This would seem to sum up our
current foreign policy. Could there be anything more childish than refusing to
allow Hamid Aboutalebi, Iran’s choice to
represent them at the UN, to enter the United States? This is silly, even
stupid, almost beyond belief. Aboutalebi
is a seasoned, experienced, Iranian Diplomat, who has served successfully in
several different countries, and is more than merely qualified to hold such a
post. President Obama has apparently signed an order to prevent him from
entering the United States, following the suggestion of that expert on foreign
policy, Ted Cruz. Aboutalebi is considered persona non grata by Cruz because
many years ago he served sometimes as a translator during the Iran hostage
crisis. Coming at the very time we are trying pretty successfully to negotiate
with Iran over their (imaginary) nuclear bomb threat this would appear to me to
be designed to torpedo those negotiations, stupid, unnecessary, unhelpful, and
unwise, everything you might expect from a poisonous, outside the box jerk like
Ted Cruz. Why Obama went along with this absurdity I do not know. Perhaps he
secretly does not wish a successful solution to our Iran (non) problem.
Not only has Obama gone along with this diplomatic nonsense he has also mocked Russia’s military might, with a claim almost beyond comprehension. He said Russia does not want a military confrontation with us because he knows our military might is superior to his. What the hell is that supposed to prove? Where, if not on a battlefield, could this be proven? Does hoObama envision a war on Russian territory where our military might would win against the Russian army? Does he believe that we could ship our troops across the Atlantic (or Pacific) to confront Russia on their own soil? Has he no idea what the hell is talking about? Does he know nothing about the Battle of Stalingrad? Boasting that our military might is superior to Putin’s is childish in the extreme, you might well think we were in kindergarten.
Then there is our gullible (or stupid) Secretary of State, John Kerry, who was apparently willing to accept as fact the anti-Jewish leaflets that appeared in the Eastern Ukraine without even waiting to learn they were produced by some minority group of dissidents with no authority whatsoever. This is just part of our basic infantile belief that Russia is bad, Putin is very bad, the U.S. is good, very good, and Obama is somehow good/bad. Whatever, we know that we (along with the racist genocidal Israelis) are exceptional and the entirely predictable failure of the “peace talks” is completely the fault of the Palestinians. Everyone with even a small bit of brain knows that Netanyahu does not want a Palestinian state, does not want peace, and prefers to maintain the status quo forever if possible. Why John Kerry or anyone else believes the U.S. can act as a fair intermediary in this endless conflict, when it is obvious we are overwhelmingly on the side of Israel, is just another example of childish delusion.
When you start from the belief that Russia is all bad, and Putin is worse, especially when Putin holds all the cards, so to speak, you are not likely to successfully resolve your mutual problems. Similarly, when you start from the belief that Israel is all good and the Palestinians are all bad, you are not likely to get very far in resolving the basic problems of the Middle East. Our foreign policy, in my opinion, is indeed infantile, puerile, hostile, and will prove in the long run to be futile.
When only one in six U.S. citizens can even remotely find Ukraine on a map, and the farther they are from that, the more they think we should attack, it is pretty obvious we need to teach geography (remember that) in kindergarten, along with the necessity to “see ourselves as others see us.”
Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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