Posted by
rycK on Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:43:21 AM
Diplomacy and Failure: Obama’s Naiveté and Reflections from the Kennedy Era, the Berlin Wall and nuclear missiles in Cuba.
In a rare example of objectivity the New York Times has reviewed the history of diplomatic relations and ‘talks’ with adversaries and gives examples of JFK and how he was made to ‘look the shoe’ by Nikita Khrushchev in 1961.
In a critical historical review that probably should not have been published by the Walter Duranty Papers entitled Kennedy Talked, Khrushchev Triumphed [1] the woeful outcome of a neophyte sparring with a seasoned adversary bent on destroying our society with nuclear bombs if necessary is laid bare. There are lesions to learn from this disgraceful episode in our history that matches the disgraceful SALT talks some time later. This article was written by Nathan Thrall of Published by the GLORIACenter, the InterdisciplinaryCenter in Herzliya, Israel. Thrall was also critical or Reagan’s diplomacy with Iran and other aspects of the foolish attempt to reason with terrorists and religious fanatics. Jesse James Wilkins is doctoral candidate in political science at Columbia. [2] What they present here is a sober and frightening assessment of diplomacy with tyrants and fanatics when neophytes get the power to do so.
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”[3]—JFK 1961 Inaugural Address. [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]
This is fluff. But, many are inspired and transfixed by such empty rhetoric and can convince others that talking can solve the world’s problems.
“Senator Obama defended his position by again enlisting Kennedy’s legacy: “If George Bush and John McCain have a problem with direct diplomacy led by the president of the United States, then they can explain why they have a problem with John F. Kennedy, because that’s what he did with Khrushchev.”[4]—Barack Obama.
This is a statement born of ignorance and probable adoration for the far left.
“Kennedy’s assessment of his own performance was no less severe. Only a few minutes after parting with Khrushchev, Kennedy, a World War II veteran, told James Reston of The New York Times that the summit meeting had been the “roughest thing in my life.” Kennedy went on: “He just beat the hell out of me. I’ve got a terrible problem if he thinks I’m inexperienced and have no guts. Until we remove those ideas we won’t get anywhere with him.”[5]—JFK
Then came the Berlin wall. This was a political triumph for the USSR as JFK’s inexperience and weakness in ‘diplomacy’ was adroitly exploited by the Communists.
And worse:
“A little more than two months later, Khrushchev gave the go-ahead to begin erecting what would become the Berlin Wall. Kennedy had resigned himself to it, telling his aides in private that “a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.” The following spring, Khrushchev made plans to “throw a hedgehog at Uncle Sam’s pants”: nuclear missiles in Cuba. And while there were many factors that led to the missile crisis, it is no exaggeration to say that the impression Khrushchev formed at Vienna — of Kennedy as ineffective — was among them.”
JFK was long on rhetoric and short of political acuity. He was more interested in fun and sex with starlets than national security. [6]He was a fanciful political construction, a creation of his father’s criminal earnings and appreciation for dictators particularly from the left but his admiration for Hitler finally backfired on him. Shallow as he was, he immediately switched to supporting Communists. Jack was an artificial creation and the triumph of the public realti ns and image-crafting industry. Obama relies on this plastic platform as he has no experience or kudos to show the voters. Kennedy’s abject failures can be attributed to the false notions that diplomacy has prevented wars, persuaded tyrants to step down from their offices or retreated from the battle fields. Jimmy Carter was even more naive in his dealings with Iran. Ted Kennedy missed most of this as he was more e concerned with the contents of brown bottles and sailing. In these respects, JFK and Obama are essentially clones.
