Category: Foreign Relations

Obama and the Jews

From The Washington Times: The Republican upset victory in the special election for New York’s heavily Jewish 9th Congressional District has set off alarm bells in Democratic political circles. The White House is launching an outreach effort to American Jews to convince them that Mr. Obama is the best friend Israel has ever had in Washington. If that were even remotely [...]

Obama Shies Away From Libya Address

From Townhall.com: Krauthammer: Obama’s “Working On Language That Will Disguise A Failure” In Libya Obama may be the first American President who has refused the title, “Leader of the Free World.” He is not interested in being Commander in Chief. These traditional presidential roles are all a distraction for him. From NewsMax.com: While members of [...]

Obama’s War on Libya versus the Constitution

From Intellectual Conservative: By using the US Military to begin hostilities with a foreign nation without a Congressional declaration of war, Barack Obama has committed a serious violation of the Constitution. While he certainly is not the first to do so in regards to war powers, it’s high time that he becomes the last. With [...]

Politico Tries To Cover For Obama’s Brazil Trip

From Right Wing News: Unfortunately, for The Politico and Obama, the attempt by Josh Gerstein to defend The Reluctant President’s South American trip falls flat, as he spends quite a bit of time at the beginning explaining why he should not go, which is what people will remember Some 26 months into Barack Obama’s presidency, Latin [...]

The Rising Irrelevance of Barack Obama

From CNS News: “This will not stand!” declared George H.W. Bush. He was speaking of Saddam Hussein’s invasion, occupation and annexation of the emirate of Kuwait as his “19th province.” Seven months later, the Iraqi army was fleeing up the “Highway of Death” back into a country devastated by five weeks of U.S. bombing. When [...]

Despite Crises in Japan and Libya, Obama Heads to Latin America to ‘Grow’ the U.S. Economy

From CNS News: Neither the ongoing nuclear emergency in Japan nor the conflict in Libya and looming outside military intervention there will prevent President Obama from embarking on a five-day trip to Latin America on Friday. The three-country visit includes meetings with the leaders of Brazil, Chile and El Salvador, attendance at a business summit [...]

Five Questions Obama Has Not Answered on Libya

From The Heritage Foundation: Yesterday the United Nations Security Council voted 10–0, with five abstentions, to authorize military action in Libya. Specifically, the resolution “authorizes member states … to take all necessary measures … to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack.” Celebrations erupted across Benghazi after news of the vote reached rebels. [...]

Obama Dithers While American Credibility Burns

From The Heritage Foundation: President Barack Obama invited ESPN into the White House yesterday so that The Worldwide Leader In Sports could tape his picks for the 2011 NCAA basketball tournament. The President picked all frontrunners. Good for him. Meanwhile, 5,000 miles away, a Libyan rebel defending the town of Ajdabiya from Muammar Qadhafi loyalists told The [...]

Alan Gross: Castro’s Pawn, Obama’s Dilemma

From The Heritage Foundation: The conviction and sentencing of American contractor Alan Gross surely leaves a bitter taste in the mouth of the Obama Administration days before it embarks on a Latin American trip. Opting to “play it careful and safe” and “hope the Cuban dictatorship does the right thing” did not spare the Maryland man [...]

Libya: The Obama Doctrine Inaction

From The Heritage Foundation: The Wall Street Journal wrote Saturday: Whatever else one might say about President Obama’s Libya policy, it has succeeded brilliantly in achieving its oft-stated goal of not leading the world. No one can any longer doubt the U.S. determination not to act before the Italians do, or until the Saudis approve, or [...]

Canseco on Calderon, Obama, and the Border

From The Heritage Foundation: Today, President Barack Obama will welcome Mexican President Felipe Calderon to the White House.  As Senior Latin American Policy Analyst, Ray Walser, aptly described in his latest WebMemo, the atmosphere will be tense given the February 15 murder of U.S. immigration agent Jaime Zapata and recent Wikileaks revelations from the U.S. embassy in Mexico [...]

Why Does Obama Support Regime Change in Egypt But Not in Iran?

From Intellectual Conservative: Last week, I attended the premiere of the film Iranium, a documentary about Iran’s Islamic regime and its apocalyptic intentions towards the United States, Israel and the rest of the world not to mention its own people.1 Yet with the protests in Tahrir Square, Egypt was very much on the minds of those [...]

Obama throws another one under the bus

From World Net Daily: It appears everyone, from both sides of the aisle, is praising our president for the way he handled the events of the first geo-political crisis he has faced since occupying the White House. Egypt is now “free” and Mr. Obama will not cease in taking credit for being a large part [...]

Obama ‘Furious’ With Hillary State Department Over Egypt

From NewsMax.com: Is a civil war brewing between the Obama White House and Hillary Clinton’s State Department? A New York Times story published this weekend suggests one may have erupted already. On Saturday, the Times, quoting numerous White House sources, sought to explain the Obama administration’s erratic policy statements during the Egyptian crisis. The paper reported [...]

Obama’s Islamic tilt in Egypt

From World Net Daily: The difference between Jimmy Carter’s mistakes in handling the 1979 revolution in Iran and Obama’s handling of the 2011 revolution in Egypt is that Carter’s team made mistakes out of ignorance and naiveté. Thirty-one years later, Obama’s diplomatic team cannot claim naiveté in dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood and the radical [...]

Egypt Exposes Obama Doctrine Happy Talk

From The Heritage Foundation: The Obama Administration thought they had solved the crisis in Egypt. Yesterday in Marquette, Michigan, President Barack Obama told students at Northern Michigan University, “What is absolutely clear is that we are witnessing history unfold. It’s a moment of transformation that’s taking place because the people of Egypt are calling for change.” [...]

Egypt regime ‘outsmarts’ Obama

From World Net Daily: A professor of national security matters says Egypt’s embattled regime has outsmarted its opposition and the Obama administration as well, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. The citizen uprising in Egypt demanding American ally and strongman President Hosni Mubarak step down has pushed the government to the brink. But [...]

Obama’s undermining of U.S. allies

From World Net Daily: While everyone’s attention seems to be focused on the crisis in Egypt, a bombshell revelation about the administration’s foreign policy in Europe has largely gone unnoticed. British newspaper The Telegraph has reported that part of the price President Obama paid to get Russia to sign the START treaty, limiting nuclear arms, [...]

The Alan Gross Case: A Blow to Obama’s Soft Cuba Policy

From The Heritage Foundation: On February 4, the Cuban government announced it will demand a 20-year prison sentence for U.S. citizen Alan Gross. The 61-year-old Maryland resident was arrested in December 2009 in Havana after visiting Cuba to distribute satellite phones to Jewish and other civil society groups. Although details of his activities remain sketchy, Gross [...]

Oppose Obama’s grand Islamic plan

From World Net Daily: Thursday was the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. Weakened politically and likely at this point in his administration to lose the 2012 presidential election, the “mullah in chief,” Barack Hussein Obama decided to show his face at the annual event and pretend that he is a believer in Judeo-Christian culture [...]