While Barack Obama and the mainstream media are busy celebrating the president’s foreign policy triumph in Libya, American allies are rattling sables in a most disconcerting manner.
As reported at the reference, Afghanistan is expressing its gratitude for America’s help, including Obama’s surge of 30,000 troops, by pledging to support our opponent in the event of a U.S.-Pakistan conflict:
“KABUL – In a new conciliatory tone towards Pakistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday, October 22, that Afghanistan will side with Islamabad in any military conflict with the United States.
"God forbid, If ever there is a war between Pakistan and America, Afghanistan will side with Pakistan," Karzai said in an interview to Pakistan’s Geo television.
"If Pakistan is attacked and if the people of Pakistan need Afghanistan's help, Afghanistan will be there with you."
Meanwhile, the brutal death of dictator Muammar Gaddafi has prompted liberal pundits to promote the curious notion that President Obama, an unmitigated failure on domestic issues, has somehow achieved noteworthy successes when it comes to foreign policy.
Apart from being in the ‘right place at the right time’ just as Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki, and Gaddafi, were being vanquished, just what great foreign policy success has Barack Obama achieved?
His military intervention into Libya was an illegal usurping of war-making authority consigned to Congress by the Constitution.
He willfully violated the terms of the War Powers Act which allows presidents to take limited military action on an emergency basis pending full review and approval by Congress.
He spent more than a billion dollars on a foreign conflict which does not involve any vital U.S. interest.
Where is the foreign policy success in all of that?
Moreover, in unilaterally waging war against Libya, President Obama has diverted precious resources from areas of the globe (Iran, Syria, etc.) where there are indeed vital American interests that must be protected.
To test the objectivity of the mainstream media when it comes to Barack Obama and his Libyan “success,” one should answer this question: What if George W. Bush had taken similar steps in another part of the world while in office?
The howls for W.’s blood would still be reverberating through the halls of Congress and in the news rooms of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC!
Foreign policy successes? Humbug!
