Obama, Like Bush, Just Doesn't Get It - Neglects The Negative Impact Of U.S. Foreign Policy

Indonesia does not allow dual citizenship, if Obama did go to school in Indonesia he would've had to passively give up his American citizenship nullifying him as a natural-born citizen. I am just wondering what I have wrong about this picture....any proof or links are welcomed! I would like to hear the other sides story on Obama's schooling in Indonesia.

This isn't that hard to figure out unless you've just finished school and think you know it all. We have an open society. Some places don't. The people who run the closed societies want their people to think that their way is better than ours. They will fight to keep it that way. Since our society is open, we have people that run around preaching that the closed society is better. In the closed society, if someone runs around and says that an open society is better they cut his head off. The problem arises when our leaders don't stand up for their principles and dismiss the fact that leaders that cut peoples' heads off should answer for their crimes. Now the confused people in our society who think that decapitation is justifiable but capital punishment is wrong feel empowered because their leader is echoing their mania. The hope is that most of the people who joined in with the decapitators are snapping out of their hypnotic state and running back to sanity. People who run countries aren't going to change the way they rule because you bow to them and tell them that their shit don't stink.

All of you negative, hate-filled, reactionary, nay-saying buzz-killing, sore losers can BITE ME HARD! Knock it off, get off your sorry, lazy, soft, white- bread asses and do something besides sit around and throw aspersions at the first freaking good thing that has happened in this country for - oh - I don't know - maybe 40 frickin' years!! For the Love of God - are you all just so stuck in your own little world of pain that you can't possibly imagine anything or anyone good actually impacting the status quo? Do YOU have the answer? I think Not -(as obviously illustrated by the foregoing illuminating comments) DUH!! Please, try actually living in the real world, (ie, not just in cyber-land) and then, maybe we can have an intelligent conversation about Obama, the state of the world and his impact upon it!

Yes, maybe we can wake up some of these interventionists by waking up to the logic that occupying someone elses country is going to incite hatred and terrorism. How would the US liked it if China moved in with bases and all over our country and how would we react. What hypocrites.

Yes, America has made mistakes in areas overseas they have been in most countries in the middle east, by invitation or not because they want western technology. They take then they hate us. Osama was NOT trained by the US to fight Russia in Afghanistan, Vierotchka. He was armed by the CIA, we aided his fight against an aggressive Russia, so what? We gave Saddam WMD's to fight Iran, after they kept American hostages for 444 days. No country out there is innocent, and especially no Muslim country. Why if you are an American, do you enjoy seeing American troops make mistakes which are few and far between and never intentional., Do you really think our military make mistakes on purpose? Seems you people think so. Revisionists can see history how ever they want. And who the hell is Zimm? You know not everything you read in print is the truth, verotchkla. My Gawd, you need a president who makes mistakes and a military that isn't perfect, so you can bitch and sound smart to your peers You believe whom ever you like, me I prefer to love my country and I do not like those who hate our country for no reason, nor presidents who apologize for us and tell Muslim countries that we are no longer a Christian nation. Go to any football, basketball game, rodeo, whatever sporting event and we always pray and sing the National Anthem before every event. If all you see are military errors and somehow believe that you knowing about it and broadcasting to the world somehow keeps America honest when it makes no sense to broadcast them to everyone. There are some things you have no need to know. There are some secrets better kept behind closed doors I have absolutely no use for revisionists and people who would rather see the reputation of this great country be bashed among the rocks hate America

There's too much being made of the power of the president, it's the parties not the president that have the biggest influence on policy.

We get the government that the rich elite want us to have! For now I give President Obama the benefit of the doubt.

What scares the hell out of me is that about half of this country put Bush in Office and the other half put Obama in office.
That make 100% of American voters dumb asses.
We get the government that we ask for.

Didn't Saddam get his weapons from us as well??

Isn't the "country of Iraq" a product of the league of nations??

