Failed Progressive Foreign Policy

Human tragedy begins the moment any group of people start believing, for whatever reason, that they and they alone know what is best for the rest of us. Usually they rely solely on theoretical accomplishments that offer little in the way of practical applications. Whatever their background it is founded in conceipt and arrogance. The Founders included themselves in their deliberations over the rights of man and the laws of nature. They submitted to the dangers of the new political model that was clearly good for all, not just for a self-annointed elite. Unlike the farcical Progressives of today, the Founders did not pass laws for citizens and simultaneously exempt themselves. They did not take advantage of the People. They did not violate their sacred honor.

The excerpt below provides a clear sketch of Progressives' appeasement and their ill-conceived policies. Only those who engage in messianic dreams can defend blatant stupidity in the name of high-minded endeavors worthy of Don Quijote de la Mancha. Never forget that for every Don Quijote there is one or more Sancho Panzas, the useful idiots that blindly follow along repeating catchy phrases that signify nothing. The windmills, Sancho, the windmills!!

Posted by Kent Clizbe Oct 25th 2010 at 5:37 am in Afghanistan

Obama wants to negotiate with the Taliban? What sort of brilliant strategist devised that idea? I'll see your Holbrooke, and raise you a Hillary.

So far, Obama's crowd has produced, among other foreign affairs coups, the "closure" of Gitmo. The persecution of CIA officers for interrogating terrorists. The elevation of gays in the military to a policy level issue while we conduct two wars. Confused incoherence on handling terrorist prisoners of war-a plan, decided at breakfast, to prosecute combatants captured on the battlefield for felonies in U.S. courts. Hit with a massive terrorist attack by an al-Qaeda penetration agent in the U.S. Army-Obama and his geniuses warned against connecting the dots to come to any conclusions.

Obama's National Counterterrorism Advisor investigated himself after both his previous CIA analytical program and his commercial program, which he sold to his former office, failed. The same geniuses were unable to
"connect the dots" to identify the Panties Bomber. The muddled undergraduate seminar to choose a strategy in Afghanistan. The muddled strategy that resulted-Obama announced a withdrawal date at the same time he announced a surge.

The panicked firing of a military professional after a liberal hit piece reveals that, wait-he thought Joe Biden was an idiot! The elevation to the status of military savior of the general who the progressives, led by Obama and Hillary, derided as a lying traitor. Nation-building in Afghanistan. Rolling over for the Russians after the FBI arrested ten, count 'em ten, covert agents and agent handlers living and working as "illegals" in the U.S. North Korea blew up a South Korean ship.

Iran fired up its nuclear reactors, with Russian expertise, after liberal analysts and the Obamaites assured us that the Iranians had no such
ability, desire or expertise. A unilateral declaration of the end of combat
in Iraq, while Americans continue to fight and die there. And there are more. Billy Joel could do a new "We didn't light the fire" song with just Obama's blunders.

Foreign affairs disasters, miscalculations, blunders, mistakes,
crises, call them what you will. For anyone who cares about American
interests the last two years were horrific.

So, back to negotiating with the Taliban. Why? The only reason the Taliban negotiate with us is to buy time. They know we are leaving. They even know the date. Obama told them. They have all the time in the world. They just wait until Obama turns tail and declares an end to combat. We leave. Then the massacres begin.

Anyone old enough to remember the fall of Saigon? I worked in a refugee camp, more than ten years after Saigon fell. The destroyed lives, shattered families, ruined bodies, spirits and minds trickled out of Vietnam into the camps. Millions of people risked life and limb to escape the totalitarian, anti-American regime that murdered, tortured, or re-educated anyone who had contact with Americans.

What is different in Afghanistan? When Obama declares combat over, will the Taliban be merciful to Afghan women who worked with Americans?
How about the Afghan Army and intelligence service? Will the Taliban accept
the police? Recent history suggests that there will be a bloodbath worse than Vietnam. The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia exterminated nearly a third of their fellow countrymen. And they were only motivated by politics, not religion.

Obama's geniuses could potentially have the blood of millions on
their hands. Professorial seminars and 99thpercentile SATs could prove to be deadly-again.