Obama—Timid on Foreign Policy

President Obama’s policies have been made crystal clear in the past year, i.e., intrusive regulatory government at home and retrenchment abroad. He does not seem to realize that we have many powerful enemies “out there” in the foreign world, enemies with whom we could deal effectively to the benefit of the whole free world.

He has withdrawn from our task of protecting our allies, e.g., Poland and the Czech Republic when he withdrew the missile shield from Eastern Europe. He was forever dragging his feet when it came to sending adequate troops to Afghanistan to get the job done there. He has failed to even rhetorically support the democrats in Iran who badly need his endorsement to throw off a tyrannical regime. He even continues to court the cooperation of the Ahmadinijad government in thinking seriously of sending a John Kerry delegation to that country to continue the useless talks with the present government of Iran, begging them to give up their nuclear ambitions. He has tried to get the Israelis to attempt another useless gesture to trade land for peace with the Palestinians on the west bank of the Jordan River when he asked the Israelis to quit building villages there.

In all this, he has stepped away from the policies of protecting America, which were clearly supported by other Democrat presidents in the past, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Harry Truman, and John Kennedy.

Under Mr. Obama, we have pulled back from the foreign world. We are weaker for accepting the false choice between burdens at home and burdens abroad; and the world beyond our shores is more hazardous and cynical for our retrenchment and preoccupation with health care at home and other domestic problems.

Let’s try to get our government back from the liberal “blame America first” crowd in the 2010 elections.
This post was partly excerpted from The Wall Street Journal 12/31/09 page A13.