Our Foreign Policy, like “Seinfeld,” is about NOTHING !
Here’s a safe bet: When President Vladimir Putincompletes the Ukraine stage of his plan to widen the empire he now calls “New Russia,” Americans by and large will be relieved that we didn’t get too involved.
We’ll be relieved because President Obama never made the case for serious involvement. His national-security philosophy, in a nutshell, is to thoroughly debate and deliberate until reaching the inevitable conclusion: We have no good options.
And so we do very little around the globe beyond diplomatic negotiations that go nowhere. Our foreign policy, like “Seinfeld,” is about nothing.
Take Ukraine. Please.
By Thursday, when Secretary of State John Kerry got to Geneva to negotiate with colleagues from Russia, Ukraine and the European Union, the Russian assault was in full swing, so little was left to negotiate about.
The government in Kiev, which had earlier committed the cardinal sin of trying to ally Ukraine with Europe and the West, was losing ground to President Putin’s troops in the eastern part of the country, where most Ukrainian industry is concentrated.
Sure, Russia agreed in Geneva Thursday that the time has come to “de-escalate” in eastern Ukraine. But even Obama acknowledged that, while he hoped Moscow would abide by that agreement, Putin’s past practice makes it doubtful.
As in Crimea, until recently part of Ukraine, now part of Russia.
In Wednesday’s UN Security Council debate on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, somebody actually mentioned Crimea — prompting Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin to warn he’d no longer tolerate such talk. Crimea, he made clear, no longer has anything to do with Ukraine.
Judging by fast-moving events, it’s likely that soon eastern Ukraine won’t, either.
This week Kiev sent a few tanks and armored cars to confront Russian troops that, thinly disguised as non-uniformed local “militias,” had taken control of key facilities in east Ukraine. Oops: As soon as they got there, some of the Ukrainian vehicles switched to Russian flags.
Ukraine clearly is no match for Russia. So what did we do to help tilt the balance of power in favor of our would-be allies in Kiev?
“We ought to at least, for God’s sake, give them some light weapons with which to defend themselves,” Sen. John McCain told CBS last Sunday. “So far,” McCain said, “this administration [has] not only not done that, but they won’t even share some intelligence with the Ukrainian government.”
The CIA reportedly wouldn’t share real-time satellite images and other intel with Kiev because it suspects that (as the flag-flipping APCs suggest) the Russians have heavily infiltrated Ukraine’s military.
Nevertheless, as the Daily Beast’s Eli Lake reported this week, CIA Director John Brennan finally went to Kiev over the weekend to meet with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to arrange some limited form of intel sharing.
By then, of course, Russian forces were already in the east, taking over local government buildings and military camps. Our half-hearted attempt to help came a day late and dollar short.
Oh, sure, our UN ambassador, Samantha Power, exchanged insults with Churkin during a Security Council “emergency” session on Saturday and the Wednesday humanitarian debate. And yes, Vice President Joe Biden is set to fly to Kiev next Tuesday, where he’ll surely condemn Putin’s unruly behavior.
But as Putin mobilized his military to invade a neighbor this week, Obama was mainly focused on rallying his political troops and donors for the fall US political campaign.
So: Now that it’s here, what to do about this pesky crisis?
Toughened sanctions? Well, maybe — but many European countries rely on Russia for their energy needs. Banking restrictions? Well, maybe — but Russian oligarchs might pull their cash out of Cypriot banks, and Germany doesn’t want to bail out Cyprus again.
Increase our oil and natural gas exports to Europe? Gee, by the time we make the necessary decisions and sign the treaties, Putin will have finished his own pipeline across his newly acquired European territories, making his gas cheaper and more available than ours.
The United States has spent five years doing as little as possible in nearly every world crisis. Without our leadership, the post-Cold War order crumbled. Everyone, from the most obscure Syrian jihadist to Putin, rushed to fill the void we left behind.
Once it became too obvious to ignore — once it was no longer about China taking over some obscure Asian island or about some Arab yearning for freedom, but about the revival of the Soviet empire — America, t.he world’s wealthiest nation with the world’s strongest army, had no good options left.
So we did nothing. (Sigh of relief).
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Benny Avni is columnist at New York Post.
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You Don’t Deal with Terrorists
How dare the world communities led by U.S. allow themselves to make “deal” with the terrorist State of the IRI? The US State Department has described Iranian regime as an “active state sponsor of terrorism," why? Because Mullahs’ regime has killed American Marines by bomb, because Mullahs’ regime has killed American soldiers using IED, because Mullahs’ regime supports terrorist groups abroad, because Mullahs’ regime has a dreadful human rights record at home, and because Mullahs’ regime helps bloodthirsty Bashar al-Assad in killing Syrian people. ............................................................. No cause justifies terrorism; the World should not be soft on terrorism but must respond strong and fight this evil to eradicate its root from the surface of the earth.
