"Worst Foreign Policy Ever" -- Wow!

It is nice to see that there are a few publications out there that haven't fallen for the Obama spell. You can forget the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News, The Economist and -- last but not least -- the New York Times. These are lost forever to the land of liberal cheerleading. Thank goodness, however, for the Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily and the Washington Times. They have managed to resist the clarion call for "hope and change" and see the Obama Administration increasingly for what it is: weak, unprincipled and dedicated to the proposition that the rich and successful should be punished.

Check out this latest editorial by the Washington Times entitled "Worst Foreign Policy Ever". That's saying alot, actually, given the disaster that was the Carter Administration during the late 1970s. It says in part:

Tomorrow, President Obama will chair a special nuclear-disarmament meeting by the United Nations Security Council. The White House bills this as a historic first, but it is typical of Mr. Obama's emphasis on style over substance. He will appear before the body with the weakest foreign-policy record of any new U.S. president in recent memory. An around-the-world tour of international hot spots shows that for all the president's lofty rhetoric, he can point to precious few accomplishments.

In the Middle East, Mr. Obama's unprecedented obsequiousness in dealing with the Muslim world has generated no tangible returns. The leading Arab states repeatedly have declined to budge toward compromise to push the regional peace process forward, and they show no signs of normalizing relations with Israel. Palestinians refuse to talk to Israelis until they agree to a settlement freeze on the West Bank, and Israel has reportedly responded to Mr. Obama's call for a freeze by saying it will go ahead and build 2,500 new housing units.

Nor has Mr. Obama's outreach effort translated into a general sense of good will. A May 2009 University of Maryland survey of the Middle East showed that those with a very or somewhat favorable view of the United States increased only 3 percent between 2008 and 2009, from an anemic 15 percent to 18 percent.

In Afghanistan, the president has hit turbulence within his own party, and as the going gets tough, he seems ready to repudiate his "stronger and smarter" strategy after only six months. He is balking at supplying the troops necessary to stave off disaster, and the growing discussion in Washington is now how the administration can minimize the political damage of a defeat in Afghanistan.

And there's more, of course -- much more. In being so focused on a "reset" of the Bush Administration's years, Obama has taken the United States on a global apology tour that continues unabated. Our president seems to wholly reject the notion of "American exceptionalism", preferring to dumb us down to the level of every other crack pot dictatorship on the face of the earth. How sad. He doesn't understand that the America experiment that guarantees freedom, liberty and economic opportunity for all is an unprecedented triumph in the history of the world. Like many on the left, Obama prefers to see our faults rather than our virtues. Forget that we've done more to help oppressed and threatened people than any other nation in history. Forget the 400,000 American lives lost defending Europe and Asia from totalitarianism. Forget our efforts to ensure that Europe would not be enslaved behind an Iron Curtain. Forget it all.

What a tragedy that our President doesn't see American values as worth defending, nor does he see them worth exporting. He's gripped by appeasement in the spirit of Neville Chamberlain; looking for accommodation from dictators and despots -- those who seek us harm.

I once thought that Obama would be the second coming of Jimmy Carter. Now I realize that I shouldn't have insulted President Carter in that way.

Pathetic.