That’s Right Nate

The best thing about being a Republican is sometimes hard to put a finger on.  I enjoy the moral superiority of my political positions as much as the next guy and Republican women are out of sight.   They don’t call it Fox News for nothing if you know what I mean.   However, I think the best thing about being a Republican is that we are the party of self-reliance.  We believe in pulling ourselves up by own own bootstraps and that is also the American spirit.   Nowhere do I see this Republican can do spirit as clearly as in the area of foreign policy.

• Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) is in Honduras in order to give his support to the junta who recently launched a coup against a leftists President.  This is the kind of guts that Obama and the other countries in the region have lacked in their condemnation of seizing government power by force.
• Senator Jim Inhoffe (R-OK) who I recently described as one of our best hopes against the forces of science hoping to undermine our country’s values is going to Copenhagen to present the other side on the global warming debate.
• House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) traveled to Israel where he spoke out against President Obama’s opposition to expanding settlements.
• Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) boasted in June that he told Chinese officials  not to trust America’s budget numbers. “One of the messages I had — because we need to build trust and confidence in our number one creditor,” said Kirk, “is that the budget numbers that the US government had put forward should not be believed.”
• Sarah Palin (R-?) recently gave a speech in Hong Kong where she criticized America’s foreign policy in a wide variety of issues.

As you can see, we’ve stopped waiting for the Obama presidency to make foreign policy decisions for us.  We’ve taken the initiative and we’re making our own more sensible foreign policy.  This is exciting, but I believe we can do much more and we must.   As a party, we must join together to issue an extremely strongly worded ultimatum to both Iran and North Korea that we are through pussyfooting around and we will not accept their continued nuclear threat.  We should let them know that if they do not back down we will hire an army of military contractors to crush their petty regimes.

Furthermore, it is time for us to let the rest of the world know we are done apologizing.   Obama has his embassies in other countries, we should have our own embassies too.   Let the other countries in the world know that we will be conducting our own foreign policy from now on.   Most of the military is Republican regardless of what they tell you and you know that they will follow us.  If we want more troops in Afghanistan, let’s just ask the troops and tell them it’s for the GOP.  This is the vision our founding fathers had for this democracy where know man shall have his foreign policy dictated to him by an unjust tyrant, but shall create his own foreign policy with other like minded individuals.

Some people who are thrilled to have a woman on the ticket are a little worried about Sarah Palin.  Not because she doesn’t believe in manmade global warming or because she doesn’t go for this whole evolution thing, but because of her limited experience in foreign policy.  However, that really really shouldn’t be a problem.  According to McCain adviser Charlie Black, “”She’s going to learn national security at the foot of the master for the next four years, and most doctors think that he’ll be around at least that long.”

Presumably, McCain will be like Obi Wan Kenobi to Palin’s Luke Skywalker.  When McCain thinks she is ready he’ll stop trying to keep such a tight control on his temper or something and pass on leaving Palin a clear path to be President.  Until then Palin will basically be a paid intern learning how to govern at the foot of McCain.  Remember, if you take over the Presidency because of succession it doesn’t count against your two terms.  By the time this is all said and done Palin could have a 15 year Presidency.  I really love the idea of a 23 year Republican White House.

The biggest question in American foreign policy is where do we want to keep our forces in order for them to do the most good in the war on terror–Iraq as John McCain believes or Afghanistan where Barack Obama believes we need more troops.

Iraq was not really a hot bed of terror before we invaded, but you can be sure it is now.  Things have calmed down a bit in the country and the President is asking us to leave on the same time table that Obama wants.  In fact, we have been unable to come to a deal with the Iraqis to protect our troops from Iraqi courts.

Afghanistan under the Taliban was where al-Qaeda trained terrorists like the ones in the 9/11 attack on the World Train Centers.  The invasion of Aghanistan was a military success, but the Taliban continues to regroup.  The President wants the United States to stay as do most of the people.

That is why the United States needs to focus on Iraq.  The very fact that the Afghans want us there should tell us that they really don’t need us anymore.  On the other hand, by wanting us out the Iraqis have demonstrated that they have not yet been brought under control.  If Iraq was a fully functioning government they wouldn’t care if there were US troops there.  Their desire to see us out demonstrates their instability.

McCain clearly understands this.  Anybody can send American troops to a country where they’re wanted, but that isn’t the same as sending them to the country where they are most needed.  Obama obviously does not understand this, by electing him the American people run the risk of him sending troops only where they are wanted or only into situations where they have a clear objective.

Yesterday, Bush attacked Obama’s foreign policy plans of ineffective and dangerous.  Obama has stated before that he was in favor of diplomacy and discusssing issues with other countries–even ones we disagree with.  Bush has said in response that in 1939 a US Senator had wanted to talk to Hitler.  Is Obama’s foreign policy appeasement?  I don’t know, but I do know Bush’s criticism worries me.

Look, Bush’s foreign policy hasn’t exactly been a screaming success.  The war in Afghanistan is working on year number 8 without fruition, the war in Iraq hasn’t gone well.  We cost our allies in Spain, England, and other countries their national elections when they were tied to the United States, Iran is building the bomb, Russia is going back to a cold war mentality, leftists are taking control of more and more South American countries, extremism and terrorism are growing worldwide, our nation’s reputation has been stained and shattered.  Yet, Bush finds Obama’s foreign policy dangerous.

If this isn’t a wake up call for America than I don’t know what is.  Think about it, Bush finding your foreign policy dangerous is like Dr. Phil telling you that you need to lose weight.  It is like Paris Hilton refusing to get in your car because you’ve had too much to drink.  I hope the American public was listening carefully yesterday.  Obama’s foreign policy is so dangerous even Bush wouldn’t do it.  That should tell you something.

I have come across a wonderful website called www.freetranslation.com.  It provides free translations into other languages and with the current problems with Russia over our need to put a missile battery in Poland to help defend us from global terrorism increasing tensions, I thought I would take this opportunity to write an open letter to the Russian people.

Детям Гордой Матери Россия.

Не будьте встревожены. Мы не имеем никакого желания возвратиться к холодной войне. Мы знаем, как это оказалось. Мы стремимся только защитить нас и наших союзников от угрозы глобального ядерного терроризма. Польша – самое логическое место, чтобы поместить ракетную батарею и если Вы работаете с нами, мы можем защитить Вас также. Мы можем быть старшим братом, который помогает Вам противостоять хулигану, который хочет взять ваши деньги завтрака. Доверяйте нам. Мы не подразумеваем Вас никакой вред.

Ваш Товарищ,
Нейт

For those of you like myself who don’t speak Russian, it translates to this:

To the children of Russia of Proud Mother. 

Be not to disturb.  We has not any desire to come back to the cold war.  We know, how it appeared.  We inhale to protect only we and our allies of the threat of global nuclear terrorism.  The Poland – the place of the more of logic to place the battery of rocket and if you work with us, we can protect yourself also.  We can be the superior brother that helps yourself to withstand the vandal that wishes to take your money of a breakfast.  We to trust.  We do not mean yourself the evil. 

Your Friend,

Nate