Category — foreign policy

Barack Obama is not the Messiah; his new title is Master of the Obvious (MotO).  For example, there’s this little nugget of wisdom from Mr. MotO—wait for it—an American president can’t just snap his fingers and erase generations of religious and ethnic tensions in the Middle East.  How does the man sleep at night when he knowingly withheld this earth shattering information?  If we’d known about this, the whole Middle East thing would have been solved years ago.

And most interesting of all, Mr. MotO dropped a dime on Iran.  Did you know a nuclear armed Iran poses “a grave threat”?  I’m flabbergasted.  All this time I thought one of the world’s largest oil exporters really needed the nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.  How wrong was I?

No wonder the media worships the ground Mr. MotO walks on.  With pearls of wisdom like this, we’re in for a bright and glorious future under his leadership.

Let me see if I have all of this straight.  Barack Obama, who didn’t support the surge in Iraq and won’t recognize the positive results, supports a surge for Afghanistan.  Pray tell, Messiah, what makes the Afghan surge more likely to yield results than the Iraq one you never supported?

And if that didn’t make your head hurt, Obama promises to end the war in Iraq and will celebrate by starting one in Pakistan:

“Al-Qaida has an expanding base in Pakistan that is probably no farther from their old Afghan sanctuary than a train ride from Washington to Philadelphia.

“We cannot tolerate a terrorist sanctuary, and as president I won’t,” he said.

“We must make it clear that if Pakistan cannot or will not act, we will take out high-level terrorist targets like (Osama) bin Laden if we have them in our sights.”

So Barrack Obama is going to “restore” our standing in the international community by violating the sovereignty of a nuclear armed Pakistan.  I guess you have to believe in his messianic powers to make sense of these plans.

If this is the best he can do with a prepared speech and teleprompter, no wonder he won’t face McCain in town hall meetings.  The debates should be very entertaining when this empty suit won’t have his campaign staffers whispering in his ear.

It’s also interesting to note all these policies were developed prior to his trip overseas where he was suppose to gain some gravitas on international issues.  Of course that dog and pony show is akin to visiting Niagara Falls and claiming you’re now qualified to be ambassador to Canada.