By John Ransom
Saturday, March 01, 2014
It took a while for me to figure out how Obama kept
drawing red lines that other countries wouldn’t respect.
But now it all seems clear to me: Obama’s using all of
the government’s supply of the color red on the deficit. Hence there’s no red
left for the lines he draws in foreign policy.
As reports continue to circulate of armed gunman taking
over public property in Ukraine-- gunmen that are likely under the control of
the Russian government-- another of Obama’s red lines that wasn’t has been
crossed.
“Armed men seized the regional government headquarters
and parliament building in Crimea on Thursday and raised the Russian flag,”
says our own NightWatch. "Reports on the number of men ranged from 60 to
120. Police made no move to remove them.”
This has been followed up by seizure of airports in
Crimea. Crimea, a peninsula that juts out into the Black Sea and therefore
affords Russia some access to the Mediterranean, is supposedly an independent
republic that’s part of Ukraine.
“This crisis affords President Putin and Russia the best
opportunity since the collapse of the Soviet Union for recovering control of
Crimea,” concludes NightWatch.
You might remember that Russia engineered the same type
of coup in the Republic of Georgia in 2008 when they essentially annexed parts
of Georgia known as South Ossetia and Abkhazia as a result of a 5-day war after
a Russian invasion.
We'll call that war the first manifestation of the Obama
Wars that have broken out in the wake of his weakness, er, election.
Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, South Ossetia and
Ukraine. I don't know what dictators would do without ethnic minorities.
Mexico anyone?
I’m not saying that Obama is a coward, but if Caesar
crossed the Rubicon while Obama was in Rome, the One would schedule a tee time.
Obama wanted to be remembered for something “big” that he
accomplished.
Losing the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe
certainly qualifies.
Chamberlain was duped by Hitler at Munich, but he was a
fool; Roosevelt was gulled by Stalin at Yalta, but FDR, by then, was a sick old
man; Truman was taken in at Potsdam, but he eventually saw through ruse and
stood up to the old, evil empire.
That’s because Harry Truman, farmer, failed businessman,
and volunteer soldier had the capacity to grow in a way that elitists
Chamberlain and Roosevelt did not.
Today you can measure someone’s establishment credentials
by their inability to embrace new realities, in the same way you used to be
able to measure someone’s counter culture affinities by hair and clothes.
You can take the measure of the man Obama by his
inability to grow.
He really is the head of the new elite in this country.
As I have said elsewhere: In part, Obama’s troubles stem
from the rigidity of his broken ideas. They admit of no compromise here at
home.
And no backbone anywhere else.
Egypt, Libya—in fact almost all of North Africa-- Sudan,
Mali, Syria, Georgia, and now Ukraine are all a part of Obama’s Wars. Renewed
fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan too are part of the bitter legacy of Obama’s
Wars.
While Obama picks on the Catholic Church, doctors,
patients, the Tea Party, coal miners, truckers, banks and small businesses here
at home, a great gouge has been ripped through the globe from the Atlantic to
the Black Sea by Obama’s Wars.
It's appeasement, buffet style, all you can eat, one
fixed price: Our freedom. Or someone else's. Either way.
William Manchester relates in his epic biography of
Winston Churchill that prime minster Ramsay McDonald, a great architect of
appeasement, had stopped speaking with Churchill: “Winston had called him ‘the
boneless wonder,’ the ‘greatest living master of falling without hurting
himself,’ and the man who possessed ‘the gift of compressing the largest
numbers of words into the small amount of thought.’”
And it’s the thoughtlessness that’s so maddening about
Obama, who like Ramsay McDonald, is the first head of government for his
country's labor party.
Because some men will pay for Obama's heedless weakness.
And the red that is spilled won’t just be confined to the
ink here at home, but already includes blood spilled abroad as well.
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