Im not so sure if Bush alone is to blame, Putin has done his share too for restarting the rivalry. While I do like Obama`s act, I just hope that the Russians reply in kind by stopping selling weapons to Iran and Venezuela for example.
Why would they do that? Obama sent a clear signal that he would give them back Eastern Europe, and give up nukes unilaterally, and they don't have to do a thing.
If they do not Obama will end looking like a fool. Giving something for nothing. I think that that missile shield was always a bargaining chip. For both Bush and Obama. Obama just was willing to make the first move himself.
Obama works on the leftist assumption that other countries oppose America because American governments in the past have not been nice enough. This is a truism for the American left, that the problems of the world will be solved when America stops being so arrogant.
Fair enough. This election gives them the opportunity to see how Russia and China fall in line and deliver sanctions against Iran in order to stop nuclear proliferation. Leave the Caucacus to the Russians and they will leave America's sphere of influence.
Now that would be an achievement worthy of a Nobel prize, if only that would come to pass.
I do agree, the blame is not on Obama but on the Nobel Commitee.
They are trying to bribe the US President with a Nobel into their agenda.
I wonder now how Obama is going to respond in this situations?
Hard to say. Iran is tellin ghim to get out of their backyards in Iraq and Afghanistan, and maybe that is what he will do. This is what his core of support on the left wants to, so he very wll may do so.
Whether to enlarge or scale back the effort in Afghanistan.
Yup, how he solves the Afghanistan question is really the $64,000 question.
To leave the area, abandon Bush's policy so to speak, and have peace ensue certainly would be an achievement.
What to do about Iran's nuclear aspirations?
By negotiation, by sanction or by force, or let Israel take the first punch and then get dragged into the conflict.
Or watch the region go nuclear....
His first response was to think that he would be the first president to try to negotiate with Iran. Basically Iran just spat in his face, although now that Iran's enriched uranium is being exposed, Iran is slightly more willing to negotiatebut then so was North Korea. Without the possibility of the stick, a successful nuclear program is a bigger carrot than anything that anybody else can offer.
Without China and Russia on board with sanctions, that is off the table too.
What to do about N Korea's similar desires?
South Korea has always been vulnerable to having Seoul blown off the map, were North Korea's nuclear program to be taken out by force. Teh North Koreans always knew this, and so negotiations for them always involve squeezing money out of foreigners in exchange for halts to their nuclear plan that they have no intention in falling through.
I don't thinking being nice to Kim will really be the solution here either, but we'll see.
As of yet though, nothing more achieved than under Bush and Clinton.
Same old same old again.
What to do about Honduras specifically, and the Cuban-Chavez plus disciples problem in general?
well, the Obama regime have already decided that they are onthe same side as Chavez when it comes to Honduras.
This is personal to me. There is the growing feeling that Latin America is headed for several wars within again down here. People in South America feel war is coming and governments have started to arm themselves following Chavez example. And Putin as a enabler. While Bush was busy in the Middle East.
The ME does stretch American resources too thin to do anything about South America. I strongly disagree with how the Obama government has in effect become enablers of Chavez style politics to enter in Homduras too, but then again, I am not a member of the left.
The left have little problem with what Chavez is doing.
We are now in the same positions Europeans were in the 1900-1910 decade.
In many ways, worse. Mexico especially is in a position where the drug cartels and criminal elements are in a position to take over.
The Nobel people are clearly trying to push the US's leadership into a box which would preclude any military response no matter what the provocation.
I think that the Nobel people are quite happy to understand that Obama would not be so inclined to do so anyways.
This is a bribe of the only coin Obama would respond to---adulation from the chattering internationalists he longs to impress.
He sees himself as a world citizen, or so it seems. It is very possible that this adulatation will play on his ego, and it is not unreasonable( though unproven) to believe that this is meant as a bribe for future actions.
The Nobels reflects on the Committee badly and that is were the now leaderless US conservative shall focus instead of in Obama. Obama`s test will come latter if he starts to show the winning of the Nobel so early in his career affects badly his future decisions.
For us on the outside(and the other side), we can only hope that for every action, there is an equal and opposite rection. This was Reagan in a former era as an antidote to the weakness of Carter. We can only hope for more of the same for the next round.
Or maybe he will actually succeed. that is what elections are all about.
Giving the other side the opportunity to show their stuff.
