Retreating FROM A NATION’S Enemies
Has usually proven to be a Weakness
That Eventually LEADS TO ITS Demise!
U.S. is GIVING aid and comfort to Foes
While Putting the Squeeze on Israelis!
Charles Krauthammer Tells It Like It Is
In Excerpt Which Follows Our Heading!
May 24, 2010
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
OBAMA’S FRUITS OF WEAKNESS, CONFESSING TO ISLAM AMERICA’S MANY PAST FAILURES IN DEALING WITH THEIR CURTURE, ARE NOW COMING HOME TO ROOST AS A SIGN WE ARE FRIGHTENED CHICKENS.
THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD WILL LINE UP BEHIND AN ISLAMIC FOX, RATHER THAN THE CHICKENS ROOSTING IN THE HENHOUSE. WE ARE NOT DEALING WITH CHILDREN OF LIGHT. WE ARE DEALING WITH THE CHILDREN OF CARNAL DARKNESS, WHO BOW TO FORCE, CERTAINLY NOT TO WEAKNESS.
The children of darkness (this world) correctly identify political correctness
and a desire to negotiate as a sign of weakness, and have no respect nor a desire
to make concessions to them. This is particularly true of Middle East leaders. They have no respect for children of light dialogue, humility, or political correctness. They are wiser in the ways of this world than the children
of light.
Luke 16:8 – And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
The last statement in the lead paragraph of the following excerpt is well known by the trained negotiators of this world.
Begin lead paragraph from Kaieteur News Online
Negotiating from Weakness: Review of European Agreement Needed
April 25, 2010 By KNews
By Sir Ronald Sanders
“Negotiating from Weakness” is the title of a paper written by Scott Sinclair of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Basically, the paper argues that in current negotiations with the European Union for a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Canada is negotiating from a position of weakness and this “is almost always a recipe for disaster”.
CANADA IS NEGOTIATING FROM A POSITION OF WEAKNESS AND THIS “IS ALMOST ALWAYS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER.”
Begin Excerpt from THE JERUSALEM POST via THE WASHINGTON POST
The fruits of weakness
By C. KRAUTHAMMER
May 23, 2010
Last week’s uranium deal maneuver between Iran, Brazil and Turkey demonstrates how traditional US allies have decided that there’s no profit in lining up with a president given to apologies and appeasement.
It is perfectly obvious that Iran’s latest uranium maneuver, brokered by Brazil and Turkey, is a ruse.
Iran retains more than enough enriched uranium to make a bomb. And it continues enriching at an accelerated pace and to a greater purity (20 percent). Which is why the French Foreign Ministry immediately declared that the trumpeted temporary shipping of some Iranian uranium to Turkey will do nothing to halt Iran’s nuclear program.
It will, however, make meaningful sanctions more difficult.
America’s proposed Security Council resolution is already laughably weak – no blacklisting of Iran’s central bank, no sanctions against Iran’s oil and gas industry, no nonconsensual inspections on the high seas.
Yet Turkey and Brazil – both current members of the Security Council – are so opposed to sanctions that they will not even discuss the resolution.
And China will now have a new excuse to weaken it further.
But the deeper meaning of the uranium-export stunt is the brazenness with which Brazil and Turkey gave cover to the mullahs’ nuclear ambitions and deliberately undermined US efforts to curb Iran’s program.
The real news is that already notorious photo: the president of Brazil, our largest ally in Latin America, and the prime minister of Turkey, for more than half a century the Muslim anchor of NATO, raising hands together with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the most virulently anti-American leader in the world.
THAT PICTURE – a defiant, triumphant take-that-Uncle-Sam – is a crushing verdict on President Barack Obama’s foreign policy. It demonstrates how rising powers, traditional American allies, having watched this administration in action, have decided that there’s no cost in lining up with America’s enemies and no profit in lining up with a US president given to apologies and appeasement.
They’ve watched Obama’s humiliating attempts to appease Iran, as every rejected overture is met with abjectly renewed US negotiating offers. American acquiescence reached such a point that the president was late, hesitant and flaccid in expressing even rhetorical support for democracy demonstrators who were being brutally suppressed and whose call for regime change offered the potential for the most significant US strategic advance in the region in 30 years.
They’ve watched America acquiesce to Russia’s re-exerting sway over Eastern Europe, over Ukraine (pressured by Russia last month into extending for 25 years its lease of the Black Sea naval base at Sevastopol) and over Georgia (Russia’s de facto annexation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is no longer an issue under the Obama “reset” policy).
They’ve watched our appeasement of Syria, Iran’s agent in the Arab Levant – sending our ambassador back to Syria even as it tightens its grip on Lebanon, supplies Hizbullah with Scuds and intensifies its role as the pivot of the Iran-Hizbullah-Hamas alliance. The price for this ostentatious flouting of the US and its interests? Ever more eager US “engagement.”
They’ve observed the administration’s gratuitous slap at Britain over the Falklands, its contemptuous treatment of Israel, its undercutting of the Czech Republic and Poland and its indifference to Lebanon and Georgia. And in Latin America, they see not just US passivity as Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez organizes his anti-American “Bolivarian” coalition while deepening military and commercial ties with Iran
and Russia.
They saw active US support in Honduras for a pro-Chavez would-be dictator seeking unconstitutional powers in defiance of the democratic institutions of that country.
This is not just an America in decline. This is an America in retreat – accepting, ratifying and declaring its decline, and inviting rising powers to fill the vacuum.
Nor is this retreat by inadvertence. This is retreat by design and, indeed, on principle. It’s the perfect fulfillment of Obama’s adopted Third World narrative of American misdeeds, disrespect and domination from which he has come to redeem us and the world. Hence his foundational declaration at the UN General Assembly last September that “no one nation can or should try to dominate another nation” (guess who’s been the dominant nation for the last two decades?) and his dismissal of any “world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another.”
(NATO? The West?)
Eiven Obama’s policies and principles, Turkey and Brazil are acting rationally. Why not give cover to Ahmadinejad and his nuclear ambitions? As the US retreats in the face of Iran, China, Russia and Venezuela, why not hedge your bets? There’s nothing to fear from Obama, and everything to gain by ingratiating yourself with America’s rising adversaries. After all, they actually believe in helping one’s friends and punishing one’s enemies. – The Washington Post
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