Yes, there is an Obama doctrine & Why has Europe led us to war?
Bookworm on Mar 29 2011 at 9:31 am | Filed under: Barack Obama, Libya, United Nations
Ed Morrissey has put together a very useful post summarizing various liberal media attempts to understand the Obama doctrine. Morrissey concludes at the end that, try as hard as one likes, “There really is no doctrine.”
Morrissey is correct that there is no doctrine if one is looking for a verbally articulated doctrine. Obama says everything, and Obama says nothing, and Obama says it all as boringly as possible.
The mere fact that the greatest communicator since Abraham Lincoln (that’s sarcasm, by the way) is incapable of articulating a doctrine, though, doesn’t mean he doesn’t have one. Indeed, if one buys for one minute into the whole greatest communicator shtick, it’s pretty clear that, as I said in my earlier post, that Obama intentionally obfuscates in his speeches because he doesn’t want people to know what the doctrine is.
Fortunately, because actions speak louder than words, we can arrive at the Obama Middle Eastern doctrine without any actual verbal help from Obama. Here goes:
America can no longer selfishly engage in wars that directly affect (i.e., improve) her national interests. To prevent her from doing so, she must always sublimate her sovereignty to the U.N. A small number of U.N. players, most notably Europeans who are dependent on Libyan oil, have decided that Qaddafi must go. Even though the number is smaller than the number that joined with Bush on Iraq, they’re the “in” crowd, so Obama must follow where they lead. Hewing to the popular kid theory, these “cool” U.N. players matter more than the American Congress, which is made up of rubes and hicks, who lack that European savoir faire, even the useful idiots who hew to Obama’s political ideology.
A subset of this Obama doctrine is that, while America must never mine or drill her own energy resources, it is incumbent upon America to dig into her pockets to enable other countries to get to their energy resources, which America will then buy back at a premium. This is American charity at its best. If you want to feed a man for a day, buy him a fish. If you want to feed him for a lifetime, teach him to fish, buy all his fishing equipment, stock the lake with trout, break all your fishing equipment, make it illegal to fish in your own lakes, and then buy that man’s fish back from him at the highest possible price.
And whatever else you do, make sure you kick Israel around . . . a lot. That will make the cool kids (e.g., the Euro-trash and the Mullahs) happy. It never pays to lose sight of your true constituency.
bookwormroom.com
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Okay, why is Europe involved in Libya?
The Libya coalition is really Sarkozy's coalition. Obama is the follower. Europe has two interests - oil and refugees.
Oil:
Refugees:
Libya: up to a million refugees could pour into Europe
The collapse of Colonel Gaddafi’s regime could result in a tidal wave of refugees and illegal immigrants pouring into Europe, EU ministers were warned on Monday night.
Franco Frattini told a meeting of EU ministers that if Gaddafi fell, the EU would face a flood of immigrants Photo: AFP/GETTY6:41PM GMT 21 Feb 2011
Officials in Brussels believe as many as 750,000 refugees could attempt to make their way across the Mediterranean into southern Europe if the Gaddafi regime collapses.
But Libyan estimates put the figure as high as two million, with vast numbers of sub-Saharan illegal immigrants seizing the opportunity to use the lawless country as a gateway to Europe.
A £500 million accord, signed between the EU and Tripoli last year, has helped combat the flow of illegal immigrants in recent months.
But with diplomats claiming Gaddafi’s 41-year rule could be in its final death throes, southern Europe is being warned to prepare for a fresh influx of migrants.
Gaddafi had earlier threatened to withdraw border and coastal patrols, warning that “Europe will become black” if he ceases co-operation over immigration.
telegraph.co.uk |
