What does anything Europe has in the way of Armies really matter anyway? Their real armies are all the American one. They aren't going to war with each other, as the American troops occupying....er..."stationed" there wouldn't permit it, and their own armies would only be able to hold off Russia for a week or so until the Americans arrive. This is roughly the situation that obtained at the end of WWII and it really hasn't changed. The EU is nothing more than a recognition of what has existed for 70 years now and doesn't look likely to change in the next 70, C'est la vie, c'est la guerre.
Yeah the U.S. will allow any form of Freedom of Speech and expression. What the United States WILL NOT ALLOW....is a 4th Reich so everyone get that out of your heads now. It AIN'T gonna happen!! AA
The French only supported the revolution because it was bad for the Brits, not out of any real alliance with us; they turned around and screwed John Jay's diplomatic mission after hostilities were over, and we eventually fell under the Brits again diplomatically; there for a while New Yorkers were hard pressed to remember whose national anthem they were supposed to be playing from year to year, it kept switching from one side to the other so frequently for the 10 years after the Constitutional Convention finally sort of reached an agreement between states. It was the Brits who ended up enforcing the Monroe Doctrine for several decades, and up held the embargo against the slave trade on the African coast and in the Caribbean, for instance. Both the Brits and France were merely using us as a political football and a source of trade, and vice versa anyway; we went to war against Britain once more, and almost a second time in the 1830's or so over some secessionist rebels on the Canadian border, but Seward managed that last crisis pretty well, even as he failed in 1861 at a far more important diplomatic task. We always fared better with the Brits than with France anyway, and so finally wised up.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. It goes back well over two thousand years. But as Henry Kissinger said earlier last year, Barack Obama has screwed up the Middle East so much that today the enemy of my enemy might also be my enemy.
Kissinger has a particularly dated view of geopolitics. Obama has certainly made a lot of mistakes in the region, but I doubt Kissinger could have done any better given what Obama inherited.
Look at what the Middle East looked like back in January of 2009 and look at it today. Al Qaeda was checked and were in hiding in Northern Pakistan and were confined to Yemen and the Horn of Africa. Where did Obama go wrong ? He supported the Arab Spring 100%. Hoping to put his beloved Muslim Brotherhood into power in Egypt. Soon Al Qaeda was on the run, while Obama was lying to the American people that "Al Qaeda was being decimated and was on the run." The truth was Al Qaeda was on the run, running all over the Middle East and North Africa getting larger, more powerful and more dangerous and was morphing into other factions. And what did Obama call his biggest foreign policy success ? He said Yemen.
Sure because all our troops being killed by AIQ during the surge that was already scheduled by Bush were just a media fiction. The packages to many of the Army IRR were going out the week after the election, and the Marines had already sent out involuntary muster orders in September.
Which elections are you referring to ? The midterm elections ? The surge was initiated in 2007 right after the midterm elections.
He was a realist, not a fantasist like SOS Lurch, Hillary's Vagina, and the rest that followed him. Nothing has changed in geopolitics in human history, just the players come and go, so there is no such thing as 'outdated' in real life international relations. The Red Chinese treated Nixon like he was a gibbering idiot but had a lot of respect for Kissinger's knowledge, for instance. Obama and the Hillary/Kerry 'diplomacy' has just pushed up a nuclear exchange several decades, and Obama's juvenile grasp of international politics has created more havoc, not less, and I say this as a person who feels the same about Reagan's inane foreign policy fantasies.
Note: Henry Kissinger is a globalist and a senior member of Trilateral Commission -> http://trilateral.org/ http://www.globalresearch.ca/contro...eral-commission-and-the-federal-reserve/14614 http://www.voltairenet.org/article171960.html
What he's saying hidden in all that rhetoric is that our policy should be focused on keeping the animals at each others' throats, the only possible outcome of his treatise, and let them kill each other off, which of course is the best possible policy when you're dealing with psycho desert bandits and mass murdering cults. Guess which administration has just ignored this and screwed the pooch? Something about 'hope and change', but then they didn't make explicit what their 'hopes' were, but it's obvious it didn't resemble anything sane people hope for, and their 'changes' suck for the Western policies, so maybe that's why they didn't want to say anything explicit ... Same question as above. Hint: Same idiotic administration.