{"id":22445,"date":"2011-03-01T10:24:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T14:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22445"},"modified":"2011-03-01T10:24:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T14:24:50","slug":"more-jimmy-carter-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22445","title":{"rendered":"More Jimmy Carter foreign policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I wrote<\/a> about the measures that the Obama Administration is finally enacting to deal with the problems in Libya. among them was a no-fly zone to protect anti-government forces. But Russia put the kibosh<\/a> on that plan since they’re on the Security Council and any action by the UN would require unanimous consent from that useless body.<\/p>\n

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described the idea of imposing limits on Libyan air space as “superfluous” and said world powers must instead focus on fully using the sanctions that the U.N. Security Council approved over the weekend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, we all know that this administration won’t act unilaterally. They’d rather drain our own resources on useless sanctions and blockades while floating a small city off the coast of Libya than assert themselves on the world stage. So much for that new respect among nations we were promised in the 2008 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

And while we’re on the subject, the foreign press is beginning to notice how the US is a foreign policy eunuch. In The Telegraph<\/a>, Nile Gardiner writes;<\/p>\n

The fact that it took ten days and at least a thousand dead on the streets of Libya\u2019s cities before President Obama finally mustered the courage to call for Muammar \u201cmad dog\u201d Gaddafi to step down is highly embarrassing for the world\u2019s only superpower, and emblematic of a deer-in-the-headlights approach to world leadership. Washington seems incapable of decisive decision-making on foreign policy at the moment, a far cry from the days when it swept entire regimes from power, and defeated America\u2019s enemies with deep-seated conviction and an unshakeable drive for victory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, it more than ten days because Gaddafi was trying to distract the world’s attention from his problems with the Gaza bloody shirt more than 14 days ago. Why not? It has worked to stir up the Palestinians in the past…for more than forty years.<\/p>\n

The only thing missing that would mirror the Jimmy Carter way of dealing with these situations is to offer refuge to Gaddafi similar to what Carter did for Iran’s shah and Nicaragua’s Somoza so that Libyans can hate us for not turning over the despots.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Old Trooper for one of those links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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