis and study. But while this frustrates me because I know that he is capable of better, I have still posted a number of his commentaries in this blog for the past few months .... more for balance from my own commentary and the posts of others.

But his article in today's New York Post is a good one. Yes it is brief. And yes .... it is very caustic on President Obama. But he is right to wave the red flag on what he sees are a number of foreign policy snafus from both the White House and the State Department.

I like to believe that this is all part of the growing pains of a new administration .... but if Ralph Peter's predictions and fears do come true, and what we are seeing now is how President Obama's Foreign policy team is going to operate for the next 4 years .... I can guarantee that we are going to be heading for some very rough times and some major disappointments.