Opinion: Obama makes Carter look good

President Obama’s foreign policy has been a disaster. Actually, his entire presidency has been a disaster. Perhaps the worst ever. Dubya is smiling and enjoying his art in Dallas, because President Obama has proven to be such a national disaster that it has taken much of the tarnish off of Dubya’s presidency. As our eastern neighbors say, Dubya is happy, happy, happy.

This is so, according to those in the know, because of his reliance upon loyalty over ability, when selecting staff and administration personnel to carry out his policies – which are usually ill conceived and fatally flawed. Take President Obama’s security team, for example. According to one former, high-ranking general, who was in a senior command position, “It’s a pathetically weak team.” Both the Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, and National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, are to be blamed for the ineptness of this administration.

Also, the president has more czars than Russia had in its entire history. Furthermore, our czars have proven to be even more inept that the Russian czars, excepting Putin, who continues to toy with Obama much like a Siberian tiger toys with a red deer before consuming it. It concerns me greatly that Putin’s intelligence is vastly superior to Obama’s so-called intellectual capabilities. He may be a fine talker, writer, and consensus builder, but he is no match for the Russian in matters of international relations. Putin also has better pecks. Obama has pretty much done nothing to stop Putin in the Crimean, Ukraine, and central Europe.

It’s no great secret that Putin is doing his best to rebuild the old Soviet Union, step-by-step. What are Europe and American doing about it? We seem to be more interested in installing another czar; this one is Vice-President Biden’s former chief of staff. He is our new Ebola czar, and probably knows very little about Ebola, except for a river located somewhere in dark Africa, known as the Ebola River – where the original Ebola outbreak first erupted back in the early ‘70s. Actually, the virus was named after the Ebola River.

Heck, even the Arabs, who have not been known to possess brilliant minds in the last 1500 years or so, are eating his lunch in the arena called the Middle East. Sure, most of the Arab leaders are sneaky and sly, but few of them possess the intelligence needed to successfully deal with those evil Islamic terrorists types. I’m shocked that we don’t have a Muslim czar – someone to help us understand exactly why everyone always goes out of their way to reinforce the notion that Islam is actually a very peaceful religion, except for the notable exceptions that have the nasty habit of beheading, hanging, and stoning infidels.

The Koran is full of verses and chapters (serahs) that advocate extreme violence and a gruesome death for those who don’t believe as they should. Other than the many examples of genocide written about in the Old Testament, the Christian faith generally doesn’t advocate slaughtering unbelievers – at least since the Crusades of yore ended. Of course, most Christians rightly put greater emphasis on the writings of the New Testament, which advocates a kinder, gentler attitude towards unbelievers. Surely, we need an Islamic czar to help us muddle through the many different Islamic State types who seem to be growing exponentially.

A broad consensus is emerging across the ideological spectrum about the war against the Islamic State: President Obama’s strategy to ‘degrade and eventually destroy’ the terrorist entity is unworkable,” the Washington Post wrote in an editorial on Sunday. The most that can be achieved with the paltry military means Obama has supplied so far is some sort of suppression, but the Post editors said that won’t work because “the infection of the Islamic State is spreading. Militant groups around the Middle East and Levant are rallying to its cause, volunteers continue to rush to Syria, and popular support for it is dangerously obvious in countries such as Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.”

We have an important election coming up. Hopefully, the Republican Party will be able to take over the Senate as well as the House. If this happens, perhaps they will be able to prove that they can govern effectively and a Republican president can then be elected in another two years. Of course, if the Republicans cannot effectively govern, being more interested in prosecuting the Democrats rather than working with them to solve our many problems, then we will really be in a pickle.

It is doubtful that the United States has ever had a worse president. President Obama even makes the bumbling administration of Jimmy Carter look Reganesque. The president has proven without a doubt that he cannot govern, think strategically, or effectively communicate with the people.

His presidency has also been the most opaque of any previous administration; including the administration of Nixon, who was the king of opaqueness. Obama has filed criminal charges and taken other federal action against more reporters – for more dubious reasons than all the previous presidents combined. This president has not been a friend of the press, preferring to suppress accurate reporting.

If we can survive the next two years without too much self-inflicted damage to our great land, then perhaps we will have a chance to elect a government that can actually work across the aisle and get something positive done. If not, I hate to think about the plethora of troubles heading our way.

President Obama, Susan Rice, and Chuck Hagel are not up to the task of effectively defining and executing a cogent foreign policy. Seldom has any previous president faced so many serious international problems at the same time. Unfortunately, they have proven that they are incapable of projecting American power abroad.

This president has selected his people based primarily upon their personal loyalty to him. That is why his administration is so bankrupt in talent and ability.