Crimea River
By Ann Coulter
AnnCoulter.com
It's pointless to pay attention to foreign
policy when a Democrat is president, unless you
enjoy having your stomach in a knot. As long as
a Democrat sits in the White House, America will
be repeatedly humiliated, the world will become
a much more dangerous place -- and there's
absolutely nothing anybody can do about it.
(Though this information might come in handy
when voting for president, America!)
The following stroll down memory lane is but the
briefest of summaries. For a full accounting of
Democratic national security disasters, please
read my book, "Treason: Liberal Treachery From
the Cold War to the War on Terrorism."
-- JFK:
John F. Kennedy was in the White House for less
than three years and, if you think he screwed a
lot of hookers, just look what he did to our
foreign policy.
Six months after becoming president, JFK had his
calamitous meeting with Nikita Khrushchev in
Vienna -- a meeting The New York Times described
as "one of the more self-destructive American
actions of the Cold War, and one that
contributed to the most dangerous crisis of the
nuclear age." (The Times admitted that a
half-century later. At the time, the Newspaper
of Record lied about the meeting.)
For two days, Khrushchev batted Kennedy around,
leaving the president's own advisers white-faced
and shaken. Kennedy's Assistant Secretary of
Defense Paul Nitze called the meeting "just a
disaster."
Khrushchev was delighted to discover that the
U.S. president was so "weak." A Russian aide
said the American president seemed "very
inexperienced, even immature."
Seeing he was dealing with a naif, Khrushchev
promptly sent missiles to Cuba. The Kennedy Myth
Machine has somehow turned JFK's handling of the
Cuban Missile Crisis into a brilliant foreign
policy coup. The truth is: (1) Russia would
never have dared move missiles to Cuba had
Khrushchev not realized that JFK was a
nincompoop; and (2) it wasn't a victory.
In exchange for Russia's laughably empty
threats about Cuba, JFK removed our missiles
from Turkey -- a major retreat. As Khrushchev
put it in his memoirs: "It would have been
ridiculous for us to go to war over Cuba -- for
a country 12,000 miles away. For us, war was
unthinkable. We ended up getting exactly what
we'd wanted all along, security for Fidel
Castro's regime and American missiles removed
from Turkey."
-- LBJ:
Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson, famously
escalated the war in Vietnam simply to prove
that the Democrats could be trusted with
national security.
As historian David Halberstam describes it, LBJ
"would talk to his closest political aides about
the McCarthy days, of how Truman lost China and
then the Congress and the White House and how,
by God, Johnson was not going to be the
president who lost Vietnam and then the Congress
and the White House."
LBJ's incompetent handling of that war allowed
liberals to spend the next half-century
denouncing every use of American military force
as "another Vietnam."
-- CARTER:
Jimmy Carter warned Americans about their
"inordinate fear of communism" and claimed to
have been attacked by a giant swimming rabbit.
His most inspired strategic move was to abandon
the Shah of Iran, a loyal U.S. ally, which gave
rise to the global Islamofascist movement we're
still dealing with today. By allowing the Shah
to be overthrown by the Ayatollah Khomeini in
February 1979, Carter handed Islamic crazies
their first state.
Before the end of the year, the Islamic lunatics
had taken 52 Americans hostage in Tehran, where
they remained for 444 days.
The hostages were released only minutes after
Ronald Reagan's inauguration for reasons
succinctly captured in a Jeff MacNelly cartoon.
It shows Khomeini reading a telegram aloud:
"It's from Ronald Reagan. It must be about one
of the Americans in the Den of Spies, but I
don't recognize the name. It says 'Remember
Hiroshima.'"
-- CLINTON:
Bill Clinton's masterful handling of foreign
policy was such a catastrophe that he had to
deploy his national security adviser, Sandy
Berger, to steal classified documents from the
National Archives in 2003 to avoid their
discovery by the 9/11 commission.
Twice, when Clinton was president, Sudan had
offered to turn over bin Laden to the U.S. But,
unfortunately, these offers came in early 1996
when Clinton was busy ejaculating on White House
intern Monica Lewinsky. Clinton rebuffed Sudan's
offers.
According to Michael Scheuer, who ran the bin
Laden unit at the CIA for many years, Clinton
was given eight to 10 chances to kill or capture
bin Laden but refused to act, despite bin
Laden's having murdered hundreds of Americans in
terrorist attacks around the world. Would that
one of those opportunities had arisen on the day
of Clinton's scheduled impeachment! Instead of
pointlessly bombing Iraq, he might have finally
taken out bin Laden.
-- OBAMA:
When Obama took office, al Qaida had been routed
in Iraq -- from Fallujah, Sadr City and Basra.
Muqtada al-Sadr -- the Dr. Phil of Islamofascist
radicalism -- had waddled off in retreat to
Iran. The Iraqis had a democracy, a miracle on
the order of flush toilets in Afghanistan.
By Bush's last year in office, monthly
casualties in Iraq were coming in slightly below
a weekend with Justin Bieber. In 2008, there
were more than three times as many homicides in
Chicago as U.S. troop deaths in the Iraq War.
(Chicago: 509; Iraq: 155).
On May 30, The Washington Post reported: "CIA
Director Michael V. Hayden now portrays
(al-Qaida) as essentially defeated in Iraq and
Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout
much of the rest of the world ..." Even
hysterics at The New York Times admitted that
al-Qaida and other terrorist groups had nearly
disappeared from Southeast Asia by 2008.
A few short years into Obama's presidency -- and
al-Qaida is back! For purely political reasons,
as soon as he became president, Obama removed
every last troop from Iraq, despite there being
Americans troops deployed in dozens of countries
around the world.
In 2004, nearly 100 soldiers, mostly Marines,
died in the battle to take Fallujah from
al-Qaida. Today, al-Qaida's black flag flies
above Fallujah.
Bush won the war, and Obama gave it back.
Obama couldn't be bothered with preserving
America's victory in Iraq. He was busy helping
to topple a strong American ally in Egypt and a
slavish American minion in Libya -- in order to
install the Muslim Brotherhood in those
countries instead. (That didn't work out so well
for U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three
other Americans murdered in Benghazi.)
So now, another Russian leader is playing
cat-and-mouse with an American president -- and
guess who's the mouse? Putin has taunted Obama
in Iran, in Syria and with Edward Snowden. By
now, Obama has become such an object for Putin's
amusement that the fastest way to get the
Russians out of Crimea would be for Obama to
call on Putin to invade Ukraine.
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