Posted by
James Biga on Thursday, July 02, 2009 4:42:39 PM
The problem with naive leftists is they approach everything from a perception of hope. Barack Obama constantly clamored about hope and change in the US Presidential campaign. Those of us who have to deal with reality on a day to day basis realized a long time ago that hope is not a strategy. Hope is only uttered when everything else has fails. Hope never replaces truth and fact. Sadly, this is exactly the approach that many in the west have taken and the islamists rely on. Hope allows when to rid themselves of responsibility and look at others in a skewed manner.
"I'm not reconciled with [Iran's possession of nuclear weapons], and I don't think the international community is reconciled with that," US President Barack Obama said Thursday in an interview with the Associated Press, ahead of a trip to Moscow.
I am not sold that he believes this entirely. I don't believe that he truly cares one way or another if Iran gets nuclear weapons. As for speaking for the rest of the "international community", he can't even speak for his own country.
Scheduled to depart next week on a trip to Russia, Italy and Ghana, Obama praised Moscow for its cooperation in attempting to persuade North Korea and Iran to abandon their nuclear development programs. The United Nations recently approved "the most robust sanction regime that we've ever seen with respect to North Korea," he said.
Moscow feigns to help while funnelling material, money, and expertise under the table. This is the equivalent of a 1930's black man thanking a Klansman for erecting a cross in his yard. How tragically pathetic is this?
In reference to his upcoming trip, Obama chided Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday for keeping "one foot in the old ways of doing business." By contrast, Obama said Putin's handpicked successor as president understands that Cold War behavior is outdated.
This comment is so easy to pick apart I'll leave it to you.