If you liked Jimmy Carters’ Foreign Policy, you’ll probably love Obama’s
23 Oct 2008
Barack Obama’s Vice Presidential running mate Senator Joe Biden said last week that he expects a serious international crisis to occur within the first six months of the next U.S. President’s term. Let’s reasonably assume that it involves Israel, since that country has been threatened over and over again with annihilation. For instance, Iran could acquire a nuclear warhead from Pakistan, mount it on one of their long-range missiles and strike Israel. It would be a sneak attack to try to completely destroy Israel and knock out Israel’s ability to retaliate.
If this possibility concerns you, who do you want to be President of the United States at that time? Who might our enemies fear the most as our President? Who would, hopefully, keep such a scenario from happening in the first place? I suspect our enemies would fear McCain the most ... which is a good thing!
Remember when Iran took dozens of Americans hostage during Jimmy Carter’s administration? The Iranians did not respect or fear Carter, acted accordingly, and the American people suffered the consequences. Reagan had not been sworn in as our President for 5 minutes when the Iranians let our people go. The Iranians admitted later that they were afraid of what Reagan was going to do as our new President. That’s called respect. It is not saying “I will sit down with [terrorist nations] and negotiate,” as Obama is fond of saying.
All due respect to Joe Biden, but it would not be his call to make as Vice President — how to retaliate. It would be the President of the United States’ responsibility as Commander in Chief. If elected, Obama would be the only one ultimately making the decision on what to do … if anything.
Meanwhile Obama’s Chicago neighbor and [friend] Jesse Jackson was at the World Policy Forum at a French lakeside resort last week, where Jackson was quoted as saying: [that under Obama] “decades of putting Israel’s interests first” would end.
Jesse should know. Jesse knows him well. He calls him his “neighbor.” He says, “We helped him start his career;” and says his daughter went to school with Obama’s wife Michelle. Therefore, we can assume that Jesse knows what he is talking about.
So the bottom line is: If you liked Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy, you’ll probably love Obama’s. And if you really care about Israel, the choice is clear.
