What is America’s foreign
policy under the Obama Administration and what does the President consider is
our “national strategic interests”?
At what point will life trump politics? When there is the possibility of
loss of life, some loss of life, massacre or total extermination?
The continuing massacre of Christians in
Iraq and Syria has reached a level that even the United Nations claims is a
humanitarian crisis. So what does America do? We airdrop supplies to fleeing
Christians on a mountain top and wish them well as they are tracked downed by
Islamic extremists and beheaded. As for the world, they just sit and watch
as the world’s oldest Christian communities and followers are exterminated with
no end in sight. Is this 2014?
Students of history know that
if you fail to learn it, you are doomed to repeat it! The events in Iraq and
the entire Middle East are a direct result of American leadership not learning
from history and now we are repeating it!
Whether you were for the war
in Afghanistan and/or Iraq or not, history is clear, once you have made the
commitment to go to war you don’t leave until peace and security have been firmly established and our national interests are protected. In many cases, America has never left (Europe, Japan, South
Korea) because we serve as a stabilizer for the region.
Instead of recognizing the
reality of the world, that evil does exist and that if not for American
leadership the world will descend into chaos. President Obama and his
administration have undertaken the same philosophy of appeasement and
accommodation that led to Hitler’s success and the death of 60 million people. It's time for the President to see the way the world really is, not the way he wants it to be!
I understand that we are a
war torn nation having lost thousands of lives, tens of thousands disabled and
injured, families and communities sacrificing and trillions of dollars of
taxpayer money spent. All of this sacrifice did bring stability and a degree of
peace to these areas and that’s why the President should have established a Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqi government. Because he did not, America is repeating the mistakes of history, which now has led to even greater carnage and the extermination of all non ISIS followers. This
extermination is not limited to these areas, but will quickly flow across the globe.
The President made a political decision to leave Iraq and Afghanistan, not a strategic decision, and as a result, the area has descended
into total chaos. The extermination is happening right now by ISIS and just witnessed
by the beheading of American journalist James Foley. For those who don’t
believe this is a problem, just wait until next year when we leave Afghanistan.
If you ever believe a situation cannot get much worse, believe me it can, because
if we do not fully engage with all our partners, America and the western world
will be attacked with more voracity than 911.
