tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101059815715683400.post8884640948041183411..comments2023-10-09T01:47:11.791-07:00Comments on The Lone Ranger: Obama's State of the UnionKumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02571503236070897848noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101059815715683400.post-75322452296284875022016-01-14T04:30:40.898-08:002016-01-14T04:30:40.898-08:00Thanks Pete. The entire Obama Administration falte...Thanks Pete. The entire Obama Administration faltered on crucial issues relating to foreign policy. The exit from Iraq created a vacuum and helped spawn terror in the region. To top it, Obama grossly underestimated the capabilities of the IS. Today IS is able to target western interests in any country, Islamic or otherwise. In Istanbul, the casualties were German, the target was a popular foreign tourist attraction. In Jakarta, again one of the dead is a Dutchman and the target was Starbucks and the area housed foreign missions. If the West continues to refer to the IS as JV squad, God save the US.Kumarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02571503236070897848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101059815715683400.post-72602293826429098072016-01-13T21:05:56.344-08:002016-01-13T21:05:56.344-08:00Hi Kumar
Yes the US under Obama has slipped as a ...Hi Kumar<br /><br />Yes the US under Obama has slipped as a foreign policy leader of the Western world. Even Australia is refusing US hopes that Australia will send more troops to help the Shiite Regimes of Iraq and Syria http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-13/australia-declines-us-request-to-boost-fight-in-middle-east/7087174 <br /><br />Important to Obama, but less so to, Americans and the rest of the world is that Obama was the first Negro President. He also has fanciful plans to control guns before he lameduck clocks out.<br /><br />Russia's intervention in Syria has the support of Shiite countries but also the more quiet support of Israel. I would say that many Western countries are also quietly concurring with Putin's campaign against the Turkish-IS oil business as well as pounding other "free" Sunni jihadi groups. Putin, unlike Obama, recognises that the "free" Sunni groups of today become the al-Qaeda enemies of the West, India and Russia, tomorrow.<br /><br />Many in the US military and intel establishment have given up on Obama's "leadership".<br /><br />A bit of jihadi activity in Australia's region has suddenly exploded http://www.smh.com.au/world/explosion-near-sarinah-a-shopping-mall-in-central-jakarta-20160114-gm5uvl.html <br /><br />Regards<br /><br />Pete Petehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02624742078679760819noreply@blogger.com