Acknowledging the truth of the effects of our foreign policy is far from "hating America", our founding fathers are turning over in their graves because of the atrocities we have commited in their names. Not one of them would have been behind any of our actions in the middle east......This is not revisionism to go back to the principles that founded our great nation.

I just love reading revisionist history. Why would Osama bin Laden happily take our help with Russia only to turn on us later? Yeah he is some kind of saint. America is evil and Muslims are poor downtrodden people sat on by evil America. So much bull shit it makes me sick. You revisionists can say and believe whatever you want, because there are enough of us who see history for what it is and see the enemy for what they are. I just have one question to the revisionists, why do you hate America so much? Why do so and still live here and enjoy her freedoms. My suggestion is that if you feel so sorry for Muslims,and hate American's so much then maybe you should move to Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan or some other Muslim country.

Here's what everyone, regardless of political persuasion, should imprint on her or his mind: The image of George W. Bush landing on an aircraft carrier, macho-strutting across the flight deck, and then announcing to the world that the "mission" had been accomplished.

Now? These many, many years later? Everyone, all around the globe, knows that the "mission" (continually redefined though it might be) is nowhere close to being "accomplished." Our tax dollars are still bleeding into the desert soil of Iraq and Afghanistan, and so is the lifeblood of brave American men and women.

The point? The "mission" cannot be accomplished by aircraft carriers. It cannot be accomplished by either American or mercenary "boots on the ground." It cannot be accomplished by bribing and arming Sunni to fight against Shia.

The true mission, securing America's position as primus inter pares among the world's leading nations, can only be accomplished by putting, not military *boots*, but diplomatic civilian *shoes* on the ground.

The situation has changed from what it might for a very, very, very brief historical moment have been -- might!

Other nations control the oil to which our nearsighted politicians insist we should stay addicted. Other nations hold the paper on the debts we are incurring to pay for the hastily conceived and unnecessary two-front war in the Middle East.

[Among those holding our paper are Saudi Arabia (energy provider) and China (bidding against us with Saudi Arabia and other producers for the world's rapidly dwindling supply of oil). Nice!]

Mercenaries and private contractors, being paid significantly more than our own troops for doing the very same work, have become indispensable (at least for the near term) and are continuing to extort no-bid, cost-plus contracts. [ook it up!]

Bottom line?

We put our balls in the rough, vicious hands of one enemy; and we expose our throat to the razor of another enemy. And from this position you expect us to succeed by blustering, threats, intimidation, and even violence? Yeah. Right.

Abraham99, Obama is no more of a Muslim than you are. If he is a Muslim, you are ten times more a Muslim than he. Your ignorant analysis is nonsensical, at best.

Vierotchka is proving nothing other than showing us that Obama did not change anything. Barry is kissing Arab oil butt the same as always.
Whatever we say against this Moslem president who tricked our country into voting for him, whatever negative, Vierotchka will still say, Obama only just got into office.
Right, he only just got into office...all he could only do in four months is to spend two trillion dollars of our children's money, change our system from Capitalism to Social-Communism, smile and shake hands with Chavez who insulted our president, supported North korea and Hezbollah and Hamas and Islam, alienated our friends in England, Israel, Australia and South Korea. Now that is all fine, if this would be a country called, "Cuba."
The man can't help it, he just got in.

Same jester, different mask. They know exactly what they are doing.....

New shoes under the desk at the Oval office, yet the same old ass-kissing policies...kissing and bowing oil producing countries ass, thanks to environmental whacko f*#cks!

Now, now, children, let's not all pile up on Uni! She has been hammered lately over a few other topics. Let's give her time to rest and recover before her next round of beatings! That being said, who is the more incompetent of these two "world leaders"? At least Bush never apologized for being an American, and he never kissed that Muslim ass. It seems to me that makes Obama the more incompetent of the two. Both Bush and Obama made us laughing stocks on the stage of world affairs, but Obama's incompetency will probably lead to another attack on U.S. soil.

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