Mr. MotO Misreads Cold War
Former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton makes a great point in his Op Ed today—Mr. MotO doesn’t understand the lessons of the Cold War. Unlike his “we’re citizens of the World” speech implies, the Cold War was won through steely resolve—a resolve that many on the left and Western Europe did not share. If we’d joined the pacifists and socialists at the time, we’d be propping up Eastern Bloc countries with economic aid just like North Korea today. And tens of millions would still be suffering inside totalitarian states.
Let’s hope Mr. MotO was pandering to the crowd. It’s naïve to think the world will embrace, and there’ll be no more need for US leadership.
Archived in: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Cold War, Europe, Liberals, Mr. MotO, socialistsJuly 26, 2008 at 1:10 pm | Trackback
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Obama’s progressive foreign policy is incoherent, and in a word, bullsh*t. The “one world” crap is Wilsonian, the kind of thing that the Bush Doctrine applies in its own way. Obama’s yammering is an bizarre sort of defaced natural rights philosophy without the metaphysics. Liberals talk this way not because it makes sense, but because it fulfills their need to mask the presence of measurable good and evil. Europeans like it because it floats another grand idea which can save them from the wreckage of all their other grand ideas.
And while we’re at it, nukes have made the world more peaceful, because of their complex deterrent effect. The various proxy wars we’ve had…Korea, Vietnam, etc., were squeezed out as conventional conflicts that never went global. Take away nukes..which will never happen…and the war blood flows in torrents. Even a shallow leftie like Obama should have learned this in school.
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I wouldn’t advertise an outhouse shovelling lesson at Ogilvy & Mather, you spamming meathead. As for your wife, she was down at O’Malley’s, then went to work for a doctor, making people sick.