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How will foreign leaders be able to trust America after Obama?
Topic Started: Mar 17 2014, 08:51 PM (359 Views)
Berton
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How will foreign leaders be able to trust America after Obama?

International credibility is to foreign affairs what political capital is to domestic matters. Without it, an American president can exert little influence and thus can get little done.

President Obama has used up nearly all of his political capital. He began his administration with 69 percent approval and 12 percent disapproval. Today, he is underwater at 40-54 according to the latest Gallup poll.

This presents a problem for Obama, but not for his successor. The next president will begin his or term with a strong approval rating, though almost certainly not as strong as Obama’s historically high mark.

Obama has also used up nearly all of his international credibility. Michael Rubin writes:

In 1994, the United States (and the United Kingdom and Russia) signed an agreement with Ukraine as part of its forfeiture of nuclear weaponry: Russia promised to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty, and the United States and Great Britain agreed to help protect it. That Budapest Memorandum, it turns out, has become meaningless.

So too were American promises to Georgia in 2008. And American promises to Poland and the Czech Republic with regard to missile defense......


Obama’s squandering of American credibility has been so persistent and multi-faceted that it becomes difficult to resist concluding that he has intended to impair his successors’ ability to exert influence in foreign affairs. Given Obama’s deep distrust of America, we shouldn’t be surprised.

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In the future Obama's actions will cost the US much treasure and more importantly much blood. Much more than Bush ever did.

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That is truly one sick anti-President Obama op-ed piece from the Powerline blog.
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Berton
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What about it is not the truth? Please be specific.

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Thumper
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blah blah blah, got anything new?
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Who cares? We have been screwing up our foreign policy since WWII..
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colo_crawdad
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As the OP suggests that we , the US, signed an "agreement" indicating something of treaty stature, it should have explained the vast difference between a diplomatic memorandum which is not ratified by congress and a treaty.
Failure to do so creates a lie by omission.

I would think people would be much more upset by Russia violating its signed memorandum that with the United States that has not violated such memorandum. But, of course such criticism of Russia would not be a "hate President Obama" op-d piece for a right wing blog such as Powerline.
Edited by colo_crawdad, Mar 18 2014, 10:36 AM.
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Powerline has criticized Russia a lot but not knowing that is typical of left wing radicals who are critical of Powerline. I suppose making a statement it has not is a lie by omission.

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Mar 18 2014, 10:41 AM
Powerline has criticized Russia a lot but not knowing that is typical of left wing radicals who are critical of Powerline. I suppose making a statement it has not is a lie by omission.

I guess that Berton has failed to post Powerline's criticisms of Russia's violating that Memorandum. If they have published such and Berton has failed to post it, I guess my comment should haven made toward his "hate President Obama" attitude rather than Powerline's.
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If you want me to flood the board with them then I will. Is that what you want?

I thought you whine about that. Yes, I am sure you did.

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Berton
Mar 18 2014, 10:47 AM
If you want me to flood the board with them then I will. Is that what you want?

I thought you whine about that. Yes, I am sure you did.

More bsmeter from Berton. And, not a word about the OP's lying by omission. To be expected.
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