Obama is nothing short of an international embarrassment. We are paying a terrible price for electing someone so incapable and inexperienced to be President of the United States.
Following is a Washington Times News article on Obama’s conference with European Union leaders in Brussels:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-warns-nato-about-cutting-defense-spending/article/2546300
Incredibly, Obama complained about some NATO members cutting defense costs when he is cutting our own defense costs to the bone. Then he says the following:
If we’ve got collective defense, it means that everybody’s got to chip in. And I have had some concerns about a diminished level of defense spending among some of our partners in NATO; not all, but many,”
“The situation in Ukraine reminds us that our freedom isn’t free and we’ve got to be willing to pay for the assets, the personnel, the training that’s required to make sure that we have a credible NATO force and an effective deterrent force,”
Unbelievable! At the same time Obama is cutting our defense costs to the bone, he is demanding that NATO increase spending. It will be impossible for me to consider the phrase “freedom isn’t free” the same way again. I can think of no better example of someone foolishly quoting words he does not begin to understand.
ABC’s Jon Karl asked President Obama if he was concerned over the decline of America’s influence in the world:
Obama has replaced the Bush Doctrine with the Obama doctrine. The Obama doctrine is that unless the U.S. is attacked directly, we must rely on leadership from the international community, which he defines as NATO or the UN, before taking any action. He obviously believe that the United States only has value as a member of the international community. He ignores the fact that the internatiional community has only functioned effectively when led by the U.S. One would think the Russian veto at the UN would have made this pretty obvious. This is not just wrong it is dangerously delusional.
Then he finishes with a sentence that is remarkably incoherent.
The point is that…there are always going to be bad things that happen around the world and the United States is the most powerful nation in the world—understandably is look to for solutions to those problems…. There are going to be moments where…military action is appropriate. There are going to be sometimes where that’s not in the interest—national security interest—of the United States, or some of our partners, but that doesn’t mean we’re not going to continue to make the effort or speak clearly about what we think is right and wrong and that’s what we’ve done.
How on earth can anyone take Obama seriously anymore? Russia is just laughing at us. But there is nothing funny about this. Our enemies are almost certainly working on strategies to exploit the leadership vacuum in the United States over the next two and a half years. What makes this even worse is that the only constitutional alternative is Joe Biden.
TDM