Obama's selective meddling
The Obama administration's effort to redline Jerusalem is not the only place where they're meddling in an ally's affairs. The administration is also attempting to meddle in India, where Hillary Clinton visited this weekend - the first time she or Obama has set foot there since the election - and tried unsuccessfully to sign the Indian government onto the administration's cap and tax program.Commentary's Abe Greenwald rips the administration's conduct of foreign policy. The complaints he points out have bearing for Israel as well.
Hillary Clinton’s snag in India is a good encapsulation of a number of problems threading their way through the administration’s foreign policy. First, Obama is taking our allies for granted — and cracks are now showing. In all Obama’s travels since taking office, he hasn’t visited India once. During Hillary Clinton’s first trip to East Asia as secretary of state, she blew off India, citing scheduling problems. George W. Bush forged bold energy and trade deals to ensure excellent relations with the emerging subcontinent; if Obama thinks he can coast on that record, he’s in for a surprise.I would add two more points. First, the administration has shown a remarkable tone-deafness to any concerns of those countries whom President Bush treated as allies. Our leaders are not consulted. Policy changes are sprung upon us with no warning and with no thought as to their consequences or as to how they might play out on the street. The clumsy summons of Israel's ambassador to Washington Michael Oren over the weekend to be 'ordered' to stop construction at the Shepherd Hotel in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood is only the latest example in this administration's total lack of understanding for its allies. Telling Jews they can't build homes in Jerusalem is like telling Indians they cannot develop economically. The administration lacks diplomatic tact.
Second, the administration has an absurd faith in the power of its own PR. India has been wracked by the global financial crisis. Even putting that aside, it’s a country where 42.5 percent of children under five are malnourished. For India, economic dynamism isn’t a luxury; it’s a miracle. Do Obama and Hillary think Indians will hobble their own industry just because the Change Express is sweeping through town yammering about cooperation?
Third, its carbon moratorium is madness. Climate panic is an outgrowth of Western decadence. Pushing it on emerging powers is exactly what the Left means by cultural imperialism (or what it should mean, anyway). If the Obama administration bossed around our enemies with half the energy it puts into bossing around our friends, perhaps the planet wouldn’t look like a rogue nations’ free-for-all right now.
Second, note that the Indians - like Binyamin Netanyahu and the Israelis - have told the Obama administration 'no.' With America's putative allies saying no, and with the countries it is courting (Iran, Syria, North Korea, Russia, the 'Palestinians') treating the administration like a lapdog, how much influence will the US have on the world when the Obama administration comes to an end (God willing) in three and a half years?
What could go wrong?
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:02 PM
3 Comments:
The US will find itself alone in an international crisis. Its allies will shrug and inform America you say you don't need our help. Solve your problem yourself.The Obama Administration had better pray that day never comes on its watch.
just what we see also from here from Moscow..
at the end they will have only the moon...
sad sad sad!
With the mainstream media in his pocket, there is no way Obama is not going to be reelected for a second mandate.
Short of him being caught on tape committing some type of crime, I am sure he will be reelected. No one in the Democratic Party will run against him and anyone among the Republicans will be "character-assassinated" by the media.
Palin? We know how that worked out.
Romney? He is a Mormon (watch the press digging up something about polygamy etc...)
Huckabee? Another southern Hick like Bush
etc...
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