Obsolete types of Governments for the 21st Century
In the 21st century the Monarchy, Theocratic, and Communism are considered obsolete and impractical type regimes whose outcome are nothing more than autocracy and corruption in addition to fostering slavery and idolatry for its own people. …………….. The only down-to-earth type government is the one OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE that can bring freedom and prosperity for its grassroots. And that is a secular democratic republic government based on the principle of human rights. The overriding characteristic of this demotic type regime is its short-cycle default that provides for the leader to govern, in other word it roots out any long-term opportunity for the sovereignty, which is the key element in institutionalizing corruption in the society.
If the World Wants to Witness Peace on Earth
If the World Powers really want to bring peace and prosperity to the world, they have to eradicate the source of terrorism in our globe, which has been deeply rooted in Iran by the terrorist Mullahs occupiers. It is these Islamic zombies in Iran who are behind all the inhuman crimes against its own people and across not only the Middle East, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Syria, etc, but all over the globe. As long as they are alive the world will not witness the peace it deserves. If GWB (George Without Brain) had attacked Iran instead of Iraq in 2003 (miscalculation due to the lack of brain or too much oil-polluted brain) and exterminated these Islamic zombies, the world would have never been in this mess today. Again nobody should ever expect peace on our earth as long as the terrorist IRI mullahs are alive.
Islamic Regime in Iran, a Puppet of Foreign Powers
If it wasn’t for the continuous step-by-step support of the World Powers, these lousy Mullahs, headed by yesterday-beggar and today-criminal billionaire KHAMENEI and the professional crook RAFSANJANI, could never enforce this criminal regime of bunch of thugs and ruffians over the people of Iran for more than 38 years. Alongside our struggle on raising awareness among the Iranian grassroots against ignorance, we have to point a major part of our efforts to counteract and defy the revival subsidizing source for this brutal and puppet regime by the so-called hegemony of Western and Eastern Powers, and ask them to redirect the focus of their provision and care toward the oppressed people of Iran.
Former U.S. President Joined the Terrorist State of IRI
On September 27, 2013 former President Hussein Obama stretched out his hand and offered diplomatic engagement to the terrorist Hassan Rouhani through a phone call. The United States has long-standing concerns over Iran’s nuclear program, sponsorship of terrorism, and human rights record. The United States State Department has described Iran as an “active state sponsor of terrorism. President Obama has in fact answered the Iranian’s plea, (when in 2009 they shouted “Obama Obama ya ba oona ya ba ma”, meaning you are either with them or with us), and abandoned them by taking the terrorist IRI’s side. Iranian will never forget his disfavor to them.
Fear is the main source of superstition
Fear is the main source of Superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate
“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.” ........... (Bertolt Brecht)
Struggle for Democracy
The uprising movement in Iran is not about the election nor it's about either candidates, rather it's about regime change.
The Criminal Regime of IRI, 3 Decades of Bloodshed and Massacre
To watch the list of the executions in Iran since June 2009, click on the above picture
Oppressed People of Iran Warn the Green Reformers
You the Green Reformers and/or any Religious Nationalists get out of the way of the oppressed people of Iran. Iranians will never put their faith and trust into the hands of parasitic mullahs, the puppets of the world powers’ hegemony. After the fall of IRI, a secular democratic government based on principle of human rights will be secured in Iran. Our nation will not have a national religion, people with or without any religious faith will live together, while nobody will be questioned for his faith conviction. Any religious practice will be performed at homes and places made for this purpose and will not be allowed in public.
Bani Sadr, Vertex of the Beegh Trianlge
Bani Sadr and two other Islamic members, Ghotb zadeh and Ebrahim Yazdi, who were known as the vertices of the “Beegh Triangle” (meaning triangle of dumbs), were the three stinky Islamic commissioners and the foreign powers’ mercenaries, whose commissions were to expedite the establishment of the provisional government for delivering the country to Islamic Mullahs. In other word these three people were the pioneers responsible for the misery that our nation has entangled in today. Bani Sadr, this Islamic jackass hasn’t quit his charlatanry yet and continues to deceive people by his Islamic political prattling. He keeps dreaming of returning to Iranian political stage, he will take his dream to his grave with him.
Defending Iranian Democracy (DID) 