Senator Obama’s ‘experience’ is limited to running for office and his work in ‘organizing’ in the slums of Chicago where his views were shaped by Saul Alinsky, William Ayers[7], who is famous for saying "I don't regret setting bombs...I feel we didn't do enough."[8] Throw in Jeremiah Wright and we can wonder just who trained this guy and where his loyalties lie. He parrots the stuffy and arrogant lines from the Ivy League set almost exclusively. His Senate voting record is 100% liberal. He certainly has the support of the New Black Panthers, Hamas, Hezbollah and Iranian tyrants so we wonder what he might do if he is empowered to ‘negotiate’ with Islamo-Fascists. Wright, his mentor, thinks we are state sponsors of terrorism.[9] Senator Obama is hesitant to reject these views unless he is pressed and only forced to do so in public. Wright still holds to the Black Liberation Theology and stands on his racist views that:
"And it's not surprising then they [whites] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."[10]—Barack Obama off camera in what he thought was a safe environment to express his views.
Ronald Reagan took a strong stance against the Russians and forced their collapse.[11] This outcome was not viewed well by the far left, where Obama was trained and now resides. In his recent book Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey by David Horowitz, the author flatly states that the New Left, of which he was a founder, wanted the US to lose in Viet Nam and it is difficult to find a single left-liberal politician to state without reservations that they would favor a win in the War on Terrorism. Quite, the opposite, as the liberals have criticized and overemphasized the ‘lousy economy’ we supposedly have as soon as Bush was inaugurated in his first term. The twin political objectives of defeating the Republicans by wrecking the economy and shielding the terrorists from interrogation and electronic monitoring are obvious and are a staple of the leftist political strategy since 2000. It is quiet apparent that they are willing to sandbag our military forces and then blame Bush for battle casualties. They can think of nothing other than high and punitive taxes to further their ends. [12] [13]
The insistence that we not expand our oil production in the US thus raising the price of gasoline at the pump will wreck our economy and return us to a Jimmy Carter Era and will only enhance their power.[14]
Given all this, there is no reason to believe that Obama and his allies have any regard for our economy or flag or our fight against terrorism. They seem to favor some anti-capitalist stance and are quite willing to tax our corporations and successful business leaders out of political spite and revenge.
Obama and his supporters are Closet Traitors and will seek the aid of the Islamo-Fascists to defeat capitalism in our society. The liberal media will assist them in this adventure unless we realize just who we are dealing with. We don’t need another Berlin Wall in terms of fuel prices and we certainly don’t need some 20,000,000 illegal aliens and criminals voting for the far left in the future. We also do not want our society to resemble or even reflect the social cancers of San Francisco or Managua or Havana.
Obama is either ignorant, a stooge for the far left or a combination of the two. He certainly is a racist and uses the race issue as a wedge. His parroting of JFK’s speeches was an act of ignorance and shows his lack of understanding both history and his faulty analytical techniques.
“Paraphrasing what H. L Mencken said about Adolph Hitler in his glory days: Obama is just a newer jackass with an old broom.”[15]
The editors at the New York Times must lost their minds for publishing this.
rycK
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[3] Kennedy Talked, Khrushchev Triumphed Ibid.
[4] Kennedy Talked, Khrushchev Triumphed Ibid.
[5] Kennedy Talked, Khrushchev Triumphed Ibid.
[6] http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n3_v14/ai_20174386. The Dark Side of Camelot. - book reviews. Insight on the News, Jan 26, 1998 by Michael Rust. “Many allegations are quite believable, however; there is much to admire in Hersh's stern prosecution. Most notably, he makes a case that the president had prior knowledge of the murder of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and that he knowingly abandoned the Bay of Pigs invaders. The dishonesty of the Kennedy acolytes in their account of the Missile Crisis is nicely chronicled. Also, for the first time Secret Service agents talk en masse, leaving a picture of a president whose compulsive need for sex overwhelmed basic security considerations -- including the president's much-rumored assignations with a German woman who just possibly was connected with East German intelligence.”
[7] A ‘distinguished professor’ of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
[9] “We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant?! Because the stuff we have done overseas is not brought back into our front yard? Americans chickens are coming home to roost.”[9] --Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.
[10] http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/356191.aspx
[11] Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism (ISBN: 0385504713)
Peter Schweizer.