PrintMay 15, 2010
Obama Learns What It Is Like to Be a Republican
I'm sure that like most right-thinking Americans, you had to uncross your eyes when Hamid Karzai and Barack Obama shared pleasantries in Washington last Wednesday.It wasn't that long ago that Obama and Karzai were seemingly worlds apart geographically and diplomatically. The Obama administration did everything in its power to undermine Karzai in the latest elections. In addition, it went as far as alleging drug use by Karzai and drug dealing by his brother. I'm sure that in his last trip to Afghanistan, Obama gave Karzai the Chicago-style third degree. In return, Karzai threatened to join the Taliban. And you can't blame him. American foreign policy has proved bipolar with the Obama administration (although just singularly crazy with Obama). One president (Bush) wants to run out the Taliban, and the next is intent on playing Chicago politics. The problem is that Chicago-style diplomacy is small-time when dealing with tyrannical and murderous regimes. Obama is finding out what it...(Read Full Article)
