tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post4608973951277270172..comments2023-10-03T07:01:41.144-05:00Comments on Always On Watch: Semper Vigilans: Obama’s Failed Foreign Policy Always On Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-12474854581786105692012-11-01T06:21:54.292-05:002012-11-01T06:21:54.292-05:00I am reluctant to think the 3rd debate actually po...I am reluctant to think the 3rd debate actually portrayed Romney's position on foreign policy. I am not saying he lied exactly. I just think he gave Obama nothing to shoot at. <br /><br />Maybe this is vain hope but I agree with all the posts here in that if we proceed as we have been in foreign policy we are screwed. <br /><br />I see Romney as picking a good team of folks. For instance he picks Ryan because our economic policy is a disaster and Ryan has heard the courage to try to tackle the problem in a room filled with senior folks. <br /><br />Because of this, I think there is reason to have hope he will pick someone with courage for foreign policy. <br /><br />Romney is still an unknown in some ways but we are certain of failure if we continue. <br /><br />Here is thing. If Romney gets elected its on us to do more than trade insults on this page. If he gets elected it time we start communicating with our elected representatives. <br /><br />If America fails it is our fault. blogginatornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-73571048132400719962012-10-27T18:34:07.337-05:002012-10-27T18:34:07.337-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Liberalmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612454539046863752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-68710860471001143472012-10-26T09:46:02.105-05:002012-10-26T09:46:02.105-05:00Obama's foreign policy in Afghanistan is more ...Obama's foreign policy in Afghanistan is more then failed it's outright folly and foolishness. That is eventhough the Taliban have time and time again prove by their own actions that the are nothing but a group of ruthless thugs with not honor and would only keep their word in anything that they might promise. They would keep their word only as long as it would suit them and no longer. In spite of the facts Obama still feels and is very willing to make void all the brave sacrifices that the US troop have made in that country because his has the delusion that some worthwhile alliance between the Karzai goverment and the Talibancan be made. Just how unrealistic get Obama get?<br />It would be a good idea for the people in the Karzai goverment to heed the wisdom of Sun Tzu in THE ART OF WAR. Which teaches "We cannot enter into an alliance with neighboring princes until we are acquainted with their designs." <br />To put this in a more current and updated way it may be said that "We cannot enter into an alliance with the Taliban until we are acquainted with their designs."<br />With the Taliban we all may be sure that their intentions are evil.Walter Sieruknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-89758009823398629192012-10-26T09:04:03.998-05:002012-10-26T09:04:03.998-05:00It may be true that Clinton is attempting to cook ...It may be true that Clinton is attempting to cook up plausible deniability, but I don't think it’s true that Clinton ordered an increase in security for Benghazi. The woman detests military personnel. As first lady, she once complained that the aircrews on Air Force One were wearing uniforms.<br /><br />We have a whacko in charge of the State Department. It is a likely consequence of electing Barack Obama as president in 2008.<br />Mustanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06388694472897425202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-16195669940970454942012-10-26T06:03:12.104-05:002012-10-26T06:03:12.104-05:00Average American,
We administrators occasionally l...Average American,<br />We administrators occasionally let Liberalmann's comments remain for comic relief.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-66113711699626662942012-10-26T05:53:51.191-05:002012-10-26T05:53:51.191-05:00Can THIS be true?
Secretary of State Hillary Clin...Can <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ed-klein-bill-clinton-urging-hillary-to-release-benghazi-documents-that-would-exonerate-her-destroy-obamas-re-election-hopes/" rel="nofollow">THIS</a> be true?<br /><br /><i>Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered additional security for the U.S. mission in Benghazi <b>ahead</b>< of the terrorist attack but the orders were never carried out...</i><br /><br />Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-38678420164404984692012-10-25T22:29:54.208-05:002012-10-25T22:29:54.208-05:00"Obama has handled foreign policy almost flaw..."Obama has handled foreign policy almost flawlessly."<br /><br />AAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!<br /><br />Thanks for the chuckle liberalboyy.<br />Average Americanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17211406136371011324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-26830148142971560232012-10-25T19:47:25.711-05:002012-10-25T19:47:25.711-05:00@ Tocsin
