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Foreign Policy by Accolade. Been There, Done That, Have the Dead Americans to Prove It.

Jimmie | October 10, 2009 | Comments (0)

I wanted to revisit a quote from a link I used in my last post, because it gives me a chance to rail against the Obama administration’s attempts to dial our foreign policy back to the realpolitik days of Carter and Reagan (yes, even Reagan). Here is the reaction of the State Department to President [...]

Actions Still Drowning Out Words, Everywhere But Here

Jimmie | October 10, 2009 | Comments (0)

And that’s why this award must be shared with everyone who strives for justice and dignity — for the young woman who marches silently in the streets on behalf of her right to be heard even in the face of beatings and bullets; for the leader imprisoned in her own home because she refuses to [...]

The President’s Victory in Honduras Seems Assured

Jimmie | October 1, 2009 | Comments (0)

William Jacobson, who recently became the second Million Hit Blogger, has quite a good post on Honduras. The de jure government of that country is getting pressure from its business community, which is being pinched hard by the sanctions our government has put into place. President Obama may not want victory over Mad Mahmoud in [...]

Victory? Feh? He’s More Into Problem-Solving. You Know, Like in Those Fun Books!

Jimmie | September 27, 2009 | Comments (1)

Well, at least he’s being one hundred percent honest about things for a change. Reid: Thank you Mr. President, you just mentioned sanctions that have bite, what kinds of sanction, and I know you can’t get into details but what kind of sanctions at all would have bite with Iran, do you really think that [...]

Pretty Words, Refuted by Blood

Jimmie | September 24, 2009 | Comments (1)

There was a lot wrong with the President’s speech today before the United Nations, but I wanted to highlight this paragraph as an example of the fibs and tyrant-pandering with which the President seasoned his speech. As an African American, I will never forget that I would not be here today without the steady pursuit [...]

The World is Watching from Behind Prison Bars

Jimmie | April 23, 2009 | Comments (0)

If you want to know the real reason why our President shouldn’t be giving the soul-brother handshake to a tinpot tyrant, here it is. In New York this week, I asked a former Eastern European dissident who spent time in prison under the Communists: “If you were sitting in a cell in Cuba, Iran or [...]

It’s Looking a Lot Like 1979

Jimmie | February 1, 2009 | Comments (2)

It is never a good sign when our President gives a murderous tyrant a reason to talk smack about us. US President Barack Obama’s offer to talk to Iran shows that America’s policy of “domination” has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday. “This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and [...]

Gordon Brown Talks Tough, But Not True

Jimmie | December 6, 2008 | Comments (0)

One of the problems with relying on the international community is that by the time someone says “enough is enough” to a “blood-stained regime”, the blood has pretty much dried. Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of Great Britain has finally discovered the ruination that Robert Mugabe made of Zimbabwe and has had enough. Of course, “enough” [...]