Posted by
William D. Dannenmaier on Sunday, June 19, 2011 4:33:53 PM
Obama’s Solicitor General was reported as saying, “If you don’t like paying the health care mandate, earn less money,” (Drudge Report June 3, 2011). Apparently, the Obama administration thinks people who object to his policies should live in poverty.
A recent Gallup Poll (Drudge, June 3, 2011) reported that 71% of Democrats want to redistribute wealth. I suppose the other 29% include people like Soros, the Kennedys, the Reids, Pelosi and others who are running the nation. They provide no evidence of giving up anything they and their families have acquired unless, of course, it is tax deductible.
Fox News Roundtable on Sunday (June 12, 2011) had a discussion of our overseas involvement. They focused exclusively on Afghanistan. Aren’t they aware of our other military activities begun and continued by President Obama? Wouldn’t a program devoted to a complete inventory of troops that we have around the world be interesting? It should include troops we are spending hundreds of millions of dollars maintaining in Korea, Japan, Germany and other nations.
Campaigning, Obama made promises, promises and promises. I have been reviewing them.
He promised to leave Iraq immediately. Now, after almost three years as President, we still have troops in Iraq: 47 thousand. If I were a citizen of Iraq, it would irritate me to have foreign troops in my country. Can you think of a better way to make permanent enemies?
He claimed that Afghanistan was our greatest problem because of the Taliban. The Taliban were defeated, but our troops remain. The Afghan people have a several thousand year history of not liking foreign troops occupying their land. Why should they like us? Now the President of Afghanistan has ordered that our troops, protecting themselves if no one else, should stop shooting into houses from which people are shooting at them. The best answer to the problem is withdraw our troops.
Why are we starting a new war with Libya? Even Congress, Democrats as well as Republicans, are complaining. This makes three wars.
As if three wars were not enough, it appears our forces are in action in another African nation, Yemen. It is a fourth military “intervention.”
In the meantime Pakistan, to whom we are sending hundreds of millions of dollars in aid each year, is arresting people who they believe have spied for us and released a convicted terrorist whom we returned to them. He rejoined Al Qaeda, the terrorist organization dedicated to attacking our nation. Our Pakistan policy reminds me of the television shots of Palestinian mobs jumping, waving and cheering when they heard that Muslims had blown up our twin towers killing thousands of people, all while those mobs were receiving, and continue to receive, hundreds of millions of our tax dollars in “aid.”
We should stop all aid, all loans, to any country that hinders our efforts to protect ourselves. Immediately! We should have done it with Palestine. We should do it now with Pakistan. If the people wish to be our enemies, let them, but don’t pay them to do it.
Obama promised to close the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. Why isn’t it closed? It is a great idea. Close it. If we still need a prison camp for terrorists who spend their spare time planning to kill innocent people, put it in Coldfoot, Alaska. Coldfoot has one road going through it and the nearest towns with other facilities are two hundred miles to the north or south. You would need fewer guards and probably wouldn’t have as many visitors to criticize our treatment of these killers. Also, forget providing those Qur’ans, give them New Testaments to read, they might learn something. Also, forget the special, Muslim, meals. Let them eat soldiers’ rations. If they don’t like some particular meal, say pork and beans, a day of fasting won’t hurt them.
Perhaps, if we stopped spending hundreds of millions of dollars on wars whose only result appears to be to make enemies for us, our officials could think of better ways to help our citizens to receive health care than to tell them to stop earning so much money.
I am tempted to call this blog “ObamaLand,” but our stupidity and waste in our foreign relations has been going on much longer than Obama’s Presidency, he has simply continued and enlarged it. It makes me wonder how long our taxpayers will be able to support the rest of the world and wonder how long before we get a leadership which will change that. I don’t live in the United States, I live in WonderLand.