Unfit to Lead, Part 2

This chilling article by Charles Krauthammer, a brilliant foreign policy observer, shows the far-ranging effects that Obama's foreign policy is having:

The real news is that already notorious photo: the president of Brazil, our largest ally in Latin America, and the prime minister of Turkey, for more than half a century the Muslim anchor of NATO, raising hands together with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the most virulently anti-American leader in the world. That picture — a defiant, triumphant “take that” to Uncle Sam — is a crushing verdict on the Obama foreign policy. It demonstrates how rising powers, traditional American allies, having watched this administration in action, have decided that there’s no cost to lining up with America’s enemies and no profit in lining up with a U.S. president given to apologies and appeasement.

Krauthammer goes on to list a large number of actions and decisions the Obama Administration has made over the past year and a half that project weakness to our foes and indifference (or worse) to our allies. He closes the article with this:

This is not just an America in decline. This is an America in retreat — accepting, ratifying, and declaring its decline, and inviting rising powers to fill the vacuum. Nor is this retreat by inadvertence. This is retreat by design and, indeed, on principle. It’s the perfect fulfillment of Obama’s adopted Third World narrative of American misdeeds, disrespect, and domination, from which he has come to redeem us and the world. Hence his foundational declaration at the U.N. General Assembly last September that “no one nation can or should try to dominate another nation” (guess who’s been the dominant nation for the last two decades?) and his dismissal of any “world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another.” (NATO? The West?) Given Obama’s policies and principles, Turkey and Brazil are acting rationally. Why not give cover to Ahmadinejad and his nuclear ambitions? As the U.S. retreats in the face of Iran, China, Russia, and Venezuela, why not hedge your bets? There’s nothing to fear from Obama and everything to gain by ingratiating yourself with America’s rising adversaries. After all, they actually believe in helping one’s friends and punishing one’s enemies.

Actions have consequences, and Obama's anti-American, anti-democratic actions will doubtless have very bitter consequences for our country. Maybe not tomorrow or next week or next month, but those consequences will come. It took many years for Reagan to undo the damage done to the reputation of the U.S. abroad by Jimmy Carter's foreign policy, and Obama is worse than Carter. It has to be said: Obama is a terrible president who is completely unqualified and unfit to be the leader of the free world. He knows little and cares nothing for our country's history and values. He and his allies in Congress pose a grave threat to American liberties, due to their foreign and domestic policies. If voters do not remove Obama and his congressional allies from office over the next two elections, I believe the harm to our country will be permanent and irreparable.