Thank you very much for pointing out tho...@ Tocsin<br /><br />Thank you very much for pointing out those errors. I have made corrections.<br /><br />SamSam Huntingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14780557316548397352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-4236692756910097782012-10-25T18:49:25.169-05:002012-10-25T18:49:25.169-05:00Great thread. Some solid, intelligent discourse fo...Great thread. Some solid, intelligent discourse for a change.<br /><br />Corrections needed to make the author more credible:<br /><br />It was <b>Madeleine ALBRIGHT</b> not Albrecht<br /><br />Also <b>Warren Christopher</b> not Christopher Warren<br /><br />TocsinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-31530141344447847512012-10-25T17:55:14.555-05:002012-10-25T17:55:14.555-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Liberalmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612454539046863752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-37192840397390942832012-10-25T15:07:45.906-05:002012-10-25T15:07:45.906-05:00There was an interesting item from Efraim Halevy a...There was an interesting item from Efraim Halevy a day ago in the NY Times called "Who Threw Israel Under the Bus?"<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/opinion/who-threw-israel-under-the-bus.html?_r=0<br /><br />Halevy was director of the Mossad from 1998 to 2002 and the national security adviser from October 2002 to June 2003.<br /><br />It is rather thought provoking and puts great perspective on the subject.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-55951053083766291162012-10-25T14:27:57.654-05:002012-10-25T14:27:57.654-05:00WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of St...WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday endorsed Barack Obama's bid for re-election, citing the Democratic president's efforts to wind down the war in Afghanistan and tackle terrorism as well as an improving U.S. economy.<br /><br />... what a surprise this is!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03945887384596946397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-50863851669739521452012-10-25T14:11:23.525-05:002012-10-25T14:11:23.525-05:00@ Silverfiddle
I’m not certain we can lambast bel...@ Silverfiddle<br /><br />I’m not certain we can lambast bellicose republicans as catalysts for war in Afghanistan and Iraq when democrats overwhelmingly supported funding legislation. I suspect the reason for this rather substantial bipartisan effort is that in 2001, 2003, and 2006, 60-70% of the American people supported the effort to bash the heads of those who attacked us on 9/11. Voting for war was another emotional vs. objective reaction to fundamentalism by a small number of people. Yes, we had to do something, but in my view, we dispatched our sophisticated military to stamp out a few cockroaches.<br /><br />We can argue whether Iraq had anything to do with “international terrorism,” which became Mr. Bush’s mantra, but we cannot find fault with the notion that Moslems were easier to kill in Iraq than they were hiding in the Hindu Kush. We killed a bunch of fundamentalists, but I submit it is easier to kill people than it is the ideas so prolifically propagated by extremist madrassas. Our foreign policy has been ill considered.<br />Sam Huntingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14780557316548397352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-64899487379492588832012-10-25T13:39:30.500-05:002012-10-25T13:39:30.500-05:00@ CI
I was very unhappy with Romney’s “foreign po...@ CI<br /><br />I was very unhappy with Romney’s “foreign policy” performance. I didn’t expect much, given he has never previously been in that position, so I wasn’t disappointed per se … but when he had the opportunity to bring the issue to the level of an adult conversation, all he did was stutter and further confuse the issue. He said to Obama, “Attacking me isn’t a policy.” He was right about that. And neither is criticizing Obama a policy that he intends to follow, if elected. I don’t want to see an isolationist country; neither do I want our government wasting money creating nations at locations where nations have never existed.<br /><br />I thought the shooting of the 11-year-old girls was a sad event, but it was Laura Bush who set this into motion when she went to Afghanistan and told these women that they can be free. It was a damn lie. They can’t be free, beginning from the moment when the last US soldier leaves Afghanistan, for another 2,000 years. As I mentioned above, we have influential people injecting emotion into an area that demands objectivity. Afghanistan isn’t ripe for the adoption of western values.<br />Sam Huntingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14780557316548397352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-62616571373200329162012-10-25T13:25:43.775-05:002012-10-25T13:25:43.775-05:00@ Ducky
… why not try to establish your vision an...@ Ducky<br /><br /><i>… why not try to establish your vision and maybe find out you have points in common with others? But you can't do that, can you?</i><br /><br />Coming from you, this could be the best example of hypocrisy in the last 100 years. But I am not surprised. <br />Sam Huntingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14780557316548397352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-35907648139258151892012-10-25T13:22:33.027-05:002012-10-25T13:22:33.027-05:00AA …
No, I meant Condoleezza Rice. We have influ...AA …<br /><br />No, I meant Condoleezza Rice. We have influential policy makers that appear guided by their hearts, rather than their heads. Dr. Rice made the erroneous assumption that “Palestinian Democracy” in some way equates to its western definition. It does not. And so when Rice “insisted” that the Palestinian people democratically decide who should lead them, they democratically elected a terrorist state. How that result advances American interests is beyond me …<br /><br />One should wonder, “How credible is US foreign policy when, on the one hand, it condemns terrorist states, and on the other propagates them.” The point is that we can, and we must do better in the formulation and implementation of US foreign policy. I never once mentioned it would be easy.Sam Huntingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14780557316548397352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-20030327983184325412012-10-25T12:10:56.434-05:002012-10-25T12:10:56.434-05:00I'm interested in the meme that's develope...I'm interested in the meme that's developed around those serving in the military. The "support the troops" idea.