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.

I read a great little article today on Rightwingnews.com  asking President Obama when the change is coming to North Korea.   It was like I had written the article myself.   Following 8 years of the Bush administration’s very successful handling of the North Korean situation, Obama’s negligence has just about started a global catastrophe.  As the article pointed out, what made George Bush so effective was that people all over the world feared him.   Obama’s response was to hit North Korea with a bunch of empty words.

There is only one answer to our present situation.   Obama must allow Israel to bomb North Korea and put an end to their nuclear program once and for all.  We must supply Israel with the bunker busters needed to penetrate any North Korean defenses.  I can understand that with our two current wars, the United States is afraid to take on a third, but Israel is just itching to bomb something.   Furthermore, Israel and South Korea are natural allies as shown during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles when Korean and Jewish merchants  frequently helped each other defend their businesses in the inner city.

It is a shame that it took Obama so little time to mess up the Bush administration’s skillful handling of the North Korean nuclear crisis, but we can’t undo what has been done.  Only by turning to our friend Israel can we hope to stop the North Koreans from further agression.

Sarah Palin sits on the edge of her chair to give Hamid Karzai the impression that she is paying attention despite his strange accent.

Today, Sarah Palin had a chance to meet with actual people from foreign countries at the United Nations and by all accounts it was a rousing success.  First, she met with Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai and the two instantly became fast friends as they chatted amiably about Karzai’s son.

She later spent several minutes having small talk with Colombia President Alvaro Uribe and finished the day discussing foreign affairs with Henry Kissinger.  Later this week, she is expected to meet Bono.  How awesome is that?

I believe these conversations have definitely increased Palin’s gravitas.  Anybody who can talk to foreign leaders about their children has the qualifications to be an outstanding President.

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.

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.