{"id":1604,"date":"2010-01-09T08:45:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T15:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2010-01-05T22:49:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T05:49:34","slug":"i-cant-help-but-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/09\/i-cant-help-but-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can’t Help But Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Financial Times on-line has an article entitled “America is Losing the Free World<\/a>”<\/p>\n

The last paragraph of the article reads:<\/p>\n

Mr Obama is seen as a huge improvement on George W. Bush, but he is still an American president. As emerging global powers and developing nations, Brazil, India, South Africa and Turkey may often feel they have more in common with a rising China than with the democratic US.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After reading this article I note the last paragraph would seem to be oxymoronic.\u00a0 If Obama is “seen as a huge “improvement” then why the apparent worse-than-ever relations between us and these other democracies?\u00a0 To some the answer will be America’s tyrannical and oppressive legacy of strong-arming their allies in an attitude of oft-repeated international arrogance.\u00a0 To others it will be yet another chance to point a finger at George W. Bush and his “cowboy diplomacy”.\u00a0 But is it even remotely possible that Obama himself has something to do with this?\u00a0 Is there a shred of possibility that our current president is not seen as someone to be taken seriously?\u00a0 Could it be that his international Apologize-For-America tour, along with his continual actions of appeasement towards terror-sponsoring regimes, his unwillingness to declare victory as our goal against Islamofacism, and his frequent rebukes and snubbing of our allies has created a perception that this president is weak and lacking in resolve?<\/p>\n

If Obama is such an improvement, then why are those who should be our strong allies turning instead more than ever to form alliances elsewhere?<\/p>\n

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