Monday, November 16, 2009

from NY to Israel Sultan Reveals
The Stories Behind the News

Posted: 15 Nov 2009 07:37 PM PST

The first year of Obama has seen America
retreating on all fronts. The country that once pressed back the Russian
bear, has instead pulled up the missile shield and sent the signal to
Moscow that the former Soviet Republicans can no longer count on US aid to
insure their independence. On China, Obama has switched to a policy of
"Strategic Reassurance", which is a fancy way of retreating and saying
"Nice Doggie", without actually even bothering to hunt for the stick. Not
only has Obama become the first President not to meet with the Dalai Lama,
but what "Strategic Reassurance" really does is hang out Taiwan and Japan
on the line, assuring China that America will not interfere with its
expanding sphere of political and military dominance.

Robert Kagan
and Dan Blumenthal, two prominent foreign policy analysts, described
the policy as follows.

"'Strategic reassurance' seems to chart a different course.
Senior officials liken the policy to the British accommodation of a
rising United States at the end of the 19th century, which entailed
ceding the Western Hemisphere to American hegemony. Lingering behind
this concept is an assumption of America's inevitable
decline."

That assumption is of course the engine behind
the White House's policymaking that consists of selling out allies to
enemies in the hopes of stability. This was the sum total of British
foreign policy before and after WW2, a policy that gave us an Arab
Socialist Middle East, a Southeast Asia in turmoil and Africa under the
boots of murderous dictators. And Obama is now working to replicate that
same policy on a far larger scale.

Obama's international tour of
bowing only highlights his weakness. His global popularity is as shallow
as that of any celebrity, and only serves to signal America's weakness.
Each of Obama's fumbling speeches has failed to achieve any tangible
result except to express America's helplessness and willingness to concede
on every front. Buzzwords like "New Relationship", "Multilateralism" and
"Strategic Reassurance" are the ways in which Obama and his foreign policy
minions phrase their "New Incompetence".

America which once served as a global
shield, is being transformed into a paper tiger. And the result is
emboldening both old enemies, such as Russia and China, as well as smaller
but more aggressive genocidal regimes, such as North Korea and Iran, who
have begun pushing a new wave of confrontations with American
allies.

Obama has sold out every American ally to every American
enemy, from Latin America to Eastern Europe to Asia to the Middle East.
The message repeated over and over again is that not only can America no
longer help free nations, but that the people in power in D.C. will
actively sell out free nations to tyrannies in the name of
multilateralism, and to buy ourselves some time before the implosion
comes.

The New York Times article on Obama's
visit to China describes his visit as, "assuming the role of
profligate spender coming to pay his respects to his banker" and
sketched an image of American domestic policy having to gain approval from
China.

In a July meeting, Chinese officials asked their American
counterparts detailed questions about the health care legislation making
its way through Congress. The president’s budget director, Peter R.
Orszag, answered most of their questions. But the Chinese were not
particularly interested in the public option or universal care for all
Americans.

“They wanted to know, in painstaking detail, how the
health care plan would affect the deficit,” one participant in the
conversation recalled. Chinese officials expect that they will help
finance whatever Congress and the White House settle on, mostly through
buying Treasury debt, and like any banker, they wanted evidence that the
United States had a plan to pay them back.

It is a long way from
the days when President George W. Bush hectored China about currency
manipulation, or when President Bill Clinton exhorted the Chinese to
improve human rights.

Obama's socialist spending
spree does not simply come at the expense of America freedoms, it
explicitly puts China in charge of American policy. The price for
universal health care will not simply be paid by Americans, it will be
paid for by American allies in Asia.

Furthermore as the United
States continues to borrow from China in order to fund Obama's deficit
spending, much of the interest paid back will in turn go to fund China's
military machine.

Unfortunately, that is not the reality in Asia. Contrary to
optimistic predictions just a decade ago, China is behaving exactly as
one would expect a great power to behave. As it has grown richer, China
has used its wealth to build a stronger and more capable military. As
its military power has grown, so have its ambitions...

Yet the
new head of the U.S. Pacific Command, Adm. Robert Willard, noted last
month that "in the past decade or so, China has exceeded most of our
intelligence estimates of their military capability. . . . They've grown
at an unprecedented rate." Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently
warned that China's military modernization program could undermine U.S.
military power in the Pacific.

Which means that the
next naval war in the Pacific will see the US Navy coping with a Chinese
Navy paid for by US tax dollars used to pay off Obama's debts and made of
US scrap metal resold to China.

Meanwhile North Korea has become
emboldened enough to stage raids on South Korean waters. Kim Jong Il's new
confidence in the inability of the US to do anything about his
depredations is obvious enough, and comes right down to Obama. Iran in
turn is doing the same thing, feeding a civil war in Yemen that has now
dragged in Saudi Arabia, while openly taunting Obama about its nuclear
arsenal.

As Obama cuts back on defense spending, while going
deeper into debt to pay off his Wall Street and Union backers, America
begins to increasingly look like a failed state. And while China is happy
enough to lend us every dollar we ask for, that is only because it brings
America one step closer to becoming a Sharecropper Society.

We took
the first steps toward the Sharecropper Society by exporting the means of
production abroad, particularly to China. Shortly afterward Chinese
companies began selling cheaper versions of our own products back to us,
turning those same US companies into their distributors. Now China has
begun buying American brand names such as Hummer, thereby cutting US
companies entirely out of the loop. Very soon about the only thing that
China will need from the US is ad agencies and superstores like Wal-Mart
to shove the cheap Chinese junk down America's throat.

Americans
will no longer be working for themselves. Instead Americans incomes will
go to buy Chinese products and pay taxes, which will in turn go to China.
As American corporations are taken over by China, Americans will
essentially become Chinese serfs. The process is well underway and Obama's
deficit spending is bringing it closer every day.

China has
already won its economic war with America. Every product made in China,
every Wal-Mart and every number in the trade deficit is a PRC flag planted
on American soil. Now China is pursuing a quiet political war with
America, and putting us in their debt amounts to a boot planted on Uncle
Sam's grizzled neck.

Obama's policy of "strategic reassurance,"
amounts to an admission that the US can no longer stand in China's way
globally. Which is perfectly timed for China's growing expansion as it
completes its ethnic cleansing of Tibet, expands its slave labor empire
across Africa, and uses "Soft Power" to spread its propaganda globally
through its state owned media. Taiwan's day is coming, and for all of
Japan's fussing about nuclear arms, it is now in an invisible arms race
with North Korea. And the only way out is through China.

America let this happen, and while Obama
is the worst incarnation of this policy, his treason is only the latest
link in the grand chain of bad policy that helped turn China from a
backward starving Communist dictatorship into a world power. Meanwhile on
the Russian front, Obama has retreated from even the relatively weak stand
that the Bush Administration took over Georgia. "Strategic Reassurance"
toward Russia means exactly what it does toward China, selling out to
Putin all of the former Republics whose freedom we prided ourselves on.
The only difference is that instead of cheap products and our national
debt, Russia's leverage on us comes in the form of energy.

If
Russia can help drive its Iranian ally to lead a Shiite revolution in the
Middle East, and its Latin American allies to lead a Marxist revolution
right below us, it will have a lock on much of the world's oil, and in
turn enjoy a great deal of leverage over North America and Europe. Which
will help force us to recognize its territorial claims to the former
Warsaw Pact states of the USSR that Russian nationalists are aching to
reclaim.

With a Shiite Middle East, a Chinese Asia, a Marxist Latin
America and a Russian Europe-- America in twilight will once again stand
alone.