Obama: Regime-Changing Neocon?
Everyone was so focused on the part of President Obama’s Middle East speech about a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders that his transformation into a democracy-spreading, regime-changing neocon was missed. He proclaimed the goal of American foreign policy in the Middle East is “to promote reform across the region, and to support transitions to democracy.” Those are more polite words for incremental regime changes of all the undemocratic governments.
The beginning of President Obama’s term was marked by a concerted effort to convince the Iranian regime that the U.S. does not seek its removal. An “outstretched hand” was offered to rogue states and funding was cut to organizations undermining the Iranian regime. The Obama administration reversed course over time, especially since the advent of the Arab Spring. Human rights was always vocally supported, but not in such a loud fashion. Now, policy is being overhauled to make promoting freedom its central component. What a George W. Bush thing to do.
The Obama administration first began warming up to regime change in Iran, even if it did not have a strong strategy to accomplish it. The Green Revolution forced President Obama to begin altering his language and in September, Secretary of State Clinton let it be known that she desires regime change.
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Caratacus10ad Says:
No point being ‘nice’ to provenly ‘bad’ regime guys…
They wont rtn the compliments.
(treat em like the biatches that they are!!)
Posted on May 28th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
william Says:
Obama is showing his ‘two faces’ principles again; he is supporting regime change of one set of radicals for others to take their place…and he is failing to do anything to make the area, Israel, or the USA safer and stabler for the near or long term.
The middle east radicals and extremists call for the Imadi to return, and for a Caliphate to arise once again, along with the annhilation utterly of Israel. And Mr Obama is giving it to them with an open hand.
His initiation of war in Libya has drawn Europe into the mess there, bleeding them of treasury and military strength while radicals use the opportunity to destabalize those nations.
The storm is here, and it is now; Mr Obama and his administration will go down as one of the worst in history of the nation, and among the largest disgraces to ever happen to America in her history.
Posted on May 28th, 2011 at 3:37 pm