Wednesday, January 21, 2015

What happened to Hillary's reset button with the Russians?

I had heard that Obama said something like this in his speech last night, but I could scarcely believe it was true.  Now I see that it was.  Obama said this to the world:

   "Second, we are demonstrating the power of American strength and diplomacy. We’re upholding the principle that bigger nations can’t bully the small — by opposing Russian aggression, supporting Ukraine’s democracy, and reassuring our NATO allies. Last year, as we were doing the hard work of imposing sanctions along with our allies, some suggested that Mr. Putin’s aggression was a masterful display of strategy and strength. Well, today, it is America that stands strong and united with our allies, while Russia is isolated, with its economy in tatters."

No matter what you think of the Russians and their recent behavior, they are both a proud and suspicious people, who could only react to this sort of impolitic rhetoric with rage.  I thought that even though Hillary stupidly misspelled the word, the administration wanted to reset our relations with the Russians.  This public crap will absolutely do the opposite, and will encourage the Russians to attempt in every way to cut us down to size.   They can be dangerous, certainly, and make much mischief for us internationally, even in their reduced state.  Not what we want at all.  Our allies, some of whom are already preparing for the possibility of Russian military aggression, cannot be happy.

J. E. Dyer described it best:

This is so juvenile, it’s hard to find a way to critique it seriously.  Callow ridicule and cheap triumphalism are a way to talk about Russia?  It reminds me forcibly of boys getting together and pretending to fight wars, calling taunts to each other before the “battle” starts.
The most important feature of this passage is that it comes off as making America’s purposes about destroying Russia’s economy.  The wrongness of that can’t be overstated.  Nor can the egotistical peevishness of the snipe about Putin’s “masterful display of strategy and strength.”
It’s a window into the void of this administration, to see that no one in it prevented that awful passage from being included in the speech.  Where is the compunction, the sense of proportion, the firewall of maturity against sophomoric snark?
The bottom line is that they aren’t there. 

This president is simply begging for trouble, and he will likely get it.  Problem is, we the people have to pay the price for his stupidity.  



3 comments:

  1. The people always pay for the leader's behavior. How many trillions? More than all past presidents COMBINED. Foreign policy in shambles, immigration policy in shambles, emboldened Islamic Terrorists, and so forth.

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  2. As I've said numerous times, it'll take years to undo the harm that the idiot, "smartest man in the room" in our whitehouse has done !!

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