"A nation can make few mistakes worse than this: to be harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend."
Regrettably, the Obama administration has decided to ignore the advice of Lewis and is indeed pursuing a foreign policy premised upon appeasing enemies while undermining friends:
- In Europe, Obama abandoned the American missile defense agreement with NATO allies Poland and the Czech Republic, after subdued growls from Moscow. Both Poland and the Czech Republic assisted the U.S. with troops in Iraq.
- In Asia, Obama has decided to keep North Korea off the list of states that sponsor terrorism, notwithstanding a ballistic missile test in 2009 that infuriated Japan. Placing North Korea on the blacklist would have subjected it to economic sanctions.
- In the Middle East, Obama is now appointing a new ambassador to Syria, after Syria threatened to target Israeli cities in the event of renewed hostilities. Syria's assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a friend of the West, exactly five years ago, is being ignored.
- In Iran, Obama continues to stand silently on the sidelines and mull new deadlines and sanctions, as Iran's dissidents are silenced, tortured and executed.
- In South America, Obama helped reinstate Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who sought to to abolish presidential term limits and to provide himself with dictatorial power. Obama allied himself with the likes of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Nicaraguan president and Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega.
Can the Free World survive the Obama Doctrine over the course of the next three years? What will be the repercussions if Obama is reelected and his inner convictions are no longer counterbalanced by the need to present a moderate facade?
Stay tuned.
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