Sunday, on a spectacular new television show (Fareed Zakaria, "GPS"), Barack Obama was interviewed, one on one, with Fareed Zakaria. The interview was not the "conventional drivel" on Jessie Jackson comments, Dr. Jeremiah Wright, or any of the other non-issue topics, the mainstream media is churning out. Instead, Zakaria provided a balanced and poignant interview, with an array of questions above the belt and needing specific answers. On CNN Sunday, Obama showed just the razor sharp wit and his expansive verbiage, to gloss over certain issues and give just enough, for the illusion of a complete answer. However, after reading the transcript and listening to the interview twice, there is a distinct glimpse into an Obama Presidency, in the foreign policy realm.
In the CNN/"GPS" interview, Obama was one on one with a man, holding a vast expanse of knowledge of the Muslim world, foreign governments and Middle East hot beds. Plus, Fareed Zakaria is a straight down the middle interviewer and man.Discussing Iraq and Iran, Obama has changed his far left and anti-Iraq war stance attitude. Originally, Obama stated, "On day one, of his Presidency, he would be pulling one to two brigades out of Iraq. Leveling the American presence down, to fully stop the war, within eighteen months." Over the last 6-7 weeks, since Clinton dropped out of the race, he jogged back to the right in his position, "I would have to not only check with the commanders on the ground, assess the situation, discuss with the Iraqi government, and then we will find out the best way to leave Iraq." A difference in words and strategies, since Clinton is gone.
Iran was an issue Obama was not as vocal about, as with China and Russia. The "change" in his potential policy was not a complete turn around, but a change for him, America, and definitely a divide, with McCain. The difference is Obama wanting to talk (as a President), face to face, with some (maybe, all) of our enemies and nations in distinct contrast to American interest.
Russia and China huge problems,with a variety of issues, but nuclear proliferation and the constant "vote against America" in the United Nations (against North Korea, Iran, Darfur, and tactical issues it's allies have/are using). Disarming North Korea, thru "6" party talks, was the only way to disengage their nuclear facilities. One on one talk failed, talks thru China and thru Japan failed, and UN sanctions failed, as well. Iran is a completely different animal, compared to North Korea, in a multitude of different ways, and 1-1 talks are not a move at all.
Consensus is a word good for trades in baseball, the stock market, and hundreds of other everyday terms, deals, and actions. People who will lay down their lives at the blink of an eye (for beliefs, to kill others not like them) is a hard objective to achieve. China holding trillions of dollars of our national debt and Russia going the way of "KGB Days with Putin" are not with the US,(hence, America's missile systems in Poland, et. Al). Obama's statement on "GPS" was, "When I am President, I would work for a full consensus, finding a consensus with everyone, including Russia and China. Also, not making a "consensus" with the twisting of arms and withholding goodies from other countries, not following our ways, or what we are working towards."
Barack Obama is one of the more gifted speakers in the world today. However, he is the most liberal senator, in the senate and he continues to have no actual senate policies, or combined legislation. The interview with Fareed Zakaria was a subtle and poignant interview. Showing Obama's "flexibility in his future policies." Iran firing long range missiles, building and constructing nuclear weapons, and having a massive border with Iraq, makes overseas policies huge. However, aside from the more than subtle changes in the interview on foreign issues, Obama has the same kind of vacillation on the domestic issues. Where does this man stand, on anything, and what has he actually accomplished, in his short political life, to be the President of the United States?
From DMAN, at TheThoughtSpigot.com
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