Foriegn Policy in the Age of Obama

Ronald Reagan one said, "We know only too well that war comes not when the forces of freedom are strong, but when they are weak. It is then that tyrants are tempted."

Given the President's just completed tour through Europe and the Middle East, is the United States showing that strength or accommodation will be the policy going forward?

Well, why don't we see what Caroline Glick, over at the Center for Security Policy, has to say:

Whether they are aggressors like Russia, proliferators like North Korea, terror exporters like nuclear-armed Pakistan or would-be genocidal-terror-supporting nuclear states like Iran, today, under the new administration, none of them has any reason to fear Washington.

This news is music to the ears of the American Left and their friends in Europe. Obama's supporters like billionaire George Soros couldn't be more excited at the self-induced demise of the American superpower. CNN's former (anti-)Israel bureau chief Walter Rodgers wrote ecstatically in the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday, "America's... superpower status, is being downgraded as rapidly as its economy."

Hat tip to Donald Douglas, via R. S. McCain

Great Thoughts

"Freedom is not created by government nor is it a gift from those in political power. It is, in fact, secured more than anything else by limitations placed on those in government"

- Ronald Reagan

This is going to be an ongoing feature here on the blog. Reagan said so many great things, and as I read through some of them, I find that many are quite timely indeed. In the future, I'll probably add others to the mix, but for now, we'll start with Ronald Wilson Reagan, and go from there. In fact, we'll start with a double feature...

" Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row of seats"

- Ronald Reagan