On Tap

So Barack Obama says we need to appease the world by changing our behavior.

Here’s the actual quote.

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.

“That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added.

As Mark Steyn points out, apparently “leadership” in Obama’s world is finding out what the world wants us to do… and then doing it.

Jim has an outstanding post that I believe goes right along with Obama’s statement about “global leadership”. First, the relevant quote from Obama:

“Strong countries and strong Presidents talk to their adversaries. That’s what Kennedy did with Khrushchev. That’s what Reagan did with Gorbachev. That’s what Nixon did with Mao. I mean think about it. Iran, Cuba, Venezuela – these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union.

And a key point from Jim:

The Soviet Union never killed 3,000 Americans in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania by crashing jets into skyscrapers. The definition of a “serious threat” is different today than it was a generation ago.

These two quotes from Obama scare the crap out of me. They indicate a naivete about the ways of the world that I would expect from my seven-year old son, not a U.S. Senator and presidential candidate.

Obama’s firstly saying the rest of the world should be able to impose its vision of America on us. Fine. He doesn’t want us to be a superpower. But that will create a leadership vacuum, and there’s no shortage of countries out there who would love to step up. More importantly, there’s an ideology that will jump at the chance to exploit our weakness, and as Jim points out, they don’t need to be a massive country in terms of land or resources in order to do us immeasurable harm.

Considering some experts are calling a nuclear detonation in Washington, D.C. inevitable in the next two decades, a man who thinks of threats in terms of geographic size isn’t just naive. He’s dangerous to the future safety of my own children.

So we create a leadership vacuum our enemies will exploit, and then we will fail to recognize the threat our enemies pose to this country. Yeah, that sounds like a plan.

“Obama ‘08: Restoring America’s Place In the World… One Radioactive American City At A Time”

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