| Diplomacy From Our Knees |
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| Written by Ellis Washington | |
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"Peace through strength". ~ Ronald Reagan - Peace through strength, are words uttered by President Reagan for the ages.
.... They were the foundation of his foreign policy against communism and “the evil empire”— the
In Oct. 1986, at the Reykjavik nuclear-arms-control summit in Iceland, Reagan backed up those words when nuclear non-proliferation talks broke down with Soviet premier, Mikhail Gorbachev in Iceland and at Geneva the year before because the Soviets insisted that we stop developing SDI—Strategic Defense Initiative. Reagan considered SDI, or the ability to develop a missile defense system where a defensive rocket is used to shoot down a hostile rocket in mid-air, to be non-negotiable. Rather than jeopardize
As the state-run media praised Obama’s tepid remarks on the Iranian election as designed not to anger the mullahs in June, 2009, in 1985-87
The great Spanish philosopher Santayana in his book, “The Life of Reason,” famously said, Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. The Soviet Empire began to crumble 20 years ago under the strong, moral, unyielding leadership of Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II. 20 years later
Kim Jung Il, the North Korean communist dictator, violates international law and U.N. resolutions with impunity by shooting off rockets with a range to hit
Don’t get your hopes up that Obama finally has some steel in his spine. The Navy admiral is under explicit orders not to provoke the North Koreans by boarding this vessel.
How can we find out what is aboard the Kang Nam under these conditions? If we will wait for the ship to run out of gas around
In the meantime the world is becoming a much more dangerous place to live in as tyrants, socialists and Muslim fanatics across the globe mobilize under the Liberal-Muslim Axis seek to destroy or weaken capitalism and representative democracies wherever they find them — In Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Lebanon, Gaza, Afghanistan, and beyond. I am convinced the more I observe our president that Obama and his fascist legions are actually pleased with the mounting chaos destabilizing the civilized world. The simmering revolution in
— And the more chaos the better because it gives Obama the pretext to “do something” to “fix” the problems. In the meantime Obama’s remedies only exacerbate existential domestic and geopolitical problems which only starts the Chaos Theory cycle anew. Peace through strength or diplomacy from our knees? To any rational observer of politics it is obvious that Obama made the latter choice and
The communist regime of Kim Jung Il has made it explicitly clear to
In conclusion, I think that conservative intellectual, Ann Coulter, summed up the limits of diplomacy best when she wrote — There are only two choices with savages: Fight or run. Democrats always want to run, but they dress it up in meaningless catchphrases like "diplomacy," "détente," "engagement," "multilateral engagement," "multilateral diplomacy," "containment" and "going to the UN."
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