The Honduran coup has focused attention on Obama’s problems with foreign relations. After standing aside during the Iran insurrection, allegedly on the grounds that we had a “history” there, he immediately seems ready to barge into the Honduran crisis without any hesitation.
Spengler, in the Asia Times, discusses just how dangerous this is.
Obama doesn’t want to betray the United States; he only wants to empower America’s enemies. Forcing Israel to abandon its strategic buffer (the so-called settlements) was supposed to placate Iran, so that Iran would help America stabilize Iraq, where its influence looms large over the Shi’ite majority.
America also sought Iran’s help in suppressing the Taliban in Afghanistan. In Obama’s imagination, a Sunni Arab coalition – empowered by Washington’s turn against Israel – would encircle Iran and dissuade it from acquiring nuclear weapons, while an entirely separate Shi’ite coalition with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would suppress the radical Sunni Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This was the worst-designed scheme concocted by a Western strategist since Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery attacked the bridges at Arnhem in 1944, and it has blown up in Obama’s face.
Obama’s imagination is the most dangerous factor in American foreign policy since 1900.