WOW, Andrew! Now we have enough reading material for a few days...Better than any magazine out there...I cc'd the entire grouping and put it into a Word Doc...Will read it all over time... This must be from his blog, right?
But I did want to say this person, Libertyship46, has Obama's number perfectly!
I hope he is wrong about Obama, but I fear he is entirely correct.
Jun 6, 2009 - 6:09 pm 128. Libertyship46:
The problem with waiting for Obama to have his “epiphany” about the real world is that so very many people are going to die because of it, which is truly a shame. Will it be his mismanagement of the war in Afghanistan, which has all the potential of turning into yet another Vietnam, or will it be the loss of an Israeli city to a nuclear blast because Iran finally made good on its threat to erase Israel from the map of the Middle East?
Obama’s inexperience reminds me so very much of Kennedy’s inexperience. Nikita Kruschev saw how naive and inexperienced Kennedy was when he met him for the first time in Vienna, and that impression led directly to the Cuban Missile Crisis, which almost ended the world. Kruschev never would have attempted putting missiles in Cuba if Eisenhower were president, because he knew full well how Eisenhower would have reacted to such a move. Eisenhower’s reputation as an experienced general intimidated the Russians, a power Kennedy never had when he was elected. Most people today just remember Kennedy as the man who got us out of the Cuban Missile Crisis, but they forget that he was the primary reason we were thrown into it to begin with.
I fear something like the Cuban Missile Crisis is about to hit Obama right between the eyes. Will it be because of North Korea, or because of some demented move Iran is going to make? Who knows.
What I do know is that it’s only going to be a matter of time before one of those countries, or some other enemy of the United States, makes a move.
Will Obama be up to the challenge of winning a crisis he was primarily responsible for creating? I really don’t know.
What I do know is that, if he’s not, a lot of innocent people are going to die because of his inexperience and lack of credibility as a strong leader. And that’s a historical fact. |
