The Foreign Policy You Have Nightmares About

BALTIMORE, Maryland January 29, 2014 - A note to start: I've been away from the blog for a bit, due to illness in my family. My wife, my daughter and my mother were all in the hospital in recent days. Things are now getting back to normal.

The pronouncement sometime back from members of the GOP leadership that they would not consider impeachment proceedings was poorly thought out, poorly timed, and, even its conception, it was shallow, and not in keeping with their primary role as fiduciaries to the nation's well-being. It's not that I favor impeachment. I absolutely do not. I guess what I should say is that I hope the President doesn't force the hand of Congress. I hope it doesn't come to that. I'm afraid, however, that the threat of it, the real in your face fear that the process will get started, will keep Obama from doing some of the even more bizarre and disgusting things he is rumored to be considering, being the good leftist cliff-hanger that he absolutely is. In recent days, this is the stomach-turning rollcall of absurd and awful things the Commander-in-Chief has dabbled in:

1) By now, everybody knows about the Obama administration's embarassing and ill-timed temper tantrum regarding the Prime Minister of Israel addressing a Joint Session of the United States Congress. Leaders of both the GOP and my party are scared-to-death that the amateurs involved in carrying out Obama's foreign policy are heading straigt for a disastrous deal with the Mullahs who run Iran regarding Iran's right to build a nuclear weapon. Obama has shown little inclination over the last year to do the kind of hard-ball bargaining that would scale back any plans for an Iranian bomb to the point where the world would no longer have to worry about Israel being blown off the map. The Mullahs will absolutely do that the very second they have control of a nuclear weapon. The Mullahs have embarassed these United States by delaying any final plan long enough to allow their bomb development program to continue full-bore. Nobody outside of the hard-left White House wants these negotiations to succeed, because nobody will be able to stomach what such a deal may compel the United States to do. John Beiner, in an unusually hard-edged move, quietly arranged for Mr. Netanyahu to come to Washington to make the speech in March. When Obama found out he went ballistic. He has said he will not meet with Mr. Netanyahu - whom he detests - when the Israeli leader is here for the speech. He has tried desperately to strong arm Beiner to withdraw the invitation, but Beiner again held his ground. Netanyahu, of course, wants the Congress to impose new, harsher sanctions on Iran as a guard against acquisition of the bomb. Obama says such sanctions will disrupt the "delicate" negotiations that the United States and other Western nations are holding with the Mullahs. We can only hope.

2) In another step related to the one described above, Obama has dispatched some high-level functionaries from his re-election campaign to Israel to work for the party opposing Mr. Netanyahu in the upcoming Israeli elections. An so the weak and bumbling Obama has sunk so low that he is trying to derail the man who is emerging as the de facto leader of the Western World. Great. And really low-brow.

3) Our visionary leader is also trying to derail another Middle Eastern Leader who has emerged as a leader in the battle against ISIS. General Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi [says Wikipedia: (Arabic: عبد الفتاح سعيد حسين خليل السيسي‎ ‘Abdu l-Fattāḥ Sa‘īd Ḥusayn Khalīl as-Sīsī, IPA: [ʕæbdel.fætˈtæːħ sæˈʕiːd ħeˈseːn xæˈliːl esˈsiːsi]; born 19 November 1954) is the sixth and current President of Egypt, in office since 2014.] has stated forcefully that ISIS must be destroyed and that current Middle East countries must unite against it. General el-Sisi came to power in the latter stages of the 2012 Egyptian Revolution, when the military ousted the despicable Mohammed Morsi and the Al Qaeda-linked Muslim Brotherhood. Well, despite the anti-American connections that the Muslim Brotherhood makes little effort to hide, Obama is enchanted by both the organization and its leaders, including Morsi. He wants el-Sisi out and Morsi or somebody similar back in. The test on something like this has always been whether the change would be in the United States' best interests. There is no question, in this case, that putting the Muslim Brotherhood back in charge of Eqypt is not in the best interests of these United States. But it might be in the best interests of having a more far-left hegemony running the Middle East. Right Mr. President?

4) Apparently the Ukrainian Leadership was wrongly urged to make another pitch for weapons from the Obama administration. The Ukrainians are fighting a surrogate battle against Russian aggression in the eastern section of their nation. Obama gives lip service to the sanctity of their cause.

Well, if this is what he has done, what is he rumored to be thinking about? How about offering Guantanamo back to Cuba? Really? Really. How about a deal with Iran that allows them to develop a nuke? Almost certainly. Diverting money to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to overthrow Gen. el-Sisi? Don't bet against it. And this, fans, is just the foreign policy end of it.