44: Obama’s Shaky Start on Foreign Policy
by Media Lizzy — published on March 12th, 2009
by Media Lizzy — published on March 12th, 2009
We’ll always have Berlin…. the days when it was all “Hope” and “Change” and governance was just a word. The cheering throngs, the coordinated signs, the events and emotions and condescension palpable. If the atheists could suspend their values for a moment, surely they too would acknowledge that last summer - in Berlin - that from the hereafter, Leni Riefenstahl looked upon Obama’s European debut with great pride in his stagecraft.
Okay, maybe not. And certainly not now. President Barack Obama was for many Americans and Europeans and Africans a welcome change from the presidency of George W. Bush. After all, War is hard. No one likes to be inconvenienced by terrorism, bombings, kidnappings, beheadings, hijackings, and fights with OPEC over oil, and with Ghaddafi over their stash of WMDs, and Iran over nukes, and seriously - who isn’t tired of the Palestinian problem? Like, Hamas? It’s like - we’re tired, man. We want some hope-n-change.
War is hard. Of course, to be honest - it’s not like America - or George W. Bush picked this fight. Poverty is not a motivator for Usama bin Ladin. He’s got a few hundred million dollars in liquid assets. I don’t think he’s losing sleep over Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. And he’s probably laughing that President Obama actually believes there are “two” Talibans. One that we can work with, and one we can’t. My guess is that the ones we can work with were the spectators in the soccer stadium back in the pre-9/11 days when they beheaded women and stoned them to death for having an ankle exposed. But hey, they were just watching. So, compared to the guy with the machete - they were pretty moderate.
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