<br /><br />No it is well and proper to say that the military should be given the means to accomplish their mission with dispatch. But to float this jingoistic Lee Greenwood rhetoric because you can't talk about the bullshit mission is quite another thing.<br /><br />Is Sam (Warren?) suggesting that we get into a war with Iran? Put troops in Syria? Or just bomb and kill a bunch more innocent people who don't count because they aren't evangelical Christians?<br /><br />All this talk but it is extremely difficult to get an image of what you think is reasonably possible?<br />What's a sound foreign policy?<br /><br />Do everything Likud tells us to do so that we can establish our "moral leadership" in the world? Yes, you are that comic.<br /><br />Bash thousands of Muslims whenever a rogue sect acts against us? In other words ignore the many Muslims who would like to be on good terms with the U.S. because the fringe right has a pathological paranoia about Islam? <br /><br />Yes, attack the nations that harbor practitioners of clitorectomy. Does that include Israel where it is practiced by Ethiopian Jews?<br /><br />Rather than whining, why not try to establish your vision and maybe find out you have points in common with others? But you can't do that, can you?Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-68750061713334614732012-10-25T10:38:52.826-05:002012-10-25T10:38:52.826-05:00FJ, they can get ALL the practice they need---on O...FJ, they can get ALL the practice they need---on OUR borders!<br /><br />Sam, you mentioned Condoleezza Rice. I hope you meant Susan Rice?<br /><br />If and when we ever get a few politicians that WORK FOR US, instead of campaigning for re-election right from day 1, we MIGHT stand a chance of getting something done RIGHT for a change! We certainly did NOT see that happen lately!Average Americanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17211406136371011324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-71750731940620981942012-10-25T10:35:04.152-05:002012-10-25T10:35:04.152-05:00...America's foreign policy IS the issue. Def......America's foreign policy IS the issue. Defense policy is but one (albeit major) aspect of it.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-33181641204093604282012-10-25T10:32:45.694-05:002012-10-25T10:32:45.694-05:00"At some point, the American people must come...<i>"At some point, the American people must come to the realization that our young warriors are a precious resource; we must not waste them frivolously."</i><br /><br />You've GOT to be kidding. W/O a war to fight, you would prefer our military train in simulators? Only one thing keeps them on top, the fact that they regularly go, "in harms way."-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-37265417733342474912012-10-25T08:55:39.248-05:002012-10-25T08:55:39.248-05:00"At some point, the American people must come..."At some point, the American people must come to the realization that our young warriors are a precious resource; we must not waste them frivolously."<br /><br />I couldn't agree more, Sam. It would be nice if we could find some adults to send to Washington.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-22382784777651480792012-10-25T08:53:00.696-05:002012-10-25T08:53:00.696-05:00You mean Mittens, Silver?
How's your Farsi?You mean Mittens, Silver?<br /><br />How's your Farsi? Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-60794533202667919362012-10-25T08:19:55.207-05:002012-10-25T08:19:55.207-05:00"At some point, the American people must come...<i>"At some point, the American people must come to the realization that our young warriors are a precious resource; we must not waste them frivolously."</i><br /><br />Amen. And bellicose conservatives need to learn this as much as anybody.<br /><br />I have come to the conclusion that since we cannot fight a war the General Tecumseh Sherman way, we should stay out of it.<br /><br />Too many on our side are more than ready to sacrifice others to invade Iran or whatever other idiotic ideas they have on their minds.<br /><br />Beware people beating war drums who have never been to war. Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-68606945588716295892012-10-25T07:21:37.528-05:002012-10-25T07:21:37.528-05:00I find it very difficult to respect ANY elected pu...I find it very difficult to respect <b>ANY</b> elected public servant or any appointed public servant who shills for his agenda on entertainment shows, particularly the late-night shows. Such appearances as entertainers demean our political system and our political process -- yes, governance itself.<br /><br />It seems to me that we are completely losing the understanding that governance is a serious business, not something to be yukking it up about on television.<br /><br />More to the point of this blog post, I am <b>APPALLED</b> that President Obama went on Comedy Central's <i>The Daily Show</i> to discuss foreign policy, Benghazi-gate in particular.<br /><br />Politics has devolved nearly to the point of being a circus! A side show! Never mind that lives are in the balance in every possible way.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-85418081332036229152012-10-25T07:00:52.297-05:002012-10-25T07:00:52.297-05:00Beginning with the Vietnam war, politicians waged ...Beginning with the Vietnam war, politicians waged the wars, not the military. Unless one plans on winning, why do we go there? Telling our enemies when we are leaving is sure madness.Bunkervillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14427978686579892380noreply@blogger.com