Comments on: US negotiating to reoccupy Uzbek air base?

By: olsmithie

olsmithie — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:20:27 +0000

What foreign policy?

Seriously, El Presidente’ just bumbles from day to day without any serious understanding of foreign policy or a plan.

A bumbling President is a very scary thing, particularly in regards to dealing with people who hate us and have their own armies.

Regards

By: Streiff

Streiff — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:40:47 +0000

the Democrats has long had two schools of though in foreign policy. The primary one, of course, is the “show your belly” school which simply advocates surrendering pre-emptively to any threat, great or small, and being done with it (virtually any Democrat senator would be a good example here). The second is the alleged “realpolitik” school probably best known for giving us Zbigniew Brzezinski. These guys believe in “stability”. Brzezinski is the genius who told Saddam it was okay with him if he invaded Iran.

Of course, in the Carter Administration we had the spectacular trainwreck of the “show your belly” and “realpolitik” schools working together. That produced the current regime in Iran and laid the groundwork for our 11 year rush to war with Saddam in 2003.

Cozying up to a maniac like Karimov without any attempt to modify his behavior tells us where our foreign policy is going.

By: 1SGinTN

1SGinTN — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:22:02 +0000

and the eye-witness account of the Adijan Massacre, I see that my flippant analogy to moveon & ACORN was out of place. Guess I need to read all the links before I insert foot in mouth again.

Sorry, Moe. Thanks for getting me straight.

By: Moe Lane

Moe Lane — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:10:34 +0000

And I’m still livid over this development. No harm; no foul.

By: 1SGinTN

1SGinTN — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:03:39 +0000

to make light of torture. My apologies if it seemed so. I was referring to the policy of rendition, which I believe is a defacto promotion of it.

By: Moe Lane

Moe Lane — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:50:15 +0000

Is that understood?

Indicate that you understand in your next post, please.

By: 1SGinTN

1SGinTN — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:44:18 +0000

“The country is home to a vicious dictatorship that routinely violates human rights, engages in torture, commits act of religious and civil repression, and is almost certainly rigging elections to stay in power. ”

The Obama administration is halfway there.

“rigging elections ” – check.
“act[s] of religious and civil repression” – in progress.
“engages in torture” – outsourced.

By: IJB

IJB — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:07:51 +0000

I still think the ultimate goal of Obama & co. is to pull out of Afghanistan.

But they have to do it in such a way so it doesn’t look like that’s what they’re doing.

So, they’ve got to publicly show that they’re trying to keep it up. But, what they’re really going to do is let the Kyrgyz base close to us, not make a deal with Uzbekistan, and then “allow” Pakistan to shut down our operations.

At that point, Obama and NATO will make a public show of throwing up their hands, and then say that without help the Afghanistan operation will have to be shut down.

All the players still remaining want to pull out of Afghanistan – they’re just trying to figure out a way to make that happen…