The GOP’s Paranoid Foreign Policy

Notice that Carter and Brezinski are conspicuously absent from this article. Under Carter, the Russians invaded Afganistan and committed untold atrocities, the Cubans flooded into Angola with 30,000 troops when Carter cut off aid to Jonas Savimbi, the Sandanistas wreaked havoc in Central America and fomented chaos in Honduras and El Salvador when Carter abandoned Nicaragua, our Embassy was held hostage for a year in Iran when Carter facilitated the ouster of the Shah - Iran was never a world threat under the Shah, and on and on. All because of the wek diplomacy and obsession with human rights, Carter sat grinning while the thugs of the world had their way. The assessment of the Republican Party's decay is correct, however , and until the religious right is marginalized, the Republicans have a bleak future. Conservatism as we knew it under Reagan has been hijacked by the far right. It is an easy target in the largely left-wing press and unfortunately diverts attention from the current administration's political and economic blunders. Obama's 73% approval rating has been described as a "sugar-high" that will eventually be revealed as temporary as the unemployment rate goes up and inflation starts affecting all of us.

The governments of the world are laughing at our president because he seems clueless on what really would be for our best interests in our foreign policy. It is almost as if he hates America. Unfortunately most of the people are unaware of this because they don't see all of the stories on other than "hate" radio or FoxNews.

If Obama had been President during the Cuban missile crisis, he would have opolgized to Castro for not helping him target U.S. cities.

It's not complicated. GOP foreign policy has been consistant. Favor the follks you can control. Hence, the way we always seem to cozy up to dictators. Our corporations and the dictators have the same goal: to allow the rich to get rucher and damn the rest of us. Look at the history of the last century. Who have the GOP's friends been? Whomever United Fruit, Standard Oil and Haliburton and the munition makers could do business with. The GOP is run by big business. It's tragic that they have convinced so many Americans to vote agains their own best interest by inflaming them on social issues. while stealing them blilnd..

Where ever you look - health, the recession, climate change, and foreign affairs - the GOP has a one word answer "NO!" If it is to remaina viable part of the political scene, it must be part of the answer, not part of the problem.

The GOP (and the US) must return to the wise wisdom of John Quincy Adams. We have been slaying dragons we do not understand. We should champion liberty everywhere but gaurantee our own. We know that the rest of the world will see us as a dictress if we do not.

The people you mentioned in the article are not conservatives nor republican for that matter. Bush, Limbaugh, cheney and Rush are disgruntled democrats who hi-jacked the republican party by fear and political retaliation.
There was only one candidate that was running for office that was honest and talking peace, that was Ron Paul. Obama is a carbon copy of what we had. The media is being directed to shape a false impression of change.
Don't believe me? Are we still in Iraq? yup Are we nation building in Afghanistan? yup Do we still have secret prisons? yup Are we still illegally spying on Americans? yup Are we still bailing out wallstreet? yup. I can go on for hours. The only thing that has changed is that the whitehouse has a puppy running around on the lawn.

This man this so call President we have is making our way of life, the American way of life weak and frail. I urge our nation to stop this madness, i urge all those who have some kind of reality check, stop this madness. And most of all I urge the Republican to begin to transform into the party of old, the party of choice. After the Civil War for nearly 60 yrs most Blacks voted Republican, why because we were the party of choice. I don't know who will read this passage, but if anyone out there who agrees with me please let me know and we can put our ideals together. This madness of favouritism the media has, must stop. We can start now and we must be clear.

The party needs a make over and now is the time for this happen. We must start now and soon

Nowadays, all you have to mention are the names Cheney or Palin, and Americans feel a heck of a lot more secure with President Obama and Vice-President Biden...just replay the CBS interview with Katie Couric and the video-clips of threats of fear instilled by non-existent WMDs and a great sense of comfort with the current adminstration allows us to get a good night's sleep here in the USA...God Bless America.

Lets see now they are at 23%, they need to go lower yet, their mindless acolyte's aren't working hard enough to marginalize the national party so whats it gonna take to produce the energy for them to consume them self's, a dash more of piety?, a dollop more of Hypocrisy? a tablespoon of ignorance?, a cup of stupidity? a quart of bitterness?A sprig of Incoherence?an ounce of intolerance? A few more Sexual Deviants to Make of cake of Indigestible politics, like the Whigs before them that went the way of the Dodo bird, Extinct and not missed. In short please expedite your demise so another worth party can take your place.
And please your present histrionics is getting rather repetitious and boring, Please avail your self's of the free recipe it behooves you to hurry, we are getting tired of trying to resuscitate a corpse that is purifying in the spotlights of politics.

The GOP has had strong leadership in foreign policy. Nixon was perhaps the best. Bush (the father) was good. Reagan was strong. Now as a whole they are weak. We need new thinking. Nixon was not well as a person but history will look back and find that Nixon was highly effective on all the issues.