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Obama must do more than manage America’s decline

Charles Moore is an English journalist and a former editor at the Telegraph and the Spectator.

He is writing (or has already done so) the official biography of Margaret Thatcher.
He is, needless to say, a staunch Conservative. That’s with a BIG ‘C’ just so ya know.

I have to assume he knows more then I do. Heck, he should with his experience and education.  But I have to say, I’m still not certain about Romney. Are you?
Of course, that’s who we have got and so it’s best I think, not to have division among the ranks in the sight of our foe.
I am also not certain about his comments with regard to killing our enemies but not doing enough to save lives.  ??? Maybe I read it wrong or just don’t understand the point. 
Moore is definitely not an anti-American scribe.  But I guess he wants us to do more then I’d like us to do in the world.
I guess I’m just one of those old fashioned war mongering dinosaurs who’d rather ignore the world or blow parts of it up.
I have zero patience with the hate America snobs and I would never make a diplomat. I’m lucky to be able to spell the word without spell check.
I haven’t posted his entire article but it is worth your time.


President Barack Obama must do more than manage America’s decline

In the face of Obama’s timid foreign policy towards Russia and the Arab world, Republican challenger Mitt Romney is offering real hope
By Charles Moore

Why was Barack Obama so popular globally when he ran for the US presidency four years ago? Because people believed that an eloquent and charismatic first (half-) black president of the United States could do good in the world. The retro-chic poster with a picture of Mr Obama and the single word “HOPE” on it conveyed the entire message.

Four years on, Mr Obama remains eloquent, charismatic and (obviously) 50-per-cent black. He still has considerable global prestige, but his career exhibits a contradiction which, over time, tells against him. He has used that prestige to tell us, in effect, that the president of the United States cannot do all that much good in the world. His message is that American power has lessened, that America is not a special place.

In logic, if you accept this message, you must place less hope in the man who delivers it. He is the advocate of his nation’s decline, and therefore of the reduction of his power. The odd decision to give Mr Obama the Nobel Peace Prize at the start rather than the finish of his presidency turns out to make a sort of sense: he achieved much more by winning the election than by anything that he has done.

You can see this clearly if you survey the Middle East. In this month in 2009, Mr Obama delivered his landmark speech in Cairo: “I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims.” Three years on, Syrians are trying to overthrow their oppressive regime, but they aren’t getting much help from America.

And in Egypt, the country in which Mr Obama addressed the Muslim world, the United States has failed to nurture the very people who began the great revolt against tyranny. This week’s presidential election there is a badly refereed play-off between the old military gang and the anti-Western religious extremists of the Muslim Brotherhood (now being busily repackaged by the Western foreign policy elites and the BBC as Islam’s black-bearded equivalent of European Christian Democrats). The Obama “new beginning” with Muslims failed to support the liberal uprising in Iran in 2009. The ayatollahs lived to oppress another day. The withdrawal from Afghanistan will make life toughest for those Afghans who took the West at its word, and went for democracy and women’s rights rather than tribalism and burkas.

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 06/23/2012 at 12:40 